The Millicent Gallery has been fortunate to secure another quality travelling exhibition.

Gallery manager Janice Nitschke has welcomed visitors to A Jam Factory Icon – Kunmanara Carroll.

“It is an exciting mix of indigenous art – painted ceramics, textiles and paintings,” she said.

In 2009, Kunmanara Carroll commenced his artistic practice at the Ernabella Arts Centre as a painter, and in 2011 transitioned to ceramics.

He quickly established himself as one of the art centre’s most senior and revered practitioners, deeply committed to his custodial responsibilities of Luritja / Pintupi Country.

Kunmanara Carroll’s captivating paintings and ceramics merge his deep knowledge of Country with a distinctively intricate and minimalist style.

Through his stoneware ceramics, paintings and tapestry, the late Luritja / Pintupi / Pitjantjatjara artist paid loving tribute to the land, his family and roots – from Pukatja, South Australia, all the way up north to Kintore, Northern Territory, and west to Kiwirrkura, Western Australia: his custodial lands.

Carroll’s remarkable work is shown in Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki (I Can See All Those Places), a major solo exhibition, as a part of the Jam Factory’s ICON series.

Carroll is the first Indigenous artist to be celebrated as a part of the series.

The exhibition commenced touring in 2021 and will tour to 12 venues around the country, and is accompanied by a monograph, published by Wakefield Press.