In 2003, mother and daughter writers and publishers Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily McCulloch Childs were encouraged to work together by Anmatyerre artists the late Barbara Weir and her daughter Charmaine Pwerle.
At the time the pair were updating and publishing the fourth edition of McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art and their book Contemporary Aboriginal Art.
In 2009 they established Everywhen Art, located in the McCulloch familyโs heritage-listed home gallery Whistlewood and featuring extensive displays of First Nations art from more than 40 Indigenous-owned art centres.
This month, in tribute to Weir and Pwerle and in celebration of International Womenโs Day, Everywhen is presenting Women Celebrating Women.
It features Charmaine Pwerle, Caroline Ngwarreye, Emily Pwerle and other painters from the Utopia region, as well as new works by Ernabella Arts’ Janice Stanley and a wide range of other women artists the McCullochs have written on and exhibited over many decades.
