Alcaston Gallery

Ada Pula Beasley

Australia

D.O.B: 01/01/1959

Ada Pula Beasley is an important artist from the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory, whose practice sits at the crossroads of impressionism and realism. She is known for her vibrant depictions of Alyawarr Country, where brief, hazy strokes coalesce to form trees, shrubs and flowers, in a palette that draws from the region.

Beasley’s distinctive technique captures the red sandhill landscape of Alyawarr Country blooming with wildflowers and awash with lush greens. In her own words, her paintings “…tell story about my Country. After the bushfires, when the rain comes and brings back all the bush flowers and bush medicine back again and make it green, this [is] why I do this painting, reminds me when we go hunting after the bush fire and see just black, then it rains and brings flowers back and the trees and the blue skies, and the snappy gum trees up the hill.”

Beasley presented her debut exhibition at Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne in 2024.