Courtesy: the Ngununggula Retford Park Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, NSW.

Tjoritjarinja means ‘belonging to the Western MacDonnell Ranges’, and Ngununggula means ‘belonging’ in the traditional language of the Gundungurra First Nations people.

Ngununggula has partnered with Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre to exhibit new collaborative artworks by 15 Iltja Ntjarra artists and their family members alongside a selection of paintings by Albert Namatjira from the National Gallery of Australia collection.

Through watercolour landscapes, painted artefacts, drawings, and stories on silk, their artworks examine family connections using Aboriginal knowledge systems and explore how families are connected through history, place, community, and Dreaming.

This body of work will be presented alongside a suite of new works by the Southern Highlands Printmakers, responding to the theme of ‘Belonging’, including ideas around portraiture, place and landscape.

Exhibited artists include: Albert Namatjira, artists from Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, the Southern Highlands Printmakers.