Buy Authentic Aboriginal Art
Pandanus Gallery sell authentic Aboriginal art online and in our gallery. We source our diverse artworks from Aboriginal owned community art centres throughout Australia. Our objective is to represent the diversity in Aboriginal art, reflecting culture, law and the Dreaming.
Gallery Address
Retail 5, The Beach Club
123 Williams Esplanade
Palm Cove
QLD 4879
Contact Info
Email: info@pandanusgallery.com
Phone: +61 (0)7 4059 2300
Fax: +61 (0)7 4059 2400
About us
Because of unexpected changes in plans to re-locate the gallery to Cairns in March 2019, for the next while Pandanus Gallery will be operating as an online gallery only. To our established clients, friends and visitors we regret that currently, we are no longer a physical gallery in Palm Cove where we have been for the past 10 years.
However, in the immediate future, we can be contacted via the website or email – anna@pandanusgallery.com – and we would be happy to make ourselves available to show works in stock that are on the website, by appointment at your convenience. Phone contact remains: 61 07 4059 2300 or 61 0404 887 395
Despite these changes we will have regular online exhibitions featuring beautiful artworks from around the country including a 10th anniversary exhibition of the late Billy Missi’s first lithographic works from 2009.
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By way of background for those new to us, Anna and Paul La Fontaine founded Pandanus Gallery in 2009. Anna has had an extensive career in the arts generally and the representation of Aboriginal owned Art Centres across the continent, and increasingly on Cape York and the Torres Straits.
AUTHENTIC ABORIGINAL ART FOR SALE
About Pandanus Gallery
I am Anna La Fontaine and together with my partner Paul La Fontaine, we founded Pandanus Gallery in 2009. I have had an extensive career in the arts culminating in an involvement in the field of Aboriginal Art over a number of years. Paul’s business career spanned many industries including the arts but his love of Aboriginal art and avid interest in the indigenous culture has seen him become a keen student of this vast subject.
We have combined our deep interest and knowledge with a ‘sea change’ to beautiful Palm Cove where the gallery is just across the road from the beach and the Coral Sea.
Since our launch we have expanded our sourcing of artworks significantly. We have participated in the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair as exhibitors and have had a number of exhibitions including from Aurukun Wik & Kugu Art Centre, the communities in the Kimberley as well as those from The Tanami Desert.
CURATING POLICY
Our curating policy is to expand strong and transparent relationships with remote Aboriginal art communities and where ever possible to source works for the gallery from Aboriginal owned community art centres throughout Australia. These include:
Anindilyakwa Arts & Culture NT
Aurukun Wik & Kugu Artists QLD
Bindi NT
Hermennsberg Potters NT
Ikuntji Artists NT
Injalak Arts & Crafts NT
Jilmara Arts NT
Manupi Arts NT
Mangkaja Arts WA
Mwerre Anthurre Artsists,NT
Papunya Tula Artists NT
Papunya Tjupi, NT
Tapatajatjaka Arts NT
Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NT & WA
Tjarlirli Art WA
Tjukurba, Wiluna WA
Tiwi Arts & Crafts NT
Warmum Arts WA
Waringarri Aborriginal Arts WA
Warlukurlangu Artists NT
Warlungku Arts NT
Warlayirti Artists WA
Waralungku Arts, NT
Yarliyil WA
OUR OBJECTIVE
Our objective is to represent the diversity in Aboriginal styles of art reflecting culture, law and the Dreaming. We have made important steps towards achieving this in some of the listed communities and now aim to extend this to Queensland, especially FNQ.
We individually select works which meet the highest quality in materials, execution and artistic/cultural merit. A small but exciting portion of our gallery stock represents important works from before and including the first two decades of the contemporary art movement at Papunya in the early 1970s.
We carry important works by some of the Top 50 Australian Artists and Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards and highly experienced artists in their twilight years, and are particularly interested in supporting emerging artists who are inspired to communicate with the world through their fine art.
