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Frieze Masters 2026

FRIEZE MASTERS 2026

D Lan Galleries 14–18 October 2026 London
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D Lan Galleries presentation at Frieze Masters 2026 will feature a survey of major paintings by Pintupi artist George Tjungurrayi (c.1947). In the late 1970s Tjungurrayi emerged as an innovative member of the Papunya Tula Artists collective in the Western Desert of the Northern Territory, Australia. This period of desert painting revolutionised Australian art and brought international recognition to Australian First Nations artists. Since the mid-1990s, Tjungurrayi has painted optically mesmerising linear compositions inspired by sacred ceremonial designs. Since then, he has developed a conceptually complex body of work depicting sites of great cultural and personal significance.

A curated selection of paintings from 1998–2010 will be presented alongside Tjungurrayi’s epic Mamultulkulnga 2006 and Untitled – Kirrimalunya 2009. which are a visual manifestation of the artist’s relationship with these sacred places.

Tjungurrayi’s unique visual language is further represented in a series of smaller-scale works featuring unembellished compositions that reveal the strength and assurance of an artist with an enlightened vision of Country, tempered with a blend of energy and restraint.

2026 will mark D Lan Galleries fourth consecutive year of exhibiting the finest Australian First Nations art at Frieze Masters, London.

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D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
D Lan Galleries, Frieze Masters 2026 (14–18 October 2026). Courtesy of the artists and D Lan Galleries.
About the Artist

George Tjungurrayi (c.1947), an innovative Pintupi artist, is known for his distinctive linear paintings that transformed Western Desert art, replacing dotting with finely modulated topographical line work that sublimates sacred Tingarri cycle narratives into assured, pared‑back compositions influential across contemporary desert practice.

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