Aboriginal Paintings

Bush Turkey

Stock #FW7137
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
1500 x 600mm

 

MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARA is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community. Born circa 1949 at Vaughn Springs, Northern Territory. EXHIBITIONS SOLO: 1989 - Michael Nelson Jagamara - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1990 - Michael Nelson Jagamara - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1993 – Utopia Art, Sydney 1996 – New Work, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 1997 – Nine Dreamings from Mt Singleton, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 1998 – New Expressions, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 1999 – MNJ, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 1999 - Without the Story the Painting is Nothing, Brisbane City Gallery 2000 – Michael Nelson Jagamara Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle 2000 - Some Other Way, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane 2002 - MNJ + Campfire, Adelaide Festival Fringe, Adelaide City Hall GROUP: 1984 – Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs 1984 - The First National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1985- The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971 – 84, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1986 - The Biennale of Sydney, AGNSW, Sydney 1986 – Roar Studios, Melbourne 1987 – State of the Art: ideas and images of the 1980’s, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 1987 – The Fourth National Indigenous Art Award, MAGNT, Darwin 1987 – Papunya Tula: 1982-1983, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1988 – Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia society Galleries, New York 1989 – Papunya Tula: Contemporary Paintings from Australia’s Western Desert, John Weber Gallery, New York 1989 – Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 1989 – A Myriad of dreaming: 20th Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne 1989 - A Myriad of dreaming: 20th Century Aboriginal Art, Design Warehouse, Sydney 1989 – Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1989 – Windows on the Dreaming, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1990 – Balance 1990, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 1991 - Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra 1991 – Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1991 – The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from the Tim & Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery & Te Whare Taonga o Aoteroa National Art Gallery, New Zealand 1991 – Alice to Penzance, The Mall Galleries, London

1992 – Central Australian Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs 1993 – Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga, Oasis Gallery, Gold Coast 1993 – Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 1993-4 – Aratjara, Art of the First Australians, Touring – Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark 1996 – Salt Water, Fresh Water, Bore Water, Touring Regional Galleries 1996 - All Stock Must Go! Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery 1998 – Powerful Medicine, Dar Festival of Indigenous Art & Culture, King George Square, Brisbane 1998 - Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 1998 - National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, ACT 1998 - National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Touring Exhibition     1999 – Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery 2000 - Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2000 - National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Old Parliament House, ACT 2000 - Telstra National Indigenous Art Awards, MAGNT 2000 – Genesis to Genius, Papunya Tula, AGNSW 2000 – Landmarks, Dar Festival of Indigenous Art and Culture, Powerhouse, Brisbane 2001 - Dreamtime: The Dark & The Light, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria 2001 - A Few Good Men, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 2002 - Lines II, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 2002 – Big Country, Small Worlds, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 2002 – Discomfort, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane 2002 – Summer Exhibition, Gallery Savah, Sydney COMMISSIONS 1987 – Sydney Opera House Bicentennial Mural 1988 – Mosaic Forecourt, New Parliament House, Canberra 1989 – BMW Art Car Project – Painted BMW M3 Racing Car AWARDS 1984 – First prize, Inaugural National Aboriginal Art Award 1993 – Australian Medal for Contribution to Aboriginal Art 1993 – Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council Fellowship 2002 – Conrad Jupiter’s Gold Coast Art Prize COLLECTIONS Araluen Arts Centre, Rockhampton Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Parliament House, Art Gallery of NSW, The Australian Museum, Art Gallery of South Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Holmes a Court Collection, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, Vizard Collection, Melbourne, Rockhampton City Art Gallery, Brisbane City Gallery, University of Queensland Art Museum, Centre Culturel Tjibaou, New Caledonia; Gold Coast Art Centre and many others