FOCUS on line exhibition
10/11/2011 to 30/11/2011
FOCUS is an on-line exhibition that features artists who have achieved international acclaim for their contribution to contemporary Australian art as leading Indigenous artists.
In 1983 Paddy Stewart Tjapaltjarri and Paddy Sims Tjapaltjarri were two of five Warlpiri men who painted the 30 school doors at Yuendumu with kuruwarri (men\'s traditional designs) with the help of some of the schoolchildren. The thirty doors bear twenty seven separate Jukurrpa to which all the members of the community had an ancestrally-inherited association. The painting of the doors was an affirmation of the Warlpiri\'s cultural strength, and it also allowed the men to work on a scale with which they were accustomed, in relation to the size of ceremonial ground paintings.
Rover Thomas is considered to be one of Australias most important artists and in 1990 with Trevor Nicholls, was the first Indigenous artist to participate in the Venice Biennale. His close association with Paddy Tjamatji at Tureky Creek, introduced him to painting late in life, however Rover was a desert man, born near Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. After his parents death a drover named Wally Dowling took him north to Billiluna and the Kimberley where he became a stockman and eventually married and settled at Turkey Creek. His painting while influenced by his desert background, was strongly anchored in Gija mythology, introduced to him in a series of spirit dream associated with the death of a member of Paddy\'s family. This was the origin of the Gurirr Gurirr Ceremony. While associated closely with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts established in the early 1980s and later Warmun Art Centre, (estalbished in 1998), Rover along with many artists of the time, were largely independent and known to sell their work directly to the public as they played cards outside the Turkey Creek Road House. Rover\'s distinctive style has continued to be emulated by many East Kimberley painters, therefore such works carry little or no direct provenance.
Pantjit Mary McLean is a respected elder of the Ngaatjatjarra people of the Western Desert. Now living in Kalgoorlie, she has experienced a life of huge variety. As a young woman and mother she came into contact with whitefella life at Warburton and then further west as a musterer on the sheep stations in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia. However, her early life within the tradition of her culture gave and continues to sustain a prodigious knowledge of the Tjukurrpa or Dreaming.
Pantjiti Mary Mclean commenced drawing and painting in 1992 in a figurative manner and has since that time steadily established her position as a visual artist in Australia. She has won awards both for her art and her work with young people encouraging them through her commitment to a healthy lifestyle. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Curtin University for her contribution to the arts in Western Australia. Dr Pantjiti Mary Mclean has a distinctive style of in which people, animals, birds and the topography of the land feature as part of the overall visual \'story\' related by her painting.
Dominic Martin Tjupurrula was born \'in the bush\' in an area just north of present day Kiwirrkurra which is Pintupi country. However he has been associated with the Warlayirti artists of Balgo since 1985 and his themes include Bandicoot and Emu Dreaming stories. Deaf and dumb since birth, Dominic is a respected Lawman and rainmaker who continues to paint in a more \'traditional\' style, reminiscent of the palette associated with the beginnings of desert painting.
Ningura Napurrula born c.1938 at Watulka, south of the present Kiwirrkura community and was married to Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (deceased), moving to Papunya in the early days of the settlement. In 1996 she was part of a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in their own right. Her rich, yet simple palette and heavy impasto use of paint in sweeping linear markings are as distinctive as a signature.
Included in the initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996, Ningura participated in the impressive Kintore Women\'s Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000. In 2005 Ningura Napurrula was one of ten Australian Indigenous artists selected for representation at the newly completed Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, France and is considered a highly significant contemporary Indigenous artist today.
FOCUS is an on-line exhibition that features artists who have achieved international acclaim for their contribution to contemporary Australian art as leading Indigenous artists.
In 1983 Paddy Stewart Tjapaltjarri and Paddy Sims Tjapaltjarri were two of five Warlpiri men who painted the 30 school doors at Yuendumu with kuruwarri (men\'s traditional designs) with the help of some of the schoolchildren. The thirty doors bear twenty seven separate Jukurrpa to which all the members of the community had an ancestrally-inherited association. The painting of the doors was an affirmation of the Warlpiri\'s cultural strength, and it also allowed the men to work on a scale with which they were accustomed, in relation to the size of ceremonial ground paintings.
Rover Thomas is considered to be one of Australias most important artists and in 1990 with Trevor Nicholls, was the first Indigenous artist to participate in the Venice Biennale. His close association with Paddy Tjamatji at Tureky Creek, introduced him to painting late in life, however Rover was a desert man, born near Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. After his parents death a drover named Wally Dowling took him north to Billiluna and the Kimberley where he became a stockman and eventually married and settled at Turkey Creek. His painting while influenced by his desert background, was strongly anchored in Gija mythology, introduced to him in a series of spirit dream associated with the death of a member of Paddy\'s family. This was the origin of the Gurirr Gurirr Ceremony. While associated closely with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts established in the early 1980s and later Warmun Art Centre, (estalbished in 1998), Rover along with many artists of the time, were largely independent and known to sell their work directly to the public as they played cards outside the Turkey Creek Road House. Rover\'s distinctive style has continued to be emulated by many East Kimberley painters, therefore such works carry little or no direct provenance.
Pantjit Mary McLean is a respected elder of the Ngaatjatjarra people of the Western Desert. Now living in Kalgoorlie, she has experienced a life of huge variety. As a young woman and mother she came into contact with whitefella life at Warburton and then further west as a musterer on the sheep stations in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia. However, her early life within the tradition of her culture gave and continues to sustain a prodigious knowledge of the Tjukurrpa or Dreaming.
Pantjiti Mary Mclean commenced drawing and painting in 1992 in a figurative manner and has since that time steadily established her position as a visual artist in Australia. She has won awards both for her art and her work with young people encouraging them through her commitment to a healthy lifestyle. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Curtin University for her contribution to the arts in Western Australia. Dr Pantjiti Mary Mclean has a distinctive style of in which people, animals, birds and the topography of the land feature as part of the overall visual \'story\' related by her painting.
Dominic Martin Tjupurrula was born \'in the bush\' in an area just north of present day Kiwirrkurra which is Pintupi country. However he has been associated with the Warlayirti artists of Balgo since 1985 and his themes include Bandicoot and Emu Dreaming stories. Deaf and dumb since birth, Dominic is a respected Lawman and rainmaker who continues to paint in a more \'traditional\' style, reminiscent of the palette associated with the beginnings of desert painting.
Ningura Napurrula born c.1938 at Watulka, south of the present Kiwirrkura community and was married to Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (deceased), moving to Papunya in the early days of the settlement. In 1996 she was part of a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in their own right. Her rich, yet simple palette and heavy impasto use of paint in sweeping linear markings are as distinctive as a signature.
Included in the initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996, Ningura participated in the impressive Kintore Women\'s Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000. In 2005 Ningura Napurrula was one of ten Australian Indigenous artists selected for representation at the newly completed Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, France and is considered a highly significant contemporary Indigenous artist today.
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