Mossenson

Mossenson Art Foundation

Welcome to Mossenson

Art Foundation

Mossenson Art Foundation was established in 2010 by Dan and Dr. Diane Mossenson.

The objects of the Foundation are to:

Preserve, promote and record cultural heritage.
Promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and craft.
Publish and support scholarly research of art practice in Australia.
Research and publish art and craft books, articles and other writings.
Support cultural materials' research and conservation
Run seminars, exhibitions and educational events fo the community including those relating to indigenous peoples.
Promote a greater understanding between the creative arts' sector and the wider community.
Support the scholarly investigation of art practice in Australia for both indigenous and non-indigenous artists.
Provide travel and other assistance to people who are engaged directly or indirectly in art activities for the ultimate benefit of the art community.
Assist with the conservation, transportation and curating of art.
Sponsor and encourage artists by means of art prizes and exhibitions.

The Trustee for the Foundation is Mossenson Art Foundation Ltd (ACN: 144 819 296). The Foundation is a public fund with deductible gift recipient status which means gifts to the Mossenson Art Foundation Gift Fund are tax deductible to donors.

“...as we look at works such as Through the Window of Dreaming or Travel Lines Across the Hunting Grounds and Waterways, we feel few other artists could have so powerfully articulated a modern, often painful visions withing the context of a vital tradition as Pickett. History is one thing, memory another. ”

Will Yeoman

Weekend West

“In one sense, Pickett's late painting was the very definition of abstract art, working from the superficial, visible elements of the landscape towards more elemental ones ( the sky, waterholes, medicine grounds, the moon).”

Nick Tapper

Art Director

SIX : 2020

An art initiatve for WA Artists

Presented by MOSSENSON ART FOUNDATION

in conjunction with MOSSENSON GALLERIES

“What a portrait of the artist emerges from these images! Ngarra is by turns prophet, witness, student of nature and conceptualist. In their beguiling way, Shaw's memoir sketch and catalogue notes, buttressed by his other writings and the supporting essays in these pages and elsewhere by Skerritt, Sprague and the contributor of the book's introduction, Nick Tapper, combine to produce a matchless account of a senior traditional Aboriginal man. ”

Nicolas Rothwell

The Australian

“A rewarding read, Ngarra the texta drawings tells a story of an individual who was determined to carve a significant and unique life out of a period of volatile change for Indigenous Australians. Ngarra's success resulted in an opening of new worlds and audiences to him, as he commented to Shaw about the vast difference between the "big city exhibitions" where the really proper sensible people want to know all about really bush blackfella like a me and his life as a 'lonely bush blackfella'.”

Lucy Stranger

Artist Profile

Purchase 'Shane Pickett "Meeyakba"' and 'NGARRA the texta drawings' and support the Mossenson Art Foundation

Mossenson Art Foundation publications retail through selected book and gallery stores.

Mossenson Art Foundation acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which it operates, the Whadjuk people of the Nyoongar Nation, and pays respect to elders past and present. We acknowledge their continued historic connection with the land and significant contribution to Australian society.

Mossenson Art Foundation Ltd.


24 Carnarvon Crescent, COOLBINIA WA, 6050
ABN: 897 3511 3699
ACN: 144 819 296
admin@mafl.com.au
+61 413 802 899

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