Canberra, Friday 21 September, 2001

The Women Artists of Bali are coming to ANU (24 Sept-6 Oct)

The Seniwati Gallery of Art by Women is delighted to announce their first major group exhibition in Australia. "WOMEN: an Exhibition of Paintings by the Women Artists of Bali" will open at 6pm, on Monday 24 September at the Foyer Gallery of the Canberra School of Art on Ellery Crescent at The Australian National University.

The show is being held in conjunction with the sixth Women in Asia Conference at the ANU and will be opened by the Indonesian Ambassador HE Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat with entertainment by the ANU Community Gamelan Ensemble Orchestra.

"The Seniwati (literally 'women artists') Gallery exists to promote, support and encourage all women artists who live and work in Bali," gallery director Ms Mary Northmore said. " Seniwati Gallery has become one of the most respected and exciting galleries of Balinese art, with a full schedule of exhibitions, one-woman or group shows, and events for art lovers and collectors, as well as an education program encouraging and supporting the next generation of women artists. It is still the only gallery of its kind in Asia."

With up to 50 years experience in their art, the pieces represent a wide variety of traditional and contemporary techniques. The artworks range from the classical 'Kamasan' style practised by the oldest artist Ni Made Suciarmi (1932-) to the modern, bright "Young Artist" work of Jero Amer Ambarie, the challenging, often outrageous canvases by Murni, and on to the work of talented young art school graduates such as Ni Nyoman Sani and Ni Made Kurnia Andika.

The "WOMEN: an Exhibition of Paintings by the Women Artists of Bali" is Seniwati Gallery's first major show in Australia, although a small exhibition was held at Sydney airport in 1993, to celebrate Ansett's opening of the Sydney-Denpasar route, and another at the University of Melbourne School of Education in 1995.

Seniwati Gallery Director Mary Northmore can be contacted in Canberra (via Jeni Allenby) Phone: 02 6248 0114
Canberra School of Art Foyer Gallery: 02 6125 5841

Visit the Women in Asia 2001 Conference Website: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology/WIA/WIA2001.html
To arrange contact with particular conference speakers phone: 0416 249 561

No: 79/2001

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