Introducing Indigenous Artist and Performer Anthony Walker

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Spirit Gallery is pleased to announce we will now be stocking a range of works from talented Indigenous artist, Anthony Walker.

 

A Gurreng Gurreng/Yiman man from Queensland Anthony is multi award winning Indigenous artist and performer. He has been painting for over 20 years having inherited stories from his grandparents.

His works are held in numerous public and private collections. Anthony recently completed the prestigious Wesfarmers Arts Indigenous Leadership Program at the National Gallery of Australia and is currently residing in Sydney where he has taken the role of Aboriginal Arts officer for Regional Arts NSW.

 

Check out Anthony’s work – www.spiritgallery.com.au/aboriginal-art/anthony-walker

 

Custom Made Didgeridoo for Sydney International Rotary Convention

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The International Rotary Convention was held in Sydney from the 1st-4th June 2014. The event was a huge success and attended by approximately 20,000 Rotarians from over 150 countries around the world.

 

Spirit Gallery was commissioned to create a didgeridoo as a welcome gift for the President of Rotary International, Ron D Burton.

 

The didgeridoo was made by Kristian Benton with a customised message and presented by Reno Safarian and Gumaroy Newman at the indigenous arts stand inside the “Friendship House”

 

Thanking Alan from Rotary Strathfield for working with us and giving us this opportunity.

 

Didgeridoo in The Iranian Desert

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A couple of years ago while visiting Australia from Iran, Pooria Shafieitabar entered our store and was fascinated by the didgeridoo and decided he simply just has to have one.

 

He promised he would take the didgeridoo back to Iran, learn how to play and maybe one day send us some footage of him and his friends jamming Iranian style.

 

We love the didgeridoo being played in unusual, unseen settings. Add the backdrop of the Iranian desert and we have exactly that.

 

Video below !! Thanks for the footage Pooria. Much appreciated.

 

 

 

New Bruce Rogers & Carved Kristian Benton Didgeridoos

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It has been a long wait but we have finally received some carved didgeridoos from Kristian Benton and some amazingly high quality didgeridoos from master craftsmen Bruce Rogers.

 

There are very few didgeridoo makers who also happen to be great artists and even rarer, great players. This is why Kristian is by far Australia’s most talented crafter/player/artist combo. Kristian has carved some beautiful new didgeridoos for us. Carving has become such a rare art form especially on quality sounding didgeridoos. Kristian truly is an amazing, rare and unique talent.

 

The wait is also over for some new Bruce Roger’s didgeridoos. Bruce takes his time and does not produce a high volume of instruments but when he makes a didge they are a pure work of genius. This bunch of didges are some of the most user friendly sweet sounding balanced didgeridoos we have seen from Bruce in a long time.

 

We visited Bruce during last year’s Melbourne Didgeridoo and Cultural Festival and he was kind enough to invite us to his home/workshop where we couldn’t resist but record a quick didge solo. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Spirit Gallery Masterpieces of 2013 and their proud owners!

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The 3.1 metre Heartland Didgeridoo, the longest didgeridoo we have ever had in the store, has found a new home far far away in Egersund Norway and is now proudly displayed there in the Kakadu store. It has already created a lot of interest with a local newspaper already running a feature on it.

 

Our Norwegian friend Eivind who visits Australia every year and who already has quite an impressive collection of didgeridoos from Spirit Gallery could not resist this monster didge when he came face to face with it in the gallery. Check out Eivind with his new toy and its final resting place in Norway.

 

 

 

Thanks also to Sandy and Lee Harden, our American friends who purchased the other favourite Spirit Gallery piece of 2013 – the dot painted bench. This bench was painted by 10 individual artists from the Keringke Art Centre in the remote community of Santa Teresa in the central Australian desert. Each artist painted a different piece and once assembled we had one of the most remarkable pieces of Aboriginal Art we have seen. Check it out!

 

 

Didgeridoo Screen Wall Project in Sydney CBD

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Late last year Spirit Pharmaceuticals contacted us to help them with their ambitious plan to use 72 didgeridoos as a screen/partition wall as part of their refurbishments at their offices in the Sydney CBD.

 

After some consultation between Spirit Gallery and the designers we were able to come up with the final concept. The renovations have now been completed, as has the didgeridoo screen wall.

 

72 colourful full length didgeridoos were used and are now a permanent feature of their main office. Being didgeridoo addicts here at Spirit Gallery this was an awesome project to be involved with.

 

Many thanks to Spirit Pharmaceuticals and their CEO Gary Waters for giving us this opportunity and trusting us with the job, and of course for the purchase of 72 didgeridoos!

 

Check it out!

 

 

 

 

Spirit Gallery Update and Northern Territory Didgeridoo Trip

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The team at Spirit Gallery has been busy again finding you the best Eucalyptus didges Australia has to offer. Matt and Reno flew up to Darwin visiting several of our didge makers and choosing and sourcing some seriously good sticks.

 

We were also lucky enough to spend a day with Tristan O’Meara in the bush looking for didges giving us a whole new appreciation of how tough the work is – including the nasty sting of the green ant! (see photos below)

 

So stay tuned as we get some new handpicked didges from Earl Clements, Yidaki from Arnhem Land and our new affordable plain didgeridoo range.

 

YES, the only didge store to go that extra mile!! and you the customer benefits!

 

 

In other didgeridoo news, we are expecting in the next few weeks

 

• 15-25 new didges from Kristian Benton– Australia’s most recognised player, maker, artist combo.

 

• 15 new didges from CrookedStixz Didgeridoos.

 

• A whole bunch of new didges from Tristan O’Meara.

 

•10+ new didges from master craftsmen Bruce Rogers.

 

• Our new very affordable heavy duty oilskin didge bags in 6 different styles and sizes.

 

 

PLUS much more we can’t talk about at this stage!!!  It will be a didgeridoo bonanza here at Spirit Gallery over the next few months.

 

Finally, If there is a special key, style, size of didge you have been looking for and can’t find it OR if you just want an AMAZING DIDGE (ie the best we have) let us know and join our “AWESOME DIDGE” waiting list.

 

Spirit Gallery has pretty much all the top active full time didge makers in the country represented under the one roof and hence the largest range of high quality Eucalyptus didgeridoos in the planet- by far!!

 

As soon as we find what we think is that special didge we will let you know and give you first opportunity. We already have a waiting list for several keys so let us know ASAP.

 

Happy didgin!!

 

 

Reno choosing the best players for Spirit Gallery

Huge Termite Mounds in the Top End

Searching for Didges with Tristan O'Meara

Success- A Didgeridoo is Born

Green Ants

New Heartland Didgeridoos Now Available

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Tynon Bradford of Heartland Didgeridoos made the long trip down to Sydney from Bellingen and with him came approximately 25 of the nicest Heartland didgeridoos we think we have ever seen.

 

A master craftsmen with the utmost attention to detail, we are proud Tynon has chosen Spirit Gallery to be his primary retail outlet. Tynon keeps his finest work for Spirit Gallery including this crazy 3 metre didge pictured above.

 

Check out the new range of Heartland Didgeridoos!

 

Gumaroy Newman Didgeridoo Solo @ Spirit Gallery

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Our good friend and regular visitor Gumaroy dropped in and kindly recorded a couple of video clips for us.

 

Not only is Gumaroy one of the most talented didge players in the country, he is also an indigenous storyteller, presenter, educator, songman and poet.

 

A proud descendant of the Gamilaroi and Wakka Wakka nations, Gumaroy has performed in over 40 countries and is regularly called upon for major Australian events.

 

Gumaroy is available for corporate events, workshops, didgeridoo performances and lessons, educational programs and more. You can find more information at http://yidakiyulugi.com/

 

In the meantime watch Gumaroy perform a deadly didgeridoo solo below. Visit our YouTube channel to see Gumaroy explaining how to imitate Australian animals and create didgeridoo rhythms on the yidaki. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Spirit Gallery Didgeridoos & William Barton at the Sydney Opera House

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Our good friend William Barton will be performing at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 3rd August with the Australian Youth Orchestra. William came in earlier in the week before rehearsals to pick out the didgeridoos he will be using.

 

William knows a good didge when he sees one and these three beauties caught his attention- a CrookedStixz Didgeridoo (left) Tristan O’meara Didgeridoo (middle) and Bruce Rogers (right). Three of the countries top instrument makers all on stage at the Opera House- awesome!!

 

The Spirit Gallery team will be attending the event and there are still a limited number of tickets left for the evening.