Image: D Lan Galleries, Melbourne
D’Lan Galleries has launched a private sales and consignment service focused on Indigenous Australian artworks and collections, extending its business beyond exhibitions into confidential market advice and direct placement. According to the gallery’s private sales page, the service offers private treaty sales of rare and exceptional works by Australia’s leading Indigenous artists, alongside valuations, strategic selling options and obligation-free consultations.
The gallery says the new offer is built around a personalised approach, giving clients direct access to its network and specialist expertise. Visitors are invited to discuss a single artwork or an entire collection, with the gallery stating that it can advise on current market conditions, valuation considerations and the best strategy for sale through future exhibitions or private sales. The website frames the service as part of D’Lan Galleries’ broader activity “alongside an annual international exhibition programme.”
One artwork highlighted in the private sales material is Angelina Pwerle’s 'Bush Plum' from 2019. In a short gallery note, D’Lan Davidson describes the painting as a “museum-quality work of commanding scale,” and says Pwerle’s canvases are held in major international institutions and sought by collectors across Australia, Europe and particularly the United States. The gallery identifies Pwerle as one of the most celebrated senior artists to emerge from the Utopia region of Central Australia.
The accompanying text places Pwerle’s practice within the bush plum Dreaming, also identified as Arnwekety, and describes her paintings as translating Country into layered fields of colour and light. It says the artist draws on ceremonial knowledge and dot painting to evoke Arlperr after seasonal rains, when bush plums and native grasses cover the landscape. The work shown on the page is listed as a 150 x 150 cm canvas.
Alongside the private-sales offering, D’Lan Galleries is also seeking consignments of exceptional Indigenous Australian artworks and collections. The gallery says it is accepting works for future exhibitions and private sales and will meet clients for confidential, obligation-free consultations. Its statement emphasizes that collectors may wish to sell either a single important artwork or an entire collection.
D’Lan Galleries’ website sets the service within its wider gallery structure, which includes locations in Melbourne, Sydney and New York, and says it works with a global marketplace of collectors and collections. The Melbourne address listed on the site is 40 Exhibition Street. The gallery’s current private-sales page and email promotion present the new service as a means of offering direct access to Indigenous Australian art through private treaty while maintaining discretion for sellers and buyers alike.
