Courtesy: the artist and Cooee Art Leven, Sydney.

Looking to the past and seeing ahead, Cooee Art Leven presents a group exhibition at Sydney Contemporary.

To reflect the dichotomy of Cooee Art Leven’s gallery model, half their booth represents the primary market wing, while the other will showcase the secondary market department, with artworks consigned to our specialists from important collections across the globe.
Going forward, Art Leven is exhibiting non-Indigenous alongside our First Nations artists, exclusively through specially curated projects. These focus on technique and transparent dialogue, offering an opportunity beyond the ordinary commercial relationship between artist and gallery, fostering an environment of openness and direct exchange between artists.

The first such project was made up of three acts, beginning with a late-June workshop at Warnayaka Arts in Lajamanu that led to Cooee Art Leven’s inaugural exhibition, country x Country, curated by Gadigal artist Konstantina. The project now concludes at Sydney Contemporary, with new works by Neil Ernest Tomkins, Kitty Napanangka Simon, and Konstantina herself. This final suite of works acts as a reflection on the project, with memory seeping into the fabric of the artists’ everyday, effecting an ongoing influence on perception as a whole.

Exhibited artists include Bill Tjapltjarri Whiskey, Emily Kame Kngwarrye, Albert Namatjira, Rex E. Battarbee, Billy Benn, Kitty Napanangka Simon, Konstantina and Neil Ernest Tomkins.