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In Conversation | An Interview With Collector Carey Lyon A group of rare early Western Desert paintings from the private collection of Melbourne couple, architect Carey Lyon and psychologist Jo Crosby, feature as leading highlights of SIGNIFICANT 2026. We recently visited Carey in his home in Melbourne to speak to him about his collection, of which he has said, ‘This was never about acquisition for its own sake. It grew out of time spent on Country and learning from artists. Honey Ant Travelling Dreaming, in particular, carries an extraordinary cultural weight, it is both visually powerful and deeply grounded in knowledge systems that predate Western art history by millennia.’ We invite you to discover more about the collection in this video and look forward to sharing these works with you in our galleries. Watch the full video via link in bio. - Videography: @gd.content #collector #firstnationsart #contemporaryart #dlangalleries

SIGNIFICANT 2026 We extend our thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate the previews and openings of SIGNIFICANT 2026 across all three of our venues in Melbourne, Sydney, or New York. The response to this year’s exhibition - our most exciting and ambitious to date - has been truly exceptional. SIGNIFICANT 2026 is now on view until June 27. We are honoured to present these remarkable works by Australia’s leading First Nations artists on an international stage, and warmly welcome you into our galleries to experience them first hand. - SIGNIFICANT 2026 | 14 May - 27 June Melbourne / Naarm Sydney / Gadigal New York / Lenapehoking - Photography: @gd.content #significant #firstnationsart #indigenousart #dlangalleries #contemporaryart

SIGNIFICANT | NOW ON VIEW We are thrilled to present the eleventh anniversary edition and second international edition of SIGNIFICANT 2026 which is now on view across our three galleries in Melbourne, Sydney, and in New York. This year’s iteration is our most exciting to date, featuring exceptional works by artists including Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, Yumpululu Tjungurrayi, Uta Uta Tjangala, Rover Thomas Joolama, Queenie McKenzie, Emily Kam Kngwarray, Wimmitji Tjapangati, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Eubena Nampitjin, Angelina Pwerle, Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Timo Hogan and Patju Presley. We are proud to present the work of these important artists to international audiences once again, and look forward to welcoming you to each of our galleries over the next month. SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 27 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK - photography: @__heavyp @stephen.ox #significant #firstnationsaustralianart #indigenousart

SIGNIFICANT 2026 | Opening Event There is less than one week to go until the opening of SIGNIFICANT 2026, and we couldn’t be more excited. We welcome you to join us next Thursday 14 May, from 6pm-8pm to celebrate the opening of the second, international edition of SIGNIFICANT which will once again take place across all three of our galleries in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York. Showcasing rare and exceptional works of art by Australia’s preeminent First Nations artists, this year’s edition is our most exciting to date. Please RSVP to [email protected] - SIGNIFICANT Opening Event | Thursday 14 May, 6pm-8pm Melbourne / Naarm: 40 Exhibition Street, Melbourne Sydney / Gadigal: 97-99 Queen Street, Woollahra New York / Lenapehoking: 25 East 73rd St - Photography: @stephen.ox @gd.content @__heavyp #significant #firstnationsart #contemporaryart #australianart #dlangalleries

SIGNIFICANT | WIMMITJI TJAPANGATI “Wimmitji rarely painted the same place twice. His paintings were paths worked out in the walking. The classic circle-line and concentric square structures of desert art are evident here, but they are warped and stretched into new shapes. Ideas are followed and then fenced abruptly, before tracking someone or something into little fields of dotting. You can get lost in these details following Wimmitji around. And then you step back, and take in the whole painting: found.” - John Carty - Tjiti Kutjarra - Two Children 1993 | synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 100 x 50cm (39.4 x 19.7 inches) | New York / Lenapehoking - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK Photography: @__heavyp © Wimmitji Tjapangati/Copyright Agency 2026 #significant #indigenousaustralianart #dlangalleries #firstnationsart #contemporaryart

SIGNIFICANT | JOHNNY WARANGULA TJUPURRULA “The Papunya artists painting during the early 1970s often favoured slender timber substrates such as the one used by Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula for Water Dreaming 1971. This may have been due to the proportionate similarities they share with shields and men’s ceremonial objects that – before the advent of acrylic painting – carried similar designs. Water Dreaming is associated with the soakage water site of Kalipinypa, approximately 400 kilometres west of Alice Springs. During the early period of painting activity at Papunya, Kalipinypa was a constant source of inspiration for several of the painting men. Kalipinypa is where the ancestral man Winpa, often referred to as the ‘Lightning Man’, clapped his boomerangs and ‘sang up’ a massive storm. Winpa’s presence in this painting is represented by the U shapes at the centre of the composition. The sinuous lines above and below show water running across the surface of the earth.” - Luke Scholes - Water Dreaming 1971 | synthetic polymer paint on composition board | 60.3 x 12.1 cm (23.7 x 4.8 inches) | Melbourne / Naarm - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK Photography: @gd.content © Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula/Copyright Agency 2026

SIGNIFICANT | EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY “Painted in July 1996, the final year of Kngwarray’s life, Yam Story is part of what has been called her “Sacred Grasses” period, the last of several key stylistic shifts over her concentrated eight-year career. Having moved through zones of delicate dotting, vibrant colour phases and bold linear strokes, she arrived in these final years at a style reduced to its core: line, motion, and the yam root system that has underpinned her work from the very start.” - Vanessa Merlino Emily Kam Kngwarray was one of Australia’s most celebrated artists, whose extraordinary painting career produced works of remarkable rhythmic complexity and spiritual power. - Yam Story 1996 | synthetic polymer paint on linen | 152 x 91 cm (59.8 x 35.8 inches)| New York | Lenapehoking - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK - Photography: @__heavyp © Emily Kam Kngwarray/Copyright Agency 2026 #significant #emilykamkngwarray #dlangalleries #firstnationsart #australianart

SIGNIFICANT 2026 With just two weeks to go until SIGNIFICANT opens across all three of our galleries – in Melbourne, Sydney, and New York – we are thrilled to share this video of highlights with Director and Founder, D’Lan Davidson. Now in its second decade, SIGNIFICANT – D Lan Galleries’ flagship exhibition – presents museum-quality works of art by Australian preeminent First Nations artists to international audiences. This year’s edition is our most exciting to date. We look forward to welcoming you to our galleries soon. - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK Videography: @gd.content

SIGNIFICANT | NOŊGIRRŊA MARAWILI “Over the past decade, few Australian artists have captured the zeitgeist more than Noŋgirrŋa Marawili. Following a series of successful solo exhibitions, and the acquisition of major works by cultural institutions across Australia and the world, Noŋgirrŋa’s brutalist interpretations of Yolŋu visual forms have become highly sought after.” - Luke Scholes Noŋgirrŋa Marawili (c.1938) was a senior Yolŋu artist who lived and worked in Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land. Baratjula 2015 examples one of Marawili’s finest works. Drawing inspiration from her surrounding environment, her works are deeply personal contemplations of both her culture and history. - Baratjula 2015 | earth pigments and synthetic binder on composition board | Left: 204 x 122 (80.3 x 48 inches) Right: 199 x 122 cm (78.3 x 48 inches) - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK - Photography: @stephen.ox © Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, courtesy of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre - #significant #dlangalleries #firstnationsart #indigenousaustralianart

SIGNIFICANT | KAAPA TJAMPITJINPA “Kaapa was a sophisticated thinker, knowledgable in ceremonial law as well as being familiar with transcultural printed media. His earliest paintings might have been created with materials scrounged from the school art room and salvaged from derelict buildings, but Kaapa possessed a rare capacity to distil three-dimensional ceremonial imagery to create perfectly balanced and executed designs. The clarity of Kaapa’s line and the economy of his compositions are testament to his intellectual acuity, and to his role as a go-between, crucial to the formation of Australia’s most significant art movement.” - John Kean - Honey Ant Travelling Dreaming 1971 | earth pigments on bondcrete on plyboard | 61 x 29 cm (24 x 11.4 inches) SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK - © Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa/Copyright Agency 2026 #significant #dlangalleries #indigenousart #naarm

SIGNIFICANT | QUEENIE MCKENZIE “Painted in 1995, at the height of her career and around the time of her first solo exhibition (Gara Garag: My Life Longa Texas at William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria), My Dreamings is a striking example of autobiographical works that draw on her relationship to Texas Downs Country and the histories and responsibilities Gija Elders have passed on to her. Her choice of a restricted palette of earthy brown and tan ochres conveys a grounded solemnity that has been shaped by this inherited cultural authority. Fields of pink, a hallmark of her later work, soften the work, its elements bordered with careful white dotting (mawoondool) -Stephanie Martin - My Dreamings 1995 | earth pigments on canvas | 120 x 160 cm (47.2 x 63 inches) | New York / Lenapehoking - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK - #indigenousaustralianart #significant #dlangalleries #queeniemckenzie

SIGNIFICANT | Early Rainforest Shield Large painted shields known in the Djirubal language as bigan, are distinctive to the Rainforest peoples of north-east Queensland. “This shield’s diamond patterning is characteristic of the Cardwell region. Its impressive scale, sinuous carving and red-brown motifs convey both the power of the holder and the skill of the artists. During the nineteenth century, amid the frontier wars, such shields were prized by researchers working in the region. This example was acquired in 1910 by Czech botanist Karel Domin during his travels through Queensland as part of a broader scientific expedition to Australia and Java.” - Stephanie Martin - An Early Rainforest Shield, nineteenth century | earth pigments on carved wood | 98.5 cm (38.8 inches) | Sydney / Gadigal - SIGNIFICANT | 14 May - 26 June D Lan Galleries MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | NEW YORK Photography: @stephen.ox #firstnationsart #gadigal #significant #dlangalleries #indigenousaustralianart