William Mora Indigenous Art Centre Program

The William Mora Indigenous Art Centre (WMIACP) provides a fully funded exhibition package for Indigenous-owned Art Centres to participate in Melbourne Art Fair. It aims to promote and provide curatorial and commercial opportunities for Indigenous Australian artists working on Country and in communities across Australia.

The Program is funded by the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support (IVAIS) program, and generously supported by Morgans Financial Limited.

Past exhibiting art centres include:
Moa Arts
Munupi Arts & Crafts Association
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Wik & Kugu Arts Centre
Warlayirti Artists
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts
Milingimbi Art & Culture
Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre

Explore 2026’s exhibitors below.

Jilamara Arts and Craft Association

Jonathan World Peach Bush | 2022
Barbara Puruntatameri | 2026

Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association presents a
solo exhibition of large-scale ochre paintings on stringybark by Barabara Puruntatameri.

Barbara learned how to paint by watching her grandfather prepare for ceremonies. Her works celebrate the use of locally sourced earth pigments used by artists at Jilamara and the kayimwagakimi – a carved ironwood comb used to apply dots to the body for ceremony. Barbara uses this tool to create intricate vertically orientated lines of pwanga (ochre dots) reminiscent of yirrinkirripwoja or designs applied specifically to the face for yoyi (dance)

Moa Arts

Paula Savage | 2024, 2025, 2026
Solomon Booth | 2026

In 2026, Moa Arts presents a compelling new dual show, featuring Paula Savage’s iconic weaving works and prints; and large-format, framed ‘pochoir’ (mono-prints) on paper by Moa Arts founding member and Chairman, Solomon Booth.

Paula’s approach to art making is essentially quotidian and inseparable from the experiences of her own life. They are markers or diary entries of her experience, speaking to the way of life she lives in an unedited way.
Her work is powerful, dynamic and will energise the space in a uniquely island way.

Solomon is a key figure in the international recognition of print making from the Torres Strait and has been a central influence in this movement. Solomon’s refined use of colour and texture creates a unique ‘signature’.

Moa Arts is the trading name of Ngalmun Lagau Minaral, which means ‘our island’s design’. It is an Indigenous owned and operated Art Centre on Mua Island in the western cluster of Zenadth Kes – the Torres Strait. Through the centre’s work, they keep Mualgal traditions and Zenadth Kes arts and culture strong for everyone.

Munupi Arts & Crafts Association

Carol Puruntatameri and Alison Puruntatameri | 2025
Leon Russell Black | 2024, 2026

Returning for a third year in 2026, Munupi Arts & Crafts Association presents works by Leon Russell Black, whose practice is deeply rooted in Tiwi cosmology and expressed through uniquely personal visual languages.

Leon is a highly regarded artist whose bold ochre works speak from a young, assertive voice, grounded in Tiwi culture. He invokes totemic symbolism—sharks, birds, spirit figures—and grounds his practice in inherited knowledge from his family lineage. His work is marked by an emotional immediacy and raw presence, reflecting both deep cultural respect and a contemporary Tiwi experience and identity.

Papunya Tjupi Arts

Candy Nelson Nakamarra | 2024, 2025
Maureen Poulson Napangardi and Carbiene McDonald Tjangala | 2025
Doris Bush Nungarrayi | 2026

100% Aboriginal owned and directed community arts organisation Papunya Tjupi Arts is based in Papunya, the birthplace of the Western Desert painting movement. The Art Centre supports emerging artists and some of Australia’s leading contemporary painters.

In 2026, Papunya Tjupi Arts returns to Melbourne Art Fair to present new works by Doris Bush Nungarrayi. Doris paints vivid memories, stories and dreams from her life, with her work often telling happy stories from her early days in Ikuntji; eating, hunting, and swimming with her friends and family in the bush. Her work embodies the nature of a true storyteller, with her expressive style, bold use of colour, and recognisable motifs.

Walkatjara Art Uluru

Reggie Uluru | 2026

Walkatjara Art Uluru presents Reggie Uluru, a senior Anangu elder, traditional owner, and ceremony song-man from Mutitjulu community at the base of Uluru. A respected custodian of knowledge, Reggie carries the responsibilities of Tjukurpa—Anangu Creation Law—through painting, ceremony, and teaching.

Reggie’s painting practice focuses on the story of Wati Ngintaka, the Perentie Lizard Man, whose epic journey shaped the land and laid down ancestral law. Through colour, rhythm, and form, his canvases bring this Tjukurpa alive, continuing the same lineage of story once painted on skin, sand, and stone.

Ikuntji Artists

Keturah Zimran OAM | 2026

For their Melbourne Art Fair debut, Ikuntji Artists presents new works by leading Luritja artist Keturah Zimran.

Born in Haasts Bluff in 1978, Keturah is the youngest daughter of Molly Napaltjarri Jugadai and Smithy Zimran, and granddaughter of Narputta Nangala Jugadai, a founding member of Ikuntji Artists and one of the pioneering painters of the Western Desert movement.

Through her vibrant, flowing brushstrokes, Keturah continues the artistic legacy of her mother and grandmother, carrying forward their stories of Karrkurutjintja (Lake McDonald), while reinterpreting them in her own bold contemporary style.