Namur Expo | 09-17 November 2024

Arts d’australie – Stephane Jacob

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About

Amazed by Aboriginal art during a stay in Australia, Stéphane Jacob-Langevin founded one of the first art galleries specialising in Aboriginal and Western Australian art in Paris in 1996: Arts d’Australie – Stéphane Jacob. By setting up his gallery in a flat, Stéphane Jacob is considered a pioneer. In an intimate setting, he introduces art lovers to Aboriginal art by organising presentation evenings, thereby forging special relationships with his collectors. In 2022, Arts d’Australie – Stéphane Jacob decided to consolidate its exhibition programme by setting up in the Marais district.

Stéphane Jacob-Langevin contributes to the recognition of Aboriginal culture. As a recognised European expert in the field with decades of experience in the art market, Stéphane Jacob-Langevin works with various museums in Europe to develop their collections of Aboriginal art with hundreds of pieces, including the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, the Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève in Switzerland and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

Arts of Australia – Stéphane Jacob is deeply involved in defending the environment, a battle that is close to the hearts of Torres Strait Islander artists. In 2016, Stéphane Jacob-Langevin was appointed curator of a permanent exhibition entitled ‘Australia: Defending the Oceans at the Heart of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art’ at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco; thanks to its success, thirteen other institutions invited the exhibition, including the UN headquarters in New York.

Stéphane Jacob-Langevin is the author of the reference work on Aboriginal arts published by Scala. He also publishes artists’ monographs. For his services to Aboriginal arts and to Australia, Stéphane Jacob-Langevin was made an honorary member of the Order of Australia in 2018 – a distinction usually awarded to Australian citizens. He is a member of La Chambre des Experts Spécialisés en Objets d’Art et de Collection (C.N.E.S) and a member of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art.

Arts d’australie – Stephane Jacob

Artworks

Selina Fisher Napanangka

Selina Fisher Napanangka

Selina Napanganka Fisher is an artist from Yuendumu. Here she paints her version of the Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dream), a sacred watering hole and stream in the Central Desert,

Abie Loy Kemarre

Abie Loy Kemarre

Abie Loy is one of the new generation of artists living in the Utopia community, in the heart of the Australian desert. She began painting in 1994 on the advice

Ronnie Tjampitjimpa

Ronnie Tjampitjimpa

Ronnie Tjampintjinpa was one of the founding members of Papunya Tula’s first group of Aboriginal painters. He belongs to the style of artists originally from Kintore. This pictorial style favours

Niah Juella Mcleod

Niah Juella Mcleod

Niah Juella Mcleod is a descendant of the Monero, Wandandian and Yuin peoples of south-east Australia. She is the daughter of Kathrin Sharp, a painter, and Bobby Mcleod, an Aboriginal

John Mawurndjul

John Mawurndjul

In this painting, John Mawurndjul has depicted the billabong (a body of water formed by a dead meander of a river) at Milmilngkan where Ngalyod – the rainbow serpent underwater

Konstantina

Konstantina

Konstantina, whose real name is Kate Constantine, is a contemporary Aboriginal artist descended from the Gadigal people. Her work tells the true story of her people. She re-imagines the traditions

Taylor Cooper

Taylor Cooper

Taylor Cooper is a lawyer who is highly respected by his peers. He was born near the sacred place of Malara (a natural water reserve) in the north of South

Regina Wilson Pilawuk

Regina Wilson Pilawuk

The work on display reproduces the complex pattern of a Wupun, a sun rug. Originally conical in shape, these mats were objects of choice for a people of hunter-gatherers who

Leah Brady

Tim Payungka Tjapangardi

Originally from Western Australia, Tim Payungka Tjapangardi celebrates the journeys of his clan’s ancestors, the Tingari Men, during the Dreamtime. The Tingari are a group of mythical figures who travelled

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