Details
Latitude-31.8890099 Longitude116.002453 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jonathon-doughty
- Birth Place
- Midland, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Fremantle based Yamatji and Wongi painter Jonathon Richard Doughty is from an artistic family. His father, Phillip Doughty, is a landscape painter and his paternal grandmother is also a painter. Doughty began painting with his father at the Ottey Centre, a community centre run by the City of Cockburn Council which is situated in the southern outskirts of Fremantle. In 2009 Doughty and his father enrolled in Kidogo Art Institute’s Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft. In June and July of 2009 the students of this course, along with some invited artists, presented their works in the 'Moorditj Mob’ exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- Painter. Exhibited in the 'Moorditj Mob' exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse in 2009.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9880
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9881
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.8246698 Longitude140.7820068 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucy-forsberg
- Birth Place
- Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Lu Forsberg is an artist-researcher, writer and facilitator living on and working between the traditional lands of the Darug and Gundungurra People and the land of Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Their research-led practice utilises moving image and online mapping tools to unveil the hidden mechanisms of extractivism. Lu has received various awards and scholarships for their work and has exhibited at various art spaces across Australia including the IMA, UNSW Galleries, QUT Art Museum, and Metro Arts. In 2017 Lu was awarded the biennial Jeremy Hynes award for emerging and experimental Queensland art practice. In 2018 they received a Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship to undertake self-directed research in Sweden. They are currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at UNSW Art & Design.
Writers:
lucyforsberg1993
Lu Forsberg
Date written:
2016
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9882
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-42.880556 Longitude147.325 Start Date1993-01-01 End Date1993-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/reuben-oates
- Birth Place
- Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Reuben Oates, Trawlwoolway artist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1993, and currently lives in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania. Oates was taught to paint by his father Leigh Oates , and predominantly paints Australian native animals from the region around his home. Oates is associated with Art Mob, Hobart, and his exhibitions at the gallery have included 'Tasmanian Living Artists Week’ (2007) and 'Leigh and Reuben Oates Father and Son Exhibition’ (2006).
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: In correspondence with the artist
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1993
- Summary
- Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who paints Australian native animals from the region around his home in the Huon Valley. Oates was taught to paint by his father, fellow artist Leigh Oates.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9883
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude14.5958 Longitude120.9772 Start Date1992-01-01 End Date1992-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9884
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1992-01-01 End Date1992-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jack-jans
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Jack Andrew Wilkie-Jans originally started his career in the arts as a volunteer artsworker, curator and events and exhibitions co-ordinator for local grass-roots level arts and cultural events. His tribal Grandmother was the late, “Thapich” Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO. Jack lives and works in Cairns, far north Queensland. In 2011 he, along with many other volunteers who work in a wide selection of industries, was awarded the Senator Jan McLucas Volunteer Recognition Award for his efforts and work with youth at risk with youth charities and for his efforts in strengthening the local Cairns arts & cultural scene.
Jack first started volunteering in the Arts at Cell Art Space, an Artist Run Initiative in far north Queensland. This role saw him participate in a group exhibition of the Co-Directors called 'Art Sense’ in 2011.
His most notable project was The ’2012’ Exhibition, funded by Youth Arts Queensland. The exhibition showcased many emerging artists alongside many established local artists. The exhibition drew a crowd consisting of many state and local dignitaries; providing emerging artists with exhibition preparation skills and networks.
As an artist he has exhibited earlier works in several group exhibitions. In 2011 Jack was a participant in the Wesfarmer’s Arts Indigenous Leadership Program at the National Gallery of Australia.
In May 2012, Jack held his first solo exhibition at C.1907 Gallery & Art Space titled 'the First & Last Fleet’. It spoke of the most significant moment in Australian history when the First Fleet landed on Australian shores, changing the landscape, both social and material, forever. He has also donated several artworks to a special bursary created in honour of Thapich Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO. The bursary funds are awarded to young and emerging Western Cape artists wishing to expand their career opportunities and industry connections.
In August 2012 Jack held a solo exhibition throughout the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, with the Indigenous Beautiful Art Spaces programme partnered with Art Queensland, the Cairns Regional Council and the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. The exhibition was held at Vibe Bar and Lounge in Cairns. The exhibition will travel in October to another venue in Cairns, the Salthouse, for further display.
In October 2012 Jack organised a charitable art auction for the Declan Crouch Fund in partnership with the Dr Edward Koch Foundation. The Declan Crouch Fund Charity Art Auction was auctioneered by The Hon. Warren Entsch MP and raised well over $4,000 for the Fund to go towards their great work with Suicide Prevention and Awareness Raising in the Cairns community.
Writers:
fishel
LeccyMartin
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1992
- Summary
- Jack Andrew Wilkie-Jans is an artist, artsworker, curator and events and exhibitions coordinator. His tribal Grandmother was the late Thancoupie/ Thanakupi, Dr Gloria Fletcher James AO.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9885
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hannah-bronte
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Hannah Brontë explores female empowementr using the visual and aural language of popular culture, hip-hop and slang
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9886
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-power
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- Kate Power is sculpture and installation artist based in Adelaide. Her practice embraces video, craft, textiles, sculpture and installation to investigate coexistence and enforced social constructions that can complicate how we relate to others. Power is a graduate with first class Honours from the South Australian School of Art(2008). She has been awarded the Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize. Power has exhibited at FELTspace (SA); Light Square Gallery (SA); Tooth and Nail (SA); Format (SA); Sydney Contemporary Art fair (NSW); and Seedling Art Space (SA). She is a co-Director at FELTspace and co-founder of Axe House Studios.
Writers:
katepower
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9887
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.3267797 Longitude115.636698 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/iesha-farmer
- Birth Place
- Bunbury, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Iesha Farmer is a Noongar woman born in 1991 at Bunbury, Western Australia.
Farmer began to practise art seriously in Year 10 at Aranmore Catholic College in Perth. After graduating from high school in 2008 Farmer continued studying visual art and in 2009 she enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Art Institute in Fremantle. In June and July of 2009 she participated in a group show of the Kidogo students’ work, 'Moorditj Mob’, at Kidogo Arthouse. In the same year Troy Bennell curated her into the exhibition 'Noongar Country’ at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. Other artists in this group show included Wendy Hayden, Ronald Williams, Lance Chad, Sharyn Egan, Janet Hansen, Dolores Fraser (Jillawarra), Troy Bennell, Athol Farmer, Graham (Swag) Taylor and Laurel NannuThis entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Noongar artist whose work was included in 'Noongar Country' (2009) at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Western Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9888
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.8262187 Longitude150.9414378 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jessica-nolan
- Birth Place
- Greystanes, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 26 February 1991
- Summary
- Jess Nolan was an emerging South Australian artist who died in 2018.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 25-Jun-18
- Age at death
- 27
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9889
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ellie-noir
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gabrielle-cirocco
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1991
- Summary
- Adelaide-born artist, working in multiple art forms, now based in London
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.560833 Longitude143.8475 Start Date1991-01-01 End Date1991-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/josh-muir
- Birth Place
- Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1991
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 5-Feb-22
- Age at death
- 31
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-24.4882245 Longitude149.9418209 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tyza-stewart
- Birth Place
- Moura, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Tyza is a recent Honors graduate of the Queensland College of Art and is currently represented by Heiser Gallery, Brisbane. Tyza’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in Australia, including 15 artists at Redcliffe Art Gallery, The Churchie at Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, Breakthrough, Gympie Regional Art Gallery, Interstate Romance at Pseudo Space, Sydney and BEAF 2013 at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane.
Writers:
Zoe Knight
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1990
- Summary
- Tyza Stewart is a visual artist based in Brisbane, QLD.
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/juanella-mckenzie
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Jaunella McKenzie was born in 1990 in Port Augusta, South Australia. Her mother, painter Regina McKenzie, is a Kuyani and Luritja woman and her father is an African-American man.
McKenzie’s aunt, Milly Taylor, and McKenzie’s mother have painted for many years and McKenzie would paint alongside them as a child, learning the stories of the local people from them as she painted. In 2005 McKenzie showed her acrylic on canvas painting Seven Sisters Dreaming in the exhibition ' Yarta Arts: Contemporary Indigenous art from Flinders Ranges and Marree’ at Arkaba Woolshed (near Wilpena Pound).In 2007 McKenzie participated in 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2008 she exhibited with her mother and John Millard (a non-Aboriginal artist) in the show 'Flinders Ranges Through Our Eyes ' at the Fountain Gallery during the Adelaide Fringe festival. McKenzie lives near Hawker in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
staffcontributor
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1990
- Summary
- Taught to paint by her mother and aunt as a child. Flinders Ranges based painter of acrylic on canvas. Exhibited in 'Our Mob' in 2007 at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb988f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1990-01-01 End Date1990-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9890
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude50.8221133 Longitude-1.067760249 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-kestell
- Birth Place
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9891
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sharni-oconnor
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Sharni O’Connor was born on Thursday Island, Torres Strait in 1989. She carves jewellery in the shapes of marine life and the flora of the Torres Strait from gold lipped mother-of-pearl shells. O’Connor exhibited in the 2006 'Gatherings II’ exhibition in Brisbane and states in the accompanying catalogue that “mother-of-pearl is such a beautiful medium. I look for the lustre, pattern and iridescent hues when choosing which piece of shell to carve. It is like a gem from the ocean and I feel that every piece has its own magic.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Torres Strait Islander, Sharni O'Connor carves jewellery in the shapes of marine life and the flora of the Torres Strait from gold lipped mother-of-pearl shells she sources locally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9892
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-20.4018085 Longitude148.5832137 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brooke-ferguson
- Birth Place
- Proserpine, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Brooke Ferguson is an artist living and working in Brisbane, Australia and Brussels, Belgium
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9893
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-26.6257326 Longitude152.959953 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-david-howard
- Birth Place
- Nambour, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Peter David Howard is an emerging producer, director and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. He is known for the short film PIROUETTE (2020), ABCs’ Heart & Soul (2013) and Channel 31s’ Live on Bowen (2012). He graduated from RMIT in 2012 and worked for Network ten as a live-to-air graphics operator (2013), at RMITV as the Training Manager (2014), the national broadband network as a Multimedia Producer (2015-2018) and at the University of Melbourne as a content producer (2019-2020). Peter aims to produce short and feature-length genre films that explore Australian characters that have been marginalised by their societies and government.
Writers:
petedavidhoward89
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- A filmmaker resident in Melbourne in 2021. Known for his film 'Pirouette' which was produced in Melbourne and screened in five states across Australia. It was been selected by three film festivals in 2020.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9894
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9895
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9896
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/luke-stambouliah
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Growing up in a household where Super 8 was like another member of our family, my fascination with photography and cinema was nurtured.
Intrigued by my father’s profession as a psychologist and my sister’s craft as an actor I wanted to fuse the study of the mind with the power of expression.
My exhibited works have since been collaborations with actors to communicate the strength of storytelling through still images.
I graduated with Honours in Photomedia from the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts. My body of work Betwixt (The Black Show) was the first photographic exhibition to be held at the prestigious Roslyn Packer Theatre.
Beyond the gallery walls I’ve continued my path into film and television, shooting stills for Australia’s leading productions.
Through my work I look to uncover the bigger picture within the smallest moments.
Writers:
Luke Stambouliah
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Luke Stambouliah is an international celebrity portrait photographer based in Sydney specialising in headshots, film stills and fine art prints.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9897
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9898
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37 Longitude144 Start Date1989-01-01 End Date1989-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/makia-mclaughlin
- Birth Place
- VIC
- Biography
- Makia McLaughlin was born in 1989 in Victoria. McLaughlin’s father is from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and her mother’s people are Yorta Yorta from Victoria. McLaughlin’s work, My Yolngu/Yorta Yorta Dreaming, a 2005 acrylic on canvas work, was shortlisted in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
At the time of the awards McLaughlin was enrolled in a Certificate III course in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Design at North Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), Preston. McLaughlin has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions including “Gumbri: White Dove” at Bundoora Homestead (2004), “Sorry – It’s Not So Hard To Say” at Bundoora Homestead (2005), and “Gathering of the Land” at A-Space, NMIT, Bundoora (2005).McLaughlin’s work is held in the collection of the Faculty of Further Education, NMIT. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1989
- Summary
- Makia McLauglin was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with her painting 'My Yolngu/Yorta Yorta Dreaming'.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9899
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude37.5666791 Longitude126.9782914 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude6.9387469 Longitude79.8541134 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/henry-wilson
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1988
- Summary
- Henry Wilson is an industrial designer. He established a Sydney studio in 2010. In 2011, Wilson won the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award for a metal joint ("A Joint") that allows the simple assembly of table legs and table surfaces without the use of tools. In 2011, he was a partner in Trent & Henry & began lecturing at the UNSW, Sydney. He has exhibited in London, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1988-01-01 End Date1988-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/beaver-lennon
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Beaver Lennon was born in Adelaide in 1988 and has lived most of his life in Ceduna, South Australia. He is of the Mirning people on his grandmother’s side and the Antikirinjara people of South Australia on his grandfather’s side. His grandmother Verna Lawrie and his late mother, Bernadette Lennon-Lawrie, are also well-respected artists. His grandfather Stanley Lennon was also a talented artist who greatly influenced Beaver; he passed away in 2003. His great-grandmother Jessie Lennon was a published author who wrote two books, I’m the one that know this country and I’ve been walking everywhere. These were recollections of living in and around Coober Pedy in the early 1920s and were written in her own voice and illustrated with photographs. They are especially important today for offering insight into the history of this regional area from an Aboriginal perspective. Beaver began painting for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre in 2005. His earlier paintings were influenced by his grandmother’s Dreaming stories of the Bunda Cliffs along the Great Australian Bight (SA), including images of whales and ocean themes. He is now more influenced by his grandfather’s Dreaming of Malu Tjuta (many kangaroos) and some of his paintings include depictions of kangaroos within vast open landscapes. Lennon also paints portraits and in 2008, after a workshop with Siv Grava and John Turpie, he completed My Jammu, My Grandfather, a portrait of Stanley Lennon. Lennon paints in a realistic style, and his landscapes capture the distinctive open skies and vast expanses of country with an extraordinary degree of depth, inviting the viewer to step into his world. He favours the effects of early morning or late afternoon light, with romantic skies of rolling clouds that reflect the colours found underfoot. Through astute observational recordings he maps out his deep connection to country. His work has been included in 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Artspace in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was a finalist in the 2006 Fleurieu Peninsula Youth Scholarship Award and in 2007 he was given an Honoured Citizen Award for his service to the arts during the Reconciliation Week celebrations in Ceduna. In 2008 he was a finalist in the prestigious Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery. His work has also been included in group shows at Tandanya, the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide and in Port Lincoln at Kuju Art Centre (2008) as well as at Red Poles Gallery in McLaren Vale (2007 and 2009). Lennon also completed a series of commissioned murals on public buildings around Ceduna, c. 2008.
Writers:
Cumpston, Nici
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2010
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1988
- Summary
- Beaver Lennon is a visual artist working as a painter. Residing in Ceduna, South Australia, he belongs to the Mirning and Antakirinja people.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb989e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/max-berry
- Birth Place
- Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Max Berry was born in 1987 in Katherine, NT. He completed a Bachelor of Design in 2009 at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, majoring in Graphic Design and Textiles. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Dwyer, JeremyDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1987
- Summary
- Max Berry is a painter born in 1987 in Katherine, NT. Berry completed a Bachelor of Design in 2009 at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, majoring in Graphic Design and Textiles.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a0
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TLCMap IDtb98a1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-kate-anderson
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1987
- Summary
- Sydney based conceptual artist, creative director & arts worker in the arts/ disability sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a2
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TLCMap IDtb98a3
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TLCMap IDtb98a4
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Description
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TLCMap IDtb98a5
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TLCMap IDtb98a6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kat-sapera
- Birth Place
- London
- Biography
- Kat Sapera moved to Sydney in late 2009 and has since been residing here and working as an independent curator.
This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Kat Sapera is an independent curator based in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude21.1773982 Longitude106.0706893 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/van-tu-vu
- Birth Place
- Bacninh, Vietnam
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Van Tu Vu works with eco-friendly materials in 3-dimensional forms.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a8
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1986-01-01 End Date1986-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/claire-krouzecky
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Claire Krouzecky, painter, is a Perth-born artist who moved to Tasmania to study in 2010. Her work was featured in 'Hatched’, the National Graduate exhibition held at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia, in 2011. Krouzecky participated in '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013. She is a member of Inter Collective, a collaborative arts practice with Anna Cocks and Laura Hindmarsh, which encompasses installation and live performance.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1986
- Summary
- Claire Krouzecky, painter, is a Perth-born artist who moved to Tasmania to study in 2010. She is a member of Inter Collective, a collaborative arts practice with Anna Cocks and Laura Hindmarsh, which encompasses installation and live performance.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98a9
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1985-01-01 End Date1985-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tina-tran
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Tina Tran is a self-taught Sydney-based artist who explores abstract forms in the media of drawing and painting. Whether using acrylic paint on canvas or pencil, coloured graphite, watercolour or ink on various paper stocks, Tran creates organic and undulating abstract forms that meld together.Born in Sydney in 1985, Tran began her art practice in 2003, receiving her first accolade when her High School Certificate (HSC) body of work entitled, When you see a flower and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment was selected for ArtExpress 2003 and exhibited at Sydney city’s David Jones window display in December 2003 and Hazelhurst Regional Arts and Crafts Centre in January 2004. After completing high school in 2003, Tran studied for a Bachelor of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney; a decision that temporarily curtailed her art practice. Upon completing her degree in 2006, Tran refocused on the development of her art making, supporting herself through part-time work. Buoyed by this new creative focus in her life, in late 2007 Tran joined a group of like-minded friends and family members residing in the Cabramatta and Canley Vale precincts of Sydney, to establish the Popperbox collective. Inspired by group painting performances by art collectives broadcasted over the internet, the Popperbox collective became a vehicle to creatively collaborate on a variety of public and interactive art projects. In April 2008, in conjunction with Fairfield City Council, Popperbox performed a live drawing performance entitled Glassbox, at Cabravale Leisure Centre in Cabramatta, Sydney. In addition to the work of the Popperbox collective, Tran has had an active solo practice. Tina Tran brings an emotive and intuitive approach to her abstract painting and drawing. Recent success in her solo endeavours has been reflected in a number of group exhibitions throughout 2008 including “Populous Cast” at Global Gallery (Sydney), “Black and Blue 2” at Pigment Gallery (Melbourne) and “Square 1 Art Auction” at Mori Gallery (Sydney).
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Hoo, James
Note: James is a student in Design at COFA, UNSW
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1985
- Summary
- Tina Tran is a painter as well as a member of the Popperbox collective, an interactive public art group in the Fairfield region of Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98aa
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Details
Latitude-6.175247 Longitude106.8270488 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/benjamin-prabowo-sexton
- Birth Place
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Benjamin Prabowo Sexton works in photography, manipulating images in post-production.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ab
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alana-hunt
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ac
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TLCMap IDtb98ad
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jessica-birk
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- A young Indigenous artist, Jessica Birk was born in 1984 on the Northern Beaches of Sydney where she was still living in 2008. Birk is a proud descendant of the Yaegl people, from the Northern Rivers of NSW, The Clarence Valley. Through her art Birk asserts herself as a contemporary storyteller of the Yaegl people and her art-making practice allows her to explore to what extent she can imprint her identity and personal experiences, as well as the notions of belonging and familial lineage, upon the imagery, the colours, the patterns and the forms in her work.Birk has a strong connection to both the Northern Beaches and the Northern Rivers areas of NSW and her work focuses on these areas and aims to articulate her feelings of belonging that are tied to these places. Having grown up on the Northern Beaches Birk has grown to know and respect the area over time and her connection to the Northern Rivers is through her mother’s family, a legacy and gift given to her as a descendant of that land.
For Birk, the notion of belonging is an abstract one and she aims to develop a visual language that enables her audience to grasp the implicitly rich understanding of a landscape where belonging means knowing your country intimately. As such, every component of her images have a meaning where the colours, the patterns and the forms all combine to visually articulate the 'holistic’ experience of the landscapes.
Says Birk “This understanding of country allows for a two-way communication to evolve, between those belonging and the country to which they belong. Country is spoken to, sung to, loved and mourned, just as if were a family member. This personification of the landscape allows a more personal interpretation of what lies in it; everything then has a purpose and a story to tell, from the colours of the landscape right down to the stones within it.”
The imagery Birk uses serves as a metaphor for the strength and enduring quality of the ancestral presence within the landscape. She says, “By doing so I want to show that in order to tap into this collective wisdom and knowledge of the land you need to learn to love and look after it as a living entity.An 'abstract’ landscape becomes intrinsically more literal through a 'holistic’ representation of a landscape and thus includes its aesthetic qualities, its colours, textures and representational forms, but also its past, its future and its stories.”
In 2006 Birk graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Printmaking) from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. Since 2003 she has participated in a number of group exhibitions and in 2006 she had a solo show at Manly Regional Art Gallery entitled 'Born Belonging’ and was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
Writers:
Birk, Jessica
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- An Indigenous painter and printmaker living in Sydney. Birk is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and her work is predominately themed around her coastal home and cultural links.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ae
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-curran
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- artist, was born 1984 in Sydney to Bernard and Wendy Curran. Tony Curran’s work focuses on visual culture and psychology through the use of painting, drawing and sculpture. This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Young, RebeccaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Sydney artist born in 1984, Tony Curran focuses on visual culture and psychology through the use of painting, drawing and sculpture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98af
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b0
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cedric-varcoe
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Cedric Varcoe was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1984 and later moved to Port Pirie, South Australia. He has family connections to the Raukkan of Point Pierce and is of the Narangga Ngarrindjeri language grou
He began painting from the age of eight, inspired by observing his mother, aunties, uncles and sister paint. He works mainly in acrylics on canvas and his subjects are usually “lizards, snakes and stylized male figures” (artist statement, 2008).
In 2008 Varcoe completed a mural in a cell at the Port Pirie Police Station, which he hopes will encourage young people who are arrested by the police to see a different future for themselves and inspire them to express themselves using creative means. 2008 also saw his work exhibited in the 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Not content to remain in the media of painting, Varcoe is exploring other areas of the visual arts including sculpture and printmaking.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Painter who exhibited in the 2008 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b1
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b2
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stella-rosa-mcdonald
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more text.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Stella Rosa McDonald is a video artist based in Sydney. Her practice examines the various influences of language, text and image on the portrayal of historical matter via artistic and literary abstraction.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b3
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-36.23563 Longitude149.1264221 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucas-grogan
- Birth Place
- Cooma, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Lucas Grogan was born in 1984 in Cooma in New South Wales. Grogan studied at the University of Newcastle before moving to Melbourne where he lives and works.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Cooma born artist whose practice spans multiple disciplines including, drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b4
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kelly-dole
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Kelly Doley’s cross-disciplinary work is based upon engaging with themes current in society. She often uses performance, collaboration and interaction as tools to investigate the certain issue such as gender or self with direct communication. Most of the works are inherently feminist that then also question social and political structures within our culture. The information she uncovers and gains is then used for further online, exhibition and print projects.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2011) as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from COFA, UNSW (2006)
Since 2008 she has been working on participatory, curatorial and publishing projects.
Doley has exhibited and presented solo and collaboratively in a range of contexts and spaces nationally and internationally
Writers:
JustynaStanczew
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Kelly Doley is an artist based in Sydney. As well as having a solo practice creating video works, paintings and performance pieces, she is also a member of the all female performance collective Brown Council.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b5
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1984-01-01 End Date1984-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rob-oconnor
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Rob O’Connor, painter, was born in Melbourne in 1984 and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, Hobart, in 2007. O’Connor has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions, including '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013; 'Core’, Bett Gallery, Hobart, 2011; 'The Great White Hoax’, Moorilla Scholarship Exhibition, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, 2008; and 'A Tale told by an Idiot’, Little Space Gallery, Hobart, 2007.
In 2011 O’Connor was the winner of the RACT Tasmanian Youth Portraiture Prize and was an artist in residence, He-Shun International Arts Festival, Xu Village, Shanxi, China. His work is held in several collections, including He Shun International Arts Village, China; RACT Tasmania; and Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Hobart.
Writers:
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1984
- Summary
- Rob O’Connor, painter, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, Hobart, in 2007. In 2011 O’Connor was the winner of the RACT Tasmanian Youth Portraiture Prize.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alice-lang
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Alice Lang’s work unfolds from various points of mixed-media and does so by alternating disciplines that encompass painting, drawing, and craft-form objects. Lang’s work underlie key surfacing themes within her practice that consider the emotive aspects of materiality, the historical & current roles of feminism, and in recent works the tension of identity constructs and fragmentation between our virtual and physical selves. While her art-objects take into account material expression between form and formlessness, allure and repulsion, the known and the unknown. Her signature crafted forms are able to tease the relationship between the decorative and the grotesque, previously she has experimented using techniques such as macramé and other fibre crafts throughout her oeuvre. Lang seemingly represents an alternate contemporary populist range of craft materials such as puff paints, and bright fluorescent thread.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Visual Arts) First Class from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (2004).
Writers:
Jacob Martin
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. c.1983
- Summary
- Alice Lang is a founding member and co-director of LEVEL, an artist run initiative dedicated to providing opportunities for emerging and early career female visual artists,
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/heidi-axelsen
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b8
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monte-masi
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98b9
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-drew
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- Peter Drew has been practicing as an artist since 2006 and publishing writing on visual arts since 2009. While making studio based work for the gallery he is best known for his interventions in the urban landscape. (peterdrewarts.com/about)
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ba
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:31 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1983-01-01 End Date1983-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charlie-sofo
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Exhibiting in group and solo shows since 2005, Charlie Sofo combines a variety of media including sculpture, video, installation, drawing and text.Primarily concerned with the documentation and cataloguing of experiences – street walks and the variety of odours found in suburbs, the detritus removed from his running shoes, a video catalogue of lounging cats – Sofo’s taxonomic aesthetic is precise and humorous.A selection of Sofo’s work was included under the title Fields (2010-11) in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2011 at the Art Gallery of NSW. Two video components of the installation were Touch (2010-11) – a record of the hands of the artists encountering a variety of natural and manmade textures – and I Wander (2010), a documentation of the artist walking through the backstreets and parks of the Melbourne suburb of Northcote.The Anne Landa 2011 curator Justin Paton described Sofo’s work as having the “procedural feeling, the one-thing-after-another quality, of early conceptual art”.
Writers:
Andrew Frost
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
moderator approved
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jirra-lulla-harvey
- Birth Place
- Selby, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Melbourne based artist Jirra Lulla Harvey is a Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri painter. She works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas.
In 2004 she was awarded the NAIDOC National Artist of the Year and in 2005 was shortlisted in the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with her painting, Daya, garra (Here, now) . In the catalogue accompanying the awards she says that this painting is about “cultural survival and progression. The diamond patterning, resembling a traditional Victorian style, structures the rest of the image. Ochre tones create the base, and bright colours and contemporary patterning show our culture’s evolution.” (Victorian Indigenous Art Awards catalogue, 2005, pg 18).
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- Melbourne based artist Jirra Lulla Harvey is a Yorta Yorta/Wiradjuri painter who was the 2004 NAIDOC National Artist of the Year.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-siwerski
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Matthew Siwerski was born in New Zealand in1983. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Dunedin School of Art in 2008. He moved to Australia in 2011, andlives and works in Melbourne. Siwerski works with digital media and textiles. He creates large-scale sculptural installations that include many embroidered elements,combining his skills in digital modelling, sculpture and machine sewing. His interest in textiles developed from his exploration of gender politics and fashion. He is interested in “decoding masculinities…breaking down common beliefs and challenging socialconstructions”. Although fascinated by a variety of digital technologies including 3dmodelling and printing, video and programming, Siwerski requires a more physical element to his practice as well. “…at art school in the digital department and I dearlymissed a hands on sculptural approach. I also strongly believe in creating your own processes and experimenting as much as possible. So I merged the two, the computerplatform and working in textiles”.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1983
- Summary
- New Zealand born artist working with digital media and textiles
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98bd
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-hill
- Birth Place
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- Biography
- Adrian Hill, landscape architect and artist, was born in Montreal, Canada in 1982. He is the brother of Justin Hill and first son of Bruce and Helen Hill, who encouraged his interest in art and supported him in his studies.
Hill attended high school in Stanmore, Sydney. His art teacher Neville Dawson had a great influence on Hill’s artistic focus and the two remained friends. In 2004 Hill received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales. His theoretical training and knowledge was complemented by work experience with artist/landscape architect Anton James in Sydney. In 2008 Hill was an associate in Terras Landscape Architects in Newcastle.
After moving to Newcastle, Adrian Hill created one major artwork and coordinated several others. Second Nature (2008), Hill’s first significant temporary public artwork, developed in collaboration with Nicola Xavier, was included in the public art project 'Back to the City’. Taking its name and inspiration from American author Michael Pollan’s Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education (1991), the Hill and Xavier piece made use of a robust, large-framed structure onto which was stretched geo-fabric bearing a stenciled William Morris flower pattern around lines from Pollan’s text. Hessian matting was implanted with wheatgrass seeds and hung vertically. The wheatgrass was watered and germinated up the wall, evolving throughout the three week exhibition period. Hill’s insights into landscape remediation played a key role in the creation of this work, which he says was “about developing a use for a dysfunctional space and giving meaning or creating 'place’.” (2008 pers. comm.) Second Nature received a highly commended prize at the completion of the exhibition; the site is expected to become a community public garden and a memorial to Australian horticulturalist Judy Cuppaidge.
The most significant of Hill’s curated exhibitions to date is 'Small Places’, a temporary art series instigated in 2005 to focus on Newcastle’s City Centre, and in this respect not dissimilar to Steffen Lehmann’s 'Back to the City’.
At the time of writing, Adrian Hill was active in Newcastle’s Australian Architecture Association chapter; was chair of the Trees in Newcastle (TIN) committee, a Hunter based non-government organisation and community environmental organisation; and sat on the Newcastle City Council’s Public Art Advisory Committee (2008-10). He was also involved in the development of a temporary architectural exhibition space within disused shop-fronts in Newcastle’s central business district.
Writers:
Potoczny, EvelynDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Newcastle based landscape architect and public artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98be
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brenton-mckenna
- Birth Place
- Broome, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Brenton McKenna, Ywarru graphic artist and novelist, was born in Broome in 1982 and lived there until he was fifteen. McKenna was attracted to comics at an early age: when he was eight years old, a Ghost Rider comic book came into his possession and marked the starting point of his love of drawing. He taught himself to draw during his teenage years by copying images from comics and learning from a cartooning book by Chris Hart that was given to him by a high school art teacher when he was fifteen. McKenna’s drawing skills flourished in the following years when he moved to Victoria and completed high school at Wodonga Catholic College, and were further consolidated when he undertook a period of study (Diploma of Visual Arts program) at the Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE in Wangaratta between 2000 and 2002. Over the years he refined his skills through practice and experimentation, working with pencil, blue lead and art liners, as well as digital tools such as Photoshop and Corel Painter.Writing and illustrating are always interconnected in McKenna’s practice. His dedication to the form of the graphic novel is underpinned by his interest in the way text and image can interact; in the way a narrative can be brought to life for a reader through both visual and textual components. He draws inspiration from a range of sources, including Aboriginal mythology, folklore from a range of cultures, urban history and legend, war correspondence and military stories, science fiction and the natural world. His main sources of inspiration, however, are his memories of growing up in Broome. McKenna speaks of his voracious imagination and sense of curiosity about a range of topics, which often entails extrapolating fantastical stories and circumstances from everyday situations. As a result, he was often in trouble at school for not paying attention, but he continued to nourish the habit: “Now every day I actively try and create stories, characters and scenes out of everyday things I see and hear no matter where I am” (McKenna pers. comm. 2009).In 2002 McKenna began working on the manuscript and illustrations for a graphic novel titled Ubby’s Underdogs and the Legend of the Phoenix Dragon, under contract with Magabala Books. In 2002 he had just moved to Adelaide and started working on the novel to cope with his homesickness for the life and people of Broome. The novel revolves around the experiences of Ubby, a character inspired by McKenna’s grandmother, Alberta Dolby. The story is set in Broome, in a period in the town’s history when it was overcoming the effects of WWII – Broome had endured a Japanese air-raid attack in 1942. McKenna has drawn on family stories “about Nan and her sisters getting into fights and causing trouble when she was young… I took my knowledge of my grandmother, placed the character in a situation, then I tried to imagine what I think my nan would have done to hopefully project the character’s (Ubby’s) attitude and actions” (McKenna, pers comm. 2009). In the novel, Ubby is a smart and street-wise Aboriginal girl and leader of the 'Underdogs’, a group of ruffian youths who roam the streets of Broome. It follows Ubby’s experiences with Sai Fong, a girl who has recently arrived in Broome from Beijing, and their encounters and adventures are imbued with themes from Chinese and Aboriginal mythology. The production of the novel was assisted by an Australia Council for the Arts grant, awarded in 2004, and a Project Development Grant from the South Australian Youth Arts Board, awarded in 2005. In that year McKenna also began a traineeship with Arts SA, which he completed in 2006. In 2008 he was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship, which saw him benefit from the guidance and advice of Wolfgang Bylsma, an editor with graphic novel publisher Gestalt Publishing. Magabala Books’ publishing manager, Rachael Christensen, also provided McKenna with a great deal of support over a number of years as he established himself as a graphic novelist. In 2008 McKenna participated in the 'Our Metro Mob’ Exhibition at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide. In 2009 he was working on a number of book illustration projects, including Living Along Side the Animals: Anangu Way, written by Eileen Wani Wingfield and Emily Munyungka Austin (IAD Press), and two educational graphic novels to be published by Laguna Bay Publishing (planned for publication in 2011). In 2009 he was living in Adelaide with his partner and children, and working in the South Australian Government Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Emerging graphic novelist and cartoonist of Ywarru heritage, based in Adelaide. His main sources of inspiration are his memories of growing up in Broome.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c0
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-harding
- Birth Place
- Moranbah, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Dale Harding was born in 1982 in the coal-mining town of Moranbah, Queensland, and grew up on his parents’ nearby cattle property. The son of Kate and David Harding, he is a descendant of the Bidjara, Garingbal and Ghungalu people, and also acknowledges the Gungari people of Central Queensland. Harding’s artistic talent was recognised early and he was encouraged to participate in afterschool workshops where children received painting lessons as a reward for completing homework. He learnt from local artist Mena Sebastian, who inspired him to start willfully creating work when he was in the fifth grade.
Harding began receiving commissions for paintings soon after, resulting from the recognition his work received in the Moranbah State High School annual art show. His practice at the time encompassed a broader Indigenous aesthetic popular of the era and was bought by teachers, community members and cultural visitors to the school. “That was the beginning of the boom,” he explains. “This Aboriginal aesthetic that people were consuming really heavily.” In hindsight, Harding has conceded that his naïve depictions of dots and marine life weren’t true to his lived experience. “I was a little kid and I didn’t realise the politics behind it. Everything was almost fair fodder in that context. I now know that a lot of the stuff I was painting, I didn’t have access to – that wasn’t my reality.”
The artist recalls habitually passing up playtime as a child, preferring an afternoon spent making work with older locals. He was introduced to ceramics this way and undertook his first lessons on a pottery wheel at age thirteen. This preoccupation with art, rather than sports, rendered him somewhat of a social misfit with his peers in town. In his late teens Harding became heavily involved in the community radio station initiated by a local youth worker, a project he describes as “a safe place for all the kids who didn’t fit in”, an alternate venture in which interested locals could invest their energies.
Keen to experience life outside Moranbah, Harding left the small town in 2001 and headed to the Sunshine Coast. Throughout the next three years he experimented with oils for the first time and worked with timber. With a view to one day enroll in art school, Harding accepted employment with the Bristol paint company as a way of remaining in touch with colour and paint and continued his career in this industry after moving to Brisbane in 2003.
In 2008 he applied for the Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art course (CAIA) at Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art. With Jennifer Herd as course convenor and staff including Bianca Beetson and Laurie Nilsen, Harding was promptly introduced to a number of influential Brisbane-based creatives. “ProppaNOW meetings are regularly held there in one of the classrooms,” he recounts. “We’d be students having a cup of tea or working away and hear these fiery blow-ups and heated discussions echoing around the unit.”
Harding has acted as an apprentice to several prominent artists since first assisting Tony Albert in his studio in 2009. His graduate show and first solo exhibition 'Colour By Number’ was curated by Albert (also a CAIA graduate) and held at Metro Arts in Brisbane in 2012. The exhibition introduced the public to a selection of Harding’s work and unveiled his skill for the ‘gentle arts’ and ability to extort a powerful impact from calculated simplicity.
'Colour By Number’ explores the dislocation and discontent among the young, black and queer community through a “provocative subversion of the domestic art of cross-stitching”1. Works such as And All Who Enter (2010) and A Cock’atwo and a Kangaroo (2012) employ tongue-in-cheek visual puns to relay homoerotic connotations. The artist has described these works as offerings to the community, intended to bring some humour to a touchy topic in effort to desensitise the negative language callously used to reference homosexuality. The Griffith University Art Collection acquired his work Brown Family Values (2010) in 2012.
The title ‘Colour by Number’ is a reference to Harding’s celebrated 2009 work Unnamed, created in response to his Nanna’s recount of growing up on Woorabinda Aboriginal Mission in Central Queensland. A system of the Department of Native Affairs in Queensland at the time had her referred to by an alphanumeric number, rather than her given name. Unnamed is a king plate with his Nanna’s identification number, 'W38’, beaten into it. It is a likeness of the gorgets used by 19th-Century colonial authorities to identify Indigenous leaders.2
Harding works in whatever medium is necessary to convey his message and in the case of Unnamed this material choice is significant. The use of lead, an element with no precious metal value, symbolises the burden and toxicity of the demoralising alphanumeric identification system. Unnamed was Harding’s first work purchased for a major public collection, with the breastplate being gifted to the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by Julie Ewington, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2013. Unnamed has since been exhibited as part of 'My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ at the QAGOMA in 2013, curated by Bruce McLean.
Inspired by unwritten histories and unknown Aboriginal perspectives, Harding aims to depose convention in order to write these realities into the books. “These histories and these pieces of inherited knowledge often don’t extend beyond the family unit, or the wider Aboriginal community.”2 As a student of the CAIA course, Harding was encouraged to explore his family background and ancestry, as well as his own identity and aspirations for the future. He began formally recording the oral histories of his Indigenous relatives, and was moved by the courageous stories of strength and their associated pain. Nanna Margaret Lawton, his maternal grandmother, was named NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year in 2012 for her work in improving her community in Rockhampton and the Fitzroy Basin region. Harding’s Nanna Margaret has relayed tales of tragedy and triumph in her own life growing up ‘in service’ on Woorabinda Mission, on pastoral stations and in the homes of established families around Central Queensland.
Works influenced by the histories of Nanna Margaret Lawton and her mother, Nanna Effie Priestly, include Harding’s contributions to the 2013 exhibition 'String theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The three artworks selected for the innovative fibre and craft-based exhibition depict narratives of exploitation and injustices committed against young Aboriginal women who were forcibly contracted into servitude. Harding uses traditionally domestic artforms to tell tales of vile misconduct, discreetly overturning the status quo and displaying the hidden truth. White Collared (2013) comprises a selection of vintage crochet collars – the kind previously found on the uniforms of girls in service. Here the artist has tampered with the readymade by adding rawhide and saddlery hardware, comparing the supposed wearers to livestock to comment on their mistreatment and inferior social status.
Bright Eyed Little Dormitory Girls (2013) consists of a series of hessian sacks, referencing the crude dresses that Aboriginal children on the mission were forced to wear as punishment for ‘misbehaviour’. This work recalls the penalty inflicted on Harding’s grandmother when she dared try to defend herself against the unwanted advances of her employer. The sacks were coarse and abrasive and often left the children’s delicate skin mottled with sores. In an attempt to retrospectively alleviate the pain Harding has tenderly added a soft, opulent mohair neckline. In a similar line of comment, Of One’s Own Country (2011) also alludes to stolen innocence and cases of hushed-up abuse within the system. The more conceptual artwork incorporates an oxidised ball of steel wool, reminiscent of pubic hair, slowly but constantly corroding away to the shelf below.3 From it a single needle and metallic thread hangs precariously, suggestive of the weight of what is left unsaid.
Harding has detailed the constant protocol attached to his storytelling, with awareness of the responsibility involved in relaying other peoples’ histories. He seeks consultation and permission and is conscious of the way in which he contributes these perspectives. “These stories, these lived experiences, they don’t belong to me,” he clarifies, “But the history and the emotion now does.”
Just like the potent verbal histories passed onto Harding – and from him, in turn, to the audience – his artistic skills were also handed down from family. His mother Kate, who is a multi-skilled textile and fibre artist, taught him exquisite embroidery and cross-stitch techniques. His father David is a man off the land who shared his extensive knowledge of the properties of timber. Harding’s woodworking is heavily influenced by the traditional practices of artifact making in native Queensland timbers, which he learnt from family Elders and his community.
One of Harding’s greatest career highlights to date is his involvement in collaborative works with Tony Albert. In 2009 Harding was invited to participate in Albert’s collective project, Pay Attention, an installation incorporating individual works by 25 Aboriginal artists from around Australia. Spelling the words ‘PAY ATTENTION MOTHER FUCKERS’, the text-based work references a lithograph by American artist Bruce Nauman, held in the National Gallery of Australia, and calls out the questionable collection policies of major Australian institutions.4 In this work Harding created the letter ‘H’ – “for homo.”
“The work was about bringing together all the different generations and voices into the one work to make a statement of community,” he reflects. “That was the first time I’d been asked to lend my voice to a broader discussion.” Pay Attention was exhibited at City Gallery, Wellington, in 2010 and made its way to the National Gallery of Australia as part of unDisclosed (2012).
In 2012 Harding won the Griffith University Graduate Art Show Espresso GARAGE award for the work No Blame Rests with Them. He received a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Griffith University Queensland College of Art in 2012, completing Honours in Fine Art in 2013. He was a finalist in the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize in Decemeber 2013, and in April 2014 was selected by Vernon Ah Kee for the Emerging Artist Finalist’s category of the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize.
In February 2014 Harding took part in a Cicada Press Aboriginal Print Residency at UNSW, producing a pink ‘cross-stitch’ etching. He also exhibited at The Cross Art Projects in March 2014 as part of Sydney’s SafARI program. His work punishment tree: Queensland Crucifix references a method of torture once used by authorities in the Sunshine State against Aboriginal inmates on missions. The hardwood ‘punishment tree’ on Woorabinda Mission was used as an anchor, with holes gouged through it and steel bars inserted to form a horizontal cross. Inmates were chained to the ends of the metal bars and left to perish.5 Harding’s reinterpretation involves wax pillar candles that delineate the concept of wasting away. At the time of writing the artist is working towards exhibiting punishment tree in a second incarnation, accompanied by the work’s powerful audio component.
Harding’s practice has been commended with an episode of Colour Theory with Richard Bell, which first aired nationally in Australia on NITV in March 2014.
1 Howell, Angelita (2012) ‘Colour by Number’, Artlink, Vol 32 No 4, 2012.
2 Harding, Dale (2013) Dale Harding | Artist Interview [video recording], QAGOMA TV, June 1st 2013 tv.qagoma.qld.gov.au/2013/05/29/dale-harding-artist-interview/
3 Allas, Tess (2013) ‘A Stitch in Time’, string theory: focus on contemporary Australian art [exhibition catalogue], pp.42-45. Museum of Contemporary Art: Sydney.
4 Unknown Author (2011) ‘PAY ATTENTION: Tony Albert’ [webpage], City Gallery Wellington, citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/pay-attention-tony-albert
5 Harding, Dale (2014) punishment tree: Queensland Crucifix [audio recording], via Vimeo, vimeo.com/88742829
Writers:
Kimberley Bulliman
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Dale Harding was born in Moranbah, QLD, in 1982. Currently based in Brisbane, his work has been exhibited as part of the MCA touring exhibition, 'String theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art'.
- Gender
- Unspecified
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/frances-belle-parker
- Birth Place
- Dubbo, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Painter, drawer, printmaker and installation artist Frances Belle Parker was born in 1982 in Dubbo, New South Wales. She is from the Yaegl people of northern New South Wales. Her mother, Lenore Parker, grew up on Ulgundahi Island in the Clarence River near Maclean on the New South Wales north coast and it was to Maclean that the family returned when Parker was still in pre-school. Ulgundahi Island was established as an Aboriginal Mission when the Scottish settlers moved into the surrounding area in the late 1800s. The Aboriginal people of this area and from as far away as Nambucca and Bowraville (NSW) were moved off their lands and onto the island. On the island the people were able to live a relatively 'free’ existence. They were able to continue their traditional practices even though they were under the ever-vigilant eye of the Aboriginal Protection Board. It is because of this continued cultural life that Ulgundahi contains many places of Aboriginal significance and claims a women’s sacred site.Parker began her artistic career in 2000, the same year she won the Blake Prize for Religious Art with an acrylic on canvas work titled The Journey. She was the youngest person and first Aboriginal artist to win this award. The Journey depicted a stylised Rainbow Serpent raising itself high with a Christian crucifix surrounded in a glowing light sitting atop the serpent’s head. The 2000 Blake Prize was judged by Fr Anthony Kelly, Dr Ross Mellick and Imants Tillers.Mostly, however, Parker’s work is informed by the Ulgundahi landscape and the family, community and cultural stories and memories that the island holds. Enrolling in a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the College of Fine Arts (COFA – University of New South Wales) in 2001 enabled Parker to explore the Ulgundahi themes through scholarly research and creative practise. She completed this undergraduate degree in 2003 and continued her academic achievements at Southern Cross University in 2005 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons). Ulgundahi has remained a constant throughout Parker’s post-university career. In 2007 she won the COFA Professional Development Award for her painting The vein of our existence at the 2007 'Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize’. In her artist statement in the accompanying catalogue Parker says of this work that she has depicted Beiirrimba (Clarence River) “by layering both a landscape view and an aerial view, representing my connection with the river”.The COFA Award provided Parker with a two-week residency in the COFA flat, the opportunity to work with a master artisan staff member and a solo show. Parker chose to work in printmaking with Michael Kempson. She had never worked in printmaking before with the exception of some introductory lessons during her undergraduate life. Michael Kempson introduced Parker to etching and lino-cut reduction prints. The result of this residency was her first solo exhibition, 'Identifying Ulgundahi’.In 2007 Djon Mundine curated Parker’s work into the group exhibition 'Eye Saw The Sun’ at Lismore Regional Gallery, and in 2008 into 'Ngadhu, Ngulili, Ngeaninyagu – A Personal History of Aboriginal Art’ at Campbelltown Arts Centre. In 2009 the Lismore Regional Gallery commissioned Parker to produce a New Media work to be shown as a stand-alone exhibition at Lismore Regional Gallery in August and September 2009.The 2000 Blake Prize and the 2007 COFA Award are just two of a number of awards that Parker has received since embarking on an artistic career. In 2004 her installation Sorry = Reconciliation was Highly Commended in COFA’s 'Jenny Birt Award’; in 2006 she was a finalist in the 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with her installation of 10,000 painted wooden clothes pegs fashioned into a map of Ulgundahi Island titled Mapping Ulgundahi; and in 2007 she was Highly Commended in the Bundjalung Art Award and was the winner of the Youth Award Category for the 'Drawing Together Art Prize’ in Canberra and the Overall Winner and Visual Arts Category winner of the 'ABC Northcoast Artsnest Award for Emerging Artists’.Parker’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Federal Department of Health and Ageing – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and in Grafton Regional Gallery. In 2009 Parker was living in Maclean and working as the Indigenous Arts Development Officer for Arts Northern Rivers as well as continuing with her work as a visual artist.
Writers:
Tess AllasNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Frances Belle Parker is a Yaegl woman who works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking and installation. The majority of her work is based around her personal connection to the Yaegl landscape of northern New South Wales. She won the 2000 Blake Prize for Religious Art, the first Aboriginal artist to win this award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-stokes
- Birth Place
- Donnybrook, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Stokes is a product designer, specialising in lighting design. Stokes founded her Melbourne based design practice, Coco Flip Design Studio, in 2010, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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Writers:
Bianca Vallentine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Kate Stokes is a product designer, specialising in lighting design. Stokes founded her Melbourne based design practice, Coco Flip Design Studio, in 2010, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-mitchell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Mitchell lives and works in Sydney. In 2006, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (Photomedia) from the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) and completed a Masters of Fine Arts in 2008.Her practice includes performance-based videos, projections and objects, drawings and conceptual offerings. Her work has consistently played with the joke and the cartooning of violence. Across many videos she performs the Disneyland impossible: cutting a hole around yourself with a saw; walking on a barrel; climbing a ladder while cutting rungs. Her performances are magical to watch, shocking and brave. In the work 9 to 5, for example, Mitchell becomes a sun dial staying out in the sun all day while time passes for her, marked by her own shadow.Mitchell works on the limit of the acceptable and normal. She finds the irrational in life in order to reflexively question herself, her material reality, and her place within a society in which we all constantly perform.
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Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Kate Mitchell is an Australian artist whose practice includes performance-based videos, projections and objects, drawings and conceptual offerings. Her work has consistently played with the joke and the cartooning of violence.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-plunkett
- Birth Place
- Albury, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c7
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/carla-hananiah
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Landscape artist Carla Hananiah (nee Minogue) was born in August 1982 in rural New Zealand, the eldest of three sisters. In 1998, aged sixteen, she moved with her family to Sydney, Australia, where she completed the last two years of high school. Although most of her family returned to New Zealand in 2000, Carla and one sister chose to remain in Australia.
After high school she enrolled at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales, gaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2004. In 2008 she returned to her alma mater to enroll in a Masters of Art, majoring in painting and then a Masters of Fine Art by research. Her additional studies in painting reignited her passion for the medium and helped develop her style and technique, which she describes as semi-abstract, colourful and painterly.
During her studies Hananiah entered art competitions and group exhibitions, winning recognition and awards. She was a finalist for the National Tertiary Art Prize in November 2008, and in 2009 was a finalist in the Face of Compassion Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize, the Lloyd Rees Art Prize, Live Life Villages Art Prize, and the Waverly Art Prize. In 2009 she also received the Second Runner Up Prize at the UNSW Arc Annual Exhibition at Kudos Gallery.
Her paintings explore the classical theme of the relationship between humans and nature. She seeks to convey a sense of 'overwhelming beauty’ from being 'in the land’, hoping her audience might question who created it. Her method involves pouring the oil paint onto preferably large-scale canvas or board, and allowing it to form a pattern, before then using the brush to complete the process. She believes this technique allows her colours to flow and intertwine in ways that suggest being 'in the land’. In addition to landscape painting, Hananiah explores other subject matter and employs media, such as photography, etching and drawing. Hananiah’s creative routine involves waking up early to walk and watch the sunrise. Later, in her studio she recalls these sensations.
In 2010 she held a solo exhibition, 'Sublime’, at Artereal in Rozelle, Sydney. The Macquarie Bank bought a work from this exhibition for their collection.
Hananiah, who supplements her art practice with work in the retail industry, lives in Sydney with her husband Isaac Hananiah (married 2005).
Writers:
Bonus, LeahDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1982
- Summary
- Carla Hananiah is a landscape painter who lives and works in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c8
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katharina-meister
- Birth Place
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- German-born ceramist, printmaker and painter. Settled in WA 2012
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98c9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jason-nelson
- Birth Place
- Oklahoma, USA
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Jason Nelson is a digital poet and net artist
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ca
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fiona-omeenyo
- Birth Place
- Cape York, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Fiona Omeenyo of the Umpila language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. She is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and is a painter a printmaker of etchings, screen prints and linocuts. Her work is in the collections of the Cairns Regional Art Gallery and the ATSIC collection. In 1999 Omeenyo won first prize in the Works on Paper category at the Cape York Art Award at the Laura Festival and in 2001 won the major prize for her painting, Sorrow at the same festival.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Fiona Omeenyo is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and is a painter and printmaker of etchings, screen prints and linocuts.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cb
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cc
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samantha-hobson
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Samantha Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including “Story Place” in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” in 2001 in Brisbane. In the 'Gatherings’ catalogue her artist statement reads, “I paint stories my grandmother tells me from the old days … paintings about traditional culture …. I paint the things that happen in the community … I paint about people in the community … what happens to them … what they do and what really hurts them… that makes me hurt inside too … that painting makes the bad feeling go away.” Hobson has works held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Samanth Hobson of the Kuuku Yau language group of Lockhart River in the Cape York region of Queensland was born in 1981. A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, Hobson is a painter who has exhibited in a number of exhibitions including 'Story Place' in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cd
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Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/camilla-freeman-topper
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- Camilla Freeman-Topper began her fashion design training at Sydney’s Whitehouse Institute of Design followed by the completion of her Masters of Fashion Design at the Accademia Italiana Arte Moda in 2003. At the end of 2003 Camilla collaborated with her brother Marc to debut their first spring/summer collection, 'A Warm Summer’s Afternoon”, at the Australian Fashion Week 2003 to a favourable response. Upon the completion of Camilla’s Masters degree, the design duo debuted their winter 2004 collection in Melbourne, Australia. This collection was picked up by Myer department store in Australia and Selfridges in London. This was the first time in history that an Australian department store had decided to stock a label in its first year of business.
Writers:
Jenni Hagedorn
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Designer and Director of Camilla and Marc
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ce
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Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-reidy
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. c.1981
- Summary
- Elizabeth Reidy is an Australian artist and curator. She has been involved in Sydney Artist Run Initiatives as both artist, curator and director since the early 2000s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98cf
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrea-fisher
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Andrea Fisher was born in Brisbane in 1981 and is from the Birri Gubba language group from central Queensland. Her paternal family, the Fishers, were moved to Cherbourg in southern Queensland in the early 1900s when the settlement was known as Barambah. In 2001, Fisher graduated from the Queensland College of Art (QCA) with a degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art. Her professional development since then has been aided in part by her involvement with proppaNOW, an artists collective that includes Tony Albert , her contemporary at QCA, and other more senior artists such as Richard Bell , Gordon Hookey and Jennifer Herd . Fisher has created work in mixed media and more consistently, wearable jewellery – for example, brooches based on traditional shield designs from Wakka Wakka country. More recently she has produced a series of works consisting of copper wire woven into traditional bags. One of these works was preselected for the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and exhibited at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). Also in 2007, Fisher began work on a confronting series of wearable cast iron shackles, such as were used to restrain Aboriginal people on the Queensland frontier. Although specialising in jewellery, Fisher is primarily a visual 3D artist who describes her practice as one which applies “a sense of Aboriginal history to the materials and aesthetic of jewellery making, object and installation”. Fisher has exhibited work at the Queensland Art Gallery, Craft Queensland and Fireworks Gallery.
Writers:
Browning, Daniel
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Queensland artist, Andrea Fisher works in the medium of jewellery design and 'wearable art'. She was a finalist in the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d0
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-albert
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Tony Albert was born in Brisbane in 1981. He is one of the longest serving members of the Brisbane-based artists collective, proppaNOW. His career has focused on the experience of displaced urban Aboriginal people who are alienated by history from their traditional country, language and material culture – that is, the demographic majority of Aboriginal people in Australia. His Campfire – a bar heater, with electrical cord in the Aboriginal colours, is a comedic take on the modern urban Aboriginal experience. The campfire, a gathering place in both traditional and contemporary Aboriginal culture, is still a collective experience where knowledge is shared and exchanged. It is relevant to note that Albert’s father’s country is around Cardwell in north Queensland, the traditional land of the Garimay rainforest people with whom he identifies. His family relationships extend further, to Palm Island off the Queensland city of Townsville. Albert was among the first to graduate with a degree in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art from the Queensland College of Art (QCA) in 2004. Australian Art Collector magazine has named Albert as one of the country’s most collectable artists several times. Albert toys repetitively with popular culture and the representation of Aboriginal people within it. His most recent work recycles genuine Aboriginalia, including kitsch, mass-produced objects such as plaster heads and black velvet paintings. He alters the context in which these objects are understood – most dramatically in his installation work Headhunter, which was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007. The point he makes is that Aboriginal people’s bodies, literally and metaphorically, are hunted down and commodified. He has since embarked on a shield-making project with members of his family in Cardwell. He was preselected for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2006 and 2007 and his work was consequently hung in the exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) alongside that of many of his peers, including his acknowledged mentor Richard Bell . In 2007 Albert was the recipient of the $15,000 acquisitive Sunshine Coast Art Prize for his photographic series Gangsta Supastar , in which he acts out the role of 50perCENT, an identifiably Aboriginal hip hop artist/gangsta whose posse includes such imaginary personas as Lil Gin, Murri J Blige and Notorious B.E.L.L.Major group exhibitions include: 'The Visitors’, Penrith Regional Gallery (2007); the 2007 Arc Biennial, QUT Art Museum; 'The Revenge of Genres’, Les Brasseurs in Liege Belgium and Cité International des Arts, Paris (2007); the 23rd and 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award, MAGNT (2006 & 2007) and 'Thresholds of Tolerance’, Australian National University, Canberra in 2007. His work has been collected by the National Museum of Australia, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Griffith Artworks, Brisbane.
Writers:
Browning, Daniel
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Brisbane-based artist, Tony Albert's work often discusses and recycles genuine Aboriginalia, including kitsch, mass-produced objects such as plaster heads and black velvet paintings. Albert was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d1
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-pilkington
- Birth Place
- Subiaco, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Yamatji/Nyoongar artist Glenn Pilkington was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1981. He spent most of his childhood in the Kimberley region before his family moved to Bunbury in 1994. He moved back to Perth in 2000 and began developing his art practice soon after. In 2008 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Edith Cowan University, majoring in Printmaking.The contrast between his childhood in remote country in the north of the state, and the urban environment of Perth is a foundational concern for Pilkington. His work derives from his reflections upon the impact of this social and environmental transition upon his subjectivity as an Indigenous Australian. He writes:“Coming from strong Aboriginal and European heritage, my work explores displacement in both the emotional and physical context, loss of connections to both places and people in an attempt to place myself as an individual… Through the investigation of spaces and places, both natural and urban, my work explores the connection with country that I feel as an Aboriginal Australian living and working within an urban environment. The aesthetic of my work represents the peace I have trained myself to feel in the urban world in direct contrast to the years I have spent in 'traditional country’.” (artist’s statement, Mossenson Galleries 2006).
Working predominantly in photomedia, Pilkington makes use of third generation digital technology to create images of urban environments which are then subjected to a studio-based digital editing process. This process usually involves the erosion of recognisable content to varying degrees, so that an abstracted pictorial structure emerges. Pilkington’s editing often obscures the spatial logic of the original scene such that aspects of the imagery are fragmented, mirrored and repeated. The urban settings are thereby transformed into shapes, vectors and planes that find an aesthetic harmony through symmetry and geometric patterning, or by centering points of curiosity that may have been marginal in the original image.
These processes are underpinned by Pilkington’s explorations of the experience of travelling between the country and the city, tracing the passing of time, finding the familiar in the foreign, and sensing emotive resonances within spaces that echo places or moments from the past. Sarah Jane Pell, writing in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008 Catalogue, suggests that “by using digital editing to re-present the urban terrain as an abstract topography, Pilkington emulates and respects his traditional relationship to country”.
Pilkington has exhibited throughout Australia since 2006. He was a finalist in the Ergon Energy Central Queensland Art Award (2006), the Hutchins Art Prize (2007) and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize (2007). In 2007 he won The Linden Award, which is part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 2008 he was shortlisted for both the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award. Exhibitions have included the solo show 'Urban Country’ at Mossenson Galleries in Melbourne (2007), ’30 Under 30: A New Generation of Indigenous Artists’ which was shown at Mossenson Galleries in Melbourne and Perth (2008), and 'Innovators 3’ at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne (2008).
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
giseger
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Perth-based Yamatji/Nyoongar photomedia artist who explores themes of loss, displacement and home in relation to both the urban and remote country in which he has lived. In 2008 he was a finalist in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d2
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/heather-webb
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Heather Webb was born in Perth and has worked across the mediums of photography, film and installation. Exhibitions include 'Screen’ at the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Perth-based artist who has worked across the mediums of photography, film and installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d3
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pilar-mata
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Pilar Mata Dupont is an artist based between Western Australia and the Netherlands. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, she investigates ideas of nationalism, identity, mythology, and the psychological triggers of nostalgia through the use of parable and allegory.
In 2012 she was a recipient of a Mid-career Fellowship from the Western Australian Government, allowing her to investigate her family history in Argentina as part of an ongoing project. A survey of her solo video works were shown as part of the CineB Film Festival in Santiago, Chile in late 2013 and her most recent solo exhibition, Pilar Mata Dupont – Kaiho, opened in the Rappu space at the Pori Art Museum, Finland in late 2014. In 2015 she was one of ten nominees for the main prize at the prestigious Spring Exhibition at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
In July 2015, she was the winner of the Art Mill Gallery and Framing Centre main award at the Plymouth Contemporary Open Art Prize in the UK. The judges of this prize included Turner Prize judge, Helen Legg, and Artistic Director of Tate St Ives, Sam Thorne. In October 2015, she won the Residency Prize for the Wexner Center for the Arts at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Other recent exhibition highlights include the SeMA Biennale – Mediacity Seoul, at the Seoul Museum of Art; Salon Fluchthilfe – Utopian Pulse, Flares in the Darkroom, at the Secession museum in Vienna and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; and An Internal Difficulty, at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
In collaboration with Tarryn Gill, she participated in the 17th Sydney Biennale and won the $100,000AUD Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2010, and held a ten-year retrospective at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2011. In partnership with Thea Costantino and Gill as multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses, she made work commissioned by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, 2012, for the exhibition Wagner 2013: Künstlerpositionen. Mata Dupont has solo and collaborative work in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Campbelltown Arts Centre, University of Western Australia, Artbank, the City of Perth, Queensland Art Gallery and Stadiums Queensland.
Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Pilar Mata Dupont
fulleg
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Pilar Mata Dupont is a Western Australian artist, who works across film, photography, spectacle, performance, and design, sometimes in collaboration with Tarryn Gill, or as part of Hold Your Horses, with Gill and Thea Costantino.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d4
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Latitude-32.5421803 Longitude151.2185641 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-gregory
- Birth Place
- Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Tim Gregory was born in 1981 on a Hunter Valley property that for five generations – over a hundred and fifty years – had been home to a family of viticulturalists. His mother, Estelle, was born in Nice, Southern France, before immigrating with her family to Australia in the 1950s. Estelle started a boutique winery on the property and Tim spent his formative years sketching the landscape of the region.
During his adolescence Gregory went on many trips to Europe and the United Kingdom, including one year in France, where he developed a passion for landscape painting. He was impressed by Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich and the Pre-Raphaelites John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Gregory spent time in London’s National Gallery, the Louvre and other major galleries in Europe studying the Masters. Through his plein-air studies of European landscapes he developed a methodology and styling, which he then applied to the Australian landscape.
Upon returning to Australia in 2000 he moved to Sydney to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales (UNSW), majoring in painting. He maintained a connection to the Hunter Valley while studying in Sydney, often making weekend trips back to the family property.
While at university, Gregory experimented with a variety of techniques and media. By the time he started his honours year he had moved away from landscape painting towards theoretically informed video and time-based art. During this time he read widely in philosophy and art, being particularly drawn to the ideas of influential theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Giorgio Agamben, Marc Augé and Friedrich Nietzsche. Influenced by these theorists, Gregory explored new ways of working with his chosen media through concepts that invited a social critique of gender and politics.
After graduating from Honours in 2004 he was awarded a scholarship to commence a PhD in Art Theory (2006-09) at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, COFA.
In 2008, Gregory collaborated with Elle Dixon on 'Sexdeath’, an exhibition at Chalk Horse Gallery in Surry Hills. Together Gregory and Dixon produced a video exploring the concepts of voyeurism and of public performance in personal relationships.
Gregory has written on art for a variety of art journals including Eyeline and Broadsheet magazine . In 2007 he accepted a casual lecturing position in art theory at COFA.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineDixon, Amanda
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- conceptual artist and theorist based in Sydney, NSW. Gregory lectures in Art Theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d5
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Latitude-32.7575206 Longitude151.5854642 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/luke-sales
- Birth Place
- East Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d6
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1981-01-01 End Date1981-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/emily-hunt
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Emily Hunt, painter and ceramic artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts. She has exhibited in the 2014 group exhibition, Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Hunt completed her Master of Fine Arts (Print Media) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2011. In the same year, she undertook an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship and studied ceramics at Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst in Ghent, Belgium. In 2013, she undertook a mentorship at the Zentrum für Keramik (Center for Ceramics) in Berlin where she worked with ceramics master, Thomas Hirschler.
Writers:
amurney
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Emily Hunt, painter and ceramic artist, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and has exhibited in the 2014 group exhibition Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d7
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TLCMap IDtb98d8
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nathan-babet
- Birth Place
- Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1981 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. Babet is the youngest of three brothers. His father, John, is of Sudeten-Deutsch, Czech and Austrian descent and was born in Vienna at the conclusion of WWII. His mother, Jennifer, is second generation Australian, of Italian and English descent. Babet grew up in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag during the 1980s. Once inhabited by the Cameraigal people, this secluded bohemian enclave was settled in 1925 by Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin. Both practising architects originally from Chicago, Marion worked alongside Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter was a respected 'Prairie School’ architect. They created an unprecedented built environment, as Burley Griffin put it “so that each individual can feel the whole landscape is his”.
Babet attended Sydney Grammar School from 1986-99 where he developed a passion for the arts. From high school he went on to study Architecture at the University of Sydney, where he gained an understanding of the relationships between the framing of the human figure and space. After completing a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) degree in 2002, he decided to explore more openly creative fields. Noticing that a postgraduate degree in Film and Digital Media was available to him within the Faculty of Architecture, he decided to pursue this in 2003. This provided his first insight into the world of film and sound theory, where he found parallels between time and space which had begun to develop through his architectural studies.
Upon completion of this course, Babet decided to take up full-time employment within film production to gain an understanding of the industry beyond the confines of the institutional environment. After a period of working in a film production company, he was uninspired by the formulaic nature of traditional film making in Australia. He felt that if he were to produce film, he would need to facilitate a unique perspective in his own right. He began to explore a conceptually driven path which could lend itself towards film, yet was more engaged with the medium and cultural, political and social commentary, rather than just the traditional aesthetics and values that he was seeing in the mainstream film industry.
During 2004 Babet became associated with artistic collectives and individuals that proved influential in his creative exploration – emerging artists from spaces such as the Imperial Slacks, First Draft Gallery, Phat Space, Gallery Wren and Space 3 in Sydney. These establishments’ representation of emerging artists and freedom of expression was something particularly inspiring to Babet.
In 2004 Babet enrolled at the College of Fine Arts Sydney (COFA), majoring in Photomedia, whilst also studying time-based-art. During this time he exhibited at Kudos Gallery and COFA Exhibition and Performance Space. In mid-2006, feeling somewhat constricted by the structural framework of fine arts education in Australia, and its method of defining a student’s work by 'medium’ rather than by the concepts and ideas, Babet went on exchange to Berlin. He studied at Universität der Künste (UDK). During this period he majored in Bildende Künst (conceptual art), studying under the guidance of such practising artists as Katharina Sieverding, David Lamelas and Laura Horelli. He also frequented classes within the faculty of Experimentelle Film Gestaultung (Experimental Film) where he studied under film directors Heinz Emigolz and Michael Busch. He found Berlin refreshing; firstly, this had to do with the notion presented by Berlin Universität der Künste that, as a student at this institution, one was already a practising artist. There was an abundance of freedom to experiment and, further, Babet found the chance to study under artists such as Prof. Katharina Sieverding, once a student of Joseph Beuys, an invaluable opportunity.
Initially, Babet travelled to Berlin with a body of work dealing with notions of male identity and issues within this of a specifically Australian nature. Upon exhibiting at UDK Quergalerie in early 2007 he felt that these issues and cultural facets he was dealing with did not necessarily translate within a specifically European context. As a consequence, he began to explore other tangents and began thinking across a wider spectrum. At this point Babet sought to distance himself from Queer Theory as such, and from being identified in that respect. He wanted to take a direction that associated and dealt with queer issues but was not trapped within Queer Theory. Babet began to look at identity as a universal construct – drawing upon notions of truth, psyche and the subjective nature of memory, whilst also being concerned with society, politics, history and the natural environment, his work often finding a subject matter that played upon the dislocation between two opposing 'realities’.
Whilst in the midst of his studies (mid-2007) Babet travelled through Europe, particularly Bosnia and Croatia, where he shot one video work that would be the beginnings of a new direction. In 2007 he furthered this direction, travelling to Heiligendamm to take part in, and shoot work associated with, the G8 Summit. During this time, Babet was further informing his art practice to speak in a more universal manner with a political undertone by frequenting theory based art establishments in Berlin – such as Kunst Werke (KW) and United Nations Plaza. These establishments provided him with insight into the critical theory of artists and writers who had emerged through the political climate at time of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In mid-2007 Babet participated in three exhibitions as part of the Universität der Künste 'Rundgang 07’. Within these three exhibitions, which featured in 'UDK Fakultät Bildende Kusnt’, 'UDK Fakultät Gestaultung’ and 'Volksbühne’, he exhibited various video installations. At the conclusion of this period he participated in an exhibition as part of KFZ Gelände , a self-initiated artists collective that occupied an empty warehouse space for a period of two days.
At the end of the one year of official exchange, Babet continued to visit Universität der Künste as a guest student, attending critical theory lectures of Hito Steyrel, a postcolonial theorist from Goldsmith’s University in London. It was within Hito Steyrel’s own conceptual art practice, which steps outside the traditional framework of documentary film, that Babet found affiliation with the direction of a new work. With this impetus to further develop a major research based project in the Czech Republic, he decided to spend an extra year in Berlin, during which time he worked for a film production company for a period of six months.
In early 2008 Babet began to undertake preliminary research for his project in the Czech Republic, whereby he made numerous visits to specific locations and began investigating the history of his ancestors. By mid-2008 he had enlisted the help of a Czech translator and begun the initial stages of shooting photographic and video footage. Upon exhausting all available resources in the Czech Republic he decided to return to Australia with the intention to undertake honours at COFA and source funding for further research and shooting in the Czech Republic.
In late 2008 Babet screened work at the Chauvel Cinema in association with the COFA Annual Show. In 2009, as well as exhibiting at Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, he contiued to further develop the first stages of the Czech Republic Project.
Writers:
Linn, Kathleen
amyk
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- Nathan Babet is an emerging artist working in the field of New Media. He studied at the University of Sydney, College of Fine Arts, and in Berlin at Universitat der Kunste. He works primarily with video installation as a medium, exploring ideas around identity, heritage and the individual in the environment.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98d9
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-newitt
- Birth Place
- Hobart, Tas., Australia
- Biography
- James Newitt, installation and mixed media artist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1981. Newitt graduated with a PhD in fine arts from the University of Tasmania, School of Art, in 2007. His mixed media work focuses on projection, sound and text installation as well as public projects.
Newitt has participated in a number of exhibitions, including '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013. He has also shown in 'Social Networking’, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, 2012; 'To Catch a Tiger’, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2011; 'If They Fall’, Rosalux: Berlin-based art office, Berlin, 2010; 'Primavera’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; and 'What I Think About When I Think About Dancing’, Campbelltown Art Centre, Sydney, 2009.
In 2012 Newitt undertook a three-month Australia Council for the Arts studio residency in Liverpool, U.K., before embarking on a one-year Samstag Scholarship in 2013. He is Head of Visual Communication at the Tasmanian School of Art, and was a founding member and past director of INFLIGHT artist-run initiative, Hobart.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1981
- Summary
- James Newitt, Hobart-based installation and mixed media artist, focuses on projection, sound and text installation as well as public projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98da
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helena-bogucki
- Birth Place
- Exetor, England
- Biography
- Helena Bogucki, born 1980, is a jewellery designer and artist.
Born in Exetor, England, the Bogucki family reloacted to New Zealand in 1993 and then to Australia in 1998.
Residing in Perth, Western Australia, Bogucki has been active as a jeweller since 2005. Bogucki’s work has been exhibited nationally.
Writers:
Bianca Vallentine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Helena Bogucki, born 1980, is a jewellery designer and artist. Born in Exetor, England, the Bogucki family relocated to New Zealand in 1993 and then to Australia in 1998. Residing in Perth, Western Australia, Bogucki has been active as a jeweller since 2005. Bogucki's work has been exhibited nationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98db
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TLCMap IDtb98dc
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barayuwa-munungurr
- Birth Place
- Wandawuy, NT, Australia
- Biography
- The youngest artist, Barayuwa Munungurr, (born in 1980, Wandawuy, NT), paints both his own Djapu clan designs as well as his mother’s Munyuku clan. His father is recently deceased, and mother is Bingitj Nurruwutthun, a sister to the late great ritual specialist and artist, Dula Nurruwutthun. Barayuwa has exhibited since 2007 and, in 2009, collaborated with Sydney-based artist Ruark Lewis in Transcriptions for the Perfect House, a multi media installation at The Cross Art Projects and Macquarie University Art Gallery. Barayuwa’s gadawulkwulk (shelter) installation featured in Primavera 2014 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Writers:
Jo Holder
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98dd
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98de
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephanie-nova-milne
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Stephanie nova Milne is one half of the artistic couple Ms&Mr, with her husband Richard nova Milne.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98df
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kye-mcguire
- Birth Place
- Western Australia, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Kye McGuire was born in Western Australia in 1980 and has lived in Perth, Broome and Melbourne. She was the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, digital media and jewellery making.
She holds an Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Curtin University in Perth, and in 2003 was included in the group exhibition, “Showcase of New Works” at the university. In 2005 she was a participant in Screen Australia’s “Indigenous New Media Lab” (Brisbane), a two-week immersive workshop and exhibition aimed at developing the digital and interactive media skills of its participants. Others visual artists who participated included Tony Albert, Jenny Fraser and Diane Jones. In July of 2007, McGuire exhibited her hand-crafted jewellery in the exhibition, “Shiny Shiny Blak Bling. Flash jewellery by Blak Artists” at Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne alongside Donna Brown, Gail Harradine, Sandy Hodge, Sonja Hodge, Kim Kruger and their teacher, Peter Eccles.This entry is a stub. You can help the daao by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Kye McGuire is the recipient of the inaugural Lin Onus Award in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. She works in multi-media, works on paper, digital media and jewellery making.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e0
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Latitude-33.713759 Longitude150.3121633 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zehra-ahmed
- Birth Place
- Katoomba, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- artist born in 1980 in Katoomba, NSW. Ahmed’s work is concerned with politics and racial equality. This entry is a stub
Writers:
Wilson, JuliaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Zehra Ahmed is Sydney-born artist working mainly in New Media. Her artworks reflect her interest in political affairs, international equality and certain prejudicial attitudes of society.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guy-peppin
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Guy Peppin, painter, was born in Sydney in 1980. Initially working as a graphic designer, Guy turned to studying art after travelling to Europe and viewing the work of Cy Twombly. In 1998 he was part of the Molotov Guerrilla Art Collective. In 2005, Peppin commenced a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, completing his Honours in Printmaking in 2008. During his Honours year, Peppin’s work shifted into abstraction, dispensing with pictorial modes of representation. Subsequently, his work has dealt with ideas of diffusion, erasure and memory.
Peppin held his first solo exhibition, 'Return to Sender’, at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney (2009), followed by a second solo exhibition in 2011, entitled 'Voyager’. Peppin has participated in group exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including a group showing at ICOGRADA Galleria, Québec, Canada (2003) and Speakeasy Artist Space, Hong Kong (2007), as well as 'The Capitals Project’, Han Jun Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea (2007) and 'International Show’, Xanadu Gallery, Mongolia (2007). In 2009, Peppin was awarded the Storrier Onslow Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Studio Residency courtesy of the Friends of the National Art School. Peppin was a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award in 2009 and again in 2010.
Peppin’s work has featured in Australian Art Collector, the Sydney Morning Herald_, Belle Magazine and Vogue Living. Peppin’s works are represented in private collections in Australia, Asia and North America. Peppin lives and works in Sydney.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Guy Peppin, painter, was born in Sydney in 1980. Initially working as a graphic designer, Guy turned to studying art after travelling to Europe and viewing the work of Cy Twombly. In 2005, Peppin commenced a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, completing his Honours in Printmaking in 2008. During his Honours year, Peppin’s work shifted into abstraction, dispensing with pictorial modes of representation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e2
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karl-khoe
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Karl Khoe is an artist based in Sydney, whose work spans printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and design, with a particular emphasis on working alongside scientific institutions such as botanic gardens and herbaria.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e3
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-smith
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Sam Smith is a Sydney based video and installation artist. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship to undertake a series of artist mentorships in New York and Berlin.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e4
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tania-zettel
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Tessa Zettel is an artist based in Sydney, whose work includes printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance and design, with a particular emphasis on working alongside scientific institutions such as botanic gardens and herbaria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e5
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.4816626 Longitude150.4177868 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ellen-jaye-benson
- Birth Place
- Bowral, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Benson’s work is characterised by a sense of an allegorical journey accompanying a process-based struggle; be it landscape or figurative.
This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Benson, Ellen Jaye
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Mixed-media artist based in the Illawara region. Her work is seated somewhere between representation and abstraction, and treads both observed and metaphorical territories.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e6
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-siebert
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Following his graduation from the South Australian School of Art, Mark Siebert held the position of Co-Director at Downtown Art Space in Adelaide from 2005-2007. During this period he was also a Studio recipient at the Experimental Art Foundation. In 2010 Siebert undertook an Asialink residency to Beijing, China.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e7
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/roy-ananda
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Roy Ananda has established a strong South Australian profile in the arts with a steady exhibition history, collaborative projects and performances, public art, workships and artist residencies. In 2000 and 2001 he was awarded back-to-back internal scholarships at the Adelaide Central School of Art, and in 2002, Ananda was selected for the Helpmann Academy Professional Partnerships Scheme.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e8
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joel-birnie
- Birth Place
- Blackwood, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Joel Birnie is a descendant of the Tasmanian Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834-1905). In 1899 and 1903 Cochrane Smith recorded songs on wax cylinders. These cylinders are held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and were “the only recordings ever made of Tasmanian Aboriginal song and speech” (Clark, J., 'Fanny Cochrane Smith’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online). Birnie was born in the Adelaide Hills in 1980 and from a young age was surrounded by art and art practice, as both his parents were art teachers. Birnie states that he was “taught art by his parents” (pers. comm., March 2009) rather than having any formal art training. With the exception of working as a caretaker for a local Adelaide Hills bed and breakfast, Birnie worked in the arts in a variety of roles including working as an artist liaison officer and co-curator for the event 'Blak Nite', which was held during the 2003 and 2005 'Come Out Youth Festival’ and as a gallery attendant, collections assistant and photographer (among other jobs) at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide from 2004 to 2007.Birnie was awarded the Encouragement Award in the 2001 'Tandanya/Arts SA Aboriginal Artists’ Fellowship Award’. He honoured this award by presenting his first solo exhibition, 'Going Home’, curated by Rosie Potter, at Tandanya in 2001. The information sheet of the exhibition stated that the title “refers to Joel’s 'going home’ as he searches his past [and] explores his identity” (Potter, 2001). The works in 'Going Home’ were a series of sandstone, acrylic and house paint on canvas that depicted designs based on the petroglyph designs of Tasmania.In 2002 Birnie was curated into the national touring exhibition 'Native Title Business’ with his work Fanny, Mary and the Cross (2001). This work of acrylic on board is a portrait of Fanny Cochrane Smith and her daughter Mary. Hanging as an earring from Mary’s right ear is the Christian crucifix. This crucifix and the board the painting is painted on are symbols of “Fanny Cochrane Smith’s beloved wooden church. She had it built on the land she donated to the Methodists of Hobart” (Birnie, 2002, pg. 42).In 2003 Birnie staged his second solo show, 'No’onga/The Spirit Centre’ at Tandanya. This body of work represented a departure in medium for Birnie as it was his first exhibition of photographic works. These works were large digital film stills, the images of which were “traditional Tasmanian petroglyphs but were reworked into abstract designs so as to resemble spirits”(pers. comm., 2009). In 2007 he participated in the group show 'Our Metro Mob’, curated by Fulvia Mantelli alongside Troy-Anthony Baylis, Sharon Sansbury, Alucius Turner, Peter Sharrock and Yhonnie Scarce. This exhibition was also staged at Tandanya. Birnie was commissioned to develop a sand painting, Untitled Petroglyph, for the performance of Petroglyphs: Signs of Life, a dance collaboration between Leigh Warren, Gina Rings and Tandanya in 2005. In 2006 he installed Untitled Petroglyph for the Signs of Life performance at the 'Festival of the Dreaming’ in Woodford, Queensland.Birnie’s choice of media developed from working with mixed media and ground sandstone on canvas to working primarily with photographic media. In 2008 he exhibited his work Maleetye; blossom in the group show 'The Haunted and the Bad’, curated by Julie Gough at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda, Victoria. The other artists who participated in this exhibition were Tony Albert, Nici Cumpston, Andrea Fisher and Yhonnie Scarce. Birnie states that Maleetye; blossom was a “digital video and installation series based upon the aspects of my Indigenous heritage being passed on to me through women. The images and installation are inspired by the photographs of Fanny Cochrane Smith…” (Birnie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts website).Birnie’s fascination with his ancestor is brought to the fore when he asks, “What would I be as an Indigenous artist without Fanny Cochrane Smith? Due to the fairness of skin, an urban existence on the mainland and destruction of traditional Indigenous Tasmanian culture such as language, art and religion etc, I find myself asking 'what is it for me to be recognised as an 'Indigenous’ artist and is it relevant? Would my work still be recognised by institutions and galleries if the same works were to be labelled as 'non-Indigenous’, if they were not historic in theme and visual style?” (Birnie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts website). Birnie was a finalist in the 18th 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award’ in 2001 with his work Trugati Bona, Men with Wounds, a mixed media on canvas work that discussed the death of William Laney (known as the last 'full blood’ Tasmanian male Aborigine). Laney died circa 1868, aged 34, and his body was dissected and studied in the name of science.Birnie’s work is held in the collections of the Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania in Hobart and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.In 2009 Birnie was living and working in Melbourne, Victoria.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Tasmanian Indigenous mixed media and photo media artist was a finalist in the 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98e9
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1980-01-01 End Date1980-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-rohde
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Painter, sculptor, mixed media and installation artist Kate Rohde was born in 1980 in Melbourne. Rohde is represented in the collections of Artbank, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Clipp, CelesteDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1980
- Summary
- Kate Rohde is a Melbourne-based artist who works in the areas of painting, sculpture, mixed media, and installations. Her quirky and innovative work takes a playful and decorative approach to the themes of the museum exhibition, natural history, and the increasing disconnection between human beings and the natural world.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ea
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sanne-mestrom
- Birth Place
- Heerlen ,, Netherlands
- Biography
- Sanne Mestrom is an installation artist based in Melbourne. She was born in 1979. Mestrom graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours (Fine Art) in 2000 (RMIT University, Melbourne). In 2008, she received a PhD in Fine Art from RMIT University.
Mestrom’s practice is as experimental as it is conceptual. She places before her audience a metaphor: a creative expression for a particular concept. Materials are transposed or transcended and her artworks become a series of experiments and questions about meaning and belief. What do we know as fact? What are our truths? What knowledge and experience do we share? She explores the delicate and liminal spaces within this ontological study that harbour instability, uncertainty and doubt. In a 2010 group exhibition titled 'The Nothing’, Mestrom displayed two weighted, floating balloons within the gallery space. The balloons set up an encounter between chance and control, the random and the bounded.
Mestrom has exhibited in Australia and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include: 'Things fall down. Sometimes we look up.’ (Chalk Horse Gallery); 'Certain Sacrifices’ (RMIT School of Art Gallery); 'A history of space is the history of wars’ (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington); and 'Passing through’ (ARI, Auckland). Among her group exhibitions are: 'The Nothing’ (Chalk Horse); 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’ (Nellie Castan Gallery); 'De Architectura’ (MARS Gallery, Melbourne); 'An ideal for living’ (Linden Gallery); and 'Rembrandts: Nine Installations’ (RMIT Architecture, Urban Architecture Laboratory).
Mestrom has been the recipient of the Arts Victoria Creation Grant, in 2007 and 2009. In 2007, she also received the Arts Victoria International Grant.
Writers:
Chalk Horse
amyk
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Sanne Mestrom is a contemporary artist. Her practice is both experimental and conceptual.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98eb
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rosella-namok
- Birth Place
- Lockhart River, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Indigenous artist from Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland. Hers is the most northern and remote settlement on the Australian coastline.
Namok’s art career commenced in 1998 after she completed her Art Diploma at Cairns TAFE. Returning to Lockhart River, Rosella made her art at the Lockhart River Art and Cultural Centre, with the guidance and encouragement of Fran and Geoff Barker (founders of the Centre). She concentrated on her painting and also explored print-making. Namok’s work gained much public attention in 2000 when it was shown in Sydney in a sellout exhibition in the Hogarth Galleries. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the 15th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (1998); Lin Onus Youth Award – Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards (2000); Australian Bar Association-High Court Centenary Art Award (2003); Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery (2003) and has witnessed her paintings entering the collections of every major Australian art gallery, as well as other Australian, international and private collections.
As a backdrop to her success, a 1997 education and employment initiative for teenage children in Lockhart River provided a way of stimulating intellectual and cultural curiosity that generated self-confidence and self-esteem within the teenage community. Subjects relating to art and culture included Fundamentals of Painting, Aboriginal Performance Techniques, Traditional Body Painting and Acrylic Painting. A number of the artists formed the 'Art Gang’ and their art education continued at the Cairns TAFE. Upon graduating, these teenagers returned to the Lockhart River Art and Cultural Centre where they pursued their individual art practices.An important part of their student education was the concept of art valued as fine art rather than just craft, and they had received practical guidance regarding the exhibition, marketing and sale of work in the fine art market. They were even taught about appropriate dress for exhibition openings and the 'red dot’ system for sales – all of which helped to prepare the students for attending exhibitions in sophisticated galleries in big cities. Funding from the Queensland Government enabled some of Australia’s leading artists to visit the community to conduct workshops in the techniques of printmaking, painting, sculpture and cartooning. These artists included Gary Shead and Guy and Joy Warren. Aboriginal elders ('Old Girls’) from the Lockhart River community provided the glue that held this learning experience together through their guidance about the cultural knowledge and practices and their importance for understanding ones’ place in the world, as well as traditional rules relating to Indigenous clan groups.The Old Girls’ stories informed Namok of her place in the Sandbeach community. In Lockhart River region, the term 'Sandbeach’ gives common identity to a group of five coastal and inland language clans of indigenous people. These people collectively refer to themselves as 'Pama Malnkana’, meaning 'people of the sand beach’. After 1924 the separated lifestyles of the groups changed with the commencement of the Lockhart River Anglican Mission. A single settlement was created where people from different language and kinship clans lived together. The words 'before time’ in the artworks of the Art Gang refer to the time before 1924 when traditional culture and 'moieties’ prevailed. This word 'moiety’ derives from a Latin word meaning half and can refer to marriage partners, kin relationships and general guide to behaviour. In art, moiety can play an important role in determining the subjects that an artist may paint and it is embedded in much of Rosella Namok’s art, where it is referred to as the Kaapay and Kuyan moiety. Namok incorporates traditional aspects of her culture, such as the Kaapay and Kuyan moiety, into her paintings to prevent it from being lost to future generations. She says that everything is divided into two ways; people, land, story places, plants and animals – they belong one way or the other way and it is important to know which way. This is somewhat similar to the concept of the Yin and Yang in Chinese culture.
As a young girl, Rosella Namok began painting by helping her father decorate the bodies of dancers with ochre paints at traditional ceremonies. These ancestral markings remained strong elements in her art, together with other traditional symbolic patterns learnt from her grandmother. She paints using her fingers to mark her thick acrylic paint layers, a method derived from her grandmother’s sand drawing, and this is her metaphorical connection to the land. Namok has a strong background in silk-screen printing and she has employed those techniques in her painting. Recurring foci in Namok’s paintings have been relationships between clan concepts of social organization, landscape and subjects of indigenous grief. The subject of traditional law is a recurrent theme in her work; her 'law’ paintings are large, suggesting the significance of traditional law.Namok expresses concepts of individual relationships and social organization using large scale motifs of Kaapay and Kuyan. The concept of social difference is worked through in her paintings in terms of young couples and old couples, right-way and wrong-way couples, and also in terms of para (white-fella) way and parma (Sandbeach or 'our’) way. The simplicity of the matching shapes is also its depth. The two elements of the Kaapay and Kuyan motif do not represent anything specific so much as, together, they represent their 'proper’ difference.
Namok uses simple geometric shapes of ovals, squares, rectangles, angles and lines. The nature of the shape is not significant, however, the relationship between the two shapes is. These paired elements may represent moieties, traditional law, men and women, generations of people, cousins, insiders and outsiders, and so on. The rigid opposition of the geometric shapes is relieved by Namok’s use of underlying layers of colour and brushstroke to provide subtlety and nuance.
Namok’s response to landscape is seen in her so-called 'rain’ paintings. Her motivation is not to depict the visual aspects of a subject but to convey her understanding and knowledge of it.Rosella Namok is married to Wayne Butcher and together they have two sons, Isaiah and Zane. After the death of Namok’s younger sister, Sonia, the couple adopted Sonia’s daughter. Namok works from a large shed/studio space attached to her home in Cairns.
Writers:
Holtsbaum, Jennie Note: Student, COFA, UNSW, Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons)
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Painter, printmaker and sculptor and original member of the Lockhart River Art Gang, far north-east coastal Queensland. Her abstract work links the landscape, weather, people and their activities in Namok's local area. Namok has won numerous awards including the Lin Onus Youth Award at the Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards (2000).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ec
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matatia-andrew-warrior
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter and lino-cut printer Matatia Andrew Warrior of the Parai tribe in the Torres Strait was born in 1979. His works talk of many aspects of Torres Strait Islander culture including myths, legends, the sea and daily life. Warrior’s lino-cuts were exhibited as part of the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Queensland. He is quoted in the catalogue as saying that he has realised “the importance of my culture. Now I want to teach everything I know and was taught by my elders to our younger generation and to expose my culture to the world so that other races know we exist and how we are special and unique in our own way.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Matatia Andrew Warrior's works talk of many aspects of Torres Strait Islander culture including myths, legends, the sea and daily life.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ed
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-mullawar-anderson
- Birth Place
- Gayndah, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Wakka-Wakka painter, Matthew Mullawar Anderson was born in Gayndah, South East Queensland in 1979. Anderson works in the media of sythetic polymer on canvas. He exhibited in 2001 in the “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland, Australia”, in Brisbane. He stated in the accompanying catalogue that when he is painting he thinks “about my mother, who was a self-taught artist who painted the lands where she came from. I think about the pain she suffered while growing up on her own land at Cherbourg settlement. Thinking about the country where I was born and the surrounding area where my mother’s people used to roam inspires most of my art work.” Anderson was a participating artist in the Fifth Indigenous Heritage Art Awards exhibition titled “The Art of Place.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Queensland-born Indigenous painter, Anderson was a participating artist in the Fifth Indigenous Heritage Art Award held in Canberra in 2000.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ee
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ef
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Latitude-29.69125 Longitude152.9333435 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wendy-wilkins
- Birth Place
- Grafton, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Wendy Wilkins is an Australian artist based in Europe. In 2000 she began working as an exclusive collaborator with Wes Hill under the name of Wilkins Hill.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f0
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amala-groom
- Birth Place
- New South Wales
- Biography
- Amala Groom is a proud Wiradjuri artist who utilizes a decolonising methodology to inform her creative process. Her practice can be described as multi-disciplinary and project based, focusing on contemporary social and political commentary. As an activist, Groom has advocated passionately for the rights of Aboriginal peoples both at home and internationally, including participating in eight United Nations Forums. For Groom, art-making is an extension of her work as a political activist; a platform for speaking out and speaking up about the legacy of colonialism. Groom explains, “It’s about being able to communicate with people. You can write a submission, do a speech, present a paper at the UN, attend a protest or you can make art… it’s about working. I’m just following my feelings so I can go where I’ll be most able to influence society and change the way people think.”
Whilst Groom’s art is a manifestation of her political engagement her practice is also deeply informed by her cultural identity. As Groom explains, “I want to be known as Amala firstly and secondly as a Wiradjuri artist, because I’m inherently proud of my cultural identity. It’s my politics, my philosophy, my religion, my lore, my spirituality, my ontology, my whole way of life and way of being. So that informs everything in terms of the way I carry out my business and go about my life”.
According to Groom, although she had always been an active appreciator of art, it was not until 2012 – whilst taking a break from her BA in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney – that she was overcome by a profound feeling that she needed to start making art. In response she enrolled in the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts Course at Eora College in Sydney. Amala explains that the decision to enroll in this degree is reflective of her commitment to “…letting my Kurunpa, or spirit, drive my life as opposed to my intellect…essentially it’s just being in tune with where the old people want you to go”.
Whilst completing the diploma at Eora College, Groom participated in several group shows including: Coming Together Amnesty International & Eora at Boomalli Gallery, Sydney (2012), Eora 2013 at Verge Gallery, Sydney (2013) and Two Fires Festival of Arts and Activism at Braidwood (2013).
As a finalist in the Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize in 2013, Groom’s submission, Thank You, an acrylic on canvas depicting a bottle and the text “Thank you for not drinking the poison”, was highly commended. This success led to the launch of her first solo exhibition, The Cider Series, held at Kings Cross Library in February 2014 and launched by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore. Here, Groom presented a collection of 12 paintings of Colonial Project cider including depictions of bottles of Genocider, Ethnocider and Memoricider. According to the artist this series aimed “… to peel back the white skin of Australia and show the blood that has been shed underneath…to unravel the grief and systemic violence against Aboriginal Peoples that is knotted into the foundations of the nation”. It also sort to level a critique at the “… tactics of colonialism and, most importantly, give confidence to people to question, resist and protect Aboriginal ways of being on this ancient and sacred place that always was and always will be Aboriginal land”. Thus, The Cider Series typifies Groom’s artistic modus operandi as an uncompromising and forceful socio-political commentator.
In 2014 Groom won a place as a finalist in the Chippendale New World Art Prize with her photographic work, My definition of an boombastic Utopian style, exhibited at the NG Gallery, Sydney. The submission of a photographic work signifies the expansion of her artistic repertoire away from a painting-focused practice, towards a multi- disciplinary one.
In line with this expansion the artist has gone on to create new works across a broad range of media, including installation and text-based illustration. Many of these works have been exhibited as part of group shows including; Breaking the Mould at MLC School, Burwood (2014), Monuments to the Frontier Wars (2014) and Lawful & Permissible (2014) both at the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern. Despite diversification in terms of modes of practice Groom’s work continues to be broadly politically engaged: The seven works exhibited at Lawful & Permissible provocatively criticized the Abbott Government’s proposed repeal of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act, as well as playfully exploring just how receptive political representatives are to feedback from their constituents when such proposals come under review.
2014 also marked Groom’s resumption of the study of law as well as the further consolidation of her artistic education via the commencement of a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Writers:
PriyaVaughan
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Amala Groom is a proud Wiradjuri artist who utilizes a decolonising methodology to inform her creative process. Her practice can be described as multi-disciplinary and project based, focusing on contemporary social and political commentary.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f1
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sebastian-moody
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding in more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f2
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Latitude-34.9287373 Longitude150.7628684 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-miles
- Birth Place
- Culburra, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor born in 1979 in Culburra, NSW, Dale Miles later moved to Sydney.
Between 1998-99 Miles studied a Certificate of Foundry Metal Casting at Wollongong TAFE. In 2000 he travelled to Italy to study Ancient and Renaissance Sculpture and Painting. In 2001 he received an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts from Wollongong TAFE and in 2006 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the National Art School, Sydney. Miles worked as Assistant Sculptor to Dennis Adams OAM between 1993 and 2001.
Miles uses carved wood and found objects to create sculptures which are not always what they seem. He creates alternate realities where the natural world takes on elements of the man made and vice versa. Miles works across scale and creates both extremely large and small works. In 2005 Miles was artist-in-residence at Sydney Olympic Park and in the same year won the Bowral Art Award. In 2002 he won the Waverly Art Prize and in 2001 he was awarded the West Wollongong TAFE Sculpture Prize. In 2000 Miles was awarded a residency at Bundanon, NSW, and in 1999 he won first prize for sculpture at the Thirroul Seaside Arts Festival. Miles’ work is represented in many public and private collections, including the Department of Education, William Wilkins Memorial Collection, Clayton Utz Art Collection and the University of Wollongong.
Writers:
Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Sculptor born in 1979 in Culburra, NSW, Dale Miles later moved to Sydney. In 2000 Miles was awarded a residency at Bundanon, NSW.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f3
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Latitude-35.1309451 Longitude139.2651638 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sera-waters
- Birth Place
- Murray Bridge, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Sera Waters was born in 1979 in Murray Bridge, South Australia. In 2000 she graduated from the South Australian School of Art, and in 2006 she completed aMasters degree in Art History at the University of Adelaide. She is an Adelaide-based artist, writer, and lecturer. In 2006 Waters was awarded the Ruth Tuck Scholarship to attend the Royal School of Needlework (Hampton Court Palace, England) to study hand embroidery. It was here that she learned about the meticulous, traditional technique of Black Work, whichhas been highly influential on her practice ever since. She is particularly interested in colonial Australian history, using her own family history as starting point of reference.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Artist, writer and educator, Sera Waters has established a strong South Australian profile. In 2002 she was the recipient of an 'Artists-in-Studios' grant, and in 2005 was awarded a Ruth Tuck Scholarship, which allowed her to undertake tuition at the Royal School of Needlework, Surrey in the UK. Her work is represented in the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f4
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Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-hollier
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Daniel Hollier, artist, was born in Canberra in 1979. Hollier studied at the National Art School, Sydney, completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in 2009.
After graduating, Hollier exhibited in a number of artist-run-initiatives including Sydney Non-Objective (SNO) and MOP Projects, where he curated the group exhibition 'Lesser Abstraction’ in 2010. This exhibition featured the work of Justin Balmain, ADS Donaldson and David Serisier in addition to that of Hollier. In 2010, Hollier also held a solo exhibition at Liverpool Street Gallery entitled 'Between the Imaginary and the Real’ followed by 'Shape Shifter’ in 2012.
Hollier has featured in several group exhibitions, including 'SNO 50’, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney (2009); 'Bucket’, Mop Projects, Sydney (2009); 'Big Thoughts’, Fraser Studio Residency Exhibition (2010); 'Welcome’, Fraser Studio Projects, Queen Street Studios, Sydney (2011); 'Origins’, William Wright Projects, Sydney (2011) and 'You Give Good Colour’, curated by Claudia Damichi at Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (2012).
Hollier was the recipient of the Queen Street Studio Residency Award at Fraser Studio Projects in 2009 and the Clitheroe Foundation Scholarship in 2008. In addition, Hollier was the recipient of the Storrier Onslow Cité de Paris Residency (2010), which he undertook in early 2011, and was also a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship both in 2011 and in 2010 at Artspace, Sydney. In 2011, Hollier was awarded a New Work Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts.
His work is represented in the collection of Artbank as well as private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and Holland. Daniel Hollier lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Daniel Hollier, artist, was born in Canberra in 1979. Hollier has exhibited in a number of artist-run-initiatives including Sydney Non-Objective (SNO) and MOP Projects, where he curated the group exhibition 'Lesser Abstraction' in 2010. He has held a number of solo exhibitions at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f5
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Latitude-35.8182635 Longitude137.1566125 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bridget-currie
- Birth Place
- Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Bridget Currie is a sculptor and installation artist known for her delicate and awkward abstraction. Currie was a Founding Member and Co-Director of Downtown Artist Run Space in Adelaide from 2002-2006. She has exhibited internationally, participating in the Research Program at the CCA Kitakyushu Japan (2007-08) on a Freedman Foundation scholarship and working in Stockholm during her Samstag Scholarship. Currie has a long running collaboration with her sister Dance artist, Alison Currie.
Her work has been shown at numerous spaces including: The AEAF, CCA Kitakyushu, Mejan Gallery Stockholm, AADK Centro Negra Spain, WOLKE and foAM Brussels, Artspace Sydney, PICA, CACSA, Greenaway Art Gallery, GrantPirrie, Ryan Renshaw and other independent and artist run art spaces.
Writers:
currib
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Bridget Currie is a sculptor and installation artist known for her delicate and awkward abstraction. Currie was a Founding Member and Co-Director of Downtown Artist Run Space in Adelaide from 2002-06. She has exhibited internationally, participating in the Research Program at the CCA Kitakyushu Japan (2007-08) on a Freedman Foundation scholarship and working in Stockholm during her Samstag Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f6
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/helen-johnson
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Helen Johnson's paintings are concerned with how art can be used to create contemplative spaces, to consider different ways of thinking.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f7
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Latitude-42 Longitude147 Start Date1979-01-01 End Date1979-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-wade
- Birth Place
- Tasmania
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1979
- Summary
- Samuel Wade is a painter who lives and works in Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f8
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb98f9
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Latitude30.1957677 Longitude67.0172447 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/khadim-ali
- Birth Place
- Quetta, Pakistan
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
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Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. c.1978
- Summary
- Khadim Ali is a contemporary artist who creates miniature-style paintings. He was trained in the Mughul and Kabul miniature traditions. His works focus on contemporary issues in Afghanistan, in particular the plight of the Hazara minority.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fa
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joey-laifoo
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Lino cut printer, Joey Laifoo from Badu Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1978 and was a featured artist in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Lino cut printer, Joey Laifoo from Badu Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1978 was a featured artist in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition "Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia".
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fb
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicki-dorante
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Nicki Dorante (Levers) is a Tjapukai woman from the rain forests of North Queensland. She lives in Port Augusta in South Australia where she has exhibited her paintings in the 2006 and 2007 Our Mob exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2005 she was pastoring in the Port Augusta and Whyalla churches of the Seventh Day Adventists.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Painter who showed in the 2006 and 2007 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fc
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/silas-hobson
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Silas Hobson of the Kuuku Yau/Wuthathi language groups is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and works in the media of painting and printmaking. Hobson has works in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Silas Hobson of the Kuuku Yau/Wuthathi language groups is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang who works in the media of painting and printmaking.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fd
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samantha-napurrurla-jurra
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1978, Samantha came to Alice Springs with her aunt, Rachel Napaljarri Jurra , in 1980. Samantha’s relatives live at Yuendumu, Willowra, Lajamanu, Jila and Nyirrpi. She is a Warlpiri speaker and her country is Jila Well, west of Yuendumu. In 1991 Rachel Jurra started to teach her young niece to paint her Dreamings, Warna (Snake), Yuparli (Bush Banana) and (Mulju) Soakage.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu who moved to Alice Springs (NT) in 1980. She learnt to paint her Dreamings from her aunt, Rachel Napaljarri Jurra.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98fe
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb98ff
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/miik-green
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor Miik Green was born in 1978 in Perth, WA. Having studied an Advanced Diploma of Design for Industry at TAFE in 2000, Green then graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) from Edith Cowan University, WA, in 2002. Green is influenced by the human body, fungi and cell organisms. His works reflect the sensual curves of nature. Green creates cellular as well as amoeba-like structures which he coats with metallic paint, leaving the surface smooth and reflective.Since 2000 Green has had eight solo shows and exhibited in over twelve group exhibitions. In 2005 Green was commissioned to create a work for Arccon’s boardroom in Perth, WA. Green’s work is represented in the collections of Perth Galleries, Edith Cowan University Collection, Gallery East, Macquarie University, Gallery Dusseldorf, Turner Galleries as well as private collections in Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa and Australia.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor born in 1978 in Perth, WA. In 2005 Green was commissioned to create a work for Arccon's boardroom in Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9900
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jason-wing
- Birth Place
- NSW
- Biography
- Jason Wing is a young Aboriginal artist from the western Sydney suburb of Blacktown, which has a relatively high Aboriginal population. Wing’s father is Chinese (Cantonese) and his mother is an Aboriginal woman from the Biripi people in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Sydney’s College of Fine Arts in 1998, Wing has steadily emerged in the Sydney and national art scene as a versatile artist who explores issues of bi-cultural and Indigenous political identity, environmental awareness and spirituality with a street-wise flair (owing in part to his use of stencil printing) and strong commitment to community engagement.
The artist statement on Wing’s website begins: 'My art is inspired by the way my life has thrown up apparent contradictions. It is the place between the contradictory energies that creates a unique space for me to carve out who I am as an artist and a man.’ He then goes on to explain the stark differences between his father’s business/urban influences and the rural/non-materialist motivations of his mother’s Aboriginal way of life. 'Two things in opposition can become the base of a pattern’, explains Wing, and we can see the visual manifestation of this philosophy in a mural work such as Rebirth (2008) which incorporates a cupid and cloud scrolls in a graffiti aesthetic of spraypaint streaks and drips. In Migration (2007), the coming together of opposites is more literal, with two cupid-like figures (one coloured, the other white) at each end of the picture, joined by a throng of 'migratory’ black birds (magpies and crows) which stream out of a hole in each of their chests. At once joyous, poetic and redemptive, Migration is characteristic of Wing’s particular style, as is the painting’s use of cupid and bird motifs. The artist explains that this cupid image is a loose self-portrait-as-child.
Wing supplemented his Fine Art degree with a Bachelor of Graphic Design at Sydney Graphics College in 2002. Indeed one can also see this duality in his work; the blend of the more expressive/experimental visual artist with the message-conscious cool and focus of the graphic designer. It was a few years after formal study before Wing’s exhibiting life began, in 2005, as part of a group show in his hometown Blacktown Arts Centre '10th Annual Blacktown Art Show’; an auspicious start which earned him two awards, as the best local artist and a Highly Commended. In the next year, things started accelerating. He was selected to show in Sydney Art Fair’s 'Off The Wall’ platform for emerging artists, a distinction repeated in 2008 with 'Off The Wall’ representation at Art Fairs in Brisbane and Melbourne. In 2006, he also participated in a number of group shows in Sydney galleries (Newington Armoury, Orson and Blake Gallery, Gallery 4A, Blacktown Art Centre for their 'Crossing Cultures’ exhibition) and Adelaide (Green Hill Galleries). Significantly, 2009 he also collaborated with internationally renowned Taiwanese/American artist Lee Mingwei on Mingwei’s solo exhibition, 'Tourist’, at Sydney’s Sherman Gallery.
It was in 2008 that this researcher first came to know about Wing’s work. In writing on Wing for Art Monthly Australia’s very first 'Em File’ (a feature profiling emerging artists, commencing in April ’08) I noted that this 'emerging’ label might be wearing thin, given his Art Fair guernseys and a 'rising star’ recognition in 'belle’ magazine back in 2006. Still, at that time he was without commercial gallery representation in Australia and yet to stage a solo exhibition. This looks set to change in 2009, with a solo exhibition scheduled for Melbourne’s Arc One gallery in August. In 2008, Wing demonstrated his versatility with work in two shows that departed from his 2D stencil-based pieces. As part of curator Djon Mundine’s 2008 Campbelltown Art Centre exhibition, 'Ngadhu Ngulili Ngeaninyagu Premier State’, a survey exhibition of art by NSW Kooris, Wing created a commanding installation, 'Sign of the Times’, effectively a leitmotif for this show, which comprised an assembly of road signage along with other streetscape paraphernalia including CCTV cameras ('surveilling’ the gallery spectators), a street-cum-totem pole and a real estate sign boasting 'Prem1er Real Estate’ with a map of NSW 'For Sale’. The installation was mounted on an earthen base in the shape of NSW.
Earlier in 2008, Wing was selected to present work in the 'Jesus Walks Project’, a public sculptural event coinciding with the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day spectacle which took place in Sydney, July 2008. With a brief to determine 'how relevant is faith in today’s society’, and a life-size fibreglass model of Jesus, Wing installed an interactive LED message panel on a black Jesus and utilised the glib, catchy language of commerce to attract attention and make viewers wonder about (and even input) their own idea of faith in a logo-centric world. The project was also a fundraiser for Father Chris Riley’s Youth Off The Streets program.
That Wing can exhibit in member shows for Sydney’s Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative and Gallery 4A Asia-Australia Art Centre speaks volumes about the fluidity of self-identity and also about a certain multicultural maturity. That he is determined to enlist his art in the quest for greater good is shown by its earnest political- and community-mindedness, as well as in his work teaching art therapy to children with disabilities.
Writers:
Maurice O'Riordan
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Jason Wing is a young Sydney-based Aboriginal artist who also strongly identifies with his Asian heritage; in fact his art taps into this duality to challenge stereotypes about cultural affinity, ethnicity, and Australian life in the 21st century.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9901
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.5980702 Longitude149.5886383 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-hanrahan
- Birth Place
- Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Christopher Hanrahan is a Sydney based sculpture artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9902
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9903
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-hanham
- Birth Place
- Paddington, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter and owner of the Mark Hanham Gallery. Hanham was born in 1978 in Paddington, Sydney.
This entry is a stub. A full biography is coming.
Writers:
Isaac, ColetteDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- painter and owner of the Mark Hanham Gallery. Hanham was born in 1978 in Paddington, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9904
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.1743516 Longitude140.7468863 Start Date1978-01-01 End Date1978-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wesley-hill
- Birth Place
- Renmark, SA, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
amyk
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1978
- Summary
- Wesley Wilkins is an Australian artist based in Europe. In 2000 he began working as an exclusive collaborator with Wendy Wilkins under the name of Wilkins Hill.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9905
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude60 Longitude-110 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/richard-nova-milns
- Birth Place
- Canada
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Richard nove Milne is one half of the artistic couple Mr&Mr, with his spouse Stephanie nova Milne. They have been collaborating together since 1999.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9906
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude46.2596772 Longitude-71.521879 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jess-macneil
- Birth Place
- Inverness, Canada
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Jess MacNeil lives and works between Sydney and London. Her artistic practice encompasses a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, video, and installation, borrowing from one medium to another. MacNeil's works often explore the dynamics of the human/environment relationship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9907
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-13.6020675 Longitude141.7706849 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craig-koomeeta
- Birth Place
- Aurukun, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Award-winning carver, Craig Koomeeta has been carving since he was 14 years old. His work has been included in 'Story Place’ in 2003 at Queensland Art Gallery, 'Gatherings II’ in 2006 in Brisbane and 'Wild Nature in Contemporary Art and Craft’ in 2002, as well as solo shows including 'Paintings and Sculptures’, 2005 at Andrew Baker Art Dealer, 'Ngamp yotam ma kee antan’ in 2004 at Queensland Art Gallery and 'Craig Koomeeta: Recent Sculpture’ in 2003 at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne. In 2001 Koomeeta won the Wandjuk Marika Three Dimensional Memorial Prize at the 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Award-winning carver, Graig Koomeeta has been carving since he was 14 years old. His work has been included in a number of exhibitions including 'Story Place' in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9908
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-michl
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Cairns, Queensland in 1977, painter and printmaker Lisa is of the Kokoberrin language group, located on Central West Coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. Her traditional homelands, on her Grandmother’s side, are known as Pinnarinch or Mudpaalanjen and stretch between Staaten River National Park and north to Nassau River, including Wyabba Creek and Dorunda Lodge area. Today the Kokoberrin mainly reside in Kowanyama, Normanton and North Queensland communities. Pinarrinch encompasses several creation places, with Lisa’s totem name Ko-manggén being one of them. Lisa was given her totem name Ko-manggén in 2005 by her great-grandfather who was the most senior Kokoberrin elder and lore man and named Lisa after his cousin, Fannie Bruce. Michl stated in November 2007 that she uses “colours, texture and design along with my thoughts and feelings to create my works. My paintings express elements of our creation stories, traditional practices and our everyday lifestyle.” Michl, like her brother and fellow artist, Shaun Edwards Kalk, is a graduate of the Banggu Minjaany Art and Cultural Centre at Cairns TAFE gaining an Advanced Diploma of Visual Art in 1997. Michl has participated in a number of exhibitions including “Story Place: Indigenous Art of the Cape York and Rainforest” in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and “Out of Country” in 2004 in Washington DC, USA. Since 2005, Michl has shown her work in commercial galleries including Andrew Baker Art Dealer in Brisbane, Queensland, Hogarth Galleries in Sydney, NSW, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, ACT and Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA. Michl has been a finalist three times in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held each year at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin – in 1993, 2005 and 2007. She was also the 2006/2007 recipient of the Ivyon Coen Indigenous Youth Art and Leadership Award presented by the Wilin Centre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2000 Michl has worked in the Indigenous arts industry within North Queensland holding down positions with TANK Arts Centre in Cairns and has been a Board Member of the Indigenous Environment Foundation (IEF) Queensland, the Indigenous Arts Marketing, Export Agency (QIAMEA). Michl sits as a member of the National Indigenous Reference Group (NIRG) for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and at the time of writing Michl was the Chairperson for Umi Arts Pty Ltd in Cairns.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Printmaker and painter, Lisa Michl of the Kokoberrin language group of Cape York in Far North Queensland has had her work included in 'Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest' in 2003. Her work references the daily life and cultural memories of her people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9909
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-caon
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Caon is an industrial designer who has worked in Milan with Mondadori (publishers) and George Sowden. In 2003, he began working with Marc Newson in Paris, later in Sydney on the QANTAS project. In 2009, he established an independent studio in Sydney while working directly for QANTAS on a long-haul jet project. The studio works in furniture, furnishings and transport.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-lester
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- Sam Lester is an Arabunna woman born in 1977. She is also a descendant of the Luritja language group of the Western Desert region of the Northern Territory. In 2002 Lester was invited to exhibit her acrylic on canvas paintings in a group exhibition, 'Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges’, alongside Antony Hamilton, Nikolaus Lang, Sally Smart, Nicholas Folland, James Geurts and Regina McKenzie.
In 2004 she staged a self-titled exhibition at Holden Street Theatres in Hindmarsh, Adelaide, as part of the 2004 Fringe Festival.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Flinders Ranges based painter who exhibited during the 2004 Adelaide Fringe Festival and in 'Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges' at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2002.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alexander-seton
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Alexander Seton is a Sydney based sculptor who works predominately in carved marble and synthetic stone. Seton's sculptures present visual puzzles which explore the tension between material and object.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb990f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9910
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-askill
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Daniel Askill is an internationally renowned filmmaker and video artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9911
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicole-brakat
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Nicole Barakat is an artist who works to examine the intersections between different forms of art including textiles, drawing, performance and installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9912
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sam-doctor
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9913
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.46346 Longitude150.9014827 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abdul-rahman-abdullah
- Birth Place
- Port Kembla, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Abdul-Rahman Abdullah was born in Port Kembla, NSW in 1977 and his family moved to Perth was he was very young. He studied at the Victorian College for the Arts (2010) and attained his Bachelor of Art (Fine Art) from the Curtin University in 2012.
His work, which explores definitions of identity and belonging, emerges from his Muslim heritage that is both seventh-generation Australian and Malay. Within these cultural parameters he explores a personal engagement with the migrant experience of his mother, the ongoing implications of his Australian father’s early conversion to Islam and “the mutable understanding of childhood values in the present tense.”
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9914
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-34.9964963 Longitude-64.9672817 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ariel-hassan
- Birth Place
- Argentina
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Ariel Hassan has exhibited in several major international exhibitions including the 'Shanghai World Expo' in China during 2010 and the 'Scope Basel Art Fair', Switzerland during 2008. His work is represented in various collections including Artbank and the French National Collection.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9915
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-35.6545087 Longitude149.3635308 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-murphy
- Birth Place
- Queanbeyan, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Kate Murphy graduated with First Class Honours and was awarded the University Medal from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University in 1999. In 2005 she completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Murphy won the 2004 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, which she undertook in 2006, travelling to the UK and Ireland, where she was international artist in residence at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin. In 2007 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts residency at the Greene Street studio in New York. In 2008 Murphy received a New Work Grant (Established) from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Her first solo exhibition, 'Britney Love’ was held in 2000 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, following a residency there. Her other solo exhibitions include 'Cry me a Future’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2009, 'Rehearsal at Virgin Mary Church’, Dublin in 2007, 'Britney Love’ at Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin in 2006 and 'Placing the Camera’ at Performance Space, Sydney in 2005.
Murphy’s five-channel video installation, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne and presented in the major exhibition 'Remembrance + the Moving Image: Reverberation’ (2003) curated by Ross Gibson. More recently, Prayers of a Mother was acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and exhibited in New Acquisitions 2007, curated by Rachel Kent.
Excerpt from Scanlines (ARC Research project)
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Sydney-based video artist who was the recipient of the 2004 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9916
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-36.840556 Longitude174.74 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/angela-elizabeth-johnson
- Birth Place
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Johnson is a painter based in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to her painting, she has also produced murals.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9917
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1977-01-01 End Date1977-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rebecca-ross
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1977
- Summary
- Rebecca Ross' art practice spans installation, video, painting, sculpture, collage and weaving. She refers to her artworks as 'exercises in mapping'; these exercises are concerned with mapping the junctures of site, situation and sensation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9918
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude46.7985624 Longitude8.2319736 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucas-gross
- Birth Place
- Switzerland
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Photomedia and new media artist born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1976. In 2010 he travelled to Australia and initiated 'a mobile studio in Australia' project.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9919
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude33.3061701 Longitude44.3872213 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abbas-makrab
- Birth Place
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Biography
- Abstract painter and mosaic artist Abbas Makrab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1967. Makrab recalls spending much of his childhood competing with his four brothers, each trying to capture the best still lifes or family portraits. His brothers inspired him to follow his creative pursuits as an artist. In Iraq, Makrab regularly featured in the local newspaper as a caricaturist. In 1992, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in painting. During his art education at the College of Fine Arts, Makrab was also trained in mosaics.
From 1992 to 2000, Makrab exhibited his abstract paintings in exhibitions such as 'Art from Mesopotamia’ at the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad, and the International Babylon Festival at Baghdad Arts Centre. In 1999, he travelled to Jordan where he stayed for three years and hosted his first solo exhibition, 'Seazeef’, at the Orient Gallery, Amman, Jordan.
On the 28 September 2001, Makrab immigrated to Australia. He began working on public art projects in 2003, initially with Fairfield City Council, which in that year commissioned him to design and create thirty-six ceramic panels for fourteen planter boxes lining both sides of the main road of Smithfield. His roots in abstract painting inform the designs and colours of the planter boxes.
In 2005 Fairfield City Council invited Makrab to design and engineer four mosaic panels for three new concrete seats to be located around the children’s playground area in Day Street Park, Lansvale. According to the artist, local bird-watching groups and his workshops with the children of a district public school, Lansvale East, inspired the three parrot designs featured on the seating.
In 2008 Makrab graduated from the National Art School, Sydney, with a Masters of Fine Art (majoring in painting) and in the same year he won a competition to design and create mosaic artworks for Blacktown City Council. The mosaics featured on four retaining walls located at the centre of a large roundabout on Carlisle and Woodstock Avenues. The plethora of blue hues used in the work, he says, reflects the uniqueness of the Australian sky, which is unlike Iraq or Jordan.
In addition to working with local councils on community workshops and public art sculptures, Makrab has also exhibited in public and commercial galleries including Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula (2003), MLC Gallery, Sydney (2004 and 2006), Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown (2005), Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown (2006), and Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown (2007).
Writers:
Kirkman, CamilleDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Born in Baghdad in 1967 Abbas Makrab is an abstract painter and mosaic artist living and working in Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-mast
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1976, Robert Mast of Badu Island, Torres Strait is a lino cut printer and painter and a carver of wood, pearl shell and black coral. He exhibited in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Robert Mast of Badu Island, Torres Strait is a lino cut printer, painter and a carver of wood, pearl shell and black coral.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/warren-brim
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Warren Brim of the Djabugay people of Kuranda, North Queensland was born in 1976 and works as a painter and linocut printer. He was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Warren Brim of the Djabugay people of Kuranda, North Queensland was born in 1976 and works as a painter and linocut printer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anthony-kendal
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-jank
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.716667 Longitude151.55 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dion-archibald
- Birth Place
- Maitland, NSW, Maitland ,NSW
- Biography
- Artist Dion Archibald was born in January 1976 in Maitland, New South Wales. Despite being born into a family with no connection to the visual arts, Archibald was engaged in art-making from an early age. He remembers drawing a lot as a child, until the age of fifteen when he 'discovered’ oil paints, a medium with which he continued to work.
At the age of eighteen, Archibald began working full-time as an artist. Two years later, in 1996, he began his tertiary education, first studying for a Diploma in Fine Arts at the TAFE Hunter Institute in Newcastle, then attending the University of Newcastle (1998), where he studied Visual Arts for two years. During his time at TAFE, he was influenced by his teacher Michael Bell, a local artist, who inspired him to secure a studio space and practice art professionally. Archibald claimed that Bell, “... helped me to understand that to be an artist, you have to make sacrifices, be very disciplined and most importantly, have fun with art!” (Archibald in Percy 2003, p 24).
Archibald has been inspired by artists as varied as Anselm Kiefer, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Cezanne, Brett Whiteley, Jean Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Egon Schiele, whose works he came to know primarily through publications. He finds just about everything he encounters in the world around him to be some form of inspiration – even basic objects, as seen in his Around Home series (1999-2000). He explains: “Regardless of whether the subject is something as mundane as a toothbrush or as awe inspiring as the beauty of nature, it has to speak to me in some way. I have to feel empathy towards the subject and a desire to form a relationship with it…” (Archibald 2009, pers. comm.).
Working on twenty or more paintings at the one time, Archibald follows a set process with each work. Beginning with rough sketches, the subject matter is refined incrementally to resolve composition and form, light and shade, a focused palette, texture, clear delineation and finally highlights.
His cityscape repertoire includes the Turkish series (2001-02), the Newcastle series (2002-03) and the Sydney series (2005). Archibald insists that his primary interest is not in accurate depiction so much as in underlying ideas concerning urban densities. Occasionally, Archibald also does self-portraits.
Incorporated into his expressive figurative art are his experiences and thoughts on issues including food consumption, war and the destruction of the planet. He explains that “Every painting has a piece of me in it. I’m into feelings and emotions… I see my paintings as a diary of feelings…” (Archibald 2009, pers. comm.). Distinctive traits of his personal style include: thick brush strokes, stark blocks of colour bound by a strong linear quality, tonal contrasts, both a build up of layers and a linear sgraffito-like treatment of the surface.
In 2004 Archibald had a solo exhibition at the Newcastle Art Space. In the same year, he received the Still Life award, and was Highly Commended for the Overall category, in the Weston Art Show in Maitland. In 2005 he exhibited in the group exhibition 'In Alexander’s Footsteps’ with Vlado Krstevski, Jeremy Kang and Sophie Munn at Studio 48, Newcastle.
In 2007 Archibald briefly worked full-time in an internet business. By 2009 he was working part-time in the same business, once again making his art practice his primary focus.
His works are in private collections in Turkey, the USA, Australia, Europe and Asia.
Writers:
Bashir, Rezwana
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Dion Archibald is a contemporary figurative painter based in Maitland, NSW. In 2004 Archibald received the Still Life award, and was Highly Commended for the Overall category, in the Weston Art Show in Maitland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb991f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9920
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-horder
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Christopher Horder, artist, was born in Sydney in 1976. Horder began his studies with a Diploma of Fine Arts (1993-96) at TAFE, later completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) at the National Art School, Sydney (2005-08). In 2010, Horder moved to Berlin to live and work, relocating back to Sydney in 2011.
Horder first began exhibiting in Melbourne, with his debut solo exhibition at Roar Studios in 1998. He subsequently has held solo exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne including at Fitzroy Galleries, Melbourne, Lennox Street Studios, Sydney, and two solo exhibitions at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney: 'The Random Walk’ (2009) and 'Berlin Zeit’ (2011). In 2007, he was awarded the Reg Richardson Travelling Art Scholarship, which allowed him the opportunity to travel to Europe.
Horder has participated in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. He was a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship (2000, 2002) and in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2002). Horder has also been a two-time finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award (2009, 2010). In 2010, whilst residing in Berlin, Horder participated in a group exhibition at the Kunstquartier, Bethanien, Berlin. The exhibition, 'A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White)’, was curated by the Sydney curatorial duo SuperKaleidoscope, Sarah Mosca and Kim Fasher, and presented the diverse work of Australian emerging artists living in Berlin at that time. In 2011 Horder was also a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize and was awarded Highly Commended.
Horder is based in Sydney, Australia. His work is represented in private collections in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Christopher Horder, artist, was born in Sydney in 1976. Horder first began exhibiting in Melbourne, with his debut solo exhibition at Roar Studios in 1998. In 2010, Horder moved to Berlin to live and work, relocating back to Sydney in 2011.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9921
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tamara-dean
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Tamara Dean is a photographic artist based in Australia whose works explore the informal rites of passage and rituals of young people set within the natural world.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9922
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:04
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/troy-anthony-baylis
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1976, Troy-Anthony Baylis is a painter, textile artist, installation artist and performance artist. A descendant of the Jawoyn Aboriginal people from the Katherine region in the Northern Territory, Baylis grew up in country towns in New South Wales and Queensland prior to moving to Brisbane in 1989. Since 2000 he has lived and worked in Adelaide.
Baylis’s multi-faceted artistic practice is founded in the process of ‘queering’ and unsettling traditional ways of representing Aboriginality. His practice is emotional, politically provocative, visually arresting, and deeply personal. He has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, having exhibited and performed across New Zealand, the Philippines, Iceland and Germany.
He is currently undertaking a PhD on the subject of ‘Deadly Mimicry: Indigeneity and Drag in Contemporary Artistic Representation.’
Troy-Anthony Baylis’s work is informed by his multi-layered identity, and whilst he cites his Indigeneity and sexuality as important parts of his work and his identity, being representational of his generation is of the utmost importance to him.
In its assertions of identity, the drag performance offers Baylis a vehicle for sexual, social and political liberation. He has stated that ‘[I] want to use drag to liberate myself both personally and culturally from repression and conservatism’.
In 2009 Baylis created the digital collage series Making Camp which Baylis intruded upon the colonial landscapes of Glover, Johnstone and Martens, playfully imposing his drag persona along with photographs of works from his (pink) Poles series onto the works.
He cites early experiences knitting with his grandmothers and mother as being influential in his practice. The Postcard series (2010-11) includes artefacts representing private dialogues between geographically dispersed networks of ‘sistas’, where objects are reconstructed from Glomesh and other upcycled artificial fabrics. There are parallels between the ‘high-ceremony’ of the cross-cultural ‘Postcard’ exchange to the 19th/20th century colonial practice of adorning respected Aboriginal peoples with symbolic ‘breastplates’ denoting status and honour.
Writers:
Ben Messih
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Since graduating with an Honours Visual Art degree in 1997, Troy-Anthony Baylis has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. His art practice draws from popular culture icons such as Andy Warhol, Kylie Minogue and Barbara Cartland. He is also a pioneer of contemporary art knitting.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9923
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.8896116 Longitude151.1800986 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anthony-white
- Birth Place
- Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- Anthony White is a Paris-based Australian artist working across painting, collage and printmaking. He immigrated to France from Australia during 2009.
White’s practice explores the intersection of historical and current social issues and how they relate to the production of contemporary image making. His works are often characterised by an acute awareness of surface and a preoccupation with the engagement of physicality and the found object.
The 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was a catalysing moment for the artist to look at civilisation more broadly and how civilisation is linked to culture. His practice considers collision points, shifts and ruptures at the site of geopolitical and cultural boundaries, particularly in relation to global immigration crisis. He has expressed in an interviews in Australia during 2018 an interest “in reclaiming the radicality of the gestural mark as a form of dissent, to question the functioning of the Western ideals of sovereign power,democracy and the fallout of current foreign policy.”
White’s recent work, shown in the exhibition Signs of Civilization, (2018) reflects a move to socially engaged practice. Art writer Jane O’Neill says “White takes some cues from earlier activist artists such as Yves Klein or the post-war Japanese Gutai movement. Yet the driving force behind these works is Franz Kafka’s 1919 novel In the Penal Colony, a story that pre-empts the current refugee crises throughout the Pacific. White describes how the exhibition “continues my sustained enquiry into the relationship between Modernism and colonialist concepts of empire”. In doing so, he asserts the role of the artist as inherently political and urges us to consider the role of artistic interventions in the current climate.”
Anthony White born Australia 1976 Lives and works in Paris France. He has exhibited widely over the past decade with solo exhibitions in Australia, France,Germany and Latvia and Asia. White has also been regularly curated into exhibitions focusing on Contemporary Painting in Sydney, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Brisbane.
Writers:
Admin_Industries
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Anthony White b.1976 National Art School (Painting) Sydney. He immigrated to Paris, 2009. He was the recipient of The Gruner Prize for Landscape Painting 2005 (AGNSW) and The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2007. Solo exhibitions include Paris Paintings-Iain Dawson Gallery (2010) Scratching the Surface (2011) and Informal Relations (2013) The Cat St Gallery Hong Kong.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9924
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.7211905 Longitude135.8592218 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tamara-baillie
- Birth Place
- Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Master of Visual Arts, University of South Australia, 2013-2015 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture), Adelaide Centre for the Arts, 2006
Writers:
tamlee
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Sculptor living and working in South Australia
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9925
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brigid-noone
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- South Australian artist and curator
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9926
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9927
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/somaya-langley
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Somaya Langley has a background in the broad scope of digital culture with a focus on sound/media arts, digital collections/archiving, festivals and events. Both her professional and artistic interests lie somewhere in the realm of ideas, information, technology, socio-politics, communities, networks and empowerment.
Her professional arts practice focuses on embodied and immersive experiences mediated by technology, to initiate socio-political dialogue. This has included, ID-i/o (a live solo audiovisual sensor-performance endeavour), the Suspect Backpack (a wearable mobile intervention), and Mobile Patters (a wearable audio experience). Collaborative installation and performance projects over the past decade include Collars with media artist Alexandra Gillespie, MetaSense with sound technologist Nick Mariette and HyperSense Complex with Dr. Alistair Riddell and Simon Burton. Somaya was also a member of the research project Thinking Through the Body, initiated by George Khut and Lizzie Muller along with Jonathan Duckworth, Lian Loke, Garth Paine, Maggie Slattery and Catherine Truman. She has a love of field recording and in addition to her own field recording around the world, she has participated in sound recording workshops with Chris Watson (UK) and Douglas Quin (USA). In 2012 she assisted with field recordings for the Centenary of Canberra’s artist in residence, Jyll Bradley’s (UK) project City of Trees.
Her work has been presented and performed in conferences and festivals throughout Australia and internationally including Cells Button (Indonesia), DOCAM Symposium (Canada), the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) (Lithuania), das kleine field recordings festival (Germany), SEAM Symposium, the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Tuned City, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Liquid Architecture, the NOW now festival, the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), UNAUSTRALIA – the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference, Sound Lab Channel III, Electrofringe, the Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC), the Australasian Sound Recording Association (ASRA) Conference, the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), the Totally Huge New Music Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Skylounge.
Somaya has worked in producing for broadcast and online and for cultural collecting institutions in the fields of data management, digital archiving, digital collecting, digital preservation and online delivery. These organisations include the Australian Music Centre, ABC Classic FM, Design & Art Australia Online, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, including national projects such as MusicAustralia. In 2010 to 2011 she undertook research to develop a scoping study report on Archives in the Digital Era for the Australia Council for the Arts.
She was Production Manager of the International Society of Contemporary Music 2010 World New Music Days festival and was a Co-Director of the 2008 and 2009 Electrofringe festivals. In 2009 she was Co-Curator of Transit Lounge, a partner project of Berlin’s transmediale festival. For a decade (1997 – 2007) she presented and produced the radio program, SubSequence, broadcast across the Community Radio Network in Australia.
Writers:
Somaya Langley
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 12 December 1976
- Summary
- Somaya Langley has a background in digital culture with a focus on sound and media arts, digital collections, festivals and events. She was Production Manager of the International Society of Contemporary Music 2010 World New Music Days festival and was a Co-Director of the 2008 and 2009 Electrofringe festivals. In 2009 she was Co-Curator of Transit Lounge, a partner project of Berlin’s transmediale festival.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- c.21st century
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9928
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-36.381072 Longitude145.3993172 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-gardiner
- Birth Place
- Shepparton, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Matthew Gardiner is an artist most well known for his work with origami and robotics. He created the field of art/science research called Oribotics. One of his works was a full scale Origami House made from 1 square km of paper.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9929
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1976-01-01 End Date1976-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-jennison
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1976
- Summary
- Based in Melbourne and collaborating extensively with fellow artist Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison explores the possibilities of works on paper, from carefully-constructed limited edition artists' books to prints, zines, postcard collages and other small projects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb992a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude52.2319581 Longitude21.0067249 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-alwast
- Birth Place
- Warsaw, Poland
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Peter Alwast is a contemporary artist working across a range of media including video, computer graphics, painting and drawing. In 2008 he was the inaugural recipient of The Premier of Queensland New Media Art Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992b
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Latitude51 Longitude9 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/silke-raetze
- Birth Place
- Germany
- Biography
- Silke Raetze was born in Germany in 1975, and moved to Australia as a child in 1979. She completed a Bachelor of Art at the National Art School, Sydney in 2005,majoring in painting, however her practice evolved to encompasses a variety of materials and techniques including text-based cross-stitch embroidery. Raetze began to work with cross-stitch works really began when she was single and living alone, after being divorced. Some of the works make reference to herexperience of the online dating world and its trials and tribulations. She has a fascination with the traditional sampler and how they reinforce a sense of domesticbliss and traditional values. Raetze also had a love of German folk art, which influences her depiction of figures.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- German born painter and textile artist
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992c
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Latitude46.7985624 Longitude8.2319736 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monika-tichacek
- Birth Place
- Switzerland
- Biography
- Born in Switzerland in 1975 , Monika Tichacek studied at the School of Visual Arts, Zurich before moving to Perth in 1994, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University, Perth (1994-96). In 2000, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and, following sojourns abroad in New York and Prague, was living and working in Sydney in 2008.
In 2005, Tichacek staged her first major solo exhibition, The Shadowers, a video work that was shown at Artspace, Sydney; the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. A selection of photographic works only was also exhibited at Sherman Galleries, Sydney and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
Tichacek has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, including the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts (2007), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Winner); Supernatural Artificial: Contemporary photo-based art from Australia , Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan (then toured various venues throughout Asia 2004-06); Australian Culture Now , National Gallery of Victoria and Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (2004); I thought I knew but I was wrong – New video art from Australia , Australian Centre for the Moving Image and touring various venues throughout Asia (2004); Kiefer Hablitzel – Eidgenoessischer Wettbewerb Fuer Kunst , ART 33, Basel, Switzerland (2002); and Homecoming King , Performance Space, Sydney (2001).
Tichacek has received a number of grants and awards, notably the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007); Kiefer Hablitzel Stipendium from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, Zurich (2002); the Dyson Bequest , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2001); the Helen Lemprière Travelling Arts Scholarship , Ministry of the Arts, New South Wales (2001); and the Basil Muriel Hooper Scholarship , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2000).
In 2005 Tichacek featured on the cover of Australian Art Collector’s April – June issue and was included in the publication’s Australia’s Most Collectable Artists issue in 2004. Her work has also attracted substantial national media attention. When The Shadowers was exhibited at Artspace in 2005, the Office of Film and Literature Classification made calls arguing that video art should be subjected to classification before being screened in a public gallery space.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Working across performance, video and photography, Monika Tichacek is best known for her 2005 video work 'The Shadowers'. Tichacek won the Anne Landa Award for Video & New Media Arts in 2007.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992d
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Latitude43.6534817 Longitude-79.3839347 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rolande-souliere
- Birth Place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Biography
- Souliere was born in Toronto, Ontario. As a child she attended an after-school program for Indigenous children in Toronto, where she was encouraged to engage in her culture through traditional song, dance, storytelling and art making. This immersion in the traditions and values of First Nation peoples was reinforced by her family, and continues to fuel her artistic thinking. Souliere recognises and identifies with the many socio-political Indigenous issues in Australia, as these issues have many parallels in North America. It was this trans-Pacific move that enabled her to examine her background from new perspectives, which now inform her work. It was in Australia that she began her formal training and development of her professional arts practice and began to be shown in exhibitions. Prior to living in Australia, Souliere’s art activities were grounded in the making of traditional First Nation regalia and objects for her own personal use as a traditional dancer and for sale at market stalls.
Souliere obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Sydney College of the Arts in 2004, a Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts in 2006 and commenced a PhD in 2010 from Sydney College of the Arts, where her primary research focuses on Indigenous artists from Australia and North America and its integration into contemporary art practice.
Souliere was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2006 and 2007; a finalist in the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship in 2008 and in 2011 was a finalist in the David Harold Tribe Sculpture Prize. She has participated in 27 group exhibitions including the 2010 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, curated by Gerald McMaster, in Toronto, Canada and Point of Origin, curated by Gary Pearson, in 2008 at Artspace, Sydney. In 2012, Souliere was curated in the group exhibition Beat Nation, curated by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard, which travelled the length and breadth of Canada from 2012-2014. Beat Nation explores the intersections between Aboriginal cultures, hip-hop, politics and art hijacking symbols from skateboard, bike, hip-hop and graffiti scenes to claim new spaces for native culture. In Australia, she has collaborated with artist Mikala Dwyer and art collective Alterbeast for the exhibition Alterbeast at Penrith Regional Galleries and at Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne and Sara Cottier Gallery in Sydney.
Souliere had her first Australian solo exhibition in 2003, at Newspace Gallery in Sydney, and her first in Canada came in 2008 at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver. Souliere has subsequently held solo exhibitions GPS (The Good Red Road) at Peloton Gallery, Sydney in 2009, I am JUST not that good at following directions at The New Gallery, Calgary in 2010 and CrossRoads, at Urban Shaman gallery, Winnipeg in 2011.
Souliere has been the recipient of visual art grants, such as marketing grants from the Australian National Association of the Visual Arts in 2006 and 2012 and the New Work Grant by the Canada Council in 2012.
Souliere was the director of the student-run gallery Newspace from 2001-03 and was a committee member of ARTPORT (a joint initiative of Sydney’s artist-run spaces and the Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW) in 2003-04. She has been a member of the (Australian) National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). She has tutored and taught painting, sculpture, performance and installation across Sydney’s three main arts institutions: Sydney College of the Arts, the National Art School and the College of Fine Arts. Souliere participates in workshops, artist presentations nationally and internationally and artist residency programs, previously working at the University of Newcastle; Artspace, Sydney; the University of Manitoba; University of British Columbia (Okanagan); and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Working primarily with sculpture, installations and more recently, collage, Souliere combines hard-edge abstraction, organic forms, the handmade and the assisted readymade to address aspects of First Nation culture and Indigenous people(s) issues on a global scale. Souliere’s visual language is grounded in her traditional culture, while simultaneously being attuned to Western aesthetic sensibilities. Traditional Indigenous processes such as weaving, knotting, binding and wrapping are central to her practice, as are references to performance and traditional Anishinabek worldviews. Souliere uses feathers, lampshades and human hair as well as objects connected to driving and the road: automotive parts, lights, reflectors, road signs, and traffic control tape. The latter materials can be read as the markers of a long history of land appropriations, authority, regulation and control. Souliere’s work with these road-related objects has been described as a “culturally interruptive… intervention [that works] against the pressure of colonial imposition”.
In her work Points Of Origin (2008), Souliere has created a cluster of metal road signs on poles, but replaces the usual, mass-produced, laser cut graphics with vibrant hand-cut patterns on reflective vinyl based on traditional motifs. This reversal of the usual direction of the superimposition of one language and/or culture over another renders the signs unreadable to the average western viewer. Souliere’s work challenges the notion that road signs can be universally or unambiguously understood and asks the viewer to question whose law is being asserted through such directives and over whom do they have authority? Souliere’s signs do not give directions, but – as recognisable to a specific audience – speak of other types of guidance for the journey of life, knowledge passed down from generation to generation through traditional legends and mythology.
Materiality and Otherness, Souliere’s 2008 exhibition at Grunt Gallery, exhibited one of Souliere’s best known works, Aspects of the Skyworld, which consisted of a series of wall-mounted, circular objects, shaped like cones or hourglasses. The exteriors of these objects are covered with pheasant and guinea fowl feathers that flutter invitingly as they catch the breezes from an open door or people walking past. This tactile exterior is matched by the brightly coloured interior of red, green, orange or purple wools that evoke the interior of a flower. The textured sculptures seem almost alive, watching and listening to everything in the room, a kind of bizarre surveillance in feathered form. The objects, meant to recall birds in flight, were inspired by a traditional Anishinabek legend, the song of the Whirling Rainbow Woman, who catches the rain and nurtures the earth.
Souliere’s Thunderbirds and Young Binessiwags series (both 2006) use installations of car headlights and taillights to reference the Anishinabek legend of the Thunderbirds or Binessiwags, whose flashing eyes would create the lightning in a storm. To avoid attracting the attention of the Thunderbird, shiny or reflective objects would customarily be hidden during a storm.
The title of Souliere’s 2009 exhibition, The Good Red Road, at Peloton Gallery, Sydney, references the notion of “the one who is walking the road of a balanced life”, an idea which is common to many Native American communities, both as an ethical code and a cosmology. Souliere’s work is asking thoughtful questions about the sustainability of the mainstream capitalist and consumerist North American or Western lifestyle. More specifically, Souliere’s work is asking where these roads are leading us and why we are not heeding any of the warning signs.
In 2013, Souliere began working on a social art project, “The Collage of Indigenization”, where participants are invited to make a collage on what they feel it means to be Indigenous today. As part of this project Souliere conducts collage workshops to demonstrate the technique. Souliere launched the project at Artbank NT in Alice Springs, and has conducted residencies and workshops at the Yamaji Art Centre in Geraldton, WA, Mullewa Women’s Centre, WA, Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre in Alice Springs, NT, and Geraldon Youth Center, WA. In November 2013, Souliere conducted a collage workshop at the eighteenth MCA ARTBAR, as curated by Tony Albert. In June 2014, Souliere will host a residency at the annual Barkly Art Camp in Tennant Creek, NT, which is run by Desart for the 45 art centres it administers. Ultimately, Souliere intends to generate a 34 metre collage from workshops conducted nationally and internationally.
Souliere’s work is held in private collections in Australia and Canada.
Writers:
Zoe Wilesmith
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Rolande Souliere is an Australian-based and Canadian-born artist of Anishinabe descent and is a member of Michipicoten First Nation. Souliere produces work that juxtaposes her Anishinabek culture and contemporary life in a globalised environment as inspired by her Indigenous upbringing in Canada and her life in Australia over the past eighteen years. Souliere became an Australian citizen in 2006.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992e
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Latitude-9.9009174 Longitude142.7748071 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glen-mackie
- Birth Place
- Yam Island, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- A Yam Islander, Glen Mackie was born in 1975 and was taught to carve and paint by members of his extended family. He has gone on to become a lino-cut printer as well as a drawer and ceramicist. His lino cuts were featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Glen Mackie was born in 1975 and was taught to carve and paint by members of his extended family. He has since gone on to become a lino-cut printer as well as a drawer and ceramicist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb992f
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Latitude-10.2851069 Longitude142.2409061 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alick-tipoti
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait Islands, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- “Ngath kulay thayan inab zageth ika, ngaw awgadhal, Thupmul a Koedal; ngaw gubal, Sager a Naygay; ngaw thithuy, Zugubaw Baydham; ngaw yangu kudu, Kala Lagaw Ya. Ngay lak mina koeyma ap asin ngaw Kuyku Mabayg ika, Muruylgal a Zugubal. Ngaw ngulayg ngapa nithamuningu.”(I put before my art practice my totems, File-ray and Crocodile; my winds, South Easterly and North Easterly; my stars, Zugubaw Baydham constellation; my language, Kala Lagaw Ya. I humble myself before my Elders, and my spiritual ancestors, the Muruylgal and the Zugubal. This knowledge I possess was inherited from them.)– Alick Tipoti (Spoken at 'unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, 2010)
Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Thursday Island. He is a Cairns-based contemporary linocut printer and sculptor and a member of the Argan and Wakaydh language groups of Badu Island. He speaks both Kala Lagaw Ya of the Maluilgal Nation and Kala Kawa Ya of the Guda Maluyligal Nation of the Torres Strait.
As a Torres Strait Islander, Tipoti is guided by the traditional cultural practices of his people. He feels a strong responsibility to document these practices- the stories, genealogies and songs- so that they are available for future generations to learn, understand and practice. For Tipoti, art is; “all about telling and illustrating the stories my father told me. The one thing I will never do is let my forefathers’ words be lost.”
Tipoti’s artworks function as cultural documents, displaying the ancestral narratives of his people. The works often focus on legendary figures, accompanied by dhari headdresses, elaborate masks, percussive instruments, conches and other objects related to dance and ceremony. His works include elements of island life and much of the native fauna of the region, including dugongs, salt-water crocodiles and turtles.
Alick Tipoti’s interest in visual art began at a young age and he has since become widely recognised as an important and innovative artist of the Torres Strait Islands. Tipoti received his primary schooling on Badu Island and secondary schooling on Thursday Island. In 1992, he received an Advanced Diploma in Arts from Thursday Island TAFE College and in 1994 he obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Printmaking) from the School of Art at the Australian National University, Canberra. His current practice is inspired by stories told by his father and elders about life on Badu Island before colonisation. In his words, “my art is built on, and held together by, traditional Torres Strait designs, based on legends of the past.”
In the early 1990s, Tipoti began exhibiting in smaller regional exhibitions in far North Queensland. Following the move to Canberra, his exhibitions focused on work completed at the Canberra School of Art. Throughout the early 2000s Tipoti’s work was met with growing interest in multiple regional galleries in NSW and Queensland and in 2003 he was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in the category of works on paper.
As an artist inspired by the traditional stories of his people, Tipoti’s work has a strong cultural and spiritual focus. He believes in the Zugabal (the spirits of his ancestors) and their ability to guide his work as an artist. “When I work late at night carving traditional designs, I can sense the presence of the spirits who I verbally acknowledge and thank, in language, for their guidance and help in visualising the words they have given me.” This guidance extends beyond the visual arts and into dance and song. Tipoti has both composed and choreographed chants for performance alongside his works, and through such practices is very much involved in the continuation of his culture and language.
Between 2003 and 2004, Tipoti took a brief break from the art world in order to spend more time with his two young children. The death of his parents around that time provided a catalyst for him to refocus on his role within his family, local community and wider Torres Strait Island culture. His father, Leniaso, was an artist and cultural advisor, who fostered in his son an early interest in song and art. Leniaso didn’t speak English and Tipoti credits this as a key factor in shaping his own respect for the importance of his traditional language.
Language is critical to Tipoti for he believes that it is the vital ingredient that binds cultures together. “Without language you become a foreigner, lost in another person’s culture… singing and dancing are forms of art that branch out from the centrepiece called language. Everything you do, traditionally or culturally, evolves from a language. When you know the language, you know your culture.” Alick Tipoti is both a cultural ambassador and contemporary artist. He uses his art as an avenue to stimulate wider understandings of the connection between material culture and language, custom and law.
This concern with the continuation of his culture has seen Tipoti research ancient artefacts from the Torres Strait, in universities and museums, and these objects have inspired and informed his contemporary works. Tipoti has travelled to Cambridge, England, in order to study treasures taken from the Torres Strait in 1898 by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon. Tipoti doesn’t like to dwell on the negative side of this collection taken in the colonial period. Instead, he is grateful to be able to view, and be inspired by, such a collection of original masks, designs, and artworks created by his ancestors.
Similarly, he has researched the genealogy of Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait) in order to strengthen his own understanding of his country and people. For Tipoti knowledge is the cornerstone of culture, and his artworks help to make this knowledge available for future generations to learn, understand and practice. Tipoti passes his own knowledge on to students at both Thagai State College and Thursday Island TAFE, where he teaches language, culture and history. Tipoti’s teaching and artistic practice represent an attempt to ensure a dynamic continuation and development of his culture.
In 2007, Tipoti won the works on paper category of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for the second time. In the same year, he also held his first solo exhibition, 'Malangu – From the sea’, at the Andrew Baker Gallery in Brisbane. The show was a resounding success and as a result it toured nationally and internationally to 8 other galleries over the course of 2008 and 2009. He was awarded the Silk Cut Award for Lino Prints in 2008 and has drawn widespread praise for the technical skill that drives his practice. In 2011 he held his second solo exhibition, 'Mawa Adhaz Parul – Sorcerer Masks’, at the Australian Art Network Galleries at Canopy Artspace, Cairns.
Despite commencing his artistic career as a printmaker, Tipoti has also diversified his practice into mask making. In 2007 he began to make three-dimensional renditions of ceremonial masks. These masks have traditionally been made from wood or turtle shell. Tipoti’s ancestors had mastered the techniques of moulding the carapace of the wunuwa (hawksbill turtle) to construct masks before endowing them with intricate engravings and fretwork. Tipoti has substituted the turtle shell with fibre-glass and resins. The fibre-glass has the required flexibility for moulding and shaping and the stained resin finish resembles the highly polished turtle shells used in traditional practice. As is the case with his printmaking, Tipoti’s mask-making technique utilises contemporary art making practices to express his traditional culture and to highlight the dynamic nature of Torres Strait art making and culture.
Tipoti notes that turtle-shell masks were traditionally shrouded in secrecy and the making of the masks was restricted knowledge. Although elements of Tipoti’s work remain undisclosed to viewers, they have also become iconic representations of Torres Strait culture and are widely recognisable. The masks and carving motifs that Tipoti creates play a critical role in the ongoing nourishment of his culture by continuing the creation of culturally significant objects.
Any discussion of Alick Tipoti must also make mention of Dennis Nona (b. 1973), as an ongoing influence and significant friend in the artistic revival of Torres Strait art. Both artists grew up together on Badu Island, were classmates at Thursday Island TAFE and then at the Canberra Institute of Art. Nona and Tipoti share a profound mutual respect and pursue similar goals in both their art-making and cultural practice. The print media and sculptural works of both these artists can be seen as the catalysts for what is now recognised as a ‘school of contemporary Torres Strait Islander art.’ The work of Islander artists such as David Bosun, Victor Motlop, Billy Missi, Mario Assan, Rosie Barkus, Teho Ropeyarn and Joey Laifoo have been informed by their success.In 2012, Tipoti was selected to be part of 'UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, National Gallery of Australia. Six of Tipoti’s masks were selected for exhibition and now reside in the National Gallery’s Collection. In mid-2012, his monumental 8 metre long linocut, Girelal, was selected for the 18th Biennale of Sydney; ‘All our Relations’ and was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Writers:
Toby Meagher
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Linocut printer Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 and is from Badu Island in the Torres Strait. Tipoti's prints are works that celebrate his island heritage and culture. He is represented in the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9930
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Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ceferino-garcia-sabatino
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Ceferino Garcia Sabatino from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland. He is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer and his work has featured in the acclaimed “Ilan Pasin” touring exhibition curated by Brian Robinson for the Cairns Regional Gallery and also in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. His artist statement in the “Gatherings” catalogue states, “I paint because I love the sea and I love showing people what is in the beautiful ocean”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Ceferino Garcia Sabatino is a painter, sculptor and lino cut printer from Hammond Island in the Torres Strait. He was born in 1975 and has studied for his Diploma in Art at the Tropical North TAFE campus in Cairns, Queensland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9931
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Latitude-17.129513 Longitude143.924219 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cara-archer
- Birth Place
- Mareeba, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Cara Archer was born in Queensland in 1975 and lives in Port Augusta in South Australia. She is a painter who showed her work in the 2006 Our Mob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Archer also shows and sells work at the Wadlata Outback Centre in Port Augusta.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Showed in the 2006 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9932
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Latitude-18.1239696 Longitude179.0122737 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/thelma-thomas-trey
- Birth Place
- Fiji
- Biography
- graffiti artist, hip hop/rap performer and recording artist, was born in Fiji. She came to Australia as a young girl, but old enough to have vivid memories of her island, and she now lives in Parramatta. She began producing aerosol art as a way of affirming her identity in a difficult foreign environment, she said in 2000. Although graff is dominated by male artists Trey’s experience has been that “the older and better you get, the more accepted you are. In the end it is really about skill.” She specialises in both graffiti tags and pieces and weaves together music and graff.
“Aerosol art is part of a complex Hip Hop culture that is continually expanding and incorporates the four elements of DJing (turntablism), MCing (master of ceremonies or rhyming), break dancing and graff, with a dynamic and very organised network of people that hold regular events.”
Trey is regarded as Sydney’s foremost female MC (Master of Ceremonies or rhyming), according to Maud Page writing in the room brochure for Back to the Walls (Djamu Gallery, Customs House Sydney, 2000), an exhibition that included a large wall of Trey’s work. She identifies similarities between local communal culture and her own Pacific culture:
“ 'Hip Hop is a culture, like breaking is your traditional dancing and graff is your tribal art. Pacific cultures have survived and still exist orally, the spoken word, oration, recited genealogies is therefore like MCing.’ In Back to the Walls , Trey combines the cultural and graff aspects she has been experimenting with on CD covers and music fliers to produce large pieces . Particularly influenced by masi (barkcloth), Trey will incorporate the distinctive motifs, colours and bold, grid-like patterns in her pieces .”
Trey painted legal graffiti walls at Bondi Beach promenade (1997), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (1998), the Settlement, Redfern (1998), Newtown (1998) and Parramatta (1999). She initiated and coordinated two Hip-Hop festivals in Sydney, both called 'Urban – Xpressions’, and she has been rhyming and holding workshops in community centres since 1993. Her work was featured in the documentary Island Style , shown on SBS TV in 1999.
In 2002, with other Western Sydney hip hop artists Wire (Will Jarrett) and Maya Jupiter (Melissha Martinez), Trey was MC on an exchange program with the London-based group Ocean, organised by Information and Cultural Exchange program manager Lena Nahlous. They were to give musical and graffiti performances in the UK, Ireland and Japan (source Artswest March 2002, 10).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Contemporary Fiji-born, Sydney-based graffiti artist, hip hop/rap performer and recording artist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9933
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shaun-kalk-edwards
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Shaun Kalk Edwards was born in 1975 of the Kakoberrin language group of West Coast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. He works across a wide variety of media including lino cut and screen printing, batik, silk painting, ceramics, painting and weaving. Edwards has work in the permanent collections of National Gallery of Australia and Griffith University, Brisbane.
In 2000 Edwards curated an exhibition of his family’s work and that of four traditional elders of the Kokoberrin people titled 'The Life of Art of the Kokoberrin’ at the Cairns Regional Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Shaun Kalk Edwards was born in 1975 of the Kakoberrin language group of West Coast Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. He works across a wide variety of media including lino cut and screen printing, batik, silk painting, ceramics, painting and weaving.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9934
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/troy-dukonge-hegarty
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in Queensland in 1975 of the Gungarri People of South West Queensland, Troy Hegarty works in the area of painting. His work was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Born in Queensland in 1975 of the Gungarri People of South West Queensland, Troy Hegarty works in the area of painting.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9935
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Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/arleen-textaqueen
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Arlene TextaQueen, born in 1975 in Perth, WA, is a contemporary Australian artist who draws with texta markers. She graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Chan, RosalynnDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Arlene TextaQueen was born in 1975. She creates images of nude performers and friends using texta colours.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9936
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lavene-ngatokorua
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Lavene Ngatokorua, Wangkunguru/Adnyamathanha artist, was born in Port Augusta in 1975. Her work was included in the 2006 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. In 2008 she co-curated and exhibited in 'Ripples in the Sand’ at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre Gallery. The exhibition was commissioned for the 2008 Yarnballa Cultural Festival, which coincided with Port Augusta’s hosting of the 2008 Regional Centre of Culture program.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Wangkunguru/Adnyamathanha artist based in Port Augusta who exhibited in and co-curated 'Ripples in the Sand' at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre in 2008.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9937
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nancy-reid
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Nancy Reid is a South Australian Indigenous artist descended from the Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjtjara and Kokatha peoples. She was born in Port Augusta in 1975, and was taught to paint by her mother, Jean Reid, and her aunty and uncle. Reid participated in the 2006 and 2007 'Our Mob’ exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre. She also participated in 'Ripples in the Sand’, an exhibition commissioned for the inaugural Yarnaballa Cultural Festival in 2008, which was part of the 2008 'Port Augusta Re-Imagines’ Regional Centre of Culture Program. The exhibition, which took place at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre Gallery, was devoted to the perspectives of Indigenous artists who had a strong connection to Port Augusta. Reid lives in Port Augusta and works as a youth worker at Tji Tji Wiru Youth Centre in Davenport, South Australia.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Port Augusta-based Aboriginal artist who participated in the 2008 'Ripples in the Sand' exhibition.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9938
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.716667 Longitude151.55 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nell
- Birth Place
- Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9939
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.936 Longitude117.178 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lauriedarna-farmer
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Lauriedarna Farmer is a Noongar painter who was born in 1975 at Narrogin in the south-west region of Western Australia. She was introduced to art when she lived at Marribank (also in Western Australia) where she first viewed silk paintings and batik work. She attended high school in Bunbury where she enjoyed art classes. After moving to Perth and becoming influenced by her artist brother, Farmer took up painting more seriously and began painting animals and bush foods that she knew as a child.
In 2009 Farmer enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Art Institute in Fremantle where she began learning different painting techniques and other technical aspects of visual arts under the tutelage of art teacher Joanna Robertson. In June and July of the same year Farmer participated in a group show of Kidogo students work in the exhibition, 'Moorditj Mob’ held at Kidogo Arthouse.This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Painter. Exhibited in the exhibition 'Moorditj Mob' at Kidogo Arthouse (WA) in 2009.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mel-ocallaghan
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Installation, video, and photomedia artist born in Sydney in 1975. O’Callaghan lives and works in Sydney and Paris.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Barbagallo, MelindaDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Installation, video, and photomedia artist born in Sydney in 1975. O'Callaghan lives and works in Sydney and Paris.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.188889 Longitude142.158333 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craig-charles
- Birth Place
- Mildura, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Craig Charles is a Melbourne-based painter with Yorta Yorta heritage on his father’s side, and Mhutti Mhutti heritage on his mother’s side. Born in 1975 in Mildura, in Latje Latje country, Charles was raised by his great grandparents, Betty Charles, a descendant of the Djara people, and Ron Murray, a descendant of the Wamba Wamba/Lake Boga people. Creativity was part of his life from an early age: the artist remembers listening to stories and drawing with Betty and his siblings at the kitchen table from the age of four. His formal training in art began in 1996, first at the Sunraysia TAFE in Mildura, and then at the Mildura Campus of La Trobe University, where Charles completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1998. As Charles has written in his masters thesis exegesis, a turning point came when an art lecturer “told me about my ability to raise awareness of the 'Koori’ plight, through art” (Charles, 2006:12). Since then Charles’ art practice has been concerned with celebrating Aboriginal people’s resilience, paying tribute to family, ancestors and country, and sharing experiences and stories with wider society. Having lost a number of family members and friends from the Victorian Koori community over the years, creativity of all forms has become a means to draw strength and to heal: the artist describes it as “an amazing form of medicine” (Charles, 2006:8). In 2006 Charles completed a Masters of Fine Arts at RMIT University in Melbourne, during which he pursued these themes and developed technical approaches to articulating them in his work. He has come to draw on a range of artist and natural materials in his paintings for symbolic purposes. For example, gold leaf is frequently employed, as it signifies his respect for his elders and traditional owners. Gold leaf also allows Charles to glorify the country he depicts, such as the Murray River that runs through Latje Latje country, with which he identifies very strongly. The artist has also rubbed his canvases in the earth “to appreciate the physical connection between the image and the land” (Charles, 2006:17), and he uses shellac and oil to bind the dust and grains to the work. Other natural materials such as ochres and charcoal also add texture to his paintings. Charles’ works are recognisable for their dramatic figurative and animal forms and their layered, scraped and glossy surfaces. They are often characterised by a well-defined figure/ground relationship, in which negative space forms a bold, semi-abstract component. In a number of works, Bett’s kitchen tablecloth, symbolised by printed decorative patterning, provides a subtle background. Charles began exhibiting in significant group exhibitions from the mid-1990s, including the National Gallery of Victoria’s “Big Shots Exhibition – We-Iri-We-Homeborn” (1996), the “Art of Place” National Indigenous Heritage Awards exhibitions at Canberra’s Old Parliament House in 1996, 1998 (where he was highly commended in the Emerging Artist section) and 2000, and the touring exhibition “Native Title Business: Contemporary Aboriginal Art” (2002). In 2000 he held his first solo exhibition “Nana Bett and Me” at Melbourne’s Alcaston Gallery and that same year Charles also established his own dance group, The Black Crow Dancers, which toured Singapore, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. As a young child he was a member of the Latje-Latje Dance Group in Mildura, and alongside painting, dance remains a crucial creative outlet for the artist. Since 2000, Charles has held several solo exhibitions, including “City style, Country Youth” at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum in Carlton (2005), “Mungo Stories” at Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne (2006), and most recently, “Elders Place”, at the Prahran Town Hall in Melbourne in 2007. The 'Elders Place’ series pays homage to his great-grandparents, Betty and Ron. The works exemplify the artist’s treatment of painting as an expression of, and extension of, family togetherness and sharing, honouring the spirit of his formative experiences drawing at the kitchen table. The work Nan and Pop’s Campfire Kitchen – Pumpkin Stew from this series is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, having won the NGV Acquisitive Prize at the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, 2007. In 2008 Charles was a finalist for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Charles’ work is also in the collection of the La Trobe University (as a result of having won the 1997 Colin Barrie Acquisition Scholarship), the Koorie Heritage Trust, and Museum Victoria.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Yorta Yorta and Mhutti Mhutti artist who integrates gold leaf, shellac and other found materials into his acrylic paintings, which pay tribute to his family, indigenous ancestry and country.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.415095 Longitude137.502933 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-newchurch
- Birth Place
- Point Pearce, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Michael Newchurch is a Nurungga artist who was born in Point Pearce, South Australia in 1975 but was raised in Port Augusta. He is associated with Kuju Aboriginal Arts and Crafts and through this organisation has exhibited in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Our Mob exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Exhibited in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993d
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ainslie-murray
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Ainslie Murray is an artist, architect and academic. Born in Adelaide, she graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Architecture, 1st Class Honours in 1999.
It was as an undergraduate that Murray first became fascinated with Indian architecture, spending considerable time in Fiji and later undertaking pilgrimages to India in order to study the history and evolution of Indian art and architecture. She also developed a fascination with Japanese art and architecture. Experiencing these cultures first hand inspired and informed her art practice, which is based on the relationship between human gesture and architectural space.
Through her work Murray endeavours to show a new way of looking at architectural space, using predominantly translucent and white materials to convey purity in form and content, and to allow for a range of possibilities in terms of light and shadows. Murray’s architectonic installations are tactile as well as visual works of art.
In 2006 Murray commenced a practice-based PhD in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2007 she began working as a lecturer in the Architecture Program of the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW, and has written both on her teaching and her art works in various Australian and international publications.
Murray has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. Exhibition projects in Australia include 'Ganga’, Muse Gallery (2003); 'Bahanaa’, Little Gallery (2003); 'Sound-Maker’s Place’, SAUC Gallery (2004); 'Exhibition G02’, Sydney College of the Arts (2005); 'The Interference Project’, Tin Sheds Gallery (2007); and 'Tactile Imagination’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery (2007). She has exhibited internationally in India (2004) Japan (2006) Canada (2007), and Tibet (2008).
Murray has been awarded numerous grants and scholarships for the development of her work, from Australia Council grants to internal research scholarships through the University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment. Most significantly, in 2007 she won the Beth Winspear Scholarship, Walking and Art Residency, at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; and in 2009 she was awarded the University of New South Wales studio at the Cite des Arts, Paris.
Writers:
Thorogood, NicolaCatherine De Lorenzo
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Artist, architect and academic, Ainslie Murray moves within these three roles, each interactive with the other. The common thread is the interrogation and exploration of architectural space.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katy-mutton
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- b. Canberra 1975. Drawing, painting, printmaking, installation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb993f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-brown
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in Melbourne on 16 February 1975. She was awarded her BA (Hons.) at the Australian National University’s Institute of the Arts in 1998, majoring in Photomedia. She lives in Canberra where she had various part-time jobs while continuing to draw. Her first cartoon was published in 1996 in Fruity Murmurs , a collection of cartoons by women. She self-published two issues of the comic strip GFORCE in 1997 and 1999. In 1999 she contributed cartoons to Froth (Melbourne) and her The Neighbours of the Beast appeared in One (site no longer operational).
Brown received funding from ArtsACT to produce the comic book Capital Punishment featuring the work of 15 Canberra artists, published at the end of 2000, possibly under an alternative title – Northbourne and Fancy Free .
When responding to Joan Kerr’s survey on the question of why she draws cartoons, Brown stated:
“I like that I have a collection of stories that form a kind of diary. I also love the medium. You can make serious comments in a very 'people friendly’ format. I get a lot of satisfaction in the progress of my technique. I like to watch a ridiculous amount of videos & if I draw during them, I feel as if time is valid. I just love everything about comics as an art form.”
Participated in Silent Army , Express Media, Fitzroy Vic, 2002 (“20 of Australias young comic book veterans together for the first time”: Bicycle, Blanden, Brown , Carvan, Conn, Cure, Danko, Dodds, Fikaris, Greenberg, Mackay, Mangan, Mrongovius, O’Donnell, Ord, Pox, Savieri, Schell, Smith, Taylor ). Published as part of 2002 Next Wave Festival with Arts Victoria sponsorshi
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Contemporary Canberra cartoonist. Brown's first cartoon was published in 1996 in 'Fruity Murmurs', a collection of cartoons by women.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9940
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bindi-cole
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Bindi Cole, Wathaurung artist and photographer, was born in 1975 in Melbourne. An only child, she was raised by her mother, Vicki Reynolds, in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, close to Luna Park. Cole’s mother and maternal grandmother also grew up in St Kilda, and the suburb and its community have often been a source of inspiration for her work. Cole became aware of her Aboriginal heritage in her youth, during a period of time when she couldn’t live with her mother and stayed with her paternal grandmother: “I learnt that I was Aboriginal, that my nan had been part of the Stolen Generations and that we belonged to a mob called Wathaurung” (Next Wave Festival website, Cole 2008). Cole left school when she was sixteen, the same year that her mother died. She spent her early adulthood working in a range of jobs and travelling before deciding, at the age of twenty-six, to pursue her long-standing love of photography. As a child Cole had been fascinated by the photographic practice of a neighbour, Mary, who lived in the same block of flats in St Kilda. Mary sometimes took photos of Vicki, who was a dancer, and had set up a darkroom in a small shed behind the flat complex to develop her photographs. It wasn’t long before Cole began to take and develop her own photographs: “When I was a teenager and old enough to own my own camera, my mum bought me one, as well as developing tanks, chemicals, a black out bag and the other items required for me to develop films at home. I took photographs of my friends and my environment, then sat in my bedroom and processed my first rolls of black and white film” (Next Wave Festival website, Cole 2008).Having made the decision to return to photography in her 20s, Cole worked to further her understanding of darkroom printing techniques under the guidance of Melbourne-based photographer Ponch Hawkes. In 2002, Hawkes helped Cole to put together a folio of photographic works to gain entrance to the North Melbourne Institute of TAFE, and in 2004 she completed a Diploma in Applied Photography. In 2005 she collaborated with Elizabeth Clancy and Kylie-Rose Douglas to create the exhibition 'Same Place, Different Face’, which encompassed a film and photographic series that share the same title. The exhibition documented the changing character of St Kilda, and was displayed during the St Kilda festival of that year. In 2007 she staged her first solo exhibition, 'Heart Strong’, at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne. A portrait of her father, Bryon Powell, which was part of this exhibition, was shortlisted for the 2007 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. Cole has developed an eclectic methodology encompassing painting, collage, text, weaving, film, performance, soundscapes and projections. She enjoys bringing a range of media together, and tries to include a substantial hand-worked element in all her works (Cole & Browning 2009). Besides Hawkes, she has been influenced by the practice of Sue Ford and Brook Andrew. For Cole, the depth of Ford’s career as a female artist photographer has been a source of inspiration, while Andrew opened her eyes to what she could aspire to as an Indigenous artist, and how it was possible to bring multiple media into conversation in one’s work (Cole, pers. comm. 2009). Cole has also been mentored by the writer and artistic director Donna Jackson, who in the past had worked with Cole’s mother, Vicki, a writer of plays and short stories. Cole works with a range of manual and digital cameras, and all of her images are resolved with some degree of digital manipulation using programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator. For her 2008 solo exhibition 'Post Us’ at Boscia Galleries, Cole storyboarded the images, sourced costumes, props and models and shot the series in a studio on medium format film. Having processed and scanned the film, Cole then undertook a labour-intensive digital manipulation process using Photoshop, whereby the figures were cut out from the studio backgrounds and assimilated with backdrops which Cole had hand painted and photographed. Cole also created a soundscape to accompany these works in the exhibition space.Cole’s choice of subject and her portrayal of them are always underpinned by some kind of social commentary and critique. Her works seek to draw attention to the way the category of Aboriginality, as it is constructed and policed by non-Indigenous Australians, circumscribes the variety of experiences that constitute contemporary Aboriginal Australian identity. A number of her recent works have explored controversial themes and individuals. Her portrait of the Aboriginal boxer Anthony Mundine, Do you like what you see (2007), received the Boscia Galleries Award for Photography at the 2007 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. This work was inspired by the fact that The Daily Telegraph had refused to cover one of the boxer’s super-middleweight title fights that was taking place in Australia, as punishment for comments he had made about the prevalence of discrimination against Aboriginal sportsmen (Media Watch 2007). By presenting Mundine as self-absorbed and vulnerable, Cole’s image offered a counterpoint to his abrasive and outspoken public persona. Another portrait of Mundine, titled Nothing to Hide was shortlisted for the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2007. In How to be a Domestic Goddess (2008), “Foxy”, an Aboriginal drag queen, stands in her glistening kitchen looking out the window. This work was shortlisted for the 2008 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. In 2008 Cole was commissioned by the Unity Foundation to produce a calendar titled Men in Black, consisting of photographic portraits of male Aboriginal sports stars. The calendar sought to contribute to the reappraisal of black masculinity in Australia, and sought to raise funds for the Foundation, which is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to assisting marginalised Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to achieve success and wellbeing through social programs, events, mentoring and education. Such objectives resonate with Cole’s own ideals: at the core of her sense of purpose as an artist is a desire to instill pride amongst members of the Aboriginal community, and to create positive images of Aboriginal people that can counteract the negative portrayals that she feels are prevalent in the Australian media (Cole & Browning 2009).2008 also saw Cole exhibit a series of works titled Not Really Aboriginal in a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival. Not Really Aboriginal commented on the contestation of light-skinned, urban-based Aboriginal people’s identity, a contestation familiar to Cole herself:“I’ve always been told that I was Aboriginal. I never questioned it because of the colour of my skin or where I lived. My Nan, part of the Stolen Generation, was staunchly proud and strong. She made me feel the same way. My land takes in Ballarat, Geelong and Werribee and extends west past Cressy to Derrinallum… All the descendants of traditional Victorian Aboriginal people are now of mixed heritage. I’m not black. I’m not from a remote community. Does that mean I’m not really Aboriginal?” (Cole in CCP 2008).The series includes portraits and family scenes in which the subjects’ faces are blackened with minstrel paint. While she was formulating her ideas on how to approach the subject of being a light-skinned Aboriginal person, Cole learnt that a Melbourne costume shop stocked tins of Minstrel Black and Negro Brown pancake make-up, imported from New York. As Cole related to Daniel Browning on ABC Radio’s Awaye program, she was compelled to work with 'blackface’ because: “I had to take that old stereotype, or that old racist visual cue and flip it on its head” (Cole & Browning 2009). In the work Wathaurung Mob (2008), Cole and her relatives are arranged as a family group and have adopted serious, almost regal poses. The understated clothing and interior creates an impression of benign domesticity, however this homeliness is offset by the impact of the painted faces, the red bandannas and the way the subjects hold the viewer’s gaze. This work, among others, was included in the exhibition 'Inheritance’, shown at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (2009). Three works from the Not Really Aboriginal series were acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2008. In 2008 Cole produced a series of collaborative works with Aboriginal sculptor Lorraine Connelly-Northey for the exhibition 'A Time Like This’ at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery of the Victorian College of the Arts. 'A Time Like This’ commemorated a century of women’s suffrage in Victoria, and this series, which was acquired by the Koori Heritage Trust, took the historical objectification and control of Aboriginal women as its theme. In designing the works, Cole and Connelly-Northey collaborated with the Koori artist and writer Jirra Lulla Harvey. Harvey is a close creative associate of Cole’s; she curated and wrote the exhibition essay for 'A Time Like This’, and in 2009 Cole and Harvey were working together on a project involving the transsexual/transgender community on the Tiwi Islands.Besides St Kilda, Cole has also lived in Newport and in 2009 was living in Altona North, which is on the shores of Port Phillip Bay just west of Melbourne. Alongside her art practice, she works as a freelance photographer for community events, and within the arts and music industry.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Wathaurung artist whose photographic works offer a critique of the way non-Indigenous Australians circumscribe and misconstrue the nature of contemporary Aboriginal identity and experience.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9941
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gracia-haby
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Based in Melbourne and collaborating extensively with fellow artist Louise Jennison, Gracia Haby explores the possibilities of works on paper, from carefully-constructed limited edition artists' books to prints, zines, postcard collages and other small projects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9942
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-hamer
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Hamer is a Visual artist who specialises in hand-stitched tapestries on large perforated plastic canvasses. Her conceptual practice of incorporating digital images of contemporary society in her works juxtaposes with her conventional and manual stitching techniques. Hamer emphasises signage and text in her works to capture moments often ignored in the everyday.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9943
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.833333 Longitude147.616667 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brett-ross
- Birth Place
- Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Brett Ross was born in Bairnsdale in 1975 and is a descendant of the Gunai/Kurnai and Mutthi Mutthi people in New South Wales.
Ross spent his early years in Wemba Wemba country at Deniliquin where his grandparents Laura Theresa Edwards and Neil Peter Ross (known as Rusty) raised him. Ross moved to Sydney at fourteen where he completed his schooling before deciding it was time to go home to Bairnsdale to be with his natural mother, Marilyn Stephens.
As he started learning about his culture, Ross began practicing art, eventually finding his preferred medium of drawing, though he also works with other media such as printmaking.
Brett began to draw to mend his identity and explore his Aboriginality. By 2000 he was awarded the Young Emerging Artist of the Year by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Working simply in ball point pen on paper to create intricate drawings, he held a sell out solo exhibition in 2001 featuring Moonahclullah memories, connections and stories. He studied units in the Diploma of Visual Arts and Graphic Design at the East Gippsland Institute of TAFE.
Ross’s drawings typically relate to his life and culture and show an artistic talent that incorporates respect for traditional themes based on solid research as well as the contemporary lives of Aboriginal people today. The East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation logo is a fine example of his work.
Writers:
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Drawer who was awarded the Young Emerging Artist of the Year by Aboriginal Affairs Victoria in 2000. Ross is associated with the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9944
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/duncan-robinson
- Birth Place
- Wynyard, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Video artist Duncan Adam Robinson is a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of northeast Tasmania. He was born in Wynyard, on Tasmania’s northwest coast in 1975, and lived there until he moved to Hobart in 1994. Robinson’s art practice began in 1991 when on a family visit to Port Arthur he began to explore photography in a manner that departed from conventional holiday pictures: suddenly he became less interested in what was being photographed, and more attentive to how the subject looked inside the frame. Furthermore, one photo he took had the appearance of an old-style still life, which led him to think further about the art of photography. Sergei Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkin, which was brought to Robinson’s attention in the artist’s last year of high school, was a significant early reference point for him as an artist. In correspondence with the author he stated of the film: 'I was fascinated by the cinematic style and editing and I took photographic stills of it straight off the television’ (Robinson, 2008). Specifically, Eisenstein’s editing style awoke Robinson to the way a particular editing approach can bring a distinctive character to a work. In 1994 Robinson began a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, which he completed with Honours in 1999. Initially his undergraduate focus was photography, but by his final year he had become bored with the practice and his interests shifted to video. He went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts in 2002 as a video artist under the mentorship of new media artist and Tasmanian School of Art lecturer Leigh Hobba. Robinson first exhibited his work in 1997 in the group exhibition 'Glass Eye’ at the Entrepot Gallery, Hobart. Group exhibitions in which he participated during his postgraduate years include 'Somewhere Between Then and Now’, at Hobart’s CAST Gallery, and 'Between Phenomena – The Panorama in Tasmania’ at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, both in 2001. Robinson describes his work as being characterised by an appreciation of the 'flaws, glitches, breaks, imperfections and interruptions’ that can be revealed and exacerbated in video, television and photography: 'rather than editing them out I allow them a life and a chance to be seen in another context’ (pers comm, 2008). For his first solo exhibition, ’22 (pieces from a mechanism that travels in a fixed course)’, at Entrepot Gallery, Hobart (2000), Robinson was interested in creating static renditions of the moving image of the video tape, and the show consisted of digital stills – appearing as black images specked with colour – captured from Robinson’s direct physical handling of the tape. Emidio Puglielli, writing in a 2005 Photofile article, describes the artist’s approach as: 'Like a DJ at his turntables Duncan Robinson pops the cover off his VCR to physically manipulate the tape and heads, which disrupts the analogue signal to create visual noise – coloured static on black ground. His work explores the electro-mechanical space of the equipment’ (pg. 37). In the 2002 solo exhibition ’22 (physicality of the analogue)’ at Hobart’s Fine Arts Gallery, Robinson showcased his completed Masters work; a suite of works that had been created from his performance piece of physically interacting with the video tape as it moved through the player. Multiple projectors and monitors displayed varied portrayals of coloured static spots and bars of static that Robinson had constructed during the performance. By attending to the aesthetic and aural possibilities of static, repetition, flawed signals, degraded videotape and the low-resolution imagery that can be created by cameras or mobile phones, Robinson has sought to explore people’s relationship to media and technology. This preoccupation is informed by his position as both an observer and creator of popular culture: he has written and performed music with several bands in Hobart since 1995, including hMAS, Elvis Christ and The Nurses, and since 2000 has created video and sound performances for musical events. In 2008 Robinson was also hosting a film review radio show on Hobart’s Edge Radio. The installation ’22 (the usage of the intrusive)’, which featured in the Salamanca Arts Centre exhibition 'Skin’ (2004), curated by Fiona Foley and Jenny Gorringe, exemplifies this concern with people’s relationship to media and technology. The work foregrounded static as the disruptive antithesis to perfect television transmission. Robinson writes in the 'Skin’ exhibition catalogue: 'Static is the television’s way of making our skin crawl’ (2004, pg. 22). Robinson also conceives of his video imagery as analogous to a landscape that situates him as an Indigenous Australian, a landscape to be explored and narrated. The Tracker, which was included in the exhibition 'The Bodies That Were Not Ours’, held at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in Melbourne (2006), is an introspective work inspired in part by the figure of the Aboriginal tracker in the 2001 film One Night The Moon, directed by Rachel Perkins. The artist tracked his own movements and experiences in various settings with a mobile phone camera as part of an open-ended journey of discovery. He then took this self-reflective imagery 'back to the analogue realm of the video player’ and overlaid it onto videotape that he had previously manipulated physically, which was 'then played over a hundred times to further degrade the image’ (Robinson, 2006). Robinson comes from a family of artists: his three sisters, Megan Robinson, Brooke Robinson and Rebecca Robinson, and his cousin Denise Robinson are all practising artists who work across a range of media. In late 2008 Robinson was living in Hobart and working as a motorcycle instructor and exam supervisor while continuing his art practice, musical endeavours and working on a film script.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- Tasmanian video artist whose work experiments with faulty and degraded video, television and photographic imagery to explore their dissonant aesthetic and aural potential, and addresses themes relating to popular culture and the artist's personal journey.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9945
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-42 Longitude173 Start Date1975-01-01 End Date1975-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jacinda-bayne
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1975
- Summary
- New Zealand born painter, resides in Western Australia
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9946
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/darren-moore
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Darren Moore is a percussionist and a composer. He was born in the UK in 1974 and moved to Perth in 1981. He has a Bachelor of Music from the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music. Between 1998 and 2001, Moore lived and worked professionally as a musician in London. He was a member of the improvising duo Hedkikr with Lindsay Vickery, which performed at the 'BioFeel’ exhibition, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth in 2002. At this time Moore also led the Perth-based avant guard jazz group ‘Open Source Project’.
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Percussionist and composer who participated in the BioFeel exhibition at the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9947
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-moore
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Tim Moore was born in the England in 1974. He grew up in a small village in Norfolk. He moved to Australia in 2001 and now lives and works in Sydney. Moore completed a Bachelor of Three Dimensional Design (Hons) at Brighton University, England in 1998. Moore’s relationship with embroidery began on the long flight from England to Australia. Having left his drawing materials at home by mistake, he found that the only available art materials were the in-flight sewing kit, which he used to embroider four sick-bags.Humour is an important aspect of Moore’s work, and he grew up with a mother who also had a strong sense of humour. Moore’s father was a painter. Comedy is oftenabout the transgression of social boundaries, and Moore’s works are characterised by cheeky, playful and revealing images.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- English born artist working in drawing and embroidery
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9948
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Latitude41.764582 Longitude-72.6908547 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-just
- Birth Place
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Biography
- Kate Just is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne who creates highly personal mixed media installations and sculptures around themes of feminism, womanhood, identity and personal narrative within the context of history and mythology.
She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1974 and moved to Melbourne permanently in 1996 where she has gained a number of degrees, namely a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (where she now lectures), a Masters of Arts from RMIT, and a doctorate in sculpture from Monash.
She has been widely exhibited in solo shows and group shows across Australia and internationally, and has been the recipient of many grants and prizes. She was included in the 'Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists’ exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012. Some of her most notable solo exhibits included her work Venus Was Her Name at the Kunsthalle in Krems, Austria, and a survey of her major knitted works entitled, 'Kate Just: The Knitted Work 2004-2011’, at Ararat Regional Gallery. She is currently represented by Daine Singer gallery in Melbourne.
Writers:
Elle S
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Kate Just is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne who creates highly personal mixed media installations and sculptures around themes of feminism, womanhood, identity and personal narrative within the context of history and mythology.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9949
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Details
Latitude24.8546842 Longitude67.0207055 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/abdullah-mi-syed
- Birth Place
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Syed’s artwork utilizes a variety of mediums and techniques to communicate complex political ideas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994a
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Latitude-4.3432175 Longitude152.2686741 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-howlett
- Birth Place
- Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
- Biography
- Howlett graduated with a MFA from the Californian Institute of the Arts in 2000. His works have been exhibited internationally including the XXI Triennial International Exhibition in Milan, GamerZ in Marseille, France, Inter-Society of Electronic Arts in Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm; Videoholica International Video Art Festival in Bulgaria; Los Angeles Freewaves Festival of Film, Video and New Media and exhibited work at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena, California. His solo and collaborative works have also been exhibited locally at the Gallery of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art, the QUT Art Museum, The Arc Biennial for Art & Design and interstate at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Hobart Art Gallery, Cairns Contemporary Art Space and Blindside Artist Run Space in Melbourne. His public art commissions include “KICK OFF” which was a curated screen-based program at the new Metricon Stadium Homeground of the Gold Coast Suns and Australia’s largest public art canvas the QUT billboard project. In 2012, he was part of the DJ Culture: Contemporary Australian Video Art, screening in the Cinémathèque at Gallery of Modern Art and in 2013 underwent a residency in Armenia at Tumo – center for creative technologies where he completed a series of Alternate Reality Games called ARGARMENIA. He currently completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) at Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Queensland.
https://www.chrishowlett.com.au/biography/ 21 February 2020
Writers:
haynesr
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Christopher Howlett is a visual artist based in Brisbane, Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-king
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter, Adrian King of the Lama Lama language group from Lockhart River, Cape York, Queensland was born in 1974. King is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and his brightly coloured paintings depict life on Wenlock Outstation. He was featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and has work in the permanent collection of Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Adrian King is a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang and his brightly coloured paintings depict life on Wenlock Outstation. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Cairns Regional Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994c
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-wolf
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Robert Wolf was born in 1974 and hails from Charleville in south west Queensland. He works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas as well as the traditional woodburning technique taught to him by his mother who is of the Pitjantjatjara people of South Australia. Wolf participated in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and his artist statement in the accompanying catalogue reads, “My stories come from my emotional heart and soul together with the spirits of the world as well as my dreams.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Robert Wolf works in the medium of synthetic polymer on canvas as well as the traditional woodburning technique taught to him by his mother who is of the Pitjantjatjara people of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994d
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Latitude-23.9427685 Longitude132.7794582 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994e
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Latitude-27.9687807 Longitude153.4066696 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adam-donovan
- Birth Place
- Southport, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Australian artist working in the area of science, art and technology. Donovan's work involves robotics, real time 3D environments, camera tracking, sound focusing technology, stereo cameras, sculpture and video.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb994f
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Latitude-28.86574 Longitude153.5659468 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joanne-lapic
- Birth Place
- Ballina, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- A Bundjalung woman, Joanne was born in Ballina in 1974. Although she has lived in Sydney, Lismore, Byron Bay and Melbourne, her roots are in Ballina. Joanne studied theatre and did dance theatre before moving back to Ballina where she worked voluntarily in an art gallery and began exploring visual art. Although Joanne did some life drawing workshops in Melbourne, she is self-taught. In 2007 Joanne entered the 'Bundjalung Art Award’ and her work was exhibited at the Grafton Regional Gallery. In 2006 she had a solo exhibition, 'Beautiful Creatures’, at the Blue Tongue Café in Lismore. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Melbourne, Ballina and Tweed Heads and has been sold to private collections in Australia.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Joanne Lapic is an Indigenous artist living in Ballina. There is a strong connection to country in her work, she is a Bundjalung woman.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9950
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-30.5144881 Longitude151.6656564 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeremy-mudjai-devitt
- Birth Place
- Armidale, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jeremy “Mudjai” Devitt was born in Armidale, NSW in 1974. He is a descendent of the Nganyaywana, Daingutti (Dhanggatti) and Gumbainga (Gumbaynggir) nations and has English, Irish and Scottish heritage.
At the age of 19 and halfway through his High School Certificate academic year Devitt contracted Ross River Fever. This illness changed the course of his artistic life as Devitt decided to take time out to learn more about his own culture and to pursue painting as a career. In 1997 Devitt traveled to Darwin, NT for the Fullbright Symposium on Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World. It was here he met “uncle” Peter Manabaru, a traditional man from the Barunga community of Arnhem Land, NT, who allowed Devitt to paint with him. In 1999 Devitt was then placed under the guidance of artist and elder “uncle” Joseph Beard-Wallace of Ramingining, also in Arnhem Land, NT. Together they painted for several years in a style that Devitt calls Spiritway and in 2002 they had a joint exhibition at the Byron Bay Youth Centre in Byron Bay, NSW. Devitt has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with shows at The Hague, Den Haag, The Netherlands in 2006; Roda Sten, Gothenburg, Sweden in 2004; Helsingborg, Sweden in 2004; Rouguld Festival, Amsterdam, Holland in 2004 and at The Outback Gallery in Sydney also in 2004. In 2007 Devitt was a finalist in the Festival of Fishers Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Arts Centre and the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House, Sydney. He was commissioned by the Sydney South West Area Health Service to produce the painting he refers to as his Medicine Painting that now hangs in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, NSW.Devitt is not only a painter but is known as a didgeridoo player and dancer and in 1998 together with Sean Ryan and Roy Newman he founded a dance troupe known as the Wadjarnaru Dancers.At the time of writing Devitt was a student of art at the Eora College in Darlington, an inner city suburb of Sydney.
Writers:
Devitt, JeremyNote: Edited by Penny Stannard with Tess Allas
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Jeremy "Mudjai" Devitt is a painter and dancer who in 1999 was guided in painting techniques by the Ramingining elder, "Uncle" Joseph Beard-Wallace" In 2007 Devitt was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9951
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-32.5980702 Longitude149.5886383 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guy-maestri
- Birth Place
- Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Guy Maestri was born in Mudgee, New South Wales, in 1974. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in painting at the National Art School (NAS), Sydney, in 2002 and in the same year was Highly Commended in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition. He received the commendation again in 2003, a year that also saw him win the NAS Paris Studio Award residency and the William Fletcher Fellowshi
As a landscape painter, Maestri is gestural, abstract and experimental. Although upon occasion he makes sculptures, such as the resin cane toads which feature in his work Unnatural Selection (2008), he finds painting a more satisfying medium as it is more immediate than the time consuming process of moulding and casting sculpture. Maestri regards his portrayal of the natural world as more instinctive than deliberate. Having grown up in the Australian countryside, he enjoys capturing observations of wildlife, noting at the same time humanity’s impact on the natural environment. Painting from his studio in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, Maestri works from his memories and experiences of regional Australia.
His Field Studies (2008) series explores the gradual elimination of certain features from the natural world. Not only does Maestri often paint endangered species but, within the one work, he can repeat a species form over and over until the “confident tracing of a shape appears lost through repetition” (Chow 2008). In Gang Gang (2007), he chooses not to depict a bird literally, but to capture a sense of the creature by allowing the image to emerge and disappear through layering.
Maestri’s 'Natural Selection’ exhibition of 2008 was a series of paintings that resulted from his visit to a friend’s farm in Victoria. Affected by the degraded and dry land, he painted abstract landscapes and made use of found objects he brought back to his studio. The Darwinian title to the exhibition is intrinsically linked to related ideas in Maestri’s work: he is interested in the way native and introduced species interact, the theory of natural selection, extinction, ecosystems, erosion, sedimentation, forgetfulness and memory.Once a year Maestri steers himself away from the natural environment to paint a portrait for the Archibald Prize. Having being rejected eight times, then winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2001 Salon des Refuses, in 2009 Maestri won the Archibald Prize. His winning entry was a portrait of blind Indigenous singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, which Maestri painted after being moved by Yunupingu’s performance at the Peats Ridge Festival in 2008. Maestri took the opportunity to meet Yunupingu at the airport, where he drew sketches and took a photograph. From this experience Maestri “got a sense of his presence and this determined the nature of the portrait: quiet and strong” (Art Gallery of New South Wales 2009).For Maestri the Archibald Prize, “kick started a whole new way of approaching painting,” (Maestri in Droll 2009). His focus shifted from local environment to global, from abstract to figurative, and from a colourful to a monochromatic palette. Referencing images taken from the web, his 2009 show at Tim Olsen Gallery, 'Google Earth’, included observations of humanity’s struggles with mortality and interrelated concerns about the effects of global warming on nature. Maestri has had numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and has also exhibited internationally in the United Kingdom and the United States and Hong Kong. He was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.
Writers:
Grisedale, AlexandraDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Sydney-based painter Guy Maestri won the 2009 Archibald prize for his portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9952
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brendan-penzer
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Brendan Penzer is an artist who explores environmental issues and processes of social change on his artworks.
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Writers:
dain
fishel
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9953
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/darren-sylvester
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Darren Sylvester, photographer, video artist, painter, sculptor and musician, was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1974. He went to school in Byron Bay, moving to Wagga Wagga in his final years of high school, and later studied at the Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, where he graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography, Graphic Design.
Three years after his graduation, Sylvester was selected for the annual ‘Primavera’ exhibition, which showcased the work of emerging artists and was held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This exhibition prompted national recognition of Sylvester’s work following prior solo shows in Wagga Wagga and Melbourne. By the middle of 2012, Sylvester had been represented in 84 group exhibitions and 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, primarily in Sydney and Melbourne, and overseas in countries such as China, Singapore, the United States of America, Thailand and New Zealand.
One area within Sylvester’s multi-disciplinary art practice is his creation of highly composed, staged photographs of everyday scenes in crisp, glossy clarity, frequently including visual references to global brands as a reflection of reality, rather than a critique of consumerism. His photographic work often draws upon lines of text from his short stories, with a statement becoming a title for a photograph and triggering thoughts for the corresponding scene.
A noted piece in Sylester’s oeuvre is the full-scale replica he built of the Japanese garden originally enjoyed by the 1970s sibling pop duo ‘The Carpenters’ at their home in Los Angeles. The reconstruction was destroyed after filming the artificial garden for a video installation titled I Was the Last in the Carpenter’s Garden, where the film is projected onto screens, accompanied by a turntable playing Sylvester’s own album of songs. Indeed, Sylvester also works as a musician and in 2009 he released a self-titled debut album with the music label Unstable Ape/Remote Control Records.
Previously, in 2006, the ‘Australian Art Collector’ magazine listed Sylvester as one of the 50 Most Collectable Artists, demonstrating the significant national recognition he had already acquired at this early point in his career. Also contributing to his prominent artistic reputation are the numerous grants and awards he has received, such as the New Work Grant from the Australian Council for the Arts in 2010, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (Adobe Honourable Mention), Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne in that same year, and the 2011 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast. Adding to his list of accomplishments, Sylvester graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Monash University, Melbourne, in 2010.
His work is represented in several public collections throughout Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, as well as in Australian and foreign private collections, including the collection of the renowned British singer Sir Elton John.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Sylvester's multi-disciplinary artistic practice encompasses photography, video, sculpture, text and painting. His choreographed photographic images are rendered with intense, glossy clarity. Themes in his work include relationships, emotions, urban alienation and the passing of time..
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9954
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kylie-banyard
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Kylie Baryard's multidisciplinary work is grounded in painting, but intersects with photography, video, sculpture and architectural spaces.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9955
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mandy-ord
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and comic-book artist, was born in Sydney on 21 May 1974. In 1992-96 she was a Bachelor of Visual Arts student at the ANU Canberra School of Art majoring in painting. Her first cartoons appeared in 1994 in the self-published comic Wilnot and in Smell My Finger , a comedy newspaper produced at the Australian National University [ANU]. In 1994 she co-edited and published Fruity Murmurs , a collection of comics by Canberra women, with Kirrily Schell . Between 1994 and 1997 her cartoons appeared in a wide range of alternative comix, including Black Light Angels (Sydney), Manky (Canberra), Cruel World (Sydney), DIY Feminism (Sydney, ed. Kathy Bail), Tango 1 & 2 (Melbourne comic anthologies on the theme of romance), Nice (Melbourne), Sticky Date (Canberra), Sick Puppy (Sydney), Ink (Canberra), Bump & Snore (Canberra), Gar Gah Gag (Sydney), Woroni (ANU student newspaper), Cumquat (Melbourne), Wilnot 2-6 (her self-published comic), Fruity Mumurs 2 (Canberra; published by women ANU students) and Voiceworks (Melbourne magazine).
In 1998 Ord had cartoons in May and August HQ , published Wilnot 7 , exhibited her original drawings for comics in the 14th International Exhibition of Drawings in Croatia (on the theme of comics), produced Pantry , an anthology of about 40 Australian comic artists, and contributed 'separate wavelengths’ to the website One.
Her work was on the digitarts site (no longer in operation) along with other 'Ladies of the black ink’ – Amber Carvan , Nicola Hardy , Fiona Katauskas , Indira Neville (NZ) and Schell – and the sick puppy comix site (also no longer in operation). Early in 1999 she was included in a cartoon exhibition at Spiral Arm, Canberra, along with Horacek & other Canberra cartoonists (mostly non-mainstream men). Later that year she moved to Melbourne, where she works as a customer service officer for Device Technologies Australia. Her cartoons appeared in the Melbourne underground comix Pure Evil and Milkbar (which also features articles and reviews) and she self-published a comic, The Side of the Road . From October 1999 she occasionally had typically abrasive cartoons published in Orbit , the internet supplement in the Weekend Australian . They usually involved gruesome puns and word play, e.g., 'Not only was her smile contagious, it was incredibly itchy as well’, showing an unstable-looking girl grinning at a boy scratching at replicas of her smile dotted pimple-like over his face. In October 2000, however, Amber Cavan and Richard Vogt’s website stated:
“ Mandy Ord 's cartoons have mysteriously disappeared from ORBIT in The Weekend Australian much to the chagrin of myself and other fans. Some other person is doing the cartoon spot now and they really are quite bad! Come back Mandy! When in Melbourne Richard picked up a couple of copies of her latest mini comic, SIDE OF THE ROAD.”
In correspondence with Kerr in 1999 (Joan Kerr Archives, National Library of Australia) Ord wrote that she planned to have work in Top Shelf (USA), publish Wilnot 8 and produce an 'SPX’ catalogue for the small press expo in 2000. Regarding her work, she said:
“I draw comics to tell a story, and for me the best way to tell a story is through words and images combined. Out of this combination, in terms of visual and textual references is born an accessible unrestricted medium that seems to have almost no boundaries in regards to subject matter.
“Also, the nature of comics means that it isn’t too difficult to reproduce my own work via a photocopier. Using this method of reproduction means that I can distribute comics widely, through the mail and via any small press friendly retail outlets. This puts me in contact with other comic artists, out of which is born collaboration and anthologies which are a good way of exposing the work of the local comic talent.
“Comics excite me visually and I love [the fact] that humour, tragedy, real life and fantasy have endless combinations and ways of being explored.”
Participated in Silent Army , Express Media, Fitzroy Vic, 2002 (“20 of Australias young comic book veterans together for the first time”: Bicycle, Blanden, Brown, Carvan, Conn, Cure, Danko, Dodds, Fikaris, Greenberg, Mackay, Mangan, Mrongovius, O’Donnell, Ord , Pox, Savieri, Schell, Smith, Taylor ).
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Prolific contemporary Canberra and Melbourne zine cartoonist and comic-book artist. In the late 1990s Ord contributed occasional cartoons to Orbit, the internet supplement in the Weekend Australian.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9956
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wade-marynowsky-1
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Wade Marynowsky works across a number of new media forms including video, music, installation and interactive media. His work mocks the stereotypes of Australian visual culture while constructing a critique of the way new media has engaged – or failed to engage – with an audience. Performance video pieces such as The_Geek_From_Swampy_Creek [2007] has gentle fun with the clichés of new media, mocking the nerdish stereotype of the boffin-artist, while Uranium Country [2005] revels in ridiculous meetings of nature and technology – a glowing koala head with swirling red mandala eyes floating over a rapidly moving background. Although broad in their delivery, Marynowsky’s live video mix performances have at their centre a sophisticated notion of transmutation as a defining characteristic of the relationship between sound and image, a continual and subtle evolution of one state to another.Working in what the artist describes as “serious mode (no costumes)” pieces such as Apocalypse Later [2004] reveal the complexity of Marynowsky’s project. Using a vast array of material recorded around the country – including images of nature from national parks and historical re-enactments from theme parks – Apocalypse Later was produced using a custom-designed computer program to create a live mix of sound and image. The result evoked the visual clichés of Australian nationhood while leaving the distinct impression that the construction of its national identity grew from distinctly unnatural forms. Marynowsky’s Autonomous Improvisation VI [2007] explored the notion of the uncanny through the presentation of an automaton – in this case a computer-controlled Pianola – and a three-screen video installation of musical performances by musicians and burlesque artists. Like his live video mixes, Autonomous Improvisation VI offered an intriguing take on the notion of improvisation, asking if the mere coincidence of data equated to a real or “unreal” experience.
Writers:
Andrew Frost
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
moderator approved
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Media artist working across robotics, immersive and interactive installation, performance, music and video. His work straddles both 'artificial-life' and 'live art'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9957
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Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jida-murray-gulpilil
- Birth Place
- Paddington, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jida Murray-Gulpilil was born in Paddington in 1974. He is a Wemba Wemba/Dja Dja Wurrung/Mandalpingu man who works in the mediums of painting, carving and etching onto bark. He was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards and the accompanying catalogue states that he learnt his artistic practice through a “variety of sources, especially by traditional learning practices through family relationships” (p. 38). The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition marked his entrée into exhibiting.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Jida Murray-Gulpilil was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with his etched bark, 'Yepenyun Bora - Dancing Ceremonial Ground'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9958
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Details
Latitude-34.188889 Longitude142.158333 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/belinda-von-mengersen
- Birth Place
- Mildura, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Dr. Belinda von Mengersen is an artist and curator born in Mildura in 1974. She combines her own art practice with curating textile-focused exhibitions and lecturing in textiles at The National School of Arts, The AustralianCatholic University, and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Belinda completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts, at University of Wollongong, with a double major in Visual Arts (Textiles) and Theatre Design. She holds a PhD in contemporary embroidery and its’ relationship to drawing, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art Textiles from Goldsmiths College in London.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Textile and embroidery artist and curator
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9959
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/reko-rennie-gwaybilla
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Working across a broad array of media, including spray paint, prints, sculpture, paste-ups, textile foils and installations, Reko Rennie-Gwaybilla straddles the spheres of both street and fine art as well as private and public spaces, forging a new road for contemporary Aboriginal art informed by both his heritage as a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay/Gummaroi man, and his urban upbringing.
Born in Melbourne in 1974, Rennie-Gwaybilla grew up in the working-class, inner-city suburb of Footscray. Although never formally trained, Rennie-Gwaybilla was surrounded by art growing up as his father is the well-known Aboriginal artist Biggibilla Gummaroi. Inspired by the discovery of the genre-defining book, Subway Art in the local library as a teenager, which showed the possibilities of public expression through graffiti for disaffected youth, he also undertook an important internship on the streets. As a result, graffiti became a life-long passion and important grounding for his future work. Whilst he ended his days as a self-proclaimed ‘young punk,’ in his 20s, his concern for notions of dislocation felt by Aboriginal people in urban environments never left him, as expressed by Rennie-Gwaybilla himself: “I grew up in the city, and I’ve got that connection. I’m an urban Aboriginal dude, I’m comfortable with my identity, and that’s what I try to portray in my work.”
Following the advice of his father to “get a career behind you before you start doing art”, Rennie-Gwaybilla entered the workforce as a print journalist for The Age newspaper, which exposed him to a range of socio-political and economic issues affecting Aboriginal people. Frustrated by the limitations of this medium as a platform from which to convey his views on such problems, Rennie-Gwaybilla turned his attention back to his passion, pulling ‘all-nighters’ to make art whilst also working his day job. His great dedication to his art during this period was reflected by the prolific number of group exhibitions in which he participated: around thirteen in the space of a year alone.
Rennie-Gwaybilla’s artistic development also mirrored his discipline and commitment, and he quickly honed his skills to achieve a highly articulate, intelligent and innovative practice, mixing traditional imagery with contemporary styles, including Op Art, Pop Art and graphic design principles. Granted permission to use the scar tree diamond design of the Kamilaroi people through his familial connections, he sampled this symbology in bright, pop colours, often featuring neon pink. Combining these patterns with intricate stencils of traditional Aboriginal iconography, Australian fauna and flora as well as secular icons, Rennie-Gwaybilla established a personal style that manifested his own sense of Aboriginality in an urban world: a recontextualisation of heritage within contemporary culture.
Informed by both his experience as a journalist and by his family’s struggles, which included his great uncle’s defiance of a racist curfew in Walgett and the Stolen Generation’s ensnarement of his own grandmother only a few decades ago, Rennie-Gwaybilla set out to address contemporary issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. With the aim of courting rather than confronting viewers, Rennie-Gwaybilla’s work conveys a political subtext that addresses colonial legacies, deaths in custody, land rights and identity politics, by drawing people in through aesthetically appealing colours complementing his geometric patterns.
A pivotal point in launching Rennie-Gwaybilla’s art career came in 2008 when he won the prestigious Victorian Indigenous Art Award. That same year, he continued to build his profile, participating in a number of notable group exhibitions both internationally and in Australia, including ‘Anonymous Drawings # 9’, Berlin; ‘Gulpa Ngarwul’, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne; ‘Small Works 2008’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne; and the ‘Linden Postcard Show,’ LINDEN Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda.
Further awards and residencies were soon to follow; Rennie-Gwaybilla was granted a coveted Australia Council funded residency at the Cite International des Arts in Paris, listed as a finalist in the Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award, and awarded an arts grant by the City of Port Philip in 2009. He left his mark on Paris, and in 2010 was the first Australian artist to receive an invitation to produce a site-specific mural in Paris by the Le M.U.R. association, regarded as one of the highest honours in the street art community.
Holding his first solo shows in 2009 at Dianne Tanzer gallery and the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne, Rennie-Gwaybilla went on to regularly exhibit at Dianne Tanzer and in private and public galleries nationally, including at Tandanya Artspace in South Australia in 2011 and at Black Magic at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His commercial and critical success culminated in the invitation to exhibit at the SCOPE Art Fair in New York in 2012.
Rennie-Gwaybilla’s appreciation of issues surrounding the world’s first peoples extended to undertaking certain international collaborations, including a project at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in Santa Fe in 2010 with his friend and fellow Native American Indian artist, Frank Buffalo Hyde, and an installation with Indonesian artist Buyangan Urban at Gallery Salihara in Jakarta in 2011.
Rennie-Gwaybilla has continued to exhibit in numerous group shows, including, most significantly, ‘WATTLE’ in the Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong in 2011, the Australian Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and in 2013 in ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia’ at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. In 2012 Rennie-Gwaybilla was shortlisted for his portrait of Hetti Perkins in arguably the most important Australian group show, the Archibald Prize.
From humble beginnings as a clandestine street artist, Rennie-Gwaybilla has come to be regarded as a valuable public artist, having been the recipient of several prominent commissions including the 3CR Mural Project in 2010, funded by Arts Victoria and the Victorian Government, and the ‘Always was, Always will be’ building facade in Taylor Square as part of the City of Sydney’s Streetware program for 2012. Due to its highly favourable reception, this facade has become a long-term addition to the streetscape.
Rennie-Gwaybilla’s work is held in many significant private and public collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne, ArtBank, City of Yarra and the New Contemporary Art Museum, soon to be completed in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. His paste-ups also grace public walls all over the world from Paris to Jakarta, New York to Mumbai and Berlin where you may find his striking Big Red, the infamous, anthropomorphic, proud pink roo: a symbol of resistance and testament to the survival of Aboriginal culture and its people. It stares down romanticized stereotypes in an urban landscape, marking territory.
Emerging from the graffiti subculture to become an internationally renowned Aboriginal artist with many awards and residencies to his name, an important outcome for Rennie-Gwaybilla in his success is his ability to give back to his community, committing to various workshops with aboriginal youths and talking with them about issues of identity in an urban context. In 2012 Rennie-Gwaybilla conducted a series of street art workshops with Aboriginal youths to reinvigorate an iconic terrace at ‘the Block’ in Redfern. Collaborating with several young artists on a mural that looked at the past, the present and the future of the area, Rennie-Gwaybilla not only provided participants with the ‘tricks of the trade,’ to realise their artistic intentions, he also demonstrated the importance of belief in yourself, goals and the role of art as a ‘way out’ and powerful tool for reinterpreting and expressing aboriginality.
Rennie-Gwaybilla’s art, which has followed a trajectory characterized by discipline, experimentation and innovation, has produced a highly intelligent language that successfully reinterprets aboriginal identity within a urban world. The ubiquity of Rennie-Gwaybilla’s message of remembrance, respect and revision for a living culture has continued to develop with his commitment to community programs and allegiance to a joyful style that shines a bright light on serious issues; they glow neon in contemporary consciousness.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
shevy_40
duggim
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Kamilaroi stencil artist based in Melbourne who won the Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award of the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb995a
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Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sarah-jane-pell
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- As an artist and commercial diver, Dr. Sarah Jane Pell consults, produces and performs underwater media and designs interdisciplinary sci-art laboratories as new forms of live art and civilian space analogues. She is the first artist to qualify as an Astronaut Candidate.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb995b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.833333 Longitude147.616667 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cindy-dean
- Birth Place
- Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Cindy is still researching her family history but believes she has links to the Walmadjari people of Western Australia. Cindy was born in Bairnsdale in 1974, the daughter of George Dean and Heather Morgan and currently resides in the Sale area.
Cindy says that she has recently become aware that she was born into a creative family and considers herself a “late-bloomer”. Her father, whom she describes as a “deadly painter”, inspires Cindy. Becoming more culturally aware is a goal for Cindy who was never denied her heritage and learnt about her culture from family members.
An exciting developing artist in her first few years of practice, Cindy’s varied style shows an innate emerging talent. Initially supported through the Aboriginal arts group Mix Up, which started in Sale during 2007, Cindy has since begun studying art at TAFE. With an expressed appreciation for traditional and contemporary Koori art, Cindy enjoys using bright colours and learning about different mediums and techniques and hungers for art and cultural experience.
Cindy wants to be a professional artist capable in a variety of mediums and says: “I want my children to look up to me and have the same determination as I have whatever path they choose”.
Writers:
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation, VIC
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Acrylic on canvas painter who is associated with the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb995c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-38.1050358 Longitude147.0647902 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-bonar
- Birth Place
- Sale, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Deborah Bonar is from the Yamatji and Gidja peoples of Western Australia. She was born in Sale, Victoria, in 1974 as her father who was in the Royal Australian Air Force was based there at the time. Due to her father’s occupation the Mills family (Mills being Bonar’s maiden name) was stationed at various Air Force bases including Perth, Townsville and in Penang and Butterworth in Malaysia. The family returned to Perth permanently in 1986.Bonar had enjoyed drawing and painting as a child, which lead her to study graphic design as a young woman. She is a qualified graphic designer who studied for a Certificate of Art and Design in 1992 at the Central Metropolitan College of TAFE and an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design in 1993 at Midlands Regional College of TAFE. In 1997 she returned to Central Metropolitan to study for a Diploma of Arts in Graphic Design.Bonar has worked within the printing and graphic design industry since 1998. She established her own graphic design business, Scribblebark Design, in 2003. She has been commissioned by the Western Australian Department of Health to design the image Duality for their educational promotion of Aboriginal Sexual Health in Western Australia as well as designing culturally appropriate Aboriginal images for BreastScreen WA and the Department of Justice. She has also produced a range of greeting cards.Her fine-art works of digital prints and intensely coloured synthetic polymer on canvas are inspired by wildflowers, animals, plants, native seeds and nuts. These themes help connect her to the land and ocean of her people in the Mid West and East Kimberley regions of Western Australia. In 2006 she staged her first solo show, 'The Magic of Nature’ at the Blend(er) Art Gallery in Joondalup where she displayed her paintings, digital prints and ink drawings. Also in 2006 her digital print Lily’s Country was accepted as a finalist in the 23rd Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin.In 2009 Bonar enrolled in a Certificate III in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Institute in Fremantle, presented by teacher, Joanna Robertson, and various well-known Western Australian artists.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Bonar Aboriginal heritage is Gidja and Yamatji. She is a graphic designer and artist who produces vibrant artworks with acrylics, inks and ochres which are inspired by native plants and animals, and landscapes of the Kimberley and Midwest of Western Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb995d
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Latitude-41.441944 Longitude147.145 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb995e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-42 Longitude173 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-young
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Christopher Young was born in New Zealand in the mid-seventies. After finishing his studies he moved to Germany in 1996 before settling in Perth, Western Australia in 2002. He then moved to Margaret River in 2017. Isolation is a recurring theme in his life and work – the remoteness of growing up in semi-rural New Zealand, the loneliness of living in Germany as a poor German speaker and since 2002 the geographic and ideological seclusion of life in Australia, have all coloured his artistic practice. Context, broader concepts surrounding the use of captions and a lack of a personal cultural library have been central themes explored in his work.
Writers:
zebrafactory
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- New Zealand born photographer, lives and regularly exhibits in Western Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb995f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-42.880556 Longitude147.325 Start Date1974-01-01 End Date1974-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-silver
- Birth Place
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1974
- Summary
- Multidisciplinary artist. Silver explores the interface between time and decay, particularly in relation to the human body.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9960
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude57 Longitude-4 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stuart-fleming
- Birth Place
- Scotland, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9961
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude34.2963089 Longitude135.8816819 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9962
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude12.7503486 Longitude122.7312101 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ronald-ventura
- Birth Place
- Philippines
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Ronald Ventura was selected by Philippine-Australian artist Maria Cruz and Jo Holder, director of The Cross Art Projects, to be the recipient of the Ateneo Art Gallery's and the Philippine's first Visual Art Studio Residency Program in Sydney. .
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9963
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Latitude-10.188419 Longitude142.2623759 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-bosun
- Birth Place
- Moa Island, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- David Bosun, of the Wug tribe of Moa Island in the Torres Strait, was born in 1973 and is a member of the Mualgau Minneral Art Centre on Moa Island. It is here that he creates his limited edition linocuts, screenprints and etchings. His linocuts featured in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- A printmaker of the Wug tribe of Moa Island in the Torres Strait, David Bosun was born in 1973 and is a member of the Mualgau Minneral Art Centre on Moa Island.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9964
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Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dennis-nona
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1973 on Badu (Mulgrave) Island in the western Torres Straits, Dennis Nona is a carver, sculptor, etcher and linocut printmaker. He was awarded the 4th International Angel Orensanz Foundation Art Award in New York and the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, NT, for his sculptural piece Ubirikubiri, which depicted a large bronzed crocodile carrying a man upon its back. Nona participated in the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander triennale, Culture Warriors (2007) at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Torres Strait Islander, Dennis Nona is an award winning carver, sculptor and print based artist who won the 2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9965
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jennifer-wurrkidj
- Birth Place
- Maningrida, Arnhem land, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Kuninjku artist, Jennifer Wurrkidj, was born in 1973 at Maningrida in north-central Arnhem Land. Since 1991, Jennifer has worked alongside her mother Helen Lanyinwanga and sister Deborah Wurrkidj at Bábbarra Women’s Centre, located at Maningrida in Central Arnhem Land (https://babbarra.com/).
Jennifer’s work at Bábbarra focuses primarily on the textile printing process. As well as designing her own textiles, she is highly experienced with both lino and screen printing, and prints regularly. Jennifer is also well known for her bark paintings, hollow logs and carved sculptures, where her works have exhibited throughout Australia and are held in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection. Jennifer is also experienced in customer service and as an arts worker.
Jennifer also took part in the ANKAAA Arts Worker Extension Program in 2016 (http://ankaaa.org.au/), where she aimed to develop her skills and knowledge. She stated, “I want to continue to develop my art skills and promote it all over Australia. I want to learn art, computers and dealing with different cultures.” Jennifer has also featured as one of the senior artists, mentoring the junior artists, in a group exhibition, Báb-barra: Women’s Printing Culture at The Cross Art Projects (2017) [http://www.crossart.com.au/current-show].
Reference List:
Bábbarra Women’s Centre. “Jennifer Wurrkidj.” Bábbarra Women’s Centre. Last Modified 2017. https://babbarra.com/artist/jennifer-wurrkidj/.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. “Jennifer Wurrkidj.” Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. Last modified 2017. http://www.darwinaboriginalartfair.com.au/the-art-centres-4/babbarra.
Davidson, Christina. “Jennifer Wurrkidj.” In ANKAAA Arts Worker Extension Program 2016. Northern Territory: Tim Fairfax Association, 2016.
Nomad Art. “Jennifer Wurrkidj.” Nomad Art. Last modified 2017.http://www.nomadart.com.au/?textile=kukurlk-kare-going-underground.
Writers:
emma_sheehan
Date written:
2017
Last updated:
2017
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9966
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-geia
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- printmaker, identifies with the Bwgcolman group, Palm Island, and has family links with Moa Island and with the Kalkadoon people of western Queensland. He grew up on Palm Island, a former reserve that is home to many Aboriginal and Islander people removed from their traditional lands. His linocuts of Aboriginal station life incorporate a symbolic form of light: “The sun gives light during the day and the moon gives light at night. If anyone sees that light symbol they know I did it. The figures represent me. I am a Torres Strait Islander and Aborigine. I want to show that.”
Geia has exhibited in Brisbane and Cairns as well as in Shadows in the dust , a national travelling exhibition that included his linocuts, Rodeo , Working Together , Holding the Key [double figure with explanation], Walk Out [re b/w conflict], One Man [re unity] and Shake the Trees [with story], all 1995.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Printmaker. His linocuts of Aboriginal station life incorporate a symbolic light element which represent his Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal heritage.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9967
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/watson-corby-tjungurrayi
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Watson Corby Tjungurrayi is the son of David Corby Tjapaltjarri and grandson of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, both founding members of Papunya Tula Artists. His mother Maggie Nakamarra is the second child of Johnny’s first marriage. Watson grew up in Papunya and attended Papunya School. He later worked as a truck driver, grader driver and welder. Watson married Roslyn Dixon Nangala, daughter of Topsy Napaltjarri and Mick Wallankarri Tjakamarra. They have five sons: Lemyn, Kamyn, Amyn, Kasmyn and Caleb and live in Papunya.
Watson’s father died when he was only a child. He learned to paint by watching his grandfather and his father’s older brother Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjarri. He said he first painted in 1991. His usual subjects are the Tjunti wallaby story that often featured in his uncle’s work and Budgerigar Dreaming and from his grandfather Kalipinypa Water Dreaming.
Writers:
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Watson Corby Tjungurrayi, who paints for Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya, is the son of founding Papunya Tula painter David Corby Tjapaltjarri and grandson of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9968
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-26.6544338 Longitude153.0933668 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bianca-beetson
- Birth Place
- Sunshine Coast, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Bianca Beetson of the Kabi Kabi people of the Sunshine Coast was born in 1973. Her work is instantly recognizable as she always uses the colour pink. She is a former member of the Campfire and ProppaNOW artists groups, both based in Brisbane. She has shown her work in a number of exhibitions including the '2nd Asia Pacific Triennal’ at the Queensland Art Gallery in 1996/1997, 'Black Humour’ at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in 1997 as well as the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” in Brisbane. In the 'Gatherings’ accompanying catalogue she states that she likes “to use humour in my work … the ability to laugh at ourselves and to laugh at the times we find ourselves in, an overall sense of the ridiculous and the absurd … I see it as a necessary tool for survival and self determination … a spoonful of sugar helps the metaphor go down.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
pinkstinks
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- A member of the Brisbane-based Indigenous artist collectives the Campfire Group and ProppaNOW, Beetson's mixed media works, which are always pink, employ humour as a central device in their message of survival and self-determination.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9969
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-riley
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Riley established her film design career with The Matrix (filmed in Sydney) and other Australian film productions and the art direction for the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony. She moved to Los Angeles in 2008, later taking up Production Design for "Game of Thrones" for the 4th season in 2013 from a base in Belfast, Ireland.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/paul-wrigley
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Queensland-born, Sydney based painter
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.3275 Longitude153.395833 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/chris-wahl
- Birth Place
- Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- comic book artist, born Murwillumbah. A self taught artist, he began his comic book career with the sci-fi/ fantasy Oblagon (1992). When this ceased publication he recruited some mates and started the publishing house X-press Comics, which published Platinum (1993). It ceased publication after three issues, despite Wahl being awarded a Stanley for 'Best Adventure Strip’ in 1994, aged 21. Platinum also won 2 OzCon (Australian Comic Book Convention) Awards: one for favourite Australian cover (for Platinum #2 ) and another for Wahl as Favourite Australian artist.
Wahl continued to produce covers, pin-ups (one page mini-posters) and short stories for various comic publications. The cover of Bug & Stump (#4, 1995) won the 1995 OZCON Favourite Comic Cover Award. In the early 2000s he was working for Disney Studios, Sydney.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Contemporary comic book artist, Chris Wahl began his career with the sci-fi/fantasy comic 'Oblagon' in 1992. Despite only publishing three issues of 'Platinum' in 1993 Wahl won two OzCon Awards for his work including Favourite Australian Artist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.5483333 Longitude153.5011111 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lelarnie-osullivan
- Birth Place
- Mullumbimby
- Biography
- Lelarnie is a Bundjalung woman, born at Mullumbimby in 1973. She grew up at Yelgun on a farm with some of her aunts, uncles and cousins living close by. She later moved to Ocean Shores with her two children.
In 2006 Lelarnie joined an Adult Community Education (ACE) basket weaving course for Indigenous women at Brunswick Heads. The group meets weekly and has been invited to exhibit at Robina Town Centre and at a number of festivals. In 2008 they found a quiet spot at Splendour in the Grass Music Festival where they sat and wove. Lelarnie has been invited to tutor a group of non-Indigenous women planning to do an ACE course.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Lelarnie O'Sullivan is a Bundjalung woman born in mullumbimby, NSW. She uses organic material found in the garden and bush to weave baskets.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.8631616 Longitude153.048155 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/noel-kenneth-caldwell
- Birth Place
- Casino, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Noel Kenneth Caldwell, known as Charlie, was born in Casino in 1973 and is a member of the Bundjalung nation. His mother is Githibal and his father’s family is from around Tabulam. In 2002 Charlie began working at Jambama Art Centre, a Community Development Employment Project in Casino. Caldwell completed a Certificate in Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Practices at Casino TAFE. In 2008, he exhibited with his sister in 'Sista Brother, Tania Walker and Noel Caldwell’ at Platypus Gallery, Casino. His work has appeared in group exhibitions 'Branching Out’, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, 2008; 'Australia Day Indigenous Art Exhibition’, CMA Village, Casino, 2008; 'Gumbo Dreaming’, Roxy Gallery, Kyogle, 2007; National Parks and Wildlife Service Art Award, Grafton Regional Gallery; and the Tea Tree Art Prize in Coraki. Charlie has painted murals around Casino and his painting Dancing was raffled to raise funds for a Goorie Awards Night at Casino High School.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Noel (Charlie) Caldwell is an Indigenous painter from the Bundjalung nation who paints acrylic on canvas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.1999142 Longitude136.8253532 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yhonnie-scarce
- Birth Place
- Woomera, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Yhonnie Scarce, a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people, was born in Woomera, South Australia, in 1973. After leaving school, Scarce worked as a clerical support officer at the Research Branch of the University of Adelaide, then as a trainee in the visual arts department at Tandanya National Cultural Institute for a year before taking up a three year position as a receptionist for Wilto Yerlo – the Centre for Australian Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Adelaide – but she found office work unsatisfying. During this time she considered enrolling at university as she had maintained an interest in being creative since school. She investigated what courses were available at the University of South Australia, discovering that glassblowing was offered as a major subject. Excited by the idea of learning how to work with this medium she enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2001, majoring in Glass (painting was her minor subject). Scarce completed her undergraduate studies in 2003 as the first Aboriginal student to graduate from that institution with a major in Glass. She then immediately took up an Honours degree in Visual Arts at the same university, completing this in 2004. In 2005 Scarce participated in a masterclass at North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, Scotland, and in 2007 she was a recipient of the 'Women in Research Fellowship’ from Monash University, where in 2008 she enrolled in a Masters of Fine Arts.Scarce began exhibiting in 2004 with her first solo exhibition, a self-titled show at the BANK Gallery, University of South Australia, and also in her graduate exhibition that same year. She continued to exhibit her glass works throughout Adelaide in various galleries including Nexus Multicultural Artspace, Tandanya (with her second solo show, 'Forget me 'NOT’', in 2006), Adelaide Festival Centre, Samstag Art Museum and the Drill Hall. She has also exhibited her work at Harrison Galleries in Sydney, and at Manningham Gallery and Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The Linden Centre’s exhibition of 2008, 'The Haunted and the Bad’, was curated by Julie Gough and also featured Joel Birnie, Nici Cumpston, Tony Albert and Andrea Fisher. Her hand-blown glass objects often reference the on-going effects of colonisation on Aboriginal people and comment on the social and political mores of historical and contemporary Australia in regards to this colonisation. Shackled is a delicate work of blown-glass Australian Indigenous fruits and nuts, strung together by a necklace-sized chain. This work talks of the restrictions placed upon Aboriginal people once their traditional way of life was removed from them through past government policies. Carrie Miller, in her article for the January-March 2009 edition of Australian Art Collector quotes writer and curator Timothy Morell who said of Scarce that she has “pulled the medium of glass right out of its crafty comfort zone and exploited its potential, perhaps for the first time in Australia, to be emotionally and politically expressive” (pg. 120).Though only working professionally as an artist since 2004, Scarce was short-listed for the 2006 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the 2007 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at Queensland Art Gallery. In 2008 she was the South Australian state recipient of the inaugural Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award. The other state award recipients were Karena Keys (ACT), Alex Davies (NSW), Neridah Stockley (NT), Vernon Ah Kee (QLD), Brigita Ozolins (TAS), Katherine Huang (VIC), and Tom Muller (WA).In July of 2009 Scarce was able to showcase her work to an international audience when she participated in a group show 'Glassheart’ at Fort Vuren, Loevestein, in the Netherlands. This project came about when fellow glass artist Gerry King recommended her to the organisers of the exhibition.Though making a name as a glass artist, Scarce states that “since graduating from UniSA I have become more of an interdisciplinary artist, working with installation, ephemeral and time-based work” (pers comm, 2009). Her solo show at Tandanya included paintings as well as glass work. Scarce’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Flinders University Art Museum, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the University of South Australia Art Collection. In 2009 Scarce was living, studying and working in Melbourne, Victoria.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Yhonnie Scarce, a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people, is a glass artist whose work is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigenous Australia. She was the 2008 inaugural South Australian state recipient of the Qantas Foundation Encouragement Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb996f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ben-quilty
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Ben Quilty was a child of Sydney’s northern hinterland, spending his boyhood at Kenthurst, New South Wales. His first success came when the major work he made for Visual Arts in the Higher School Certificate was exhibited at the Art Express exhibition. He was also awarded a summer school scholarship at the Julian Ashton Art School. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in 1994, before studying for a certificate in Aboriginal Culture and History from Monash University in 1996. In 2001, feeling dissatisfied with his earlier study, he completed a Bachelor of Visual Communication at the University of Western Sydney.The following year he was awarded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship for his work Elwood Park (2002), leading to a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. The awarding of the scholarship was a turning point in Quilty’s career as it enabled him to paint full time. At the announcement of the scholarship he met and befriended the veteran artist, Margaret Olley, who became a mentor and close friend.While in Paris Quilty’s works began to draw from Australian Icons, and the cultural rites of passage that were undertaken by Australian males growing up in the 1980s. These works payed particular attention to the violent and damaging behaviour surrounding the rituals of young male culture, in particular depicting fast cars, fast food, and the influence of drugs and alcohol. Quilty later undertook residencies at The Gunnery, New South Wales Ministry for the Arts (2004), Hill End, Bathurst Regional Gallery (2005), and the Australian Council of the Arts Barcelona Studio, Spain (2007).In 2005 he married Kylie Needham, a scriptwriter who he had met while working as film editor for Channel Seven news. Quilty’s painting style can be recognized from his thick layering of paint. He uses different forms of palette knife, smearing the paint to create his figures. Quilty does not attempt to hide the strokes from his knife, rather he utilises the thick slabs of paint to block in large areas of the canvas, with high contrast colours. Quilty has repeatedly used spray paint as a sketching technique, drawing his forms first with the aerosol can and then using oils over the top, allowing the two mediums to appear together on the end product of the canvas. Spray paint is also employed to extend out of the canvas and onto the gallery walls. In 2007 the Quilty family, which by then included his first child, Joe, spent four months in the Australia Council’s studio in Barcelona. Here he was exposed to graffiti culture, as well as religious iconography. Religious rorschach images are most strongly apparent on the walls of churches in Spain. This became a particular interest of Quilty’s, and emerged as major components to many of his later works. Quilty has since used the rorschach technique in painting religious imagery, skulls, and portraits.
In the following years he began to focus on icons in Australian culture including images of Captain Cook and John Howard paired with portraits of anonymous participants of the Cronulla riots, his screaming son and intoxicated friends. He also turned more to portraiture, trying to capture the essence underneath the surface of his subjects. He was awarded the 2009 Moran Prize. 2011 he was awarded the Archibald Prize for his portrait of Margaret Olley, who had previously been the subject of William Dobell’s Archibald winning portrait of 1948. In October 2011 the Australian War Memorial commissioned Quilty to travel to Afghanistan, embedded with the Australian Army. Quilty was the same generation as the soldiers who fought in that long war, and he was profoundly affected by the trauma experienced by the troops. He later joined the board of the Australian War Memorial, and he also invited those who had experience the war to come to his home, where he painted their pain. His 2014 exhibition, After Afghanistan, helped many to understand the internal turmoil experienced by those sent to war.His memories of his own reckless youth gave him empathy with those who fell foul of the law. He began to travel to Bali, to teach art to the prisoners of the “Bali Nine”, the young drug mules who had been arrested in Indonesia after information was provided by the Australian Federal Police. He led the public campaign for compassion after Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death. He was profoundly affected by their execution in 2015 and the following year curated an exhibition of Sukumaran’s work.In 2019 and 2020 Quilty was honoured with a national touring retrospective of his art, organised by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Writers:
Letourneau, Luke
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Although he came to public attention with his paintings of cars, Ben Quilty is best known for his deeply impacted expressionist portraits. .For four years he taught painting to mprisoned drug smugglers in Bali, and after Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed, honoured their memories in art.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9970
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9971
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-lindeman
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Michael Lindeman attained his Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (First Class) and Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Lindeman’s paintings, sculptures and readymades respond to global consumerism, planned obsolescence and a fabricated popular culture of indulgence. Residencies at the Los Angeles Studio (2001) and the School of Visual Arts, New York (2002) focused Lindeman’s attention on the ubiquity of discarded objects and a moral order dominated by plasticised cartoon characters that promote childish notions of good and evil. His approach combines serious intent with ironic playfulness. Donald Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer and Head of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology, refers to anxiety and muted nostalgia in Lindeman’s work, where 'objects are used . the way a hip-hop sound artist might use a piece of existing music but manipulated into a different circumstance’. He goes on to say: 'Michael Lindeman seems like many artists of his generation to use editing as a political means to deal with/cope/make a space in the plethora of images generated by the industrialisation of culture. Here editing allows for some type of disjuncture, even dysfunction, to occur in the production of the works and our reading of them.’ Michael Lindeman’s work was exhibited in Sherman Artbox (1999, 2002) before his first solo exhibition at the gallery in 2004. His Australian residencies include the Gunnery Studio, Artspace, Sydney (2000), the Bundanon Artist in Residence Program, NSW (2003) and Ascham School, Sydney (2004).
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Michael Lindeman's paintings, sculptures and readymades respond to global consumerism, planned obsolescence and a fabricated popular culture of indulgence.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9972
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-38.0101564 Longitude175.3257827 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hayden-fowler
- Birth Place
- Te Awamutu, New Zealand
- Biography
- Born in Te Awamutu, New Zealand in 1973, Hayden Fowler works in a range of mediums, including video, installation, photography and performance.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Ahlip, TarikDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Hayden Fowler is a teacher, video, installation and performance artist born in Te Awamutu, New Zealand in 1973.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9973
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-39.6417678 Longitude176.8430781 Start Date1973-01-01 End Date1973-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-crooks
- Birth Place
- Hastings, New Zealand
- Biography
- Practising across a range of media including digital video, photography and installation, Daniel Crooks’s complex and beautiful time structures reveal a sensibility seemingly at odds with the ordinariness of the subject matter. His digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.
A graduate of the Auckland Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television, Crooks received an Australia Council Fellowship in 1997 to research motion control at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His reputation grew rapidly, with representation in important group exhibitions in Australia (including 'Primavera 2003’ at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art) and in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia.
Crooks has held solo exhibitions at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Level 2 Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (both 2005); and the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2002). He was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2004-05) and at the Australia Council Studio, London, UK (2005). His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1973
- Summary
- Practising across a range of media including digital video, photography and installation, New Zealand born Daniel Crooks's complex and beautiful digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9974
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Details
Latitude53.35 Longitude-6.260278 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ursula-halpin
- Birth Place
- Dublin, Ireland
- Biography
- Ursula Halpin is an Irish born artist and curator based in South Australia. Halpin’s practice spans glass, textiles and sculpture. Halpin’s arts practice explores how her family traditions of craft have assisted in overcoming generations of inherited trauma and shame applying outcomes to researching the narratives of Irish female migrants to Australia post famine 1848–1855, particularly the women of the Earl Grey Scheme. Using glass material incorporating textiles, in particular Irish lace and Irish crochet-lace, Halpin’s practice looks at developing a new feminist discourse. Through autobiographical narratives Halpin examines how making has assisted in transcending, estrangement, loss of identity and culture as a result of experiencing abjection through historical and contemporary immigration.
Writers:
ursulahalpin
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2021
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Ursula Halpin is an Irish born artist and curator based in South Australia. Halpin’s work spans glass, textiles, sculpture & installation and curatorial practice.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9975
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude52 Longitude20 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cezary-stulgis
- Birth Place
- Poland
- Biography
- Cezary Stulgis is a painter and sculptor. He was born in 1972 in Poland. Stulgis lives and works in Queensland. Since 1995 he has worked professionally in Brisbane, and completed a public sculpture in Krakow, Poland.
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Writers:
Urzon, MagdalenaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Cezary Stulgis is a painter and sculptor. He was born in 1972 in Poland. Stulgis arrived in Australia in 1984. He lives and works in Queensland. Since 1995 he has worked professionally in Brisbane, and completed a public sculpture in Krakow, Poland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9976
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude42.989911 Longitude11.8687316 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kathy-cavaliere
- Birth Place
- Sarteano, Tuscany, Italy
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 11 November 1972
- Summary
- Cavaliere’s desire was to bring to light what she did not remember of her early years in Sarteano. Her art became a lifelong project transforming the packing, storing and transporting elements of her possessions into art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 23-Jan-12
- Age at death
- 40
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9977
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude39.9597213 Longitude-75.6059638 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-paauwe
- Birth Place
- West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
- Biography
- Photographer Deborah Paauwe was born in 1972 in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1993 the family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where Paauwe began her studies in Visual Arts.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Wong, GillianDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Photographer Deborah Paauwe was born in 1972 in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1993 the family moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where Paauwe began her studies in Visual Arts. Deborah exhibits in Australia and internationally and lives and works in South Australia with her husband, Mark Kimber and son, Dashiell.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9978
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:32 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude13.7524938 Longitude100.4935089 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samuel-young
- Birth Place
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Biography
- comic strip artist, illustrator and artist, was born in Bangkok, Thailand; he came to Australia aged three. After finishing his HSC in Sydney he gained a BFA at UNSW CoFA. Young who sometimes uses the pseudonym 'Autohead’, is the writer, artist and creator of Zero Assassin , writer and creator of Cyber-swine and publisher and editor of Issue One , an independent comic that has expanded to publish various titles. In 1993 Young won the Nescafe Big Break Youth Award (an annual commercial grant). He has also won several OzCon awards, including 'Favourite Australian Writer’ in 1993 and 1995, while Issue One won 'Favourite Australian Comic’ in 1992-94, while Zero Assassin won Favourite Character in 1992 and 1995.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Comic strip artist, illustrator and artist, was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Young is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including several OzCon awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9979
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/samantha-meeks
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Cairns in 1972, Samatha Meeks is a painter whose work is informed by her years spent living with her extended family and the relationships that come from these experiences. She has exhibited her work in the 2006 'Gatherings II’ exhibition in Brisbane and in 2007 was living in Cairns after studying for a time in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Samatha Meeks is a Queensland-based painter whose work is informed by her years spent living with her extended family and the relationships that have come from these experiences.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cynthia-vogler
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Batik and Screen Printer, Cynthia Vogler was born in 1972 and is of the Jarrowair clan of the Wakka Wakka language group from South East Queensland. Her work was included in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” that was staged in Brisbane, Queensland.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Screen and Batik printer, Cynthia Vogler was born in 1972 and is of the Jarrowair clan of the Wakka Wakka language group from South East Queensland.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997b
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/priscilla-napanangka-brown
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1972, Priscilla Brown is a Warlpiri speaker whose traditional country is Mt Theo. She has been painting since she was eleven years old, after watching her mother painting at Yuendumu and asking her about her own Dreaming. She sold her first painting to Warlukurlangu Artists. She paints Bush Banana, Bush Goanna and Bush Tomato Dreamings. She lives in Yuendumu and has connections with the community at Willowra, but usually works with the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who sold her first painting to Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu (NT) and subsequently worked with the Jukurrpa Group in Alice Springs (NT). Her traditional country is Mt. Theo.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/geraldine-nakamarra-nelson
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born 1972 in Alice Springs. Geraldine’s father is a Warlpiri speaker and her mother, Maudie Napanangka Nelson , is an Anmatyerre speaker. Her country is Boarrinji and she paints Ngurlu (Bush Seed) and Honey Ant Dreamings. She has connections with Ali Curung, Willowra and Napperby communities. Her mother showed her how to paint in 1989. She now lives in Hidden Valley town camp and works with the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist who paints Bush seed (Ngurlu) and Honey Ant Dreamings. She has connections with Ali Curung, Willowra and Napperby communities. Her mother showed her how to paint in 1989.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997e
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Details
Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb997f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.9687807 Longitude153.4066696 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alf-summers
- Birth Place
- Southport, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Southport, Queensland in 1972, Alf Summers has family links to the Bidjara people of Charleville, Queensland. Summers was highly commended for his work in the 2006 'Gold Coast Indigenous Art and Design Awards’. He participated in the 2006 'Gatherings II’ exhibition in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Alf Summers has family links to the Bidjara people of Charleville, Queensland. In 2006 he was highly commended for his work in the 2006 Gold Coast Indigenous Art and Design Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9980
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.9464038 Longitude115.8251338 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-argyle
- Birth Place
- Subiaco, WA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Daniel Argyle, contemporary Blue Mountains-based artist, works across a variety of media, from the two-dimensional to sculpture and installation. His work focuses on abstraction, minimalism, and imagery from popular culture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9981
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.1755506 Longitude152.4982615 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rachel-fairfax
- Birth Place
- Tuncurry, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1972, painter Rachel Fairfax grew up in the country coastal town of Tuncurry, northern New South Wales. She moved to Sydney initially to attend high school and university, settling there to work after completing her studies.
Fairfax studied Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney, from 1994 to 1998, majoring in filmmaking. After graduating, she immediately transferred to the National Art School in East Sydney so as to further develop her interest in drawing and painting. There she encountered two influential teachers, Wendy Sharp and Bill Brown, who were supportive of her development as an artist. She graduated in 2002 with Honours in Drawing.
After graduating, Fairfax completed a number of residencies. In 2003 and 2005, she traveled to Hill End, where artists Donald Friend, Paul Haefliger and others had worked in the 1940s and 1950s, to study landscape painting. Six years later, in 2009, she was selected for the Taronga Foundation Artists in Residence Program for which twenty artists took up residency at the zoo over a ten week period that included overnight stays, evening safaris as well as feeding the giraffes, all in aid of raising funds for the zoo. Fairfax has also been involved with a number of other fund raising and charity events, donating some of her artworks to philanthropic organisations such as Barnados.
In 2001 Fairfax begin exhibiting in galleries across NSW including Mary Place Gallery, Paddington; Ray Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea; Barry Stern Gallery, Hill End; Defiance Gallery, Newtown; Xavier Art Space, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst; and Bathurst Regional Gallery. Her exhibitions often centre on a theme developed over a few months; each project consists of a large number of artworks, allowing Fairfax to work on multiple paintings simultaneously. Her works are started en plein air and then completed back at her studio space in the Sydney suburb of St Peters. She shares this space with a number of artists, such as painter and sculptor Stephen Bird; painter and collage artist Maz Dixon; and painter Ingrid Wahlstrom. Fairfax enjoys working in a group environment as a form of stimulation and company, and she often heads outdoors with other artists to create the base drawings for her paintings. She prefers not to work from photographs, only using them for colour reference or when painting a portrait, so as to correctly render her subject’s finer features.
Fairfax is inspired by nature, whether it is the landscape or the creatures that inhabit it. Of her 'Ocean Paintings’ exhibition at the Ray Hughes Gallery in 2009, Fairfax stated, “I believe that growing up in the country near the ocean [during] my childhood is imprinted in me deeply” (Ray Hughes Gallery website 2009). She also lists artists such as Elizabeth Cummings, John Passmore and Ian Fairweather as influences onher work.
In 2003 Fairfax was awarded two Reg Richardson Fellowships; in 2004 she achieved a Highly Commended in the Waverley Art Prize; and in 2005 she won the FONAS Infusion Barry Stern Galleries Prize. Fairfax’s work is held in a number of collections including ArtBank; Ray Hughes Gallery; St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, as well as private collections.
Fairfax teaches art at a number of institutions across Sydney. She runs classes in painting and drawing at the National School of Art, Darlinghurst, as well as classes in design and colour theory at the International School of Colour and Design, North Sydney.
Writers:
Roberts, PascaleCatherine De Lorenzo
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Rachel Fairfax, b. 1972 in Tuncurry NSW, is a figurative painter based in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9982
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-jennifer-strutt
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- The Strutt Sisters both studied visual arts at tertiary level where their individual desires to combine the elements of painting, sculpture and printmaking were articulated. It wasn’t until at least five years into their art production, however, that they decided to collaborate and this remains their primary method of working.
The Strutt Sisters’ artwork can best be described as “mixed media assemblage” using plywood and pressed tin that is cut, shaped and painted. Images from magazines, postcards, books and fabric from 1920-1959 are photocopied, cut and pasted onto various surfaces. Paint, resin, fabric and stencils are also used to create colour and patterning. The works hang on the wall in relief style providing the platform for the humorous and musical narration and are simply signed STRUTT.
Their prize-winning work resides in both national and international private collections and in the collections of many notable Australians including Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, the Curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In 2003 their work was hung at the Art Gallery of NSW as a finalist in the Sulman Art Prize and they have had a long association with the Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern, Sydney.
The Strutt Sisters have been described by critic John McDonald as “Newcastle’s next big thing waiting to happen” (Daily Telegraph, May 2003), and by Ruth Skilbeck as “Newcastle’s hottest contribution to contemporary art” (Australian Art Review, Feb. 2004).
Writers:
thestruttsisters
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9983
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.7760305 Longitude150.9427044 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sandra-selig
- Birth Place
- Seven Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9984
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alexandra-gillespie
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Alexandra Gillespie's work is primarily concerned with responding to particular sites and spatial temporal experiences. She often utilises projection, sound, and found objects to create installations, video and photographic works.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9985
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-barkley
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Glenn Barkley has had a dual career as both an innovative curator of Australian art and as an a maker of experimental ceramics.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9986
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janine-campbell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Janine Campbell, born 1972, is a Sydney-based artist and architect who was interested in art and design from an early age. Influenced by her mother, a seamstress, and her father, an engineer, and later by her travels to Europe, the Middle East, and South America, Campbell’s interest in scale and urban art in public space have formed the basis of her architectural and creative projects. Her work has moved from abstract expressionism in painting to using the scale, space, light and materiality of architecture. Interested in the blurred boundaries between art, design, and architecture, she also explores ways in which to incorporate art into her architectural practices.Growing up in north-west Sydney, Campbell went to Carlingford High School, earning a place in 'ArtExpress’ before going on to study fine arts at Meadowbank TAFE from 1990 to 1992. It was here that she spent time exploring abstraction and architecture. After completing her diploma she worked for a short time as a freelance artist from a warehouse studio in Pyrmont, Sydney, before doing some volunteer aid work in Guyana. In the unlikely setting of the jungles of South America she decided that she would become an architect.Upon her return to Sydney, Campbell had a short stint as a framer in Notanda Gallery before she enrolled part-time in a Bachelor of Arts, then a Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Technology, Sydney. Whilst a student, she not only worked at various architectural firms, but maintained her connection to the visual arts through ongoing solo exhibitions, including exhibiting paintings at Tap Gallery in Sydney, and Gelbert Studios in New York.After a few more years in the architecture industry, in 2004 Campbell embarked on a study tour to the Middle East, Paris and New York, and visited family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She returned to Australia to start up her own design practice – Ja9 Design. Working on a number of projects as an exhibiting artist and designer and entering several competitions allowed her to pursue her creativity, often in collaboration with other creative practitioners. In 2006 Campbell was a finalist in the Renovation Design, HIA CSR Australian Housing Awards in NSW and was joint winner in the North Sydney Council Public Art Competition (for which she worked in collaboration with Louise O’Brien).In 2005 Campbell returned to the architecture industry as a Senior Architect at Hassell, continuing to bring the playful informality of her art to her architectural projects.
Writers:
Barbara Skeggs
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Janine Campbell is a Sydney based artist who works predominantly as an architect, but has also been involved in numerous art, design, and installation projects. Her interest lies in the blurred boundaries between architecture, design, and art. Campbell was joint winner (collaborating with Louise O'Brien) in the 2006 North Sydney Council Public Art Competition.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9987
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shaun-gladwell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Shaun Gladwell critiques personal history, memory and contemporary culture in solo and collaborative works that utilise performance, video, painting and sculpture. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) at The University of Sydney in 1996, followed by a Masters of Visual Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. In 2001, he was awarded a three-month Australia Council residency at the Cité International des Arts, Paris. An Anne and Gordon Samstag International Scholarship enabled him to undertake associated research at Goldsmiths College, London (2001-02). During this time, he was included in the exhibition, 'The Mind is a Horse’, at Bloomberg Space, London.
In 2002, Gladwell was commissioned to present a broadcast work for the Netherlands TV network 4DTV, and was included in Iain Borden’s first theoretical survey on skateboarding culture. Recent exhibitions include 'Primavera 2003: Exhibition of Young Australian Artists’, at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art; 'Vacation: Projection Series 7’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ (2004-05); The Anne Landa Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; 'Shaun Gladwell: Various Roles’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and 'Not Worried: New Art From Australia’, Raid Projects, Los Angeles (all 2005).
Also during 2005, Gladwell completed commissions for Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery (now Campbelltown Arts Centre); for 'Vanishing Point’, an Experimenta project that toured nationally and internationally; and 'Art Connections’, an international exchange program initiated by the Goethe Institut. He participated in 'Space Invaders’ at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland and the Third International Film and Video Festival, Museum of New Art, Detroit, United States.
Shaun Gladwell was represented in the 2005 Yokohama Triennale; Biennales in Busan (South Korea) and São Paulo (Brazil) in 2006; and exhibited in Tokyo, Bangkok, Rome and Oslo following a residency at Tokyo Wonder Site in Shibuya, Japan. In 2007 he was selected to participate in Robert Storr’s exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and in 2009 he exhibited MADDESTMAXIMVS at the Australian Pavilion at Venice.
In the following years he continued to work in both videos and in creating virtual reality simulations. In 2019 he was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition, Shaun Gladwell:Pacific Undertow, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Shaun Gladwell is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. Working across video, performance, painting and sculpture, Gladwell has exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas. His solo and collaborative works critique personal history, memory and contemporary culture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9988
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bartholomew-rose
- Birth Place
- Paddington, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and actor, was born in Paddington, NSW, on 20 June 1972, youngest of the six children of Ian Rose, carpenter, and Jennifer Farrar, a spinner and weaver (exhibited Tamworth 1996) who also runs a farm. Bart grew up on a commune at Byron Bay, NSW. He came to Sydney in 1979 and attended Annandale North Public School, then Balmain High. Studied at UNSW COFA (BAT Hons) 1992-96. His first published cartoons, which are always signed 'Bart’, appeared in guest editor Joanna Mendelssohn’s 'Sydney’ issue of Artlink 14/3 (Spring 1994). As well as illustrating Donald Brook’s article, 'The Artist and the Industry’, Artlink 15/2-3 (winter/spring 1995), 12-22, he had two pages of cartoons in the (Portraiture) issue, 'In your face’, 28-29. More drawings were scattered throughout the 1996 'Masculinities’ and 'Computer’ issues and the 1997 'Looking at the Republic’ issue (vol 17/3).
Bart had a cartoon published in the Australian Financial Review magazine in 1995 and others in New Woman (1995), City Hub (1995), various one-off magazines and a continuing small business magazine for Federal Publishing.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist and actor.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9989
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-sharrock
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Peter Sharrock was born in Adelaide in 1972. His father’s heritage is Welsh/English and his mother is from the Arrente people of the Northern Territory. Sharrock states that he has been “making art and art objects since I was a toddler, as I was born with enlarged tonsils, which meant I couldn’t really talk until I was three/four years old (when they were removed). So my first language was not a spoken language but more a visual language” (pers. comm. 2009). As he was the seventh of seven children Sharrock received plenty of hand-me-down toys and began constructing new toys out of the old broken ones.Sharrock’s Aboriginal heritage was not revealed to him until he was in his teens and because of this his work does not reflect any Dreaming stories, rather he see’s himself as an “urban artist creating contemporary Indigenous art reflecting Indigenous views” (pers. comm. 2009). He works in four main styles; collage – using ochre and ink stained paper; sculpture – employing the use of carved raw ochre pigment (a technique that Sharrock spent ten years developing and refining); public art – using mostly naturally occurring materials; and a fourth style Sharrock calls 'honeycomb’, a style that developed from his piece Walk the Line, an installation for the 'Our Metro Mob’ 2007 exhibition at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide. This style comprises three drawings that create one image: a line drawing on yellow ochre is followed by paper with negative space drawings cut into it, then a shadow line work which interacts with the first two drawings, giving the whole work a “life and presence and depending on the viewing perspective the shadows/shapes move and change character” (pers. comm. 2009).His work is informed by his contemporary urban life as well as his connection to land and expressions of identity. Sometimes his work is inspired by personal events such as the passing of his mother and the dreams he experienced of her on the eve of her death, explored in the ochre sculpture Remembered.Sharrock’s first tertiary educational experience was not in the arts. In 1997 he was awarded a Certificate of Competency in Carpentry and Joinery from Elizabeth College of Technical and Further Education. He did not enroll in formal arts training until 1997, graduating in 2000 with a Certificate II in Art Foundation Studies followed by a Certificate IV in Applied and Visual Art from Salisbury TAFE. In 2005 he completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and Design at the Adelaide Institute of Arts at the Roma Mitchell Centre in Light Square, Adelaide.Sharrock began exhibiting in 1998 when he participated in the student group show 'H20 Water’ at Salisbury TAFE. He also participated in the 2005 show 'Petroglyphs’ at Tandanya, which then toured in 2006 to the Dreaming Festival in Woodford, Queensland. In 2006 Sharrock travelled to Wales to work alongside fellow sculptors Muriel Van Der Byl and Chrissy Houston on a public art project known as 'Journey Through Cultures’ to create the public artwork 'Mound at Clegyr Boia’ in southwest Wales. In 2006 and 2008 Sharrock was included in 'Small Graphics International Biennial’ in Romania. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he participated in 'Our Metro Mob’ at Tandanya. This exhibition is the city-dwelling artists’ companion exhibition to 'Our Mob’, an exhibition held at the Adelaide Festival Centre each year in which artists from regional and remote South Australia showcase their latest works. In 2009 Sharrock submitted work for display in Tandanya’s 20th anniversary celebration exhibition 'Making Tracks’.Sharrock’s first solo exhibition, 'together’, was held in the foyer of Wakefield House in Adelaide and his second solo in 2008 was titled 'Belong’ and was exhibited in Rundle Street, Adelaide. His third solo exhibition, 'Shown’, was staged at the Adelaide Indigenous Business Centre in 2009 with the Lord Mayor of Adelaide attending the opening. In 2009 Sharrock submitted a honeycomb style work titled The Story Unfolds into the 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin. He was shortlisted as a finalist.Sharrock supplements his art income by working as an installation technician for various Adelaide-based organisations. He also runs art workshops for various schools and organisations and has presented workshops in conjunction with Anangu-ku Arts and Country Arts in Coober Pedy.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Installation artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer and writer, Sharrock lives and works in Adelaide. He is a descendant of the Arrente people of the Northern Territory and his works are informed by issues relating to personal and cultural identity.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb998a
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barry-bogus-fristrom
- Birth Place
- Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Bogus Barry Friström, legend of the Cooper Pedy underground art scene was born in Wagga in 1972. He studied under his father, Friström “ Friström “ Friström and his uncle Harry.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Barry Bogus Friström studied art under his father, Friström Friström, and uncle. He has since become a legend of the Cooper Pedy underground art scene.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb998b
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daniel-von-sturmer
- Birth Place
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Biography
- Melbourne-based artist Daniel von Sturmer was born in 1972 in Auckland, New Zealand. Von Sturmer started out as a painter, later working mainly as a video and mixed media installation artist. His video installations and architectural interventions confound the viewer’s sense of space, scale and orientation. Using everyday objects the artist creates visual experiments, playing with gravity and weightlessness, movement and stillness.
The artist studied Honours in fine art at RMIT University in Melbourne in during 1993-96 and finished his Master of Arts (research) in 1999 at the same university. Later he spent one year at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.
Von Sturmer has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and his work is included in major gallery collections in Australia such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. His work is also included in Chartwell Collection and Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.
Writers:
Wong, Emily
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Daniel von Sturmer was born in 1972 in Auckland, New Zealand, moving to Melbourne in 1994. In his work, he often experiments how different objects are in relation with space.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb998c
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TLCMap IDtb998d
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kirrily-schell
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- artist, comic-book artist and cartoonist, was born on 13 July 1972 in Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University in 1996. Her first published cartoon appeared in Kunzwerk , Canberra, in 1992. Her frequently biographical work has since been published in a number of alternative comics, including the self-published Wide Arsed Mole 1-4 (1997-99); Fruity Mumurs 1 & 2 (1994-95), which she co-edited and produced with Mandy Ord; Bump and Snore 6 & 8 (Canberra, 1995); Tango (Melbourne, 1997); Pantry (Canberra, 1998); Nice (Melbourne, 1998); Facktory (Canberra, 1999) – the product of a 3-day mini-comic workshop for young women that Kirrily ran in 1999, featuring the work of Felicity Pollard, Alana Mcdonald, Claire Worrall and Schell herself; and Pure Evil 2 (Melbourne, 1999). Schell’s work was featured on the digitarts site (http://digitarts.va.com.au/grrrowl5/blackink – no longer operational) along with other 'Ladies of the black ink’, Nicola Hardy, Fiona Katauskas, Mandy Ord and Indira Neville (NZ).
Between 1995-1999 Kirrily participated in eight group exhibitions, including Sticky Comics , Canberra, 1995; Chill out: Comic Art in the Dead of Winter , Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, 1998; Cosmix 2 , Tap Gallery, Sydney, 1998 and Running with the Pack , Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, 1999. Schell held her first solo exhibition, MISS , at Artspace, Canberra in 1999. She has been instrumental in promoting cartoons and comic strip art to young people, lecturing to students at Callwell High School and the University of Canberra, and running a Girl’s Own Mini-comic Workshop at the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. In correspondence with Joan Kerr in 2000, she wrote:
“There are a lot of extremely talented comic artists and cartoonists out there, yet from a main stream perspective, women are still not represented to a satisfactory degree. From my brief experience in teaching comics I have sensed a real lack of confidence in girls, in particular they seem to have stories and ideas in them but struggle to realise them. It seems that they are “bound” by a certain idea of what a comic “should” be. On a more positive note, once they realise the potential and the freedom of expression obtainable through this medium, they flourish and produce very interesting works.
“Currently I am working on numerous projects with my art and my comics. I am aiming to produce a new issue of my comic Wide Arsed Mole in March. Other projects include harrassing the Australian newspaper to print some of my cartoons, applications to artist in residence programs overseas, an exhibition of my etchings and paintings in Melbourne (not confirmed), loads of work for Anna Brown’s Canberra Comic [ Capital Punishment is funded by ArtsACT and will feature the work of fifteen Canberra artists and be published in June 2000], some musical projects, and finally to find a suitable job to financially support all of the above.”
When asked why she draws cartoons, Schell replied:
“Drawing cartoons and comics was an integral part of growing up for me. My eldest brother Terry being a great instigator of after school drawing fiascoes. He always had a Crunchie, a large packet of cheese Twisties and a glass of milk, and his comics were always neater than mine. My siblings and I obsessively read Charles M. Schultz comics, old Popeye, Archie and many more. Somehow drawing comics created a world where I could express everything from mystery stories through to teen angst, and perhaps later developing into a quirky satirical play with the world. My printmaking and painting provides me with a more refined, perhaps serious vehicle for my philosophical evolutions, or rather investigations. Of course this filters through to my cartoons, and I try to evoke a more reflective response in the reader than just a surface giggle.
“Like writing a novel, one can create any kind of world with cartoons that can be fuelled either by one’s storytelling abilities (even in a one-panel cartoon) or one’s artistic (visual) skills. Creative writing involves the dimension of the reader’s imagination, in the case of cartoons and comics this dimension is limited by the artist’s own visualisation of their idea. Therefore this limitation becomes (or can become) a tool of refinement, not just in the sense of how a character looks, but conceptually how a comic/cartoon is presented and received. It is this intriguing aspect of comics/cartoons that ensures my never-ending obsessive creation, exploration and identification with them.”
Schell also participated in Silent Army , Express Media, Fitzroy Vic, 2002 (“20 of Australias young comic book veterans together for the first time”: Bicycle, Blanden, Brown, Carvan, Conn, Cure, Danko, Dodds, Fikaris, Greenberg, Mackay, Mangan, Mrongovius, O’Donnell, Ord, Pox, Savieri, Schell , Smith, Taylor ). Published as part of 2002 Next Wave Festival with Arts Victoria sponsorshi
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- A contemporary artist and Canberra-based comic book artist, Schell has produced comics for publication and exhibition and run a number of comic book workshops for women. In 2002 she participated in 'Silent Army' - a publication featuring the works of 20 young Australian comic book veterans published as part of the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb998e
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lily-hibberd
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1972 in Melbourne, Lily Hibberd completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (painting) at Monash University, Caulfield in 1993, before undertaking further studies at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne where she graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (1999) and Master of Fine Art by Research (2001). In 2008 Hibberd was enrolled in a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art (candidate) at Monash University, Caulfield. Based in Melbourne, Hibberd is a frequently published arts writer and was the founding editor of Un Magazine . She also lectures in Fine Arts at both the Victorian University of Technology and Victorian College of the Arts.
Notable among her solo exhibitions are Bordertown , Artspace, Sydney & Westspace, Melbourne (2008); I want to break free , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2006); Dangerous Liaisons , Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda (2005); Paint Tin Fantasies , The Farm, Brisbane (2004); and Blinded by the Light, exhibited at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts before touring to Melbourne’s Bus Gallery and Karen Woodbury Gallery (2003-04).
Hibberd has also participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and abroad, including The Leisure Class , Australia Cinématèque GoMA, Brisbane (2008); Arc Biennial, QUT Museum, Brisbane (2007); Kilgour Prize , Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle (2006); You’re so Vain: five contemporary sculptors , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Art + Film , Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy (2003); ANZ Visual Art Fellowship , ANZ Building, Melbourne (2001); UBS Art Award , Whitechapel Gallery, London (2000); and National Works on Paper , Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (1999).
Hibberd has been a finalist for prestigious awards such as the ABN Amro Emerging Artists Award, Sydney (2005); Murdoch Traveling Fellowship (2003); the ANZ Arts Fellowship Award (2002); and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2000). In 2000 she was announced the National Winner of the UBS Art Award , Whitechapel Gallery, London, judged by Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery, London. In 2006 Hibberd was selected for a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
Her work features in private collections across Melbourne, Sydney, London and Switzerland, as well as major corporate collections such as BHP Billiton, Melbourne and UBS Private Banking, Basel Switzerland.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Painter, photographer and installation artist, Lily Hibberd is also an arts writer and the founding editor of Un Magazine. In 2000 she was named the National Winner of the UBS Art Award by Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb998f
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucas-abela
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Lucas Abela (aka Justice Yeldham) is a sound and installation artist, based in Sydney. His earlier experimental music pieces evolved into sound sculptures, activated by audience participation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9990
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-sleeth
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- artist born in Melbourne in 1972. His practice is conceptually driven across a range of media, including photography, video, sculpture and public installation.
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Writers:
Chan, AdrianDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- artist born in Melbourne in 1972. His practice is conceptually driven across a range of media, including photography, video, sculpture and public installation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9991
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1972-01-01 End Date1972-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zanny-begg
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Sydney based multidisciplinary artist born in 1972. Begg’s artwork includes a wide range of visual production including video, illustration, installation, photography, painting and performance. She has co-curated several exhibitions, published art criticisms and lectured part-time in art history and theory at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (COFA, UNSW).
Born and raised in Melbourne, Begg moved to Brisbane in 1997 to study Fine Art, completing a Bachelor of Fine Art at Griffith University (2000). Having moved to Sydney in 1999, she undertook an Honours year at the COFA in 2003, before enrolling in a PhD at COFA in 2004.
Begg has a long standing interest in politics. In 1990, at the age of seventeen, she represented the youth of Australia at the Montreal Protocol for Climate Change, where she spoke to the United Nations summit of the effect its decisions would have on future generations. This political interest is seen in her artwork, which often deals with globalisation, climate change and cultures or, in her own words, “both the architecture of space and the social relationships which construct it” (artist’s website, accessed 2009).
You Are Here is a collective established by Begg and fellow artist Keg de Souza. The collective’s If You See Something, Say Something (2007) commented on efforts by governments to instill fear in the community following the 9/11 Twin Tower disaster of 2001. Other collaborative works include What Would It Mean To Win? (2008) with relational aesthetisist Oliver Ressler; Electrification of Consumer Brains ( 2007) with Dmitry Vilensky; and Cities Without Maps – Tanpa Kota Peta ( 2008), developed with Keg de Souza, and produced in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In 2009 Begg and de Souza co-curated 'There Goes The Neighbourhood’ at Performance Space, Sydney, an exhibition which dealt with the gentrification of the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.
Begg’s wall drawing A World of Proximities was exhibited in the 2008 Taipei Biennal, 'One World Where Many Worlds Fit’. Her video piece Treat (or Trick) (2008) was shown at the 2009 Istanbul Biennale.
In 2006 Begg was awarded an Australia China Council residency in Hong Kong, and in 2008 an Asialink Residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, as well as a Performance Space Residency in Sydney. Begg has also received grants for her work, including a Marrickville Council art grant and a National Association for the Visual Arts marketing grant, both in 2007, and a projects – inter-arts grant from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2009.
Writers:
Cockle, MeganDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1972
- Summary
- Installation and video artist, writer, curator, and participant in the collective You Are Here. Begg has exhibited in the 2008 Taipei Biennal and the 2009 Istanbul Biennale.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9992
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rob-saunders
- Birth Place
- Hillingdon, England, United Kingdom
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Computational model designer and artist working in robotic art and designing systems of curiosity.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9993
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9994
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cathy-blanchflower
- Birth Place
- Brighton, England
- Biography
- Abstract painter born in 1971 in Brighton, England, Cathy Blanchflower completed a Bachelor of Arts at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, in 1992, before moving to Melbourne where she was still living and working in 2008.
Since her first solo exhibition 'Frequencies’ at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1995, Blanchflower has held regular shows at Goddard de Fiddes Contemporary Art, Perth; Annandale Galleries, Sydney; and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions both locally and abroad, including: 'The Melbourne Art Fair 2006’, 'The Sound of Painting’, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne (2005); 'ARCO’, Madrid (2003); 'Pink Slips and Golden Parachutes’, The Project, New York (2003); 'Good Vibrations’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2002); 'Phenomena’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2001); and 'Beyond the Grid’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (1999).
Among her various awards and achievements, Blanchflower has received an Artflight Grant (1999) and Youth Creative Development Fellowship (1997), both from ArtsWA; the John Curtin Gallery Print Commission (1997) and the Westpac Art Award (1993).
Her work is held in a number of major public and corporate collections throughout Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Artbank; Bankwest; and Wesfarmers, Perth.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
duggim
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Contemporary abstract painter Cathy Blanchflower was born in England and studied in Perth before relocating to the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, via New York and Melbourne. Winner of the Westpac Art Award in 1993, Blanchflower has exhibited in group and solo shows regularly since this time. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9995
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Details
Latitude35.1792062 Longitude45.9873683 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rushdi-anwar
- Birth Place
- Halabja, Kurdistan, Iraq
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Rushdi Anwar, originally from Kurdistan, currently working between Australia and Thailand, makes art influenced by the conflicts that have governed his life so far. In particular these are displacement, identity, conflicts, trauma and impact of colonialism.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9996
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Latitude20.0171109 Longitude103.378253 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/savanhdary-vongpoothorn
- Birth Place
- Laos
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. Please help the DAAO by adding a biography.
Writers:
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Savanhdary Vongpoothorn first came to public attention when her student work was exhibited at the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition in 1992. Her precise pin-pricked canvases draw on elements of traditional Lao culture, as well as Buddhist mandalas, minimalism, and elements of Australian Aboriginal art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9997
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Latitude4.5693754 Longitude102.2656823 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bee-khaw
- Birth Place
- Malaysia
- Biography
- Bee Khaw was born in Malaysia but spent most of her life in Singapore, where she worked in the travel industry. As a child, she remembered telling her parents about becoming an artist. The news was not well received; no parents from South East Asia would encourage such a career choice; they told her to be practical and stop dreaming. However, on one working trip to Paris, she stepped into the Louvre Museum, along the corridor of the Renaissance was her first encounter with the old masters; a surge of emotions overwhelmed her, bringing forth memories of her childhood dream.
This passion for the work of the old masters led her to Florence, Italy and later to the Imperial Academy of Arts in Russia as an intern. Her classical art training centred on observation of nature, sound aesthetic principles and universal themes. This enables her to transmit her vision by adopting the traditional process and impressionistic method.
Upon returning home from her art study abroad, she entered a small painting into a competition and received a painting prize of the Emerging Artist Award facilitated by the City of South Perth 2019. Her artistic approach explores and visually investigates the emotional and psychological states of beings through quiet contemplative reflections to derive from a storytelling in a classic contemporary sense. Her works can be found in private collections across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
Bee Khaw is a fine art portrait and figurative artist who is based in Perth, Western Australia where she currently lives and works.
Writers:
Bee Khaw
ArtPhD
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Award winning portrait painter based in Perth, Western Australia known for her old masters style
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9998
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Details
Latitude-16.92 Longitude145.78 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zane-saunders
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Printmaker, painter and installation artist, Zane Saunders was born in 1971 in Cairns, North Queensland. He has work in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria. He completed an Associate Diploma in Art at the Cairns College of TAFE in 1988 and in 1989 was commissioned by the Tjapaukai Dance Theatre to design and create the theatre curtain.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Printmaker, painter and installation artist, Zane Saunders has work in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1989 he was commissioned by the Tjapaukai Dance Theatre to design and create their theatre curtain.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jnr-ken-thaiday
- Birth Place
- Gordonvale, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Darnley Islander, Ken Thaiday Jr. was born in 1971 in Gordonvale, North Queensland. His father, Ken Thaiday Snr taught him of his Torres Strait Islander culture, history and traditions. It is from these stories that Thaiday Jr has drawn his inspiration, re-interpreting them into his drawings, sculptures and lino prints.
Thaiday Jr was featured in the 1996 exhibition, 'Linkage/Leakage’ curated by Kick Arts Inc., in Cairns and in also in 'ILAN PASIN: Torres Strait Art’ at the Cairns Regional Gallery in 1998. In 2001 his work was included in the exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and it is from the accompanying Gatherings catalogue that Thaiday Jr states that he wants people “to look at my artwork and see it is unique and that it explains Torres Strait Islander culture and Christianity.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Ken Thaiday Jr. was born in 1971 in Gordonvale, North Queensland. His father Ken Thaiday Snr taught him of his Torres Strait Islander culture, history and traditions and it is from these stories that Thaiday Jr draws his inspiration, re-interpreting them into his drawings, sculptures and lino prints.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb999a
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jenny-fraser
- Birth Place
- Mareeba, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Jenny Fraser is a 'digital native’ who works within a fluid screen-based practice. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at “ISEA/Zero1” in San Jose and the “Interactiva Biennale” in Mexico. In 2007, Fraser received an honourable mention at the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Canada.Because of the diverse creative media Fraser uses, much of her work defies categorization. Her work takes iconic and everyday symbols of Australian life and places them into a context that questions the values they represent. With a laconic sense of humour she picks away at the fabric of our society, exposing contradictions, absurdities, and denial. Her practice has also been partly defined through a strong commitment to collaboration with others, leading to involvement with artist networks such as the Blackout New Media Arts Collective, a national body of artists, film-maker and designers. Fraser is interested in refining the art of artist/curator as an act of sovereignty and emancipation. She has played a role in the development of Aboriginal media arts, founding cyberTribe in 1999. Fraser was the co-ordinator for the new media arts component of “Spirit & Vision” a Trienniale featuring 94 Aboriginal artists at Sammlung Essl in Vienna, and also part of the curatorial working group for the 2002 Adelaide Biennial titled “conVerge – where art and science meet”, a major survey of Australian new media artworks. In 2006 Fraser initiated “The Other APT”, an independent exhibition coinciding with and responding to Queensland Art Gallery’s 2006 Asia Pacific Triennial. The inaugural exhibition of “The Other APT” was held at Brisbane’s Raw Space Galleries. Fraser was then accepted for inclusion as an artist/curator into the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, and also toured “The Other APT” to the Centre Culturel Tjibaou in Noumea, New Caledonia.Between 2003 and 2008 Fraser had more than eight solo exhibitions including “Not Really Queenz’land” at the NEWflames Studios, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane (2003), “Murri All Stars” at the Tu Wai Indigenous Resource Centre, Whagarei, Aotearoa, New Zealand (also in 2003) and “Name That Movie” at Lismore Regional Art Gallery (2008). She has exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally including New Caledonia, France, Canada, Belgium, China and Japan. As an artist-in-residence Fraser has travelled extensively and created works in collaboration with the Hermannsburg Potters of the Northern Territory, Kaurna Plains School in South Australia, the Coen Community in Cape York, the International Indigenous Art Residency at the Banff Art Centre, Canada, the Quarry in Whangarei, Aotearoa, New Zealand, and the NEWflames Studios Residency program in Brisbane.She has served as a board member of the Australia Council’s New Media Arts Board, the Australian Network for Art and Technology board of management (2000-02), the Kummara Association (2005-08) and Uniikup Film and Media (commencing in 2007).Among other projects, Fraser was awarded an Arts Queensland Creative Fellowship to produce a body of work that celebrated the lives of Yugambeh family members that were moved from their traditional homelands to work on properties on the Gulf of Carpentaria Peninsula. The work explored the art forms of installation, and was exhibited at the 2006 International Symposium of Electronic Art in San Jose, USA. Fraser’s work is held in the permanent collections of the University of Wollongong, New South Wales; ART Station in Kollmitzberg and Sammlung Essl (both in Austria); the Kummara Association in Brisbane; the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in Alice Springs; RMIT, Melbourne; the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.
Writers:
Fraser, Jenny
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Jenny Fraser is a 'digital native' who works within a fluid screen-based practice. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including at "ISEA/Zero1" in San Jose and the "Interactiva Biennale" in Mexico.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-anne-malbunka
- Birth Place
- Northern Territory, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Mary Anne Malbunka is of Purrula skin, born in 1971 of the Western Aranda (Arrente) tribe and speaks the Western Aranda (Arrente) language. The Western Aranda (Arrente) land of Ipolera is the community at which she lives and works. Ipolera is 180km west of Alice Springs. Mary Anne lived at Hermannsburg till 1980, when the people of Ipolera moved back to the land that belonged to them. Mary Anne started painting in 1989 when artist Stephanie Radke came to live at Ipolera. Mary Anne paints one story of Gosse Bluff, now called Thourala again. This is a story that belongs to her family, but she only paints about that which is allowed to be told. Mary Anne is the cousin of the leader of Ipolera, Herman Malbunka. She not only works as an artist, but also helps the Ipolera community to run the Art and Craft Centre, and also helps to show around those tourists who come to do a cultural tour run by Herman and Mavis Malbunka. Mary Anne and other Ipolera artists mainly paint of everyday life, of food gathering, the various forms of food – wild bananas, coconut, berries, witchetty grubs, honey ants etc. Very rarely are stories told in paintings. They are kept closely guarded.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Western Aranda (Arrente) artist who lives at Ipolera. An active community member, she assists running the art and craft centre and conducts cultural tours in the town for visitors.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/danie-mellor
- Birth Place
- Mackay, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Dr Danie Mellor, mixed media/conceptual artist was born in Mackay, Queensland in 1971. He began creating art at the age of 19 when he enrolled at the North Adelaide School of Art, gaining a Certificate in Art in 1991. Mellor then went on to study at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University (ANU) where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours in 1992 and received the ANU Award in 1994. In 1995 Mellor was accepted into the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, UK where he gained a Masters in Fine Art in 1996. Mellor completed his study when was awarded a PhD from the School of Art at the National Institute of Art at ANU in 2004.Mellor’s work is varied. He produces landscapes using the mediums of print, drawing and painting but also employs the mediums of ceramics, glass, steel and wood. His work often addresses the entangled histories of Australia’s Indigenous, Colonial and Settler communities and in an interview with the author, Mellor stated that his work “investigates cultural differences in perception and the reading of objects in gallery contexts.”Mellor has participated in many of Australia’s art awards including 2001’s “The Art of Place – the Heritage Commission’s Art Award”, held at Old Parliament House, Canberra; The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, held each year at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; and the Fremantle Print Prize and Exhibition. In 2003 Mellor’s work was included in the Queensland Art Gallery’s landmark exhibition, “Story Place – the art of Cape York and the Rainforest” and in 2005 curator Felicity Fenner invited Mellor to show several installation pieces in “Primavera” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Mellor exhibited twice in 2006 in the exhibitions “Voyages of Recovery or An Ongoing Catalogue with Moments of Reason from the Cabinet”, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery and “In memories lie fragile dreams” at Solander Gallery, Canberra. Mellor’s work, including the large installation The contrivance of a vintage wonderland (A magnificent flight of curious fancy for science buffs … a china ark of seductive whimsy … a divinely ordered special attraction … upheld in multifariousness), was included in Culture Warriors, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007.Mellor’s most recognised works to date are a 2002 mezzotint engraving titled, Atherton in the Tablelands, another mezzotint engraving from 2003 titled Cyathea Cooperi, an earthenware slip cast dog, Kultur Hund, also 2003 and the Blue and White Kangaroo Series in 2007. His work is included in a number of major national and state collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory among others.Mellor has worked with and been encouraged by a number of notable artists and arts workers including Petr Herel, Diane Fogwell, Djon Mundine, Fiona Foley, Nigel Lendon, Patsy Payne and Michael Eather. At the time of writing Mellor was lecturing at the Sydney College of Art, Rozelle and dividing his time between Sydney and his home in Canberra.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Mixed media and conceptual artist, Mellor's work investigates cultural differences in perception and the reading of objects in gallery contexts. Also a landscape artist working in print, drawing and painting.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb999e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/veronica-nakamarra-stafford
- Birth Place
- Conniston Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Veronica Nakamarra Stafford was born in 1971 at Conniston Station in the Northern Territory – approximately 100 kilometres from Yuelamu. She is a descendent of the Anmatyerre people. Her paintings are often informed by the bush foods of the desert including, yams, honey ants, witchetty grubs and goanna’s.
In 2008 she was living with her family in Port Lincoln, South Australia and through her assoication with Kuju Aboriginal Arts and Crafts she was able to participated in the 2008 Our Mob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Stafford also has an association with the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Centre. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Painter originally from Northern Territory but now living in Port Lincoln, South Australia. Showed her work in the 2008 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb999f
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TLCMap IDtb99a0
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nyuwara-tapaya
- Birth Place
- Ernabella, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Born on 5 August 1971, Nyuwara, whose language group was Pitjantjatjara, was born at Ernabella Hospital, SA. Her mother, Tjunkaya Tapaya, an established artist, is Pitjantjatjara and comes from Antalya. Her father was from Tipany and his first language was Yangkunytjarjara. Nuywara attended Ernabella School and Woodville High School until 1988. The next year she began working in the screenprinting workshop at Ernabella Arts. She began experimenting with acrylic paints with immediate success. Later in 1989 she attended an information gathering tour of Darwin and Bathurst Island and began studying batik techniques. In November, she exhibited both paintings and batiks in Ernabella Arts’s Wiritjuta exhibition at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs.
In 1990 she continued her studies in design and fabric printing and attended the opening of Ernabella Arts’s exhibition Ngura Kutjara at the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide. In 1991, 1992 and 1993 her fabric prints were exhibited in the Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre. Her fabrics were also shown in Kutjupa-Kutjupa , Ernabella Arts’s exhibition at the Aboriginal Artists Gallery in Sydney in 1991. In April 1992 Nyuwara attended the opening of Raiki Tjuta , Ernabella Arts’s exhibition at the Women’s Gallery in Melbourne. In June 1992 she spent two weeks in Yogyakata, Indonesia studying dye techniques and cap printing. In September 1992 one of Nyuwara’s caps was exhibited in the National Aboriginal Art Award and purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia. This exposure and an exhibition of her fabric designs in an Alice Springs Gallery attracted several design commissions for T-shirts and a doona cover of the print Waru from the Community Arts Abroad catalogue. Nyuwara also studied printmaking and lithography and produced popular screenprint designs for fabrics.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
staffcontributor
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 5 August 1971
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara speaker and distinguished print media and textile artist from Ernabella who also worked in acrylic on canvas. She trained at Ernabella Arts and studied dye technique in Indonesia. Her work is in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- c.2005
- Age at death
- 34
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a1
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mayrah-dreise
- Birth Place
- Redcliffe, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Gamilaraay and Yeeralaraay sculptor and performance artist living in remote South West Queensland, Australia. Mayrah’s installation work critically explores the role of placeness and placelessness with respect to Aboriginal peoples within Australian society. In addition, the interplay of time, space and perception on arts experiences are key to her work. She also contributes to international debates through installation work, painting and performance. This work focuses on the intersections between non-Indigenous and Indigenous artists, minorities and power groups.
Mayrah is a strong advocate for her community and has established several artist groups in various locations where she has resided. In 2012 she was the secretary for C-ART (Community artists re-thinking) and a director of the Dinjerra Foundation, a small Aboriginal Arts and Cultural organisation located in South West Queensland focused on the sustainability of Aboriginal arts and cultural practices.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
mayrah_yarraga_dreise
fishel
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. c.1971
- Summary
- Mayrah Dreise is an Indigenous sculptor, painter and performance artist who lives in the small town of Dirranbandi, South West Queensland. Mayrah's work covers a broad range of studio areas and challenges the viewer to consider the role of the cultural aesthetic interface experienced in the everyday world.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a2
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marisa-purcell
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Painter Marisa Purcell, born 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland, began her career as a high school teacher before moving to Sydney in 1994 where she completed three degrees in visual arts and art administration. She exhibits widely, travels extensively, and teaches art.
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Writers:
Di Paolo, AliaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Painter Marisa Purcell, born 1971 in Brisbane, Queensland, began her career as a high school teacher before moving to Sydney in 1994 where she completed three degrees in visual arts and art administration. She exhibits widely, travels extensively, and teaches art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a3
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bernadette-lennon-lawrie
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Bernadette Lennon-Lawrie was born in Port Augusta, South Australia, in May 1971. She was of the Mirning (mother’s side) and Antikirinjara (father’s side) people of South Australia. Lennon-Lawrie painted in synthetic polymer on canvas and board and in her artist statement for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre she said the she loved painting, “especially dot paintings”.
It was through the Ceduna Centre that she was able to participate in Adelaide Festival Centre’s 'Our Mob’ exhibitions in 2006, 2007 and 2008. She also exhibited in a group show in 2007 at the Red Poles Gallery in McLaren Vale and was a finalist in the 2008 Port Lincoln Art Prize. She won first prize in the West Art Exhibition at the Ceduna Oysterfest with her painting Jidarah (the great whale).Her painting Whirly wind, Dust storm was acquired by the South Australian Museum.
Her grandmother Jessie Lennon was a published author with the book titled I’m the one that know this country. Her son, Beaver Lennon, was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Xstrata Art Awards at the Queensland Art Gallery.
Both her mother, Verna Lawrie, and her son, Beaver, work from Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre. Bernadette Lennon-Lawrie passed away in 2008.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 10 May 1971
- Summary
- Dot painter who worked out of the Ceduna Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre. In collection of South Australia Museum.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 2008
- Age at death
- 37
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a4
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/les-saxby
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Les Saxby is a Wonnarua (Hunter Valley, New South Wales) painter, dancer and didgeridoo player who paints the Dreamings of his people. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1971 to Norma Walsh and Gordon Saxby. He began painting in the early 1990s and was included in the 1998 exhibition “ Djalarinji: Something that belongs to us” at Manly Regional Museum and Art Gallery. In 1992 he formed the dance troupe Yidaki Didg & Dance .
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 2 July 1971
- Summary
- Les Saxby is a Wonnarua (Hunter Valley, NSW) painter, dancer and didgeridoo player who paints the Dreamings of his people. He is the founder of Yidaki Didg & Dance.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 8-Feb-09
- Age at death
- 38
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a5
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/troy-bennell
- Birth Place
- Bunbury, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Troy Bennell, Noongar artist and member of the Balardung people, was born in 1971 in Bunbury, Western Australia. He completed a course in Aboriginal Studies at Bunbury’s South West Regional College of TAFE in 1988. In his younger years, Bennell was a member of the Middar Dance Group. Bennell began painting after attending a workshop with Lance Chadd , and enhanced his skills after participating in another workshop with Shane Pickett ; his uncles Danny and Lenny Khan (his mother’s brothers) have been important reference points for Bennell’s artistic practice. Bennell has also been inspired by the Carrolup 'school’ of artists who made paintings at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s and 1950s, and his family has connections with two of those artists, Reynold Hart and Revel Cooper. In Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago) (2006), Bennell is quoted as saying:“Mum can remember watching Reynold Hart and Revel Cooper, especially Reynold Hart in Collie 'cause Mum grew up on the reserve there see, and Mum and her brothers would… probably sit and watch old boy paint. Yeah Mum’s brothers they were deadly artists and I used to sit there and watch them. Mum’s older sister was married to Revel Cooper as well. They’ve got some good old yarns about him.” (pg 77).
Bennell often creates gouache landscapes, however he also makes abstract acrylic paintings in which he employs an earthy palette, and sometimes mixes sand and dirt into the paint. The marks and symbolism in these paintings represent Noongar journeys to camping sites to fish and collect food; song cycles and the six Noongar seasons that correspond with them; and weather patterns that are unique to Noongar country.
In 2001 Bennell received the Worsley Alumina Award at the 'South Western Times Survey Exhibition’ at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. His exhibitions have included 'South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002’ (2003) at the Art Gallery of Western Australia; 'Walyulup Dreamings’ (2004) at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery in Fremantle; and 'Noongar Moorditj’ (2005) at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. He also staged a solo show titled 'Nyanyang Boodja Ngarlang Boodja: My Country, Our Country’ at the Mallalyp Gallery in 2007. In 2008 Bennell was part of an exhibition with Graham Taylor and Athol Farmer titled 'Noongar Boodja: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ecology and Culture’, shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New York. In 2006 Bennell worked alongside Shane Pickett , Lance Chadd , Yvonne Kickett, Alice Warrell and Sharyn Egan to create the Ngallak Koort Boodja (Heartland) canvas. This work, which resulted from extensive community consultation with Noongar families over three years, was commissioned to be the centrepiece of the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival. It measured eight by ten metres and the artists collaborated to create a design that represented the fourteen clans of the Noongar nation.
Bennell began working at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries in 1999, first as a community festival organiser, and then as an Indigenous Arts Development Officer from 2001. Apart from curatorial duties, this position saw him work with the Western Australian Department of Education and Training to facilitate art workshops at a range of primary schools in the region. Bennell has been involved in facilitating the artistic practice and raising the profile of Indigenous artists from the southwest of Western Australia.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Bunbury-based Noongar artist who was awarded the 2001 Worsley Alumina Award at the 'South Western Survey Exhibition', Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99a6
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dean-andrew-sewell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Dean Andrew Sewell is a Sydney-based photographer born in 1971 to a site-builder father and fashion retailer mother. As a seventeen year old in high school he was inspired by a photographic course, which lead to his decision to be a photographer. Sewell came to admire the work of major international photographers, such as Bruce Davidson, Eugene W. Smith, Alex Webb and Susan Meiselas. He took up an apprenticeship in 1989 in the photographic department of the Sydney Morning Herald , complemented by a Certificate course in Photography at the Sydney Technical Institute (TAFE) in Ultimo, Sydney. Learning from practice, he believes, is vital. While partly influenced by a number of European artists, Sewell believes that working with the photographers at The Sydney Morning Herald has provided him with a solid foundation in the medium.
As an Australian, Sewell searches for what he sees as the truth of Australian life. His series Bushfire Aftermath (2002) and his reflection on the lives of Aboriginal people on The Block (2001) are indicative of this. They illustrate Sewell’s aim to use photography as an artistic medium that can help people understand or interpret the important economic and environmental events occurring around the world. He is not interested in the role of a photographer singularly pursuing art, journalism or political issues. For instance, The Block series tried to show every aspect of Aboriginal people’s real lives in Redfern (Sydney, NSW), not only the negative aspects the mainstream media often portray to the public.
As a Sydney Morning Herald photojournalist he photographed the Chechen war in 1996. Sewell’s 2000 coverage of the invasion in Dili, Timor Leste, focuses on the lives of the East Timorese. His acclaimed Tsunami Aftermath (2005), following the devastation caused in Aceh province, Indonesia, allowed him to reveal aspects of the devastation hidden by the mainstream media (Giblett, 2005). By choosing black and white over colour photography, Sewell hopes viewers might pay more attention to the grim story and to realise that a natural disaster is also a human disaster. Both these series of images won Sewell major awards.
An individual image that has also won an award – the 2009 Moran Contemporary Photography Prize – is A Dry Argument (2009). The coloured photograph shows a flat landscape with distant bushes on the horizon and a clump of tall grasses in the left foreground. Central to the image is a wooden jetty thrusting into the middle distance over a sandy and grassy terrain. At one end of the jetty is a large unfurled sun umbrella, a small table and an empty chair. Just to the right of the jetty and presumably tethered to it, is a small row boat, sitting on dry land. Although dark clouds fill the sky, enough sunlight seeps through to allow the jetty and boat to cast strong shadows. The introduction of the surreal props heightens both the intense image and the imagination, leading the judges to comment that: “It is an original and telling account of what is one of Australia’s most pressing concerns and surely an accurate and concise interpretation of 'contemporary Australian life’” ( Photofile , 2009). In 1994 and 1998, Sewell won the Australian Press Photographer of the Year Award. In 2000, he achieved second place in the World Press Photo Awards for his coverage of Timor Leste (East Timor). In 2005 Sewell was awarded first place for his work on the Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia. In 2005 and 2008, he was awarded an Artist Residency by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in the historical village of Hill End in New South Wales, Australia. A Dry Argument (2009) secured him the aforementioned Moran Contemporary Photography Prize in 2009.
The impulse to inform a wider public through visual stories of human lives also drives the collective Oculi, established in 2001 by Sewell and eight other award-winning photojournalists in Australia. Oculi’s focus is on, “Revealing real lives and real stories that are overlooked by mainstream media” (pers. comm.) The photographers try to implicate every aspect of our time and region through a visual poetics that seeks “the extraordinary in the ordinary” (Oculi website). Free from the commercial drivers often underpinning photojournalism, the Oculi collective pursues their own understanding of documentary photography.
In his spare time, Sewell plays music, especially garage music, rock and punk. He also makes objects out of recycled and discarded materials. Sewell occasionally makes political sculptures.
Sewell’s photographs are in the National Library of Australia and private collections. His submissions to the World Press Photo Award have been exhibited at the State Library of New South Wales (Sydney, NSW). He has served as a judge for a number of photographic contents, including the Historic Houses Trust “My Sydney” Award in 2007 and the Tweed River Art Gallery Photography Prize in 2009.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineZhang, Xueting
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Dean Sewell is a documentary photographer and award winning photojournalist whose work focuses on the lives of people whether from Redfern in inner Sydney, the outback, Timor Leste or the tsunami survivors in Aceh province Indonesia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/khan-pitt
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1971, Khan Pitt is from the Eastern Island Group of people from the Torres Strait. His paintings comment on the contemporary lives of Indigenous peoples and their struggles with Australia’s social and political policies. He has had his work featured in the Pacific Arts Festival in New Caledonia in 2000 and in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. His 'Gatherings’ artist statement reads, “Through the ages, art has been used as an educational tool, for telling stories and religious expression. I also like to use art to get my messages across: contemporary Indigenous urban culture is alive, growing and has a voice.” His solo exhibition, 'Pitty’s Palace’ was held at the Queensland College of Art. Pitt is also a print and film maker.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
duggim
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Khan Pitt is from the Eastern Island Group of people from the Torres Strait. His paintings comment on the contemporary lives of Indigenous peoples and their struggles with Australia's social and political policies.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb99a8
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-peet
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Matthew Peet, also known as 'Mistery’ or 'MrE’, is a Sydney based graffiti artist, working primarily in the public domain. He was born in 1971 in Bankstown, Sydney, and became interested in breaking (break dancing) and graffiti in the early 1980s. When the popularity of breaking began to decrease in Australia, he continued to develop his skills in graffiti writing. Although Peet started out spraying illegally as a twelve year old, his motive has always been creative development and expression, rather than defiance of authority. During this early period, his mentor was Casm/Dem2 of the graff (define) crew known as FAB4. Casm/Dem2 was one of the first writers to make a 'piece’ in Sydney. He taught Peet the skills and techniques of graffiti writing. The inspiration for Peet’s works came originally from the book Subway Art as well as the early New York writers, especially Skeme and Doze. Early European writers, such as Mode2 and the Chrome Angelz (both painting in the late 1980s) also provided him with inspiration. Peet progressed into legal graffiti writing, primarily through word of mouth or simply by approaching the owners of walls he wished to spray. Also people would often ask him for his details whilst he was in the act of spraying a wall. Peet is currently part of three graffiti crews, namely: Twenty First Century, DCA and Bounty Hunterz. Claude Rodriguez (Wizdm) and Peet are two members of The Bretheren, one of the longest serving Australian hip hop crews. The Bretheren has performed at numerous festivals, including Hoodwise in Oxford Street, Sydney.
Peet works with aerosol cans and his artworks are generally large in scale, often cover the entire side of a building, and contain elaborate backgrounds, vibrant colours and wildstyle text. They are known for their characters, which have been partly influenced by his drawing of cartoons as a child, and partly by the high level of commissioned artworks that he does, where he uses images rather than words to appeal to a wider public audience. Not only has Peet drawn cartoons for Mad Magazine , but he has also worked as a freelance artist for a number of large companies and organisations, including Coca Cola, Sydney Theatre Company and the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). Peet has represented Australia in numerous international mural projects in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, United States of America, Germany and New Zealand. He helped to organise the 'Platform 1’ event which took place from 28-29 March 2008 at the Carriageworks performance space in Chippendale, Sydney. It was Sydney’s biggest hip hop festival and featured more than seventy local hip hop performers with specialties in breakdancing, graffiti writing, MCing and DJing. Peet also organised the 'Don’t Ban the Can’ exhibition which was held on 20 September 2008 at Clifton Park, Brunswick, Melbourne, in response to a tightening of anti graffiti laws in Melbourne. The exhibition involved works from over two hundred artists as well as live painting, breakdancing, bands and DJs. From 28 August 2009, Peet was chosen to create artworks for the MAY’s Lane Art Project, an outdoor gallery space in St Peters, Sydney. These works were carried out on five large panels hung in the window spaces along the side of a building in May Lane and remained there for the period of a month. Peet has also completed numerous commissioned works during his time as an active artist. One such artwork is a mural entitled Lest We Forget created for Blacktown RSL in which he used semi photo-realistic images to depict Australian servicemen and women.
Aside from his role as an artist, Peet has also taken on a role as educator and spokesperson for young people. He has used his artistic skills to work with youth all around Sydney, providing graffiti workshops in conjunction with a number of local councils including Warringah, Marrickville, Holroyd, Auburn, and the former South Sydney. Peet has also collaborated with the New South Wales Police on their Crime Stoppers School Campaign, acting as a spokesperson in a number of visits to Sydney schools with the aim of educating the students about the difference between graffiti as vandalism and graffiti as art, as well as informing them on how to become involved in legal graffiti projects. Recognition of his contributions to the youth of Sydney has come in the form of his being awarded the “Young Citizen of the Year” title in 1996 from Marrickville Council. Since 2000 Peet has worked for Warringah Council coordinating their graffiti art projects and conducting weekly aerosol art training sessions for young people. At Casula Powerhouse, Peet plays the role of mentor to young people using the legal walls provided within the centre and conducts legalised aerosol art workshops.
Writers:
Irons, JessicaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Matthew Peet is a Sydney based graffiti artist who has been practising this art form for over twenty-five years.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sophie-dunlop
- Birth Place
- Sydney, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
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staffcontributor
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/steve-lopes
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1971, Steve Lopes graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from the University of New South Wales in 1991. In the same year he studied with the New York Art Students League in the USA and in 1998 he studied with the London Print Studio in England. Throughout 2005 Lopes undertook private study with Peter Howson in Glasgow, Scotland.
Lopes is a figurative painter. Since 1996 he has had twelve solo exhibitions throughout Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. He has also exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and is a frequent finalist in the Kedumba Invitational Drawing Award. In 2008 he was a finalist in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, NSW.
In 2003, 2001 and 1991 Lopes won first prize in the Carnivale Arts Festival, Sydney. In 1997 he was awarded the Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London. Lopes’ work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; BHP Biliton; Bundanon Collection; State Library of New South Wales; University of Wollongong Art Collection; The University of Melbourne Library; Time Warner, New York; Rolls Royce, London; British Biotec; Psion Communications, London; Cable & Wireless, UK; as well as Private collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Italy and the USA.
Writers:
Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Contemporary figurative painter, 2008 Doug Moran Portrait Prize finalist. Lives and works in NSW.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ab
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-farmer
- Birth Place
- Gnowangerup, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Peter Farmer, Noongar artist, was born in Gnowangerup in 1971. Gnowangerup is a small town in the great southern region in Western Australia, just east of the town of Katanning. Farmer’s family descend from a number of Noongar groups, including the Whadjuk, Minang, Wilman and Wardandi peoples. He describes his childhood as semi-traditional: his family lived off the land and did not move into a house until the mid 1970s. Farmer lived at Marribank Mission, 30km from Katanning, between the age of eight and seventeen. Marribank was previously the Carrolup Native Settlement, which was established in 1915 to house and train Aboriginal children who had been removed from their families in order to be assimilated into non-Indigenous society.
Carrolup was where the renowned 'Carrulop children’ artists had created their work under the guidance of Noel and Lily White, a humanitarian couple who managed the settlement in the 1940s and encouraged the young inmates (aged between ten and fourteen) to draw and paint the bush around the settlement. Their paintings were exhibited to wide acclaim, to the extent that they were toured in selling exhibitions in many parts of Australia, New Zealand and Europe. A large collection of Carrolup paintings was unearthed at the Colgate University in New York in 2004, and a selection of these was returned to Katanning temporarily for the Perth International Arts Festival in 2006.
In 1952 the Carrolup Settlement was transferred to the control of the Baptist Church and became known as Marribank Mission, or simply Marribank. Members of Farmer’s family were residents at Marribank in the 1970s and 80s. Farmer’s mother, Fay Farmer, and many of her relatives were part of a generation of Marribank residents who received government funding to create ceramics, batiks and other forms of textile work as part of the Marribank Artists Cooperative, which operated in the 1980s. The Art Gallery of Western Australia acquired a number of objects and fabrics they created. Farmer, who cites his mother as his primary artistic influence, recalls watching these members of his family making their work when he was a child and regards this experience as being to some degree formative of his artistic inclinations and skills.In 1999 he enrolled in an Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art at Curtin University, and went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 2001. In correspondence with the author, Farmer described a transition that took place over the course of his studies from creating paintings in a 'traditional’ style, dominated by ochres and an earthy palette, to exploring more contemporary modes of expression. Since graduating, Farmer has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including the 'Moorjditch Mar-Daa Art Award’ for the Armadale Redevelopment Authority’s NAIDOC week celebrations in 2006, and the 'Spring in the Valley Art Exhibition’ at the La Salle College in Middle Swan in 2008. In 2007 he exhibited alongside fellow Noongar artists Chris Pease and Ben Pushman in the exhibition '3Nyoongar Painters’ at Goddard de Fidde Gallery in Perth, and in 2009 Goddard de Fidde Gallery hosted his solo exhibition, 'Peter Farmer’ . This exhibition consisted of acrylic paintings that depict the Blue Wren (Chirriger), Farmer’s totem. In these works, the wren is delicately rendered standing or in flight against an expansive, saturated blue field of slightly varied tone and hue. The blue wren can be traced as a family totem back to Farmer’s great-grandmother on his father’s side. In future works Farmer intends to explore the Fire (Churlinj/Kaarl) element of traditional Noongar culture, and find ways of representing the various Dreaming stories of his mother’s and father’s ancestral lands. These stories, and his connection to country, are the primary source of inspiration for his work. Farmer states that he is grateful that his childhood on the land, though difficult, assured him an enduring sense of spiritual connection with, and reverence for, his country (pers. comm. 2009).
Besides painting, Farmer has worked with wood, steel, glass and clay. He has also created public art works, such as Noorn (Snake), a 5 metre high steel sculpture which was created for the Swarbrick Interpretation Site at the Walpole Wilderness Discovery Centre in 2006. The site was awarded the 2006 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Western Australia Excellence Award for Public Art in Landscape Architecture. Other commissions include a Noongar Language Calendar and Early Learning Kit for the Noongar Language & Cultural Centre in Perth (2000) and a wall mural for the Aboriginal Studies Unit at Joondalup TAFE (2006). In 2006 he was commissioned by Curtin University, along with fellow Noongar artists Athol Farmer (Peter’s Uncle) and Leonard (Jack) Williams, to create a wooden doak. A doak is a traditional Noongar hunting and digging tool that was preserved for use across several generations of a Noongar family, and this one was designed to serve a similar purpose as a ceremonial mace on formal occasions that take place at the University.
In 2008 Farmer was named Visual Artist of the Year at the Perth NAIDOC Awards. His works are in the collection of the Australian Institute For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Edith Cowan University, Government House in Perth, and the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australian Government.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: In correspondence with the author, 2009.
staffcontributor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Noongar artist who was raised in Marribank and is based in Perth whose paintings are inspired by Noongar Dreaming stories, totems and ancestral lands.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ac
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anita-larkin
- Birth Place
- Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Anita Johnson (Anita Larkin 1999-2019) was born in Australia in 1971, completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of The Arts in 1993, and will complete a Doctor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 2025, which focuses on concepts of brokenness and repair within her contemporary art practice.
Johnson has exhibited extensively around Australia and has been represented by Defiance Gallery in Sydney since 2002. Solo exhibitions have been at Defiance Gallery (2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2022), Wollongong Art Gallery (2007, 2011, 2020), The Australian Design Centre (2021) and Tamworth Regional Art Gallery (2022).
Johnson’s artworks have featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Wynne Prize at The Art Gallery of NSW (2006, 2008), Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi (2002, 2003), The UWS Acquisitive Sculpture Award (2004, 2006, 2010), The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2009, 2012, 2015), The Blake Prize (2013, 2016), Sculptural Felt International (2015) David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award (2008) The 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial (2014), The 6th International World Textile Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mexico (2011, The Beijing International Art Biennale (2012) and the 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, MIFA – Miami International Fine Arts, USA (2022).
Anita Johnson is represented in private and public collections, such as The Lady Ethel Nock Sculpture Collection, Cowra Sculpture Park, Wollongong Art Gallery, The National Textile Collection, Westmead Hospital, Maitland Hospital, Tamworth Regional Gallery, The University of Wollongong,and The Australian War Memorial Art Collection.
Writers:
Anita Johnson Larkin
Anita_Johnson
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2023
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/russell-lowe
- Birth Place
- Auckland, NZ
- Biography
- Russell Lowe was born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand, the third child and only son of Roslyn and Dennis Lowe. He studied Architecture at Auckland University where he received both his Bachelor of Architecture and Masters of Architecture. He began teaching at Auckland University before taking up the post of lecturer in Digital Media Design, Architectural Drawing and Interior Architecture at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. In 2007 Lowe moved to Sydney, Australia, where he began working as a lecturer in Architectural Computing at the University of New South Wales. Lowe is both an architect and an artist. As an architect, his research is focused on the practical application of video game software and technology to areas outside of the gaming and entertainment industries (in particular its relevance in the design process). As an artist Lowe usually collaborates with other artists, and produces 3D mixed media animations, which blend traditional animation with innovative use of video game platforms. Chief among Lowe’s collaborators is New York artist Federico Solmi, whom he first met during the 2004 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival in New York where he offered to help Solmi with animated video footage. Since then the two have worked together on The Giant (2005), Rocco Never Dies (2005), King Kong and the End of the World (2006), and most recently The Evil Empire (2007) which sees the future Pope going on a rampage through hell. The works have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions and group exhibitions, as well as participating in art and film festivals. The animations and paintings portray a satirical and dystopic view of modern society, commenting on the hectic nature of modern life, the acceleration and temptation of urban society. Each has been made into an edition of ten and sold into private collections, with two artist proofs going to Solmi and Lowe. Lowe and Solmi work together on developing a story line, usually based on Solmi’s concept. Lowe then creates the foundation animation for each work. Creating the animation is a gradual process, sometimes taking twelve months to complete a four minute film. When animating, Lowe uses a combination of techniques to achieve the final result, ranging from the more traditional key frame animation to using computer game engines and “mods” or modified games. Once the animating is done, Solmi then uses the animation as a basis for his drawings. In the hell portion of The Evil Empire the process was reversed, with Solmi providing drawings to be used in Lowe’s virtual environment. In the final stage Lowe brings the stills together with the computer game footage and edits the results. Collaboration and negotiation cross every stage of their work. Key frame animation involves the manipulation of a character’s skeleton by signaling the start and end positions in individual joints, the computer then creates the movement automatically. The movement of every joint in the skeleton is directed by an individual key frame, simple movements (such as raising an arm) require the layering of multiple joint movements. Key frames control the position and motion of every element on the screen, not only the joints of a character’s skeleton, but bone rotations, facial expressions, any shifts within the environment, the intensity and movement of light and the motion of the camera. This complete control results in hundreds of key frames, making the animation process extremely time consuming and complex. The use of “mods” involves altering existing computer game software through editing the environment and characters. The game itself remains unchanged though it appears different due to the altered skins of the characters and textures of the environment. This method can be taken further through customizing characters (altering body shape) and creating new environments. Once the game has been sufficiently modified it will be played and filmed. The filming is done as a user is playing the modified game. Creating the “mod” takes time, but the filming itself is much faster and less limited than that of key frame animation. As the user is interacting with the environment, controlling the character’s movements and the position of the camera, each scene can be shot multiple times, each at different angles. Action sequences can be more complex and dynamic because of the level interactivity, and the ease with which each scene can be re-shot. In the process of animation it could be argued that Russell Lowe is more a technician than an artist, bringing to life Solmi’s vision rather than his own. This is not the case, as there is a lot of collaboration during the animation process. Collaboration through frequent correspondence on narrative and conceptual developments is vital to the transition between Solmi’s artwork and the final 3D animation. In making the film, Lowe alters the story line, or action sequences, as well as making technical changes such as character redesign or alteration. After meeting architect-artist Richard Goodwin in 2007, Lowe collaborated with him on two projects, Transformania (2007) and Surrogate Trojan (2008 – also with Adrian McGregor). The Surrogate Trojan looks at the harbour as a gateway, examining its complexity and demonstrating how this can be exploited. It particularly focuses on environmental issues, such as the importation of genetically modified plants. This urban artwork was part of the 'Back to the City’ installation project curated by Steffen Lehmann in Newcastle, where it won the award for the best installation. As an architect Lowe has won multiple awards, including the Uncommon Ground Urbane Gaze Competition and the 20under40 competition, which he has participated three times. During his time at Noel Lane Architects, his team won the NZIA Award (New Zealand Institute of Architects), and a DINZ (Designers Institute of New Zealand) Best Design Award. He was also invited to take part in the 'Connectivity Project’ (2004) in Aberdeen, Scotland, which exhibited the work of fifteen artists/designers from around the world. Each of these achievements stems from Lowe’s expertise in the field of digital animation.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Adamczyk, Urszula
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Architect and academic, Russell Lowe is also a digital artist who collaborates with New York-based Federico Solmi to create digital media animations using computer gaming platforms.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/clinton-nain
- Birth Place
- Carlton, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Born 1971, Carlton, Victoria, of the Meriam Mer, Erub, Ugar peoples of the Torres Strait and the Ku Ku people of far North Queensland Since obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts (1992-94) and Master of Fine Art (Research) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (2001-03), Clinton Nain has established a significant place in the critical debates of contemporary Australian art. Nain’s work confronts the continuing injustices suffered by the Indigenous peoples of Australia. His powerful symbolism evokes the wounds of dispossession – of country, culture and language – which lie at the heart of those who once were masters of their own destinies. Recurring images, such as his mother’s mission dress and the potholed road leading to her grave, point both to family loss and the ever-painful journey towards reconciliation and healing. In 1999, Nain began his 'White King, Blak Queen’ series exploring colonisation through a black feminine perspective. Through performance, storytelling and staining fabrics with bleach, the Blak Queen boldly quests for equality. Nain explored these ideas further in his 2001 exhibition, 'Whitens, Removes Stains, Kills Germs’.The artist’s brother, writer John Harding, has said: 'The Blak Queen is omnipotent, knows no boundaries and recognises no colonising fences. She has even transformed herself into a bird and flown out a window! She can turn everyday household items into weapons against colonisation and the fading of memory. Her splashes of bleach become evocative images of lingering memories, prodding us to remember the truth.’ (Melbourne, 2001)Nain’s work remains uncompromising. Bitumen, house paint and varnish are now his principal mediums. His exhibitions – 'Living Under the Bridge’ (2003), 'The Dirty Deal Ain’t Clean’ (2005), 'A E I O U’ (2006) and 'Hurdy Gurdy (Wrong Way Around)’ (2007) – target the ongoing marginalisation of many Aboriginal people and communities in Australia. Following the national apology to the Stolen Generations, Nain’s plea is for us to listen to the voices of the most vulnerable in seeking resolution. 'What we artists create’, he says, 'is for everyone in the world.’
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- An indigenous dancer, performer and storyteller, Nain is also a painter and installation artist whose work explores the impact of European settlement on the indigenous nations of Australia. Challenging the white male dominant view of history, Nain's work takes the particular perspective of the black and the feminine.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-weldon
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Cartoonist, illustrator, actor and author, is a freelance cartoonist whose work frequently appears in the Sydney Morning Herald , the Australian Weekend Magazine, Big Issue and The Chaser . Two of his cartoons – 'Chocolate money’, 'Centenary of Federation celebrations continue’ – were included in Bringing the House Down 2001 . Weldon also writes and illustrates children’s books.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist, illustrator, actor and author.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/justine-khamara
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Justine Khamara graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2003. Justine Khamara's sculptural artworks often involve highly time consuming and obsessive processes, such as cutting out multiplied and repeated shapes from photographs and reassembling them into sculptural forms.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b3
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lara-merrett
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Melbourne in 1971, Lara Merrett was again living and working there in 2008. In 1993, she studied painting abroad at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain, before completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1996, and graduating with a Master of Arts (Painting) the following year.
Featuring among her major solo exhibitions are: soft rock , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2007), To soon to tell , Kaliman Gallery, Sydney (2006); let’s get together , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Upside down you turn me , Kaliman Gallery, Sydney (2004); Wish you were here , Kaliman Gallery, Sydney (2003); and No Hard Edges , Kaliman Gallery, Sydney (2002). Lara has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award , ABN AMRO Melbourne & Sydney (2007); Against the Amnesiac Lifestyle Showroom , Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2006); Portable model of. Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart and La Trobe Regional Gallery, Victoria (2005); Arrival/Departure , Bus Gallery Melbourne, collaboration with John Nicholson (2003); Helen Lemprière Traveling Art Scholarship , Artspace, Sydney (2002 and 1999); New Painting , Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales (2002); Fisher Ghost Festival Contemporary Art Award , Campbelltown City Art Gallery, New South Wales (2002 and 1996); and New Acquisitions, The Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney (2000).She has received various grants and awards such as The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists (2001) and Willoughby City Art Prize (2001), and is represented in the collections of the University of New South Wales; the Bundanon Estate; Artbank and UBS.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Contemporary abstract painter, Lara Merrett was a finalist in the 2007 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award. In 2001 she was awarded The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b4
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Latitude-37.9036086 Longitude145.3313506 Start Date1971-01-01 End Date1971-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hayley-west
- Birth Place
- Upwey, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- West’s visual arts practice directly relates to a lived awareness of death and memorial; working with sculpture, video, performance and installation. She is currently completing a Masters by Research at Charles Darwin University and is also involved in the Green Burial and Death Café movement.
Grants and Awards include: Australian Post-Graduate Award Scholarship, Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant, Australia Council for the Arts New Work Emerging Artists Grant, numerous Arts NT grants in Professional Development, Presentation & Promotion and Arts Development categories.
Artist-in-residence: Australian National University Canberra; Waaw Residency, Senegal; Australia Council/ACME London Residency, UK; Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, France; Lost Generation Space Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and the Hill End Artist in Residence Program, New South Wales.
Writers:
Hayley West
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1971
- Summary
- Hayley West is an artist and death literacy advocate. The Departure is a studio, gallery and shop dedicated to death and all that remains. The Departure is a space to ponder your own mortality, educate yourself on end of life matters, and encounter death themed artworks and events. The Departure believes in empowering the community by sharing practical knowledge through exchange and generosity.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b5
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Details
Latitude22.2793278 Longitude114.1628131 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-beynon
- Birth Place
- Hong Kong
- Biography
- Video animation artist, had an exhibition (opened 5 December 2000) at Bellas Gallery, Fortitude Valley Qld called 'Li Ji: warrior girl’ [a modern Chinese hiker, to judge by the illustration on the invitation]. The 'animated video drawings/ images were by Kate Beynon, animation/ production by Michael Pablo, audio by Leigh Ryan’.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Contemporary Melbourne video animation artist, Beynon had an exhibition at Bellas Gallery in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley in late 2000.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b6
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Details
Latitude14.5958 Longitude120.9772 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jelina-haines
- Birth Place
- Manila, The Philippines
- Biography
- Jelina’s first introduction to the art world in 1998 happened out of necessity and her longing for a sense of belonging to a new country. She immediately found solace and reassurance through her artworks. She combined contemporary and conceptual art processes and the craft-making of her unique design. Her work explores the modern fascination of raising environmental awareness and her desire to use art as a catalyst to increase gender equality and equal rights for women and cross-cultural understanding. She describes herself as a transdisciplinary combining theory, visual art, surface designing and traditional arts and culture. Her interests are in the association between Textile/Fibre sculptural wearable art and surface designing, both experimental exploration of using sustainable & recyclable materials. The beauty of her Australian surroundings and her upbringing as a Filipino are the sources of her perseverance and resilience. The association and qualities of Jelina’s artworks and their evocation envelopes every inch of her artwork and are directly linked to traditional knowledge of weaving that Elders have passed on. Each element of her works evokes a metaphor as a woven image using threads, fibres, paints and fabrics to create an astonishing palette of colours and textured surfaces. The result is rhythmic stitches that produced an integrated figurative form of images and well-blended colours entwine with knowledge and story to tell a more in-depth level. Her artworks illuminate inherently multidimensional, creative, interactive, and dynamic processes.
Writers:
Dr. Jelina Haines
Date written:
2022
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Jelina Haines is a Filipino born Australian with an ancestral link to Indigenous Americas-Mexico. Academically hold degrees in fine arts, master's degrees in cultural and arts management, business information and postgraduate in archival and digital preservation management. She gained her PhD studies in Information Science at the School of UniSA-STEM, University of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b7
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Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phyllis-nakamarra-simons
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu c.1970, she lives at Lajamanu and is the daughter – and student – of Victor Simon Tjupurrurla , whose formidable influence is still evident in her art. A Warlpiri speaker, her country is Yarturlu-yarturlu – the Granites – and her Dreamings are Ngurlu, Pirlarla and Laju. She started painting in 1987.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1970
- Summary
- Started painting in 1987 and was taught by her father.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b8
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Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yulanti-nangala-jigili
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu c.1970, Yulanti is one of the youngest people painting at Lajamanu. Of the Warlpiri tribe/language, her country is Pirlinyanu and Dreamings are Ngapa, Yankirri, Pirntina and Jarntujarra (Two Girls). She lives at Lajamanu and worked with her father, Fred Jigili , before he passed away and continues to work with her mother, Judy Jigili Napangardi , in their camp, but does her paintings independently. They are miniatures compared to the huge canvases many Warlpiris like to do. She started painting in 1988.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1970
- Summary
- Warlpiri speaker, and one of the youngest artists in Lajamanu (NT) in the late 1980s, her preference for small canvases set her work apart from the more typical, larger pieces produced in her community.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99b9
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Details
Latitude-20.2759451 Longitude57.5703566 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/denis-paul-beaubois
- Birth Place
- Mauritius
- Biography
- video, performance and installation artist born in Mauritius in 1970. Denis Paul Beaubois immigrated to Australia with his family in 1980. He teaches at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Milecki, DevorahDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- video, performance and installation artist born in Mauritius in 1970. Denis Paul Beaubois immigrated to Australia with his family in 1980. He teaches at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ba
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Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-williams
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Torres Strait Islander, Andrew Williams was born in 1970 and raised in Cairns in North Queensland. He works in the media of synthetic polymer on canvas and silk screen printing on rag paper. His work reflects strongly Williams’ connection to his traditional Islander heritage. His artists statement for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” reads, “My art is an expression of the way I feel and it allows me to show my pride in my heritage, my family and my people. Being a part of a culture of rich, diverse traditions and drawing inspiration from my Islander identity, the sea and its creatures enables me to express my own creativity and ideas.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Andrew Williams was born in 1970 and raised in Cairns in North Queensland. He works in the media of synthetic polymer on canvas and silk screen printing on rag paper. His work reflects strongly Williams' connection to his traditional Islander heritage.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99bb
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Details
Latitude-22.33825 Longitude131.97657 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenda-nungarrayi-patterson
- Birth Place
- Mt Allan, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1970, Glenda is the daughter of Banjo Patterson and Rosie Patterson Napangardi . An Anmatyerre speaker, her traditional country is Mt Allan and she can paint Bush Onion, Lightning and Kangaroo Dreamings. She has spent time at Ti-Tree in recent years as well as Mt Allan.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Born in 1970, Glenda Patterson is the daughter of painters Banjo Patterson and Rosie Patterson Napangardi. An Anmatyerre speaker, her traditional country is Mt Allan and she can paint Bush Onion, Lightning and Kangaroo Dreamings.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99bc
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Details
Latitude-23.216667 Longitude131.9 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-nungurrayi-possum
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born Papunya 1970, Michelle Possum is the younger daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri . She began painting in 1984 under her father’s instruction while the family was living at M’bunghara, near Glen Helen station. Of Anmatyerre descent, she paints women’s stories from the Mt Allan area. Michelle married Heath Ramzan Tjangala with whom she had six children.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Younger daughter of the renowned desert artist, Clifford Possum, who taught her to paint in the mid 1980s. She paints women's stories associated with the her heritage country of Mt Allan (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99bd
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Details
Latitude-23.9427685 Longitude132.7794582 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maryanne-scrutton
- Birth Place
- Hermannsburg, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Maryanne Scrutton was born in Hermannsburg in the Northern Territory in 1970. She lives and works in Port Pirie, South Australia and has exhibited her synthetic polymer on canvas paintings in the 'Our Mob’ exhibitions of 2007 and 2008 at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Port Pirie based painter who has exhibited in both the 2007 and 2008 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99be
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Details
Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/justene-williams
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99bf
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Details
Latitude-27.5610193 Longitude151.953351 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/archie-moore
- Birth Place
- Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Multi-media artist, Archie Moore was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, in 1970 and remained in the Darling Downs region until 1989. He was named after Archie Moore, the African American world boxing champion of the 1950s and 1960s. Growing up in rural Queensland taught Moore about racism and the forms it can take; he was often the target of racist taunts in the school playground. This harsh childhood experience led Moore to develop a keen interest in language and how it is constructed, used and valued as a cultural medium. He completed a Certificate in Art and Design at Gateway TAFE, Eagle Farm, in 1991 and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology in 1998. With a sound knowledge of the technical aspects of visual art presentation and a curiosity of language, Moore investigated the words used against him as a child in the body of work, Words I Learnt From The English Class (2002). Here Moore employed the words that were used to abuse, attack and insult him racially. For example in the work Onomatopoeia, Moore has painted the word “Boong”, and it appears to vibrate on the canvas. He described this work as a reference to a popular joke told to him during his school days (that 'boong’ is the sound an Aborigine makes when it hits the bull bar of your car). Furthermore the word, he says, describes “the jolt that went through my body when realising the nature of these 'humorous jokes’” (http://www.redbubble.com/people/archiemoore/art/125503-9-onomatopoeia, accessed 19 Sept 2008).In his work Scripta Continua 1,2,3,4, shown at the State Library of Queensland 2005 exhibition, “CALD“, Moore investigates words that are made up of at least two other words and places laser-cut foam core letters into a sentence with the 'spaces’ removed. The installation reads 'THERAPIST NOWHERE TOGETHER BRAINWASHERS’. The work challenges the viewer to make sense of it by spacing the words differently. For example, the work could become 'THE RAPIST NOW HERE TO GET HER BRAIN WAS HERS’. Of course this newly constructed sentence does not have a clear meaning either; in conversation with the author (January 2009), MCA curator Glenn Barkley agreed that it could be just this effect that Moore is playing with – challenging the viewer to re-write, to re-construct and to come to an understanding at how easily the English language can be manipulated. Moore’s fascination with the English language and how it has affected him as an Aboriginal man has been developed even further in his 2007 body of work titled Maltheism (which was short-listed in Queensland Art Gallery’s 2008 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award) in which a series of bibles of various sizes lay open at certain key passages. In doing so, Moore is offering a commentary on the Mission Days that were instrumental to Australia’s colonization. From these pages Moore has constructed miniature churches so that the bibles in fact become sculptural works. In one such work the bible is open at Deuteronomy, where the passage, 'Destruction of Pagans’ is displayed. This passage talks of invasions of other lands, the taking of the new land’s resources, the killing of all the men and of making no treaty with the people. Conceptually Moore is commenting on the destruction of Aboriginal spirituality, ceremony and cultural practices by the government policy of rounding up Aboriginal people and forcing them to live on Christian missions, attend church services and praise an alien god. Of this biblical passage Moore has said that he thought “it was a similar genocidal mindset of the First Fleet and also of the invading Christian nations in the Middle East in more recent times, i.e. the Iraq Wars” (http://www.redbubble.com/people/archiemoore/art/125523-9-maltheism, accessed 19 Sept 2008). In a 2008 conversation with the author, University of Newcastle academic Dr Romaine Moreton said 'The written word is fundamental to the creation of social space, informing how physical bodies are identified and become identifiable and Moore’s work makes that connection between the written word and the construction of physical space, alluding to the construction of identities.’Moore was the recipient of the 2001 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to travel to the Czech Republic to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2005 he obtained a residency and exhibition through the NEWflames program at Fireworks Gallery. In 2008 he was a finalist in both the Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery. He has exhibited in many group and solo shows including “Nympholepsy – A survey of 'Love’ works”, Palace Gallery, Brisbane (2005); “The Dark and the Light”, Fireworks Gallery (2005); “Crossings: A Gathering of Artists” SomArts Gallery, San Francisco (2005); “Depth of Field” at Ryan Renshaw Gallery (2006); “2008 Biennale of Sydney Online Venue”; “L’Aboriginal Festival de Avignon”, France (2008); and “The Revenge of Genres Contemporary Australian Art” at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (2008). In 2009 Moore was living in Brisbane, Queensland.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Archie Moore is a Brisbane based multi-media artist who in 2001 won the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholorship.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c0
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Latitude-28.0023731 Longitude153.4145987 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sherrie-knipe
- Birth Place
- Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Sherrie Knipe, sculptor, was born at the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1970. She studied at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, completing a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art) from 1988 to 1990 and a Graduate Diploma of Education in Secondary Teaching (Art and English) in 1992. She attained a Masters of Fine Art (Sculpture) in 2006 and an Honorary Research Fellowship from 2007 to 2009 at Monash University, Melbourne.
Sherrie Knipe’s intricately carved wood and bronze sculptures are like quirky, three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles made up of ‘useful’ objects that she manipulates and rejuvenates into the seemingly ‘useless’. Often involving a distortion of scale, the puzzle pieces range from ordinary household items such as crockery, pegs or buttons, to tiny pieces of nature such as leaves, twigs or fish.
Sherrie Knipe has had several solo shows nationally as well as numerous group shows, including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Craft Queensland, Brisbane, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD and Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS. She was selected as a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize in 2011 and 2009 and for the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize, the City of Hobart Art Prize and the Wynne Prize in 2011. In 2010 Knipe received the People’s Choice Award in the Noosa Regional Gallery Travelling Scholarship and in 2009 she was a finalist in the Darebin La Trobe University Art Prize. She was selected as a finalist in the Stan and Maureen Duke Award and the Fisher’s Ghost Award in 2008, the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award in 2007 and the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize in 2006 and 2002.
Sherrie Knipe won the ROLCO Award for Casting from Monash University in 2004 and received Professional Development Grants from Arts Queensland in 2003 and 1999, as well as a Regional Arts Development Fund for Parks Victoria Artist in Residence Project and the Pat Corrigan Grant in 2003. She undertook a Parks Victoria Residency in 2002 and a McGregor Art Fellowship Residency at Newcastle-under-Lyme College in the United Kingdom in 2000. She has received commissions from Gold Coast University in 2009, Gold Coast City Council in 2003 and the Main Roads Department of Queensland in 2002. Knipe’s work is held in many collections including Artbank, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, The Derwent Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Council Libraries, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland University of Technology, Logan City Council, Main Roads Department of Queensland, Museum of Brisbane, State Library of Queensland, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery and private collections Australia wide.
Writers:
downes
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Sculptor Sherrie Knipe completed her Masters of Fine Art at Monash University, Melbourne, with an Honorary Research Fellowship in 2009. In 2011 she was a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and the Wynne Prize.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c1
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Details
Latitude-28.1786639 Longitude153.5369986 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-appo
- Birth Place
- Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Tweed Heads in 1970, Appo is a Minjungbal man. When the butcher shop he’d worked in for thirteen years went broke in 1997, Robert started painting. At first he taught himself, then he did Certificates I to IV in Aboriginal Art and Cultural Studies at TAFE and took work painting souvenirs. Robert’s work was exhibited at Tweed River Art Gallery group exhibition 'Three Brothers 2006’ and at Grafton Regional Gallery 'Identity’ exhibition. He has also exhibited at the Queensland Aboriginal Creations Gallery, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Brisbane and the Grafton Regional Gallery. In 1999 he entered the Art of Place Awards in Canberra. His work has been sold to private collections in Australia and overseas.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers Inc
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Robert Appo is an Indigenous artist whose acrylic on canvas paintings are inspired by the country and the coast around the Tweed area of northern New South Wales.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c2
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Details
Latitude-31.0798092 Longitude152.842289 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bevan-skinner
- Birth Place
- Kempsey, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Bevan Skinner was born in Kempsey in 1970 and grew up around Grafton where he graduated with an Associate Diploma in Art from Grafton TAFE majoring in ceramics. He has both Gumbaygan and Bundjalung ancestry in his family. Bevan’s works have been exhibited at Grafton Regional Gallery; 'Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Aboriginal Exhibition and Art Award’, 2002 and in 'ConVerge: Northern Rivers Touring Ceramics Exhibition’, 2006-2008, which travelled to thirteen regional galleries across Australia. His paintings and ceramics are held in the Grafton Regional Gallery collection and in private collections throughout Australia.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Bevan Skinner is an Indigenous artist of the Northern Rivers, NSW. His ceramics and paintings feature a dot design 'Birraals of the Wuluurr' which means 'stars of the valley' in the Gumbaygan language.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c3
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Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1970-01-01 End Date1970-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-angus
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1970 in Perth, Western Australia, James Angus is a sculptor and installation artist. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, in 1990, and completed a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1998 at Yale University School of Art in the United States. In 2008 Angus began living between Sydney and New York.
Angus has taught and lectured at Curtin University of Technology (1991, 1994), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut (1998), and the University of Technology, Sydney (2002-2004).
Angus’ first exhibition was in 1991 at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, after which he began exhibiting widely, both in Australia and overseas.
He aims to challenge an audience’s perceptions through his sculptures, which simulate and re-imagine the real world. He takes everyday objects and transforms them beyond their normal state or function, usually altering their size, form, material, colour or context. These alterations place the objects in unexpected and sometimes fictional situations. For example, Rhinoceros (1995) is a life-size fibreglass sculpture of a rhinoceros, painted bright yellow and mounted sideways on a wall.
Although Angus is primarily a sculptor, many of his works are also installation pieces. He believes an artwork’s location is important, and installs his works to interact with the architecture around them. Shangri-La (2002), for example, featured a hot air balloon hung upside down inside the Sydney Opera House.
Angus’s works often incorporate digital technology both to simulate ideas and to physically produce them. For Soccerball dropped from 35,000 feet (1999) and Basketball dropped from 35,000 feet (1999), he recreated the moment of impact after a ball is dropped from an aeroplane. To calculate and model the ball’s disfiguration, he used digital software dynamics programs to simulate the impact.
Angus collaborates with designers, engineers, mathematicians and scientists. Some of his work remains hand-made. He researches extensively and creates drawings and maquettes of larger sculptures.
His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne; Auckland Art Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the collection of Auscorp, Sydney.
In 1998 he won both a Fulbright Scholarship and a Yale University Travelling Fellowship; in 2005 he was shortlisted for the National Sculpture Prize at the National Gallery of Australia; and in 2008 he won the Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineSaroufim, Bassel
Note: Primary biographer
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- James Angus is a sculptor and installation artist who began exhibiting in 1991. His work subverts everyday objects, provoking new ways of looking at the world.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-stewart
- Birth Place
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adam-hill
- Birth Place
- Blacktown, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Adam Hill, painter and performer was born on the 11th March, 1970 at Blacktown in the western suburbs of Sydney. Hill studied Graphic Design at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean Campus and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994. While working as a graphic designer for the Indigenous Australians exhibition at the Australian Museum in 1997, Hill met the Wollongong-based artist Kevin Butler who became his main inspiration to begin painting. Hill took up painting in 1998 and describes his work, which uses acrylic house paint on canvas, as “vast colourful landscapes with reminders of colonial imposition “. Originally using house-paint because it was free, Hill now uses it as he enjoys its density, consistency, durability and affordability. Hill’s work is informed by his research into historical records of Aboriginal resistance, ethnography and anthropology. In the June 2006 edition of Australian Art Collector writer Adam Geczy said of his work; “Hill’s commentary is laced with humorous bluster. An amalgam of poster art and hip-hop, Adam Hill’s painting still has no parallel in the Aboriginal art community. His works are typically acerbic attacks on abuses to the environment, and the continued reluctance of White communities to acknowledge the Aboriginal presence, past and present.” An artist member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative since 1999, Hill has exhibited in solo and group shows intermittently with them since then. His work, Hand Christian and Her Son, was included in the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the work was selected to tour nationally as part of the award’s 20th anniversary exhibition that same year. He has had solo shows outside of Boomalli including “Whitewashed” at TAP Gallery, Darlinghurst in 2004, “The Outskirts of Town” at the Canberra Grammar School in 2004, “Hand Some Returns”, at Birrung Gallery (formerly Walkabout Gallery), Leichhardt in 2005 and “A sign of the crimes” in 2006 at Sydney’s Mori Gallery. Hill has also worked as a muralist for Redfern Community Centre and Ashfield Council. Adam’s work is in the permanent collections of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra, Blacktown City Council, Liverpool City Council, NSW Parliament House, Waterloo Library and Bangarra Dance Theatre. Adam has been awarded the Mayors Choice, 2003, the Liverpool Council Award, 2004 and the Maria Locke Award, 2006 at the annual Mil-Pra Art Prize organised by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. He won the Blacktown City Art Prize in 2002 and was a finalist in the 2005 and 2006 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Born Adam Douglas-Hill is best known as a painter of quirky political satire. His portraits of Aboriginal people and other activists have been finalists in the Archibald Prize. He is also recognised for his Yidaki (Didgeridoo) playing.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c6
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brook-andrew
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Brook Andrew was born in Sydney on 3 April 1970, the second of Barbara and Trevor Andrew’s four children. His first years were spent with his family in inner city Enmore and later, western Sydney’s Blackett. When he was four years old his family moved to Werrington, also in western Sydney. In 1988, after finishing his secondary studies at Cambridge Park High School, Andrew enrolled in Aquatic Resource Management at James Cook University, Rockhampton, Queensland, but discontinued after six months.
In 1991 Andrew enrolled in Interior Design at the University of Technology Sydney but after a month transferred to Visual Arts at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), Nepean campus. In his undergraduate years, Andrew concentrated on interdisciplinary studies and photo-media and in a September 2007 interview with the author he identified Chris Fortescue, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Anne Graham and Terry Hayes as the most influential of his UWS teachers. In his graduating year, 1993, his wall-based text piece Naraga Yarmble Bungalgaragara was awarded the Mary Alice Evatt Prize at Artspace for the best final year artwork in the annual Bachelor of Visual Arts students’ exhibitions at UWS’s Macarthur and Nepean campuses. In 1994 he was included in Felicity Fenner’s and Anne Loxley’s survey of emerging Sydney-based artists, 'Fresh Art’, (S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney) and the following year Judy Annear included him in 'Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney. Ken Watson, Assistant Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, AGNSW, was responsible in 1996 for that institution’s acquisition of Andrew’s colour photograph Chip on the Shoulder (1996), the first state gallery to collect his work.
His 1996 work Sexy and Dangerous was first exhibited at the 1998 RAKA Award, Ian Potter Museum University of Melbourne, where it was awarded the prize. This marked the beginning of a new level of recognition for Andrew’s work; he was subsequently invited to join Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne and in 1999 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired a copy of Sexy and Dangerous for its permanent collection. In 1999 Andrew completed a Master of Fine Arts at College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Paddington, Sydney.
Whether in photography, neon, sculpture or screen-print, Andrew explores power relationships in society, especially in race relations and globalism. The action of seeing recurs in his work, as do Wiradjuri patterns and language.
Andrew has an extensive itinerary of international residencies including Gasworks and Goldsmith College, London University (2000) Sanskriti, New Delhi, India, Asialink residency (2000-01), School of Art, University of Hawaii (2002), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (2006), the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Galeria Metropolitana, and Centro Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile (2006).
His public art projects include 22 neon boomerangs Wilbing (to fly) 1999-2000 at Walama Forecourt, Sydney International Airport Terminal and the monumental wooden, bronze and LED Seven Spears 2000 at Sydney International Shooting Centre, Cecil Park (commissioned by Sydney Olympic Co-ordination Authority) and a large suspended animated neon sculpture in the foyer of The Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Andrew also designed the props and projected sets for the Indigenous component to the opening ceremonies for both the Rugby World Cup (2003, Sydney) and the Commonwealth Games (2006, Melbourne).
In 2001 Andrew was awarded a two-year fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts. This fellowship was to access national film and photographic archives of Aboriginal people in NSW in collaboration with the NSW Aboriginal communities. The projects’ aim was to build better relationships between Aboriginal people and archive institutions through the development of protocols and stimulation of debate, with the end result for Andrew being the creation of new work.
Andrew’s practice extends to curatorship and public discourse. At djamu Gallery, The Australian Museum at Customs House, Sydney, he exhibited museum objects in 'Blak Beauty’ (1999) and 'Menthen. Queue Here’ (2000), the first was a celebration of the aesthetic beauty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artworks and objects, the second was a sculptural display of Indigenous shields from various regions of Australia. Aggrieved by the lack of serious discussion of Aboriginal art, Andrew conceived the seminar series, “Blakatak: Program of Thought”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2005-06. Andrew’s work has attracted the attention of the cultural theorist, Nikos Papastergiardis who wrote “Crossed Territories: Indigenous Cosmopolitan”, 2006/2007 for the exhibition catalogue for 'Brook Andrew, Eye to Eye’ at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2007 and Marcia Langton, who wrote the 2005 essay “High Excellent Technical Flavour”, for the catalogue 'Brook Andrew : Hope & Peace’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2005.
His inclusion in 2006 in Linda Michael’s '21st Century Modern: the Adelaide Biennale of Australia’ coincided with a spate of international exhibitions including 'Trans Versa’, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile, 'High Tide: Currents in Contemporary Australian Art’, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania (2006) and 'Den Haag Sculptuur 2007: De OverKant/Down Under’, The Hague, The Netherlands (2007). Monash University Museum of Art’s (MUMA) staged the survey exhibition, 'Brook Andrew Eye to Eye’, curated by Geraldine Barlow in 2007 and toured to Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Sydney 2007 and the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth 2008. In a 2007 telephone interview with the author, Judith Ryan, the curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Australia described Andrew as a “multidisciplinary or new media artist, Brook consistently masters the medium while always making something provocatively beautiful. He is constantly pushing the boundaries of the beauty of the medium. For instance, with Sexy and Dangerous , the work is printed on duraclear and is hung out from the wall. He invents the medium as he goes along and he is always seeking to keep re-inventing himself”.
Since 2004 Andrew has lived and worked in Melbourne, Victoria and since 2007 has been represented by Melbourne’s Tolarno Galleries.
Writers:
Loxley, Anne
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Brook Andrew is a graduate of the University of Western Sydney and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. Andrew has exhibited extensively both around Australia and overseas and is known for his neon work, public art, printmaking and photography.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c7
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/regina-walter
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- artist born in 1970 and raised in Smithfield, Sydney. Walters works with multiple media including drawing, video, installation, sound, and photography.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Garlan, ElizabethDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Artist born in 1970 and raised in Smithfield, Sydney. Walters works with multiple media including drawing, video, installation, sound, and photography.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c8
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charlie-colbung
- Birth Place
- Mt Barker, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Charlie Colbung, Noongar artist, was born in 1970 and spent his early life in Mt Barker. He has tertiary qualifications in both dance and art: in 1990 he completed an Associate Diploma of Performing arts in the Dance Development Unit at Clontarf Aboriginal College in Perth, and in 2004 he completed a Diploma in Aboriginal Visual Arts at Great Southern College of TAFE in Mt Barker. In 2007 he received the WA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year award at the Western Australian Department of Education and Training (DET) Training Awards. Colbung works across a range of media including oils, acrylics, watercolours, mixed media, pencil and pastel. His great aunt was Bella Kelly , a renowned landscape painter from Mt Barker associated with the Carrolup school of artists. Colbung spent a lot of time with Kelly during his youth in Mt Barker, painting beside her and being shown how to mix colours and apply the paint. Kelly remained an ongoing source of inspiration for Colbung. Colbung seeks in his work to explore social and environmental issues of importance to him, aspects of Noongar culture and parts of his own biography. He participated in 'Liminal’, an exhibition at the Vancouver Arts Centre in Albany as part of the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival, the 'Lower Great Southern Noongar Artists Exhibition’ at the same location in 2005 and 2008, 'Hotspot’ at the Residency Museum in Albany (toured within Western Australia by Art on the Move) (2007) and 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah’ at the Brisbane Powerhouse (2009). In 2008 Colbung held two solo exhibitions, one at the Mungart Boodja Art Centre, and another, titled 'Bwokkenup-Boodja Mort and Me (Mt Barker country, family and me)’, at the Katanning Town Hall. In that year he also exhibited his work in 'Revealed: Emerging Artists from Western Australia’s Aboriginal Art Centres’ at the Central TAFE Art Gallery, Perth, where he and Alan Kelly represented Mungart Boodja.Colbung has also conducted art workshops at schools and worked as a dance teacher in the Gnowangerup Community, an arts officer at the Southern Aboriginal Corporation, an Indigenous programs officer at Great Southern TAFE and as an Aboriginal health worker for Great Southern Aboriginal Health Services.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Noongar painter from Mt Barker who has participated in several exhibitions in Western Australia. Was included in the Brisbane Powerhouse exhibition 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah (The Legend of Children Long Ago)'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99c9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peta-clancy
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- Peta Clancy is a photomedia artist who explores the hidden histories of past massacres of Aboriginal people in her multilayered reworked landscape images.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ca
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rowan-opat
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99cb
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tomislav-nikolic
- Birth Place
- Melbourne , Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1970
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99cc
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/diego-bonetto
- Birth Place
- Pinerolo, Italy
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Artist, forager, speaker, keen naturalist and award winning cultural worker based in Sydney. Since 2002, Diego has been working as a multimedia artist and cultural engagement practitioner and is key member of artists’ collectives SquatSpace and the BigFAGPress.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99cd
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tamara-voninski
- Birth Place
- New York, USA
- Biography
- Tamara Voninski (b New York) is a photo media artist & filmmaker who works within the blurred boundaries of photography, film essay and visual poetry. Her work often depicts life in the Australia and Oceania region. Her photographs have won international awards and residencies including: International Pictures of the Year Awards, Art Gallery of NSW residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris and the inaugural Alexia Foundation Photography for World Peace grant. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, France and Australia over 25 years. She has recently returned from 1.5 years on the road exploring cross-Australia in a caravan journey reminiscent of the early photographers wagons traveling and photographing from town to town. Voninski is a founding member of the Australian based Oculi collective (2000-present). The Paris based Agence VU represents her work throughout Europe. She is currently a PhD candidate at Sydney College of the Arts in Screen Arts.
Writers:
tvoninski
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Tamara Voninski is a photo media artist & filmmaker. Her work often depicts life in the Australia and Oceania region. Voninski is a founding member of the Australian based Oculi collective
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ce
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Details
Latitude24.5290384 Longitude111.2975324 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zhong-chen
- Birth Place
- Zhongshan, China
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99cf
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brenda-tye
- Birth Place
- Malaysia
- Biography
- Brenda Tye was born in Malaysia in 1969. She is a printmaker specialising in the areas of custom and collaborative printmaking with other artists, and teaching art across various mediums, techniques and age groups. In 2009 she established art school and custom printing business named The Art School Studio.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Balestro, Nicole
Note: A mature-age student in Architectural Studies at UNSW, with a background in jewellery and object design, interior design, and painting.De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Art historian and senior lecturer, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Brenda Tye was born in Malaysia in 1969. She is a printmaker specialising in the areas of custom and collaborative printmaking with other artists, and teaching art across various mediums, techniques and age groups. In 2009 she established art school and custom printing business named The Art School Studio.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d0
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gerald-iljiddimor-surha
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1969 of the Jiddabul people of North Queensland, Gerald Iljiddimor Surha’s sythentic polymer on canvas paintings depict the Dreaming stories and legends of the rainforests of tropical Queensland. He showed his work in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” in Brisbane and his artist statement from that exhibitions says, “My artistic inspiration is my ardent desire to witness the next generation of my people visually experience the rainforest the way I did as a child.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Jiddabul artist, Gerald Iljiddimor Surha's sythentic polymer on canvas paintings depict the Dreaming stories and legends of the rainforests of tropical Queensland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d1
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Latitude-26 Longitude121 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sharron-liddell
- Birth Place
- Western Australia, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Sharron Liddell is a Nyoongar woman who was born in 1969 in Western Australia. In 2006 in association with Kuju Aboriginal Arts and Crafts of Port Lincoln, South Australia she was able to exhibit in the Our Mob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Liddell is a member of VISCOPY.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Nyoongar (WA) artist who lives in South Australia and showed a work in the 2006 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d2
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Latitude-26.1518398 Longitude131.1470894 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tjungkara-ken
- Birth Place
- Amata, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Tjungkara Ken is one of the Ken sisters who often collaborate to paint their land and its stories. She has also painted solo works
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d3
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Latitude-26.286773 Longitude132.13302 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yilpi-atira-atira
- Birth Place
- Ernabella, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Born 7th November 1969, of the Pitjantjatjara language group. Yipli was born at the Mission hospital at Ernabella. Her mother, Tjulkiwa Atira-Atira, is from Wataru (Mt Lindsay). Her father, Michael Atira-Atira , was born near Ernabella. Both are Pitjantjatjara speakers now living on a homeland settlement at Pukatja. Yilpi attended Ernabella School. She is now married, and has one daughter Nyukana. Yilpi began working in the batik workshop at Ernabella Arts in 1988. In July 1989 she sold her painting in Desert Impressions , the Australian Conservation Foundation’s exhibition at the Friends of the Earth Gallery in Melbourne. In November 1989, she was a featured artist in Ernabella Arts’ exhibition Wirujuta at the Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs. Yilpi’s acrylic paintings show the same rapid refinement of the technical aspects as is evident in her work in other media such as batik scarves, where she also experiments with varied combinations of lines, shapes and colours.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara artist, born in Ernabella, who commenced working with batik and acrylics on canvas in the late '80s. Her work has been shown in exhibitions such as "Desert Impressions" at the Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne, 1989.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d4
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sonya-hodge
- Birth Place
- Meekatharra, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Sonya Hodge is from the Lardil people from Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. She lives and works in Mildura on the banks of the Murray River in Northwest Victoria. She was commissioned in 1993 (the World Indigenous Peoples Year) by the City of Melbourne, along with fellow artist, Maree Clarke, to paint contemporary designs onto poles that were placed in Melbourne’s City Square. In 2005 she and another Mildura based artist, Karen Clarke-Edwards, were commissioned to work on the 'Yuyu’ possum skin cloak for the statewide Possum Skin Cloak project which saw 37 cloaks created and then paraded by Victorian elders as part of the opening ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Mildura based Lardil woman, Sonja Hodge, is a painter who was involved in the Possum Skin Cloak Project, creating one of 37 cloaks in 2005/06.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d5
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Latitude-26.9659828 Longitude133.3078312 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/julie-yatjitja
- Birth Place
- Indulkana, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Printmaker and painter, Julie Yatjitja commenced her art practice with Iwantja Arts and Crafts, Indulkana, after the centre's facilities were re-established in 1994. She has been involved in community workshops at the centre and has exhibited works in Adelaide and within regional touring exhibitions. Her work is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d6
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-pease
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Christopher Pease is a Minang/Wardandi/Balardung Noongar man from Western Australia. He was born in Perth in 1969. His mother, Sandra Hill, and his brother Ben Pushman are also visual artists. Pease studied art at the Perth Technical College. His works of oil on canvas and Balga (grass tree) resin and ochres on canvas are informed by his family histories and the colonial history of Western Australia. His sources are generally from family stories, historical documents and photographs as well as the photographs of well known 19th and 20th century Irish immigrant journalist Daisy Bates. The 'traditional’ media of resin and ochre are gathered from his own 'country’ in southern Western Australia.
Pease has been included in a number of key group exhibitions including 'South west central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia, 1833-2002’ at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2003), 'Works from the collection’, John Curtin Art Gallery (2004) and 'Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial’, at the National Gallery of Australia (2007 and touring nationally and internationally until 2009). In 2002 he exhibited alongside his mother and brother in a group/family show at Goddard de Fiddes Gallery in Perth where in 2000, 2003 and 2005 he has staged solo exhibitions.In 2006 Pease was commissioned by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to participate in an Aboriginal Print Portfolio commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Dutch East India Company owned vessel, Duyfken (Little Dove), which landed on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula in 1606. The other artists included in this portfolio were Laurel Nannup, Karen Casey, Allan Mansell, Dulamari (Djalinda Yunupingu), Duwarrwarr Marika, Janice Murray, Garry Namponan, Leonie Pootchemunka and Pedro Wonaeamirri. Pease was a finalist in the 19th and 22nd Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (2002, 2005) and in June 2009 he was announced as one of fifteen finalist artists in the 2009 WA Indigenous Art Awards. Pease has works in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, BHP Billiton Art Collection, the Holmes a Court Collection, the Kerry Stokes/Australian Capital Equity Collection, Murdoch University, John Curtin University of Technology, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Wesfarmers Australia and the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ultrect, Netherlands. Pease lives and works in Perth, Western Australia.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Western Australian Aboriginal painter who works with oils, resin and ochres. His works are informed by family and Western Australian state histories. Pease was included in 'Culture Warriors', the first National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d7
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/julie-dowling
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Julie Dowling is a Perth based painter of Kalaamaya descent. In 1989 she obtained a Diploma of Fine Art from the Claremont School of Art in Perth; in 1992 she gained her Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University and in 1995 she was awarded an Associate Diploma in Visual Art Management from Perth Metropolitan TAFE.
She has exhibited her works in many solo and group shows since 1993 including 'Culture Warriors’ (2007), 'Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984’ (2004), 'Holy Holy Holy’ (2004), Urban Blackness (2002) 'Strange Fruit: Testmony and Memory in Julie Dowling’s Portraits’ (2007) and 'Oottheroongoo (Your Country) Multi Media Installation’ (2008).
Dowling has works in the permanent collections of many Australian art institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Olivia Bolton
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Julie Dowling is a Badimaya Aboriginal woman whose portraits have been exhibited in 'Culture Warriors' at the National Gallery of Australia, 'Colour Power' at the National Gallery of Victoria and 'Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770' at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d8
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/merrick-belyea
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1969 in Perth, Western Australia, Merrick Belyea studied Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art, graduating in 1989.
Belyea, known for his haunting paintings, began exhibiting in 1989. In 2001 he was awarded an Artflight grant and in 1999 he won the Centennial Art Award from the Fire and Rescue Service of Western Australia.
Belyea has been commissioned to do works for public spaces, including a bus stop at Mundaring Arts Centre, a children’s mural at Warwick Commercial Park, as well as a work titled Tower at Parkerville Walk Trail, all in Western Australia.
Belyea’s work is represented in the collections of the City of Fremantle, Bank West, FESA, Artbank, Mundaring Shire, City of Joondalup, City of Wanneroo, AM International, Royal Perth Hospital, Holmes a Court Collection and the Australian Republican Movement.
In 2013 Belyea was instrumental in establishing a successful artist run initiative, Art Collective WA, in Subiaco, Western Australia.
Writers:
Stella Downer
Maverick
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Contemporary painter born in Perth, WA, in 1969. Belyea, known for his haunting paintings, began exhibiting in 1989.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99d9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-bell
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- graphic artist, was born in Sydney but moved to Brisbane in 1982 where she completed her BA (QU) and BVA (QUT). Since 1992 she has held four solo exhibitions in Brisbane and Melbourne, and her work has been included in group exhibitions in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Townsville, Germany and Italy. In 1994 she was awarded the Melville Haysom Resident Scholarship at Queensland Art Gallery (QAG).
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- A contemporary graphic artist, Bell is well-represented in collections in both Queensland and Canberra. In 1994 she was the recipient of the Melville Haysom Resident Scholarship.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99da
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/raquel-ormella
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Raquel Ormella works across various media to investigate how critical reflexivity in contemporary art encourages processes of self-examination in relation to political consciousness and social action.
Raquel’s work has been included in the 2008 Sydney Biennale, the 2003 Biennale of Istanbul and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale, Bittersweet at the Art Gallery of NSW (2002), and in the exhibition, Australian at Casula Powerhouse (2008). She has held solo exhibitions at Mori Gallery in Sydney, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne and Casula Powerhouse in Sydney.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Artistic practice covering a diverse range of activities, including video, paintings, installations, drawings, and zines.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99db
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/george-khut
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- George Khut was born in Adelaide in 1969 and currently lives and works in Sydney. His practice-based research has focused on the use of biofeedback and physiologically responsive media as tools for sensing and re-imagining the lived experience of mind-body interrelation. His interactive installation works enable participants to experience and interpret aspects of their own bodily processes as dynamic audiovisual environments. Recent works include Drawing Breath (2004-2006) and Cardiomorphologies v.1 (with John Tonkin) and Cardiomorphologies v. 2 (with Lizzie Muller and Greg Turner). The latter two works were developed during Khut’s Doctorate of Creative Arts candidacy at the University of Western Sydney, which he completed in 2006. This body of work created visual and sonic representations of physiological data from the audience’s body, in order to provide a way for participants to explore the relationship between physiology and their subjectivity.
Khut’s exhibitions include 'Cardiomorphologies v.2’, Arnolfini, Bristol (2006), 'Strange Attractors’, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2006), 'Asian Traffic’, Gallery 4A, Sydney (2005-2006), and 'I took a deep breath…’ at the 2007 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). He has also worked as a sound designer and video artist in a range of dance, theatre and community arts projects.
This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- George Khut is a new media artist who works in body-focused interactive art.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99dc
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1969-01-01 End Date1969-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/narelle-autio
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1969
- Summary
- Narelle Autio studied visual arts at the University of South Australia and began her career as a photographer for newspapers in Adelaide and Sydney. Since 1998 she has worked on a series that depicts Australians' relationship with the beach and water.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99dd
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/annette-sax
- Birth Place
- VIC
- Biography
- Annette Sax is a Taungurung (Victoria) woman, based in Melbourne, who works with ochres on canvas and silk. These works often tell the stories of her heritage and its people from Sugarloaf Creek, near Broadford in country Victoria.
In 2008 Sax showed her work in the group show 'Connecting to Country’ at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, with Mandi Barton, Andrew Travis-Clarke, Lee-anne Clarke and Paola Morabito. That same year she was the recipient of Cancer Victoria’s 'Indigenous Visual Art Outstanding Entry’ in their Arts Awards where the judge, Bronwyn Razem, said of her work on Cancer Victoria’s website, that the “use of ochres and patterns shows that the artist understands the cultural significance of her tribal history” (www.cancervic.org.au/indigenous_visual_art_08.html, accessed 28 Jan 2009).Sax was selected as a finalist in the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards for her 2008 work Nira illiam buluk (Our people, Our place), which is made of felt, silk and wood. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1969
- Summary
- Annette Sax is a Taungurung (Victoria) woman who works with ochres on canvas and silk. These works often tell the stories of her heritage and its people from Sugarloaf Creek, near Broadford in country Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99de
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99df
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/graham-chalcroft
- Birth Place
- London, UK
- Biography
- Sculptor Graham Chalcroft is best known for his environmental public art in Sydney (NSW). Born in 1968 in London, Chalcroft’s tertiary education included the study of sculpture, graphic design, painting and drawing at the Canterbury College of Technology (1984 to 1985); prop making, exhibition design and visual merchandising at Medway College, Kent Institute (1985 to 1987); and murals, ceramics, mosaics, stained glass and etching at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1987 to 1989). Throughout this time sculpture remained his principal interest. After a period of freelance work, Chalcroft returned to complete a Masters degree in Public Art and Design at Chelsea College from 1995 to 1996. Upon completing his Masters degree Chalcroft moved to Australia in 1996 and began the process of visiting local governments and cultural development offices. Chalcroft’s education in public art helped to establish his credentials, and secured him his first grant-funded project in Mount Druitt with Garage Graphix. It was here that Chalcroft met graphic designer Stuart Slough with whom he formed the partnership, Placebo Culture. Placebo Culture sought to integrate Slough’s 2D graphic skills with those of Chalcroft in sculpture and public art. Chalcroft’s personal interest in science and the environment were evident in the Placebo Culture commissions, which included: Wollongong Science Centre forecourt entrance sculpture (May 2000); Hanging Under The Freeway (June to July 2001) – a temporary sculptural transformation of the pedestrian area under the Western Distributor in Ultimo, Sydney; an integrated installation at Liverpool Police Citizens Youth Club (2002); and the public art plan and various works for a Parramatta City Council river foreshore project. During this time Chalcroft also formed his own studio under the name Vertebrae. This practice, like Placebo Culture, co-addressed art and the environment, typically supported by extensive community consultation. His projects consider sustainability and the ecological context of the sites through permanent site-specific artworks as well as temporary and ephemeral installations, often working within a multidisciplinary team. Works undertaken by Vertebrae include E-waste sculpture (2005), a temporary project for Willoughby City Council; Spiral Ascent (2006), at the RAAF/WAAF Commemorative Sculpture Bradfield Park, Ku-ring-gai; interpretive sculptures for Drive Through Experience (2006 to 2007) at Mount Annan Botanical Gardens; two sculptures for the Bankstown City Council’s Georges River Historic Interpretive Link Project (2008); and the Solar Stills Sculpture Project (2000 to 2003). Chalcroft also works as an arts and cultural planner for a number of local governments and developers. His large scale sculpture and lighting design for Life Under The Freeway project for the Western Distributor at Harris and Fig Street intersection (2007-2008) was short-listed by Sydney City Council and his Weight Watchers series was commended in the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2007
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine Note: Coad, Francesca Note:
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Graham Chalcroft is a Sydney based sculptor and public artist whose work, built upon community cultural development processes, explores ecological and environmental themes through temporary and permanent site-specific artworks.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e0
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-obarzanek
- Birth Place
- Israel
- Biography
- Photographer Simon Obarzanek was born in Israel in 1968 and currently lives and works in Melbourne. Graduating with a Bachelor of Photography in 1989 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, his first solo show Simon Obarzanek 96-02 was at Max Bernstein Gallery, Melbourne in 2002.
Since then he has had a string of solo shows including Portraits , Max Bernstein Gallery, Melbourne (2005); 80/137 Faces (2006), Centre for Contemporary Photography (2006); 80 faces , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2006); and 10pm-1am , Karen Woodbury Gallery Melbourne (2007).
Obarzanek has also exhibited in numerous group shows including, William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2007 , Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria (2007); National Photography Prize , Albury Regional Gallery, NSW (2007); Innovators , Linden – Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2007); Light Sensitive , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2006); City of Perth Photo Media Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth (2006); Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize 2005 , National Portrait Gallery, London (2005); Commonwealth Place Contemporary Australian Portraits , National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2003) and A Room with a View , Mike Weiss Gallery, New York (1999).
Simon’s work is held in major public galleries including the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- A photographer, Simon Obarzanek chiefly works in portraiture and his work has been exhibited extensively since 2002. His work featured in the 2003 exhibition 'Commonwealth Place Contemporary Australian Portraits' at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e1
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gracie-kumbi
- Birth Place
- Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e2
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marita-sambono
- Birth Place
- Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e3
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/belinda-kuriniya
- Birth Place
- Marrkolidjban, south-west of Manayingkarírra., NT, Australia
- Biography
- Kuninjku artist, Belinda Kuriniya, was born in 1968 at Marrkolidjban, south-west of Manayingkarírra. She has worked with Bábbarra Designs as a printmaker since the mid 1990s and is known for her development of the tradition of the painted bark Mimih Spirit and Kun-madj (dilly bag).
In 2012, Belinda took part in the Community Fabric and Indigenous Industry Forum located in Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land. The forum, titled, Travelling with Yarns, saw designers and textile printers from Indigenous Art Centres in communities across the Northern Territory travel to share their stories and discuss common issues and directions for the industry. When describing her role at Bábbarra Women’s Centre she stated, “We make fabric at the Women’s Centre and other women make clothes out of our designs. I saw the ladies working here and I saw that I could do this work too. I could do it too and do it well and earn a living.
I started working with fabric in 1996, when I was a young woman, before I had children. I was already an artist, painting brolgas on bark and making baskets. I also make string. I am a good weaver and painter, which I do after work when I have the time. I learnt from my uncle and my mum as a child. Later I helped my husband. I use my mum’s and my uncle’s and my husband’s designs. I make the tiles and I print them. I like to use lots of colours in my designs. White is my favourite colour, then green, then yellow, light blue and black. I use lots of colours when I do flowers and mat designs. I like working by myself with my own designs and colours. I work by myself on my designs but with lots of other family and friends around, working hard. In the future I would like to keep working with fabrics and printing my new designs.”
Belinda’s textiles have been exhibited across Australia and internationally in China and Mexico and her textile designs are held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection. Belinda has also featured as one of the senior artists, mentoring the junior artists, in a group exhibition, Báb-barra: Women’s Printing Culture at The Cross Art Projects (2017) [http://www.crossart.com.au/current-show].
Reference List: Bábbarra Women’s Centre. “Belinda Kuriniya.” Bábbarra Women’s Centre. Last modified 2017. https://babbarra.com/artist/belinda-kuriniya/.
Davidson, Christina. “Talking Up Textiles: Community Fabric and Indigenous Industry.” In Talking Up Textiles: Community Fabric and Indigenous Industry by Christina Davidson, 1-64. ANKAAA: Northern Territory, 2012.
Kuriniya, Belinda. “Artist Profile: Belinda Kariniya.” In Talking Up Textiles: Community Fabric and Indigenous Industry by Christina Davidson, 23. ANKAAA: Northern Territory, 2012.
Maningrida Arts and Culture. “Belinda Guriniya.” Maningrida Arts and Culture. Last modified 2017. https://maningrida.com/artist/belinda-gurriniya/.
Writers:
emma_sheehan
Date written:
2017
Last updated:
2017
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Belinda Kuriniya has worked with Bábbarra Designs as a printmaker since the mid 1990s and is known for her development of the tradition of the painted bark Mimih Spirit and Kun-madj (dilly bag). She has also worked as a weaver, textile and fashion designer.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e4
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bibi-barba
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1968 of the Birri Gubba people of Central Queensland, Bibi Barba works as a painter, glass sculptor and textile artist. She showed her work in the 2001 exhibition 'Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland Australia’ exhibition in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- An indigenous artist of the Birri Gubba people of Central Queensland, Bibi Barba is a painter, glass sculptor and textile artist whose work was exhibited as part of the Gatherings exhibition in Brisbane in 2001.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e5
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/delores-mcdonald
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Gold and silver smither and jewellery maker, Delores McDonald was born in Queensland in 1968. Her work was featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- A gold and silver smither and jewellery maker, Delores McDonald was born in Queensland in 1968.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-23.9427685 Longitude132.7794582 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb99e7
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e8
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cindy-wider
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Cindy Wider, nee White, was born in Brisbane in 1968. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and returned at the age of 11 with her parents and siblings to live in Australia. She began to engage in a full-time arts practice in Port Lincoln, South Australila, at the age of 23. Cindy moved to Queensland in 2002 where she met and married her husband Stuart Wider, who is also an artist.
Cindy was short-listed for the Wayne Kratzmann Art Award in 2011 and her artwork was included in ‘Connection’, a touring exhibition of the 2011 Queensland Regional Art Awards. This exhibition was curated by Michele Helmrich (Senior Curator, University of Queensland Art Museum) and was shown at the State Library of Queensland in 2012. Cindy was also selected as one of twelve artists for the ABC Open and Queensland Arts Council project ‘Artist by Artist’ in 2011, and a documentary was created about her artwork.
Her most recent solo touring exhibition titled, 'Rolling Hills of White Flat’, was well-received at the Outback Regional Gallery Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland. In this collection of works, Cindy examines the lives of farmers’ wives in her continual journey to formulate the complex definition of what it means to be a woman. Acting as her muse, Wider’s eldest sister, Wendy, a wife and mother living and working on a cereal and sheep farm in rural South Australia, provides the inspiration for this compilation of art. “I wanted to celebrate her life and bring recognition to her and farmer’s wives in general,” Wider explains of the origins of this latest body of work. 'Rolling Hills of White Flat’ examines the reality and fantasy of life on the land from a feminine perspective. Seeking to inject high levels of authenticity into each piece, Wider left the life of a cosmopolitan artist to live with her sister and family on the farm. She wanted to learn, firsthand, how her sister managed to overcome the struggles of living and working in such a harsh and traditionally masculine atmosphere while still maintaining a strong sense of femininity and personal identity.
In 2013 Cindy moved with her husband and two young daughters to live in West Yorkshire, England, where she she lived and worked as a full-time artist and art curriculum designer Until 2017. In September 2017 Cindy and her family returned to Australia where she now lives in Cairns FNQ. She is represented by Art Licensing International USA for licensing her images onto home décor products.
Cindy is also an author of art education books and manuals and has written four soft cover books as well as 37 E-books which together form the ‘Complete Drawing and Painting Certificate Course.’ She also creates many art education videos. This course is presented as a fully supported internet-based art curriculum with Cindy’s own personally trained team of professionals who teach the course at several websites including her own.
Writers:
Cindy Wider
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2018
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99e9
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Latitude-28.5471732 Longitude150.3073801 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lola-binge
- Birth Place
- Goondiwindi, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Lola Binge was born in 1968 in Goondiwindi, Queensland and lives at Toomelah north west New South Wales. Binge followed her mother into working with handmade paper at the Euraba Paper Company at Boggabilla after enrolling in 2004 in the Certificate II course of Pulp and Paper Manufacturing at Boggabilla TAFE.
Binge completed her training when she graduated in 2006 with a Certificate IV in Pulp and Paper Manufacturing. In 2005 she enrolled the Diploma of Aboriginal Business Manufacturing at Curtin University. Binge has exhibited her work in a number of exhibitions since 2004 including Euraba Paper Artists , at the Moree Plains Gallery in 2004, Goomeroi Artists From Boggabilla at the Moree Plains Gallery in 2005 that toured that same year to Tamworth City Art Gallery and then in 2006 at the Gunadah Regional Gallery. Binge was a finalist in the 2005 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Paper maker, Lola Binge is a member of the Euraba Paper Company and has exhibited her handmade cotton rag pulp paper images at Moree Plains Gallery, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Tamworth City Art Gallery and Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. She was a finalist in the 2005 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ea
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Latitude-31.0798092 Longitude152.842289 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dorsey-smith
- Birth Place
- Kempsey, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Dorsey Smith of the Dunghutti and Gumbangerri people of the mid north coast of NSW was born in Kempsey in 1968. Smith was a member of a local Kempsey-based dance troupe that performed at many functions and rallies including the 1982 Land Rights Rally at NSW Parliament House. An image of Smith dancing at this rally taken by renowned photographer Juno Gemes was published in Nigel Parbury’s book, 'Survival : A History of Aboriginal Life In New South Wales’ (published 1986, Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs NSW).
Smith began his visual arts career in 1985 when he enrolled and completed a course in Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Practice at the Greenhill Reserve, Kempsey. Ten years later in 1996 Smith undertook a course in Koori Art and Design at Kempsey TAFE and in 2001 he continued his TAFE art schooling by enrolling at the Eora Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in Chippendale, Sydney. Graduating from Eora in 2004 Smith maintained his study when he was accepted into the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (COFA, UNSW) and as at 2007 was still an active student there.
Smith is a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in Sydney and in 2005 Boomalli mounted his solo exhibition, 'Finding Me’. Related to Kempsey celebrated visual artists Robert Campbell Jnr and Milton Budge , Smith has work in the permanent collections of Nuragilli Aboriginal Education Unit at UNSW, the NSW Department of Education as well as private collections including that of artist Tracey Moffatt .
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Dorsey Smith of the Dunghutti and Gumbangerri people of the mid north coast of NSW was born in Kempsey in 1968. Smith is related to local celebrated visual artists Robert Campbell Jnr and Milton Budge.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99eb
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TLCMap IDtb99ec
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephen-francis-garrett
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- Stephen Garrett is a multidisciplinary video, sculptor and installation artist. He first studied Psychology and Social Work which he worked in for 10 years before returning to The University of Newcastle to study Fine Art where he graduated in 2001 winning both the Dean’s Medal and the University Medal. Straight after graduation, Garrett won the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship where he took the opportunity to live and work in Vietnam and China for 1 year, holding his first solo exhibition titled, ‘This That Here There’, at the Centre for Contemporary Art Hanoi.
Garrett practices as an artist and writer having held over 12 solo exhibitions and his work has been curated into numerous group exhibitions; his writing has been published in book chapters, journals and exhibition catalogues. A key aspect of Garrett’s multidisciplinary oeuvre is the time he spends wandering around the Australian bush and outback researching and making his highly detailed video’s and sculptural installations. His work draws on cultural ideas of Australian colonial history and he places himself into that context by retracing the landscape and uncovering markers of the past.
Demonstrating the significant national recognition he had already acquired at this early point in his career through his academic achievements, Garrett also contributed to his artistic reputation through the numerous grants and awards he has received, such as: the Muriel Hooper Scholarship from the Art Gallery of NSW (2000) The Marten Bequest (2001), Artist In Residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art Hanoi (2001) at the Melbourne Aquarium (2003), Artist in Residence, Newcastle Region Art Gallery (2007), C.R.A.C French Cultural Grant(with Marie Jeanne Hoffner)(2009), Creation and Development Grant from Arts Victoria (2012)
His work is represented in several public collections throughout Australia, as well as private collections in nationally and abroad.
Writers:
Contart
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Stephen Garrett, born in Newcastle NSW is a sculptor working across a range of media using video, direct action, architectural intervention and drawing. He is an academic and the head of Drawing at Monash University in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ed
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craig-ruddy
- Birth Place
- Forestville, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Craig Ruddy was best known for his striking portraits of Aboriginal Australians. He came to fame after he was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2004 for his linear study of David Gulpilil.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 4-Jan-22
- Age at death
- 54
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ee
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TLCMap IDtb99ef
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kathy-temin-1
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Kathy Temin uses synthetic fur to cloak her sculptures of memory and loss, using soft materials against hard geometric form.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f0
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-pilgrim
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1968, Melbourne, Catherine Pilgrim has exhibited widely since 1994, when she returned to live in Australia after studying lithography and drawing in Washington DC, USA. Pilgrim’s practice, including lithographs drawings, and textiles, is characterised by meticulous drawing and is collected in the National Gallery of Australia.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f2
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1968-01-01 End Date1968-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dillon-naylor
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- comic strip artist, was born in Melbourne, Vic. He began self-publishing semi-underground comics with print runs of 3,000 while still at Scoresby High School in 1987. He produced four issues of Frankie Laine’s Comics and Stories , which were distributed through comic and record shops until 1990. He also submitted art and stories to Victoria’s only anthology of Australian comics, Fox Comics (1984-90) and designed record covers, posters, greeting cards and T-shirts. In 1992 he began producing comics for the Show Bag Factory, which wanted an exclusive line in children’s comics for its show bags. Since 1989 he has also been creating educational comics for the magazines Pursuit and Challenge produced by the Ministry of Education. His company is called Cowtown Comics. His favourite comic artist is Carl Barks, who drew Donald Duck for Walt Disney.
Naylor’s strip Da’n'Dill (which made an early appearance in one of the show bag comics mentioned above) is a weekly feature in the Sun-Herald (Sydney). Naylor also contributes the cartoon Batrisha The Vampire Girl , to the monthly K-Zone Magazine .
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1968
- Summary
- Cartoonist, active since mid 1990s. Naylor began self-publishing semi-underground comics with print runs of 3,000 while still at Scoresby High School in 1987.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f3
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f4
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f5
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Latitude34.0536909 Longitude-118.242766 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guy-ben-ary
- Birth Place
- Los Angeles
- Biography
- Guy Ben-Ary was born in the USA in 1967 and has lived in Israel and Australia. As an artist he has specialised in light microscopy, biological and digital imaging. In 2002 Ben-Ary participated in 'BioFeel’, an exhibition associated with the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). At this time he was living in Perth, WA and managing the Image Analysis and Acquisition Facility (IAAF), School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA. He has been a member of the Tissue Culture & Art Project (joined in 1999) and SymbioticA – The Art & Science Collaborative Lab (joined in 2000). He has also trained in programming, web development and Law.
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Guy Ben-Ary is an artist and a researcher whose work uses emerging medias and in particular biologically related technologies (tissue culture, tissue engineering, electrophysiology and optics).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude30.0443879 Longitude31.2357257 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/raafat-ishak
- Birth Place
- Cairo, Egypt
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f8
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-17.5241721 Longitude146.0311418 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vernon-ah-kee
- Birth Place
- Innisfail, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Screen-printer, drawer, photographer, video and text-based artist, Vernon Ah Kee was born in Innisfail in far north Queensland in 1967. He is of the Kuku Yalandji, Yidindji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples of the Innisfail, Cairns, and rainforest regions of North Queensland, the Koko Berrin peoples of Kowanyama in the West Cape region of Queensland, and the Waanji peoples of the North-West Queensland region around Mt Isa.Ah Kee’s artistic training began in 1986 when he enrolled in a screen-printing course at Cairns TAFE. After graduating from TAFE Ah Kee was employed as a screen-printer at Gum Tree Corner – a local printmaking firm where Ah Kee printed t-shirts. The closure of this business in 1990 was the driving force behind Ah Kee’s 1991 move to Brisbane where, in 1996, he enrolled in the previously mentioned Bachelor of Visual Arts at Griffith University, completing this degree in 1998. He continued with his academic study and in 2000 graduated from the same university with a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours – Fine Art. At the time of writing Ah Kee is a candidate in Doctor of Visual Art (DVA) program at Griffith University.In an interview with Bruce McLean for Artlines (2-2007), Ah Kee states, “I’ve always been able to draw. I noticed I had the ability to draw when I was very young.” As a drawer of oversized portraits of family members both past and present, he sees himself as largely self-taught and although having always been a keen drawer, it was not until the final year (1998) in his Bachelor of Visual Arts (Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art) at Queensland College of Art at Griffith University did Ah Kee begin to seriously view himself as “an artist”. Inspired by Gordon Bennett and Richard Bell's use of text in their works, Ah Kee began experimenting with text as an art medium. He investigated various fonts, layouts and approaches to kerning (the process of removing the space between letters), eventually settling on Universal font which is then printed onto vinyl. In the article “Whitefella Normal” for the Summer 2007 edition of Artist Profile, arts writer and curator, Glenn Barkley describes Ah Kee’s text works as creating “an often brutal frisson in the way they confront and impact upon the audience.” Ah Kee’s text works manipulate both the formal qualities and connotations of particular words to subvert the viewer’s habitual understanding of text and language.Ah Kee’s first solo exhibition, “If I was White” in March 1999 was staged at Metro Arts Building in Brisbane and in 2003 he was invited to participate in Queensland Art Gallery’s exhibition “Storyplace, Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest”. In November 2004 he showed “fantasies of the good”, his first solo exhibition at Bellas Malani’s new Wooloongabba gallery space (his first Bellas solo show, “non people” was in 2002 when the gallery was located in Fortitude Valley). 2004 also provided Ah Kee with another first when he produced his first video work for ArtTV/2004, which was a joint project between SBS and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and that shown at ACMI in Melbourne that same year. Together with Richard Bell, Ah Kee came up with the idea of creating a Brisbane-based Aboriginal artists co-operative and in 2004 Ah Kee, Bell and Jennifer Herd co-founded ProppaNow and invited Gordon Hookey, Laurie Nilsen, Bianca Beetson, Andrea Fisher and Tony Albert into its membership. In 2006, during the opening weekend of the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, ProppaNow presented the group show, “There goes the neighbourhood” at their studios in Brisbane’s West End. Ah Kee submitted his 2006 series of large charcoal portraits of male relatives for inclusion. In an interview with Daniel Browning for Artlines (2-2007) Ah Kee says that these portraits are “an attempt to revision the Aborigine as a beautiful and worthy subject full of depth and complexity.” Browning, in his article, describes Ah Kee as one of the country’s best contemporary draftsmen.In 2007 Ah Kee participated in “Sunshine State, Smart State” at Campbelltown Arts Centre, a show curated by Djon Mundine that included Richard Bell, Fiona Foley, Thanakupi, Ken Thaiday Snr, Tracey Moffat, Judy Watson, Lindy Lee and William Yang. Ah Kee’s work, including portraits and text work, was also included in “Culture Warriors”, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennal held at the National Gallery of Australia in 2007/2008 curated by Brenda Croft. Ah Kee’s profile has now attracted international attention with his 2008 series Gaze, which comprises of 12 charcoal drawn portraits on large scale canvasses, selected for inclusion in “Revolution – Forms That Turn”, the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
References:Barkley, Glenn, (2007), Whitefella Normal, (Place: St. Leonards, NSW : Artist Profile)
Browning, Daniel, (2007), It’s a Black/White Thing: ProppaNow Artists’ Collective, (Place: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld : Artlines)
McLean, Bruce, (2007), Vernon Ah Kee: Family Portraits, (Place: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld : Artlines)
Information sourced from Ah Kee, Vernon, 2008
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Vernon Ah Kee is a draughtsman, photographer, screen-printer, video and text based installation artist who was included in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99f9
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joy-nangala-hargraves
- Birth Place
- Yurntumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yurntumu, near Yuendumu c.1967, her language/tribe is Warlpiri, her country is Pirlinyanu and her Dreamings are Ngapa and Yurrampi. She lives at Lajamanu and paints with her husband, Luke Johnson, often working on the backgrounds of his paintings. She started painting in 1987 and is a very strong young painter.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1967
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and one of Lajamanu's younger painters. She often works in collaboration with her husband Luke Johnson.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99fa
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/susan-marawarr
- Birth Place
- Maningrida, Arnhem land, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Kuninjku artist, Susan Marawarr, was born in 1967 at Maningrida in north-central Arnhem Land. She is the daughter of artists, Anchor Kulunba and Mary Marabamba (https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-baramba/personal_details/), and the sister of eminent bark painters James Iyuna and John Mawurndjul (https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-mawurndjul/personal_details/). Marawarr is a skilled printmaker, sculptor, weaver and bark painter, known for her striking black and white palette. Her works have a graphic and optical effect, where her intricate patterns often intertwine and overlap. Common subjects include the djang (the Dreaming) of Wak Wak, Ngalyod (Rainbow Serpent) and yawkyawk (female water spirit), alongside the imagery of dilly bags, fish-traps, mats and baskets, which may also have symbolic dimension. Her work is represented by Maningrida Arts and Culture (painting and weaving) and Bábbarra Women’s Centre (hand-printed textiles) at Maningrida in Central Arnhem Land.
In 2000, Susan collaborated with Judy Watson [https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judy-watson-1/], a Waanyi artist, on Watson’s public art commission for Sydney International Airport forecourt, comprising fish fences and dilly bags cast in bronze. She then went on to tour the United States, in 2001, with the exhibition curated by Judy Watson titled Bush Colour: work on paper by women artists from Maningrida promoting the work and supervising bark painting workshops. As the name suggests, the exhibition, celebrated the strength and vibrancy of women’s art from the Maningrida region, revealing the artist’s knowledge and intimate connections to the surrounding bushlands, bush foods, plant and animal life, sacred sites, ancestor spirits and everyday objects. The exhibition held objects crafted and coloured from natural fibres of the Maningrida Region, including baskets, bags, fish traps and other woven articles.
During discussions at Maningrida Arts and Culture, Susan remarked, “I print with my land on my land.” This is a strong statement about her connection to country and her culture and the links that her art has going back into the land like the trailing roots of land. Along the Oenpelli road, Susan said, “this is my country through my father, also my brothers….we got too many country.”
Marawarr has been working with Bábbarra Designs since 2001. Over the last decade, Marawarr’s artworks has been presented by Maningrida Arts and Culture and within their collective shows at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne, Annandale Galleries in Sydney, Nomad Art in Darwin and JGM in London. She has also featured in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales [Crossing Country, 2004, http://caepr.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Altman/Chapters/2004_CrossingCountry.pdf.], and work is held in the collections of Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Victoria and National Gallery of Australia. Susan has also featured as one of the senior artists, mentoring the junior artists, in a group exhibition, Báb-barra: Women’s Printing Culture at The Cross Art Projects (2017) [http://www.crossart.com.au/current-show].
Reference List: Altman, Jon. “Brokering Kuninjku Art: Artists, Institutions and the Market.” In Crossing Country: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004. Exhibition catalogue.
Bábbarra Women’s Centre. “Susan Marawarr.” Bábbarra Women’s Centre. Last modified 2017. https://babbarra.com/artist/susan-marawarr/.
Maningrida Arts and Culture. “Susan Marawarr.” Maningrida Arts and Culture. Last modified 2017. https://maningrida.com/artist/susan-marawarr/.
Salmon, Fiona. Bush Colour: Works on paper by female artists from the Maningrida region. Curated by Judy
Watson. Darwin: Northern Territory University Gallery, 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
Watson, Judy. Bush Colour: Works on paper by female artists from the Maningrida region. Curated by Judy Watson. Darwin: Northern Territory University Gallery, 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
Writers:
emma_sheehan
Date written:
2017
Last updated:
2017
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99fb
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joe-malone
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Joe Malone was born in Brisbane in 1967 and is a painter and assembler of 'shadow boxes’ made from painted boomerangs and other traditional Aboriginal tools and weaponry. Malone’s work was featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Joe Malone is a painter and assembler of 'shadow boxes' made from painted boomerangs and other traditional Aboriginal tools and weaponry.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99fc
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Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karen-doolan
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Karen Doolan of the Tjukuluka, Waka Waka and Kookuyulingi clans in Queensland was born in 1967. Her brightly coloured paintings on canvas and paper are informed by her many totems of her cultural heritage. Her artist statement in the catalogue for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” says, “My paintings are mostly of my totems – the brolga, munda (brown snake) and owl, as well as flowers used in bush medicine.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Karen Doolan of the Tjukuluka Waka Waka and Kookuyulingi clans in Queensland was born in 1967. Her brightly coloured paintings on canvas and paper are informed by her many totems of her cultural heritage.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99fd
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicole-newley
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Nicole Newley was born in 1967 in Queensland and is of Aboriginal and Islander descent. It is the teachings of marine life by her grandfather and the ocean itself that informs her work which are of synthetic polymer and ink on canvas. She exhibited in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Nicole Newley's works, which are of synthetic polymer and ink on canvas, are informed by her grandfather's teachings of marine life and the ocean itself.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99fe
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charlotte-nabanangka-langdon
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu in 1967, Charlotte Langdon is a Warlpiri speaker. Her country is Yuendumu and she paints Bush Tomato, Goanna and Snake Dreamings. She began painting in 1985, probably in the early years of the painting enterprise at the settlement, and still lives in Yuendumu. However, she sells her work through private dealers and outlets in town rather than through Warlukurlangu Artists – hence the outdated orthographical conventions for the usual spelling of her skin name.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who began painting in Yuendumu (NT) in the mid 1980s, however has generally sold her work through private dealers and outlets in town.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb99ff
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Details
Latitude-22.33825 Longitude131.97657 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gabrielle-nungurrayi-possum
- Birth Place
- Mt Allan, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Papunya in 1967, Gabrielle Possum is the older daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri , who taught her to paint at an early age by assisting on the backgrounds of his canvases around the family campfire. Gabrielle gained an award in the 1983 Alice Springs Art Prize while still a student at Yirara College. She later lived in Melbourne with her husband Selwyn and their five children. Her Dreamings include Bush Coconut, Black Seed (for making damper), Exploding Seed Pod and Women’s stories from the Mt Allan area. She first exhibited with her father, sister Michelle Possum , and brother-in-law Heath, in Brisbane in 1987 and again at Coo-ee Gallery in Sydney in 1992. Gabrielle designed several record covers, including one for her husband’s band Coloured Stone, and several T-shirts for CAAMA.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Gabrielle Possum is the elder daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the most renowned of the founding group of Papunya painters. Taught by her father, Gabriella began painting at an early age.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a00
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.216667 Longitude131.9 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/natalie-nungarrayi-corby
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Papunya in 1967, Natalie Corby is the daughter of Charlie Egalie , who joined Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1970s and taught her to paint in the early ’80s. She was one of the first women in Papunya to begin painting in her own right. She belongs to the Warlpiri language group and usually painted her father’s stories and sometimes stories involving women’s corroborees and dancing.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Instructed by her father, pioneer Papunya Tula artist Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjarri, Natalie Corby was one of the first young women in Papunya to paint for the company.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a01
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.2302079 Longitude153.1096034 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeff-martin
- Birth Place
- Redcliffe, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Jeff Martin was born in Redcliffe, Queensland in 1967. He and his family moved often, from Queensland to New South Wales in the late 60s, Papua New Guinea from 1970 to 1976, eventually settling in Melbourne in 1981. In the late 80s Martin left school to work as a junior in an advertising agency but his career came to an abrupt end with the stock market crash of 1987.
Turning to the hospitality industry, Martin took a job washing dishes in an exclusive Melbourne restaurant and was quickly promoted up the ranks. For the next 17 years he was involved in Melbourne’s restaurant industry as a waiter, cook and eventually as the owner of a small restaurant. Remaining disciplined to his creative passions throughout this period, Martin did life drawing, undertook small design projects, worked on consignment and sold a number of works privately. In 1999 Martin met his wife Caroline, whose family had strong connections to the arts community of Melbourne, and she encouraged his creative skills and convinced him to travel with her to Italy.
It was on this four month vacation in 1999 that Martin came across, and fell in love with, the island of Favignana located on the northwest coast of Sicily.
Initially inspired by Favignana’s noble fishermen, Martin painted sketched and photographed these men going about their daily ritual of supplying the small population with small fish. He remained unaware at this time that Favignana was home to the legendary Mattanza.
La Mattanza (interpreted locally as 'The Death Trap’) is the name of a fishing ritual that has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. It is the catching of migrating tuna using hundreds of miles of nets, which funnel the tuna into a large trap. The net, when full of tuna, is surrounded by barges and then slowly raised towards the surface. Calm water becomes a fury and men, using handcarved timber-segmented poles with a metal gaff, pull these giant fish into the barges. It takes at least eight big men to retrieve one fish and the largest tuna on record weighed in at over one tonne. So important was this ancient ritual of fishing to the economy of Italy, that the island of Favignana had electricity before Rome.
It was these men and this ritual that became the inspiration for Martin’s first solo show. Martin returned to Favignana in 2001 and again in 2003, self-funding each journey by working in Melbourne restaurants.
It was during this last journey in 2003 that Martin realised this was more than just an interesting community to observe and paint. He says: “It was a community coping with both physical and emotional change, with global warming, over-fishing for new markets and poaching by foreign fleets. The fishermen of Favignana were facing a social crisis and the brutal Mattanza would soon be a thing of the past, leaving its community looking to new forms of income. The proud and noble fishermen of the Mattanza, who captured my intrigue at the outset, would have to redefine themselves. This is a crisis of global proportions realised on the faces of a few men and I am visually recording the historical and cultural changing of a small community in my work.”
Martin Kantor of Melbourne’s Brightspace Gallery offered Martin his first solo exhibition which opened in October 2004. The sell-out show featured over 30 original works and was titled 'FROM FAVIGNANA’. This generally figurative body of work continued to be the focus of Martin’s paintings until early 2006. It has now become known as 'The Favignana Series’ and is held in private collections in London, Rome, Sicily, Sweden and throughout Australia and New Zealand. 'The Favignana Series’ spanning from 1999 to 2006, was based on the observations of a small fishing community and the environment that defined them. In early 2006, Martin began to explore the environment that defined him. He started with two simple questions, “How did I become who I am?” and “Why must I create?”
Says Martin, “This process of many months eventually lead back to those formative school years where we are all moulded for our role in society. I attended more than my fair share of educational institutions and saw school as a constant, unexplained obstacle in my path to something else. As a child, I was an observer. Obviously an asset to any artist, but at the time it was more of a survival technique, as I was constantly assessing and adapting to new environments due to the family’s movements. I don’t have an issue with this, what I lost in educational continuity I gained in adaptation skills and I am very fortunate that I am now able do what I love and in this series I am celebrating that”.
In this current body of work referred to as 'The Wall Series’, the wall stands fast, solid and impenetrable and is a constant in every piece. For Martin it represents the strength of the unyielding institution, however the use of light indicates that there is a way around it. It (the light) has been referred to by observers as representing hope and destiny. The children in Martin’s paintings fall under the shadows of the wall but are oblivious to it’s presence. They serve to date the work and each figure is derived from a childhood memory, but it is the wall, not the children, that is the focus point of the work. The communal drinking trough is the other constant image in every work. It is an evocative image and identifies the environment as school.
Martin did not use any models or photographs as reference for this work as he felt it important to capture the emotion of his memories without the distraction of any specific visual reference.
'The Wall Series’ was first shown to the public in early March of 2007 in a 34 piece solo exhibition at Kozminsky Gallery in Melbourne. The exhibition sold out and new works from this series were taken to Art Sydney by United Galleries.
In 2008 Martin exhibited with Gould Galleries Melbourne as part of the 2008 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Writers:
Martin, Jeff
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Melbourne-based painter, Jeff Martin's first major series of works was inspired by the lives and rituals of the fisherman of Italy's Favignana, an island located on the northwest coast of Sicily.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a02
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Details
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a03
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-knox
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1967
- Summary
- Sound Artist and Arts Writer James Knox was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a04
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.3275 Longitude153.395833 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/garth-lena
- Birth Place
- Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Garth Lena, a Minjungbul sculptor, was born in 1967 in Murwillumbah, northern New South Wales and spent his childhood growing up in Fingal Head with his many siblings and cousins. Lena began creating work in 2000 and in 2001 he completed a course of Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Practice at Kingscliff TAFE. He continued his studies with a Certificate IV in Fine Art in 2002 and with a Certificate III in Ceramics in 2003 both at Murwillumbah TAFE. Lena’s sculptural pieces incorporate local Dreaming Stories of the Minjungbul and Bundjalung Indigenous people of Northern NSW and are created from wood, clay, steel and local bark. Although Lena has only been practicing as an artist since 2000 his work has already been recognised at a State level. His work is in the permanent collections of the NSW Premiers Department, Tweed River Art Gallery, the Tweed Shire Council and the NSW Parliament House Art Collection. His work is also held in many private collections including that of Doug and Margot Anthony. In 2004 Lena was awarded First Prize in the open category of the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Aboriginal Art Award “Celebrating Wisdom” with his work Spirit Man. Lena also won first prize in the 3D category of the 2005 and 2006 National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Aboriginal Art Award exhibitions, “Living Culture” and “Our Spirit, Our Country” with his respective works withMan Goes and Boogaban (eagle hawk). In 2006 Lena also won the Aquisition Award at the Casuarina Sculptural Walk in Casuarina, NSW with his work Two Brothers, as well as the prestigious NSW Parliament House Indigenous Art Prize for his sculpture, Black Dog and Spirit Man. Lena has exhibited his work both locally, in group shows including “Corroborate” in 2004 and “Three Brothers” in 2005 at the Tweed River Art Gallery and nationally, when in 2005 he was selected for inclusion in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin. Lena stated in an interview with the author that his inspiration comes from “the great history of Black People” and his love of the past that he says “is strong so that we can have a good future”.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Garth Lena is a Minjunbul sculptor from Fingal Heads in Northern NSW who works with wood, steel, clay and tree bark. In 2006 Lena was awarded the NSW Parliament House Indigenous Art Prize, after having only taken up his art practice in 2000.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a05
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-morrison
- Birth Place
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Louise Dickmann is a Western Australian artist who transforms whatever materials are at hand in response to experiences, events or locations. She worked as a Lecturer at the North Metropolitan TAFE in Perth from 2003-2018 and now works as Collection Coordinator at the Janet Holmes a Court Collection.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a06
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.0117265 Longitude117.4483428 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/russell-fitzgerald
- Birth Place
- Quairading, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Russell Fitzgerald, Noongar artist, was born in 1967 in Quairading, Western Australia. Based in Northam, Fitzgerald attended TAFE in Northam, studying Aboriginal Visual Arts for several years. His landscape paintings have been influenced by the styles of the Carrolup school of painting. Fitzgerald is represented in the Sue and Ian Bernadt Collection and his work was included in the 2009 exhibition 'Beyond Carrolup’ at the Central TAFE Art Gallery in Perth, Western Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Noongar landscape artist based in Northam, Western Australia. His work was included in the 2009 exhibition 'Beyond Carrolup' at the Central TAFE Art Gallery in Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a07
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/graham-davis-king
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Graham Davis King is a Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa artist and activist. He was born in the Crown Street Women’s Hospital in March 1967 to Ada King and Sid Davis. King’s grandfather Archie King was among the last Aboriginal law men to go through ancient Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa Aboriginal law ceremonies in the first half of the 20th century.King grew up in the Sydney inner city suburb of Redfern and in and around the inner western suburbs. From an early age King has been involved in projects that concentrate on Aboriginal culture and education as an outcome. In 1985, and for the following 10 years, King worked on an Aboriginal radio program called 'Aborigines in Focus’ for Radio 2SER in Sydney whilst concurrently working at Radio Redfern (1985-1993). In 1993 King received a writing award from the Cannes Film Festival for his work on the film Lake Mungo Lady. King also continues to work as a dancer and storyteller and has performed in the Koories In Theatre troupe alongside the renowned storyteller, Pauline McLeod (deceased) from 1993 to 1999. This troupe performed at many venues in and around Sydney including schools, galleries and museums and also on ABC TV for Playschool. King also performed as a dancer with Yidaki Didj and Dance from 1994 to 2005 and travelled across Australia and internationally with this dance company.In the mid 1990s King was living in Wollongong and began submitting his works of acrylic and ochre on canvas to local group exhibitions. His first Wollongong exhibition, Unjustified, was in 1995 and was held at the Project: Centre for Contemporary Art as part of local NAIDOC celebrations. He submitted work the following year in the exhibition, Looking into Aftertime, which was again at Project. It was from these two exhibitions that the curator Tess Allas employed King to work alongside her and other local Aboriginal artists on two public art projects for Wollongong City Council in 1996. The first project was to redesign the Wollongong Town Hall Fountain with a local Aboriginal Dreaming Story. King provided the story of Gurangatch and Mirrigan, who created the subterranean waterways. The Coomaditichie Artists Cooperative headed by Lorraine Brown were the commissioned artists who turned the story into a Italian glass and Wilcannia marble mosaic. With the second public art work King worked alongside local Aboriginal ceramicist, Vic Chapman reinterpreting the Yaroma figtree story. This large mosaic work now sits where the original fig tree grew and depicts the Dreaming Story of Yaroma the hairy man who lived in the buttresses of the fig tree. King currently resides in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney where he set up the Blue Mountains Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in Katoomba in 2006 and is a Director of the Blue Mountains Aboriginal Culture and Resource Centre. Through this work King has been able to stage local exhibitions in which he also participates.In 2005 and 2006 King was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Award held at NSW Parliament House, Sydney. In the 2006 show he won the inaugural College of Fine Arts Professional Development Award. This award offered King a residency at COFA and the chance to work with COFA staff in an art form of his choosing. King chose to work alongside printmaker, Michael Kempson, a collaboration that resulted in King’s first solo exhibition, Wantanganura, staged at COFAspace in October, 2007.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Graham Davis King is a Wiradjuri and Ngiyampaa artist and activist who won the inaugural College of Fine Arts Professional Development Award in 2006.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a08
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karla-dickens
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Karla Dickens, Wiradjuri painter, was born in Sydney in 1967. Dickens enrolled in Life Drawing classes at high school where the female form was her main subject matter. She began her formal training as an artist when she enrolled at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1991, obtaining a Fine Arts Diploma in 1993 and a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2000. After moving to Wollombi in the Hunter Valley, NSW Dickens says her work became “more detailed with a stronger Indigenous feel.” She also says that her work at this time was about finding “more acceptance with my sexuality”. Following the death of a close friend in 1997 crosses began appearing as motifs within her paintings and in 2000 Dickens began incorporating text into her work. Her work in 2003 changed dramatically when Dickens began beading onto painted canvasses, a strong contrast of fresh mark making and fine textured detail. Her inspirations as stated in a 2007 interview with the author are “politics, love, sex and the environment”. Dickens has shown in many solo and group exhibitions including “The Art of Place” at Old Parliament House, Canberra in 1998, “Co-Existence” at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney in 1998, “Love Magic” at S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney for Perspecta 1999, “Aboriginal Ways of Knowing” at the Macy Gallery, Columbia University, USA in 2001, “Hung, Drawn and Quartered” at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney in 2003, “Nice Coloured Dolls”, 24HR Art, Darwin, Northern Territory in 2004, “Our Spirit Our Country – Bundjalung Art Award” and “Chrysalis” both at Lismore Regional Art Gallery in 2006. In his article, “Where Eagles Hover” (Artlink, Volume 18, No 1) Maurice O’Riordan writes of Dickens’ work in her 1997 solo exhibition “Jowalbinna” (home of the ancient ones), “Dickens’ paintings show that the spirituality powering Aboriginal art is well and truly alive. In her series’ title painting, Jowalbinna, a host of 'mother earth’ deities dominates the shelters and the full moon nightscape of Dickens’ passage to them. A wedge-tailed eagle hovers above a footprint, coming to signify the hovering circle of eagles over the Guugu-yalanji people’s historic handover ceremony at the nearby Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival that year”. O’Riordan continues, “for brevity’s sake, it is not possible to detail all of the works in “Jowalbinna”. Each one celebrates a dream-like revelation through country whose spiritual and natural heritage can only inspire profound awe and respect. There’s a kind of magic in the way that Dickens connects with this country, though she was, like a tourist, experiencing it for the first time.” Dickens had a residency in Brewarrina in 1995 where she worked with 10 local children on a 16-metre mural. In 1997 she was the artist in residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney and spent three months in Cape York, Queensland. In 1998 she had a two-month residency in Guardella, Italy. In 2006 Dickens was the recipient of the Bundjalung Art Award and the People’s Choice Award for her work in the “Our Spirit, Our Country” exhibition.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2010
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Karla Dickens is a Wiradjuri artist whose work explores the themes of politics, love, sex and the environment. Karla trained at the National Art School in Darlinghurst and won the Bundjalung Art Award at Lismore Regional Gallery in 2006. After the NSW floods of 2022, fellow artist Blak Douglas’s portrait of her as “Moby Dickens” was awarded the Archibald Prize
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a09
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.188889 Longitude142.158333 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/trevor-turbo-brown
- Birth Place
- Mildura, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Latje Latje painter Trevor “Turbo” Brown was born in Mildura, Victoria in 1967. An intellectually disabled man, Trevor was homeless and suffered from neglect for a number of years in his youth. In 1982 he was 'adopted’ by Uncle Herb and Aunty Bunta who ran a Koorie Hostel in Greensborough, Melbourne. Brown flourished under their care, taking up boxing, rapping and breakdancing – it was at this time that he acquired the nickname “Turbo”, after one of the protagonists in the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin’ . It is the name he now uses when signing his paintings. In 2001 he began a Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts) at RMIT’s Bundoora Campus, which he completed in 2005. During this time he began painting animal scenes from his experience and his imagination. Brown’s work was included in a number of group exhibitions in Melbourne while he was still a student, and he held his first solo exhibition 'Turbo Brown’ at the Koorie Heritage Trust in 2004.Brown’s paintings, which he describes generally as his “Latje Latje Dreaming”, articulate his strong sense of affinity with the animals of the Australian bush. The reasons for his devotion to this subject matter are presented in Carolyn Webb’s article “Turbo-charged look at animal world” published in The Age (2005), in which she recounts that Brown once told Uncle Herb that 'when he was 15 and living on the Mildura streets and the Murray River bank, the animals were his only friends.’ His brightly coloured works, made with synthetic polymer paint, have a rough, painterly quality, and his sense of empathy with his subjects is conveyed in their expressive faces and the way they fill the pictorial space. Brown has held solo exhibitions at the Koorie Heritage Trust and Australian Dreaming Art in Melbourne, and Rex Livingston Art Dealer in Sydney. Important group exhibitions have included the 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory (2005), 'Landmarks’, curated by Judith Ryan and Stephen Gilchrist, at the National Gallery of Victoria (2006), and 'Culture Warriors’, the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial curated by Brenda Croft at the National Gallery of Australia (2007).
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
staffcontributor
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Latje Latje artist based in Melbourne whose vibrant paintings express the artist's abiding sense of affinity with the animals of the north-west Victorian bush.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0a
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-nikou
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Since her Kym Bonython Art Prize awarded a year after graduating from art school in 1989, Michelle Nikou has exhibited regularly in Adelaide and Sydney. She is the recipient of a Santos Sydney Studio Scholarship, and in 2010 her work was included in the ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’. She has also expanded her artist profile internationally, showing in Spain, Switzerland and Germany.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicholas-folland-1
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- As a contemporary artist, Nicholas Folland has received many awards and prizes. These include the Annual Art Purchase Prize at the University of South Australia in 1997, the Tertiary Art Prize at the South Australian School of Art in 1998 and a prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 1999. He is represented in several public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-36.75 Longitude144.266667 Start Date1967-01-01 End Date1967-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/martin-james-day
- Birth Place
- Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Martin J Day is a wildlife and portrait artist who was born the second youngest of nine siblings to parents Brian and Cherie Day. His Father was a builder and his Mother was a homemaker with Scottish heritage, both of whom became artists in their senior years.
Martin began his artistic life very early, after watching his father Brian execute a perfectly rendered and life-like pencil drawing of a close family friend at the dinner table when he was at the age of eight.
By age 15 he had enrolled in an illustration course via the Adelaide College of the Arts, which was completed covertly while being apprenticed as a builder by his traditionalist Father. He would later complete a graphic design course and be awarded a diploma in graphic design and illustration at that same college.
Armed with a portfolio containing a few college drawings at an interview, which involved a live drawing presentation at TNT Leisure Brisbane, Martin was offered a position as the first official portrait artist to represent Queensland at the 1988 Brisbane world expo. At his portrait studio on the southern boardwalk side of the extravaganza, Martin would render an estimated 1,800 pastel-drawn portraits and figure illustrations, now ornamenting dining room walls around the world.
Martin was also commissioned by Expo organizers to design and build a mobile Brisbane Expo-themed mural. The monument was constructed in 3 large canvas sections and was painted with the help of a group of artists during one of the final parades of the world fair. The finished abstract work was presented to the Brisbane Lord Mayor Sally-Anne Atkinson and was installed in her office hallway.
Following the Brisbane, Expo Martin set up a portrait studio at McWhirters Marketplace in Brisbane city which would act as a base while he painted murals at various locations in Brisbane and its suburbs. Some of his portrait commissions included country music stars, Lee Conway and Chad Morgan. During this chapter, Martin also managed to complete an apprenticeship as a traditional signwriter and worked for various sign companies. Martin was involved in projects such as the Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast where he was contracted along with signwriters, Artists, and interior decorators to create aged gold and marble effects all over the building’s interior rooms.
In the early 90s, Martin also worked for Channel 10 Brisbane as a court artist and station illustrator beginning at the tail end of the famous Fitzgerald inquiry and continuing into the CJC trial of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Some of his involuntary subjects included characters such as Police Commissioner Terry Lewis, Luke Shaw, Jack Herbert (The bagman), Vic Conte, and Gerry Bellino. His court illustrations were sold to competing news stations both locally and overseas.
The following 10 years were spent working as a professional Illustrator for 2 of Queensland’s largest Souvenir distributors, WW Souvenirs and Souvenirs Australia launching his designs into the global tourist market. During this time Martin completed several wildlife paintings and received a highly commended award for his illustration of a pair of Bald Eagles entitled “Nesting Ground” which was entered into the “Queensland newspapers Ken Cowley art competition” in 1998. With a first prize of $250,000, the contest attracted thousands of artists from around the country.
Martin’s art career came to a halt when in 2007 he suffered serious wrist injuries after a 6-meter fall from a scaffolding shattering his Distal radius and Ulna bones. His wrist bones were so severely splintered that he almost lost his lower right arm. Six surgeries were performed over 2 years by a British surgeon named Dr. Michael Thomas. After years of rehabilitation, Martin eventually regained full use of his hand and fingers with enough dexterity and strength to once again pick up the paintbrushes.
Today, ensuing a lengthy hiatus in the middle of a 3-decade career of Illustrating, Mural painting, and signwriting, Martin has revived his earlier passion as a wildlife artist and is currently painting watercolor works featuring Australian wildlife which will be shown at exhibitions both locally and overseas. Martin is a winner of the Talent prize award in the 2023 “Animal international juried art contest” held in Los Angeles for his bald eagle pastel drawing entitled “Surveillant Poise”.
Writers:
Marty_Art
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2023
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Day is a wildlife and portrait artist. He has broad experience in illustration, drawing and sign writing.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0d
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-williams
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Melbourne based visual artist known for her keen observations of dogs through which she explores the distinct presence of the canine breed and its relationship to humans. Williams has held regular solo exhibitions since 1993 and participated in numerous group exhibitions within Australia and overseas. She was awarded the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Acquisitive Award in 2010.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0e
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-roet
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Melbourne in 1967 and still residing there in 2008, sculptor, drawer, photographer and video artist Lisa Roet graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1987. Over the past 10 years, Roet has also supplemented her studies with residencies at ape research centres and major international zoos in Berlin and Atlanta, as well as field observation of apes in the forests of Borneo, Malaysia. It is the complex relationship between primates and humans that Roet explores throughout much of her work.
Since her first show at Querhause Gallery, Berlin in 1992, Roet has held more than 25 solo exhibitions around the world. Particularly acclaimed are Aping , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2008); Lisa Roet: Finger of Suspicion , McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Melbourne (2004); Pri-Mates Drawing , Melbourne Museum, Melbourne (2003); The Shadow , National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2001); and Pri-Mates: Hands , Liebman Magnan Gallery, New York (2000-2001).
As at 2007 Roet had also participated in 50 group exhibitions including Den Hagg Sculptuur 2007/The Hague Sculpture 2007 , The Hague, the Netherlands (2007); Satellite Project (12 Australian Artists), Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China (2006); McClelland Gallery Contemporary Sculpture Survey , McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park (2005 and 2003); Kiss of the Beast , Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2005); Helen Lemprière Sculpture Prize , Werribee Park, Victoria (2003); National Works on Paper Award , Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (2003); National Sculpture Prize , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003); and Primavera , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2000).
Her various awards and achievements include the prestigious McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Award (2005); The Kedumba Drawing Award (2005); the National Works on Paper Award (2003); and the National Sculpture Prize (2003). She has also been the recipient of several important grants, including an Asia Link Residency at the National Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2000).
Roet has featured in the Australian Art Collector magazine’s ’50 Most Collectable Artists’ issues in both 2001 and 2007 and is the subject of a monograph by Alexie Glass, Lisa Roet: Uncommon Observations , Thames & Hudson, Sydney, 2005.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- Roet is a Melbourne-based sculptor whose work investigates the relationship between humans and our simian relatives. She was a finalist in the 2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award exhibition and in 2005 she won the prestigious McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a0f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/neil-grose
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1967
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a10
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-cass
- Birth Place
- Scotland, UK
- Biography
- Gary Cass is a scientist and artist based in Perth. He has collaborated on several projects exploring the body and biological technologies, including the work 'Bleeding Angel’, a cyborg comprising human and metallic elements which he created with the artist S. Chandrasekaran. This work was exhibited at the exhibition Still, Living at the 2007 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).
This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Scientist and artist who has collaborated on several projects exploring the body and biological technologies.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a11
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-haines
- Birth Place
- London
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- David Haines lives and works in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia. He has produced large scale immersive video and sound works that explore the tension between the fictive and the phenomenal.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a12
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:33 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katrina-simon
- Birth Place
- London, England
- Biography
- Katrina Simon trained in architecture and landscape architecture, but also practises as a visual artist, specialising in small handmade objects. Born in London in 1966 to New Zealand parents, the family returned to Christchurch in 1969 where Katrina and her two brothers went to school. From 1984 to 1988, Simon studied architecture at the University of Auckland, followed by a Masters of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand, from 1992 to 1995. During and shortly after her formal education, Simon worked in architectural and landscape architectural offices, but most of her design work – for which she has won various prizes – has come about as a result of projects undertaken while also working in a variety of capacities in universities and other tertiary institutions in Auckland, Cambridge (UK), and Sydney. Simon arrived in Sydney in 2007, taking up a position as Senior Lecturer of Landscape Architecture in the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales. It was while she was studying for her masters degree that Simon took up her art practice. Using globes and cartographic representations of landscapes at scales ranging from 1: 50, 000, 000 to 1:1, she takes apart topographic maps into equal fragments and re-arranges them in order of colour codes rather than physical locations. This is to identify certain characteristics of the environment that can assist with understanding, improving and changing the urban landscape. In 2006 she contributed to an Art Web project funded by Smash Palace (a joint funding initiative of Creative NZ and the Ministry of Research Science and Technology) to research and complete a project report identifying patterns emerging from the Auckland region that would assist in making areas with lizard-friendly vegetation and cycleway conjunctions into areas more conducive to lizard populations. Whereas the above project used digital maps, Simon also uses paper maps, which she can divide into sections and attach to light, thin materials that can easily be pinned to walls for exhibitions, as was done for 'Seven Wonders (Natural and Scenic)’ in 2005 at the Snowwhite Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. Simon’s work has also been exhibited in Sydney and New York. Simon also uses maps and plastic globes as core materials for designing her jewellery, some of which was exhibited at Objectspace (Auckland) in 2006. In the exhibition, 'Graticule’, her pieces included Globe Necklace, which was constructed from inflatable globes cut into strips and rolled into baubles. In doing this, Simon explored the relationship between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional surfaces. Taking the original objects and images apart and re-assembling and using them in unexpected ways enabled her to transform the familiar into the foreign, and in so doing to convey a different view of the landscape to that represented on conventional printed maps. Simon has received numerous design awards for both collaborative and solo design projects, including the Cavalier Bremworth AAA Design Award (Open Category) in 2004 and Urban Gaze AAA Panasonic Design Award in 2006. Simon has published a number of articles on design research and criticism, panelled as judge for design competitions, and in 2008 she enrolled in a PhD in Fine Arts at Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Lee, Sonia
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Katrina Simon is an architect, landscape architect and jewellery designer. Simon's works have been exhibited in Australia, America and New Zealand. She has received many design awards, published numerous articles for design research and panelled as judge for design competitions.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a13
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amelia-rowe
- Birth Place
- Surrey, England, UK
- Biography
- Amelia Rowe, mixed media artist, is based in Lauceston, Tasmania, and uses sculpture and installation to respond to those living within the West Tamar Valley. Rowe received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania, Launceston, in 2012.
She has participated in a number of exhibitions, including '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013. Her first solo exhibition, 'Still Life’, was held at Brave Art Gallery in Longford, Tasmania, in 2012.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Amelia Rowe, mixed media artist, is based in Lauceston, Tasmania, and uses sculpture and installation to respond to those living within the West Tamar Valley.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a14
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christophe-canato
- Birth Place
- France
- Biography
- Born in France in 1966, Canato grew up in an artistic family, his father a talented painter. At seventeen Canato successfully enrolled in the Beaux-Arts School and went on to complete a Diplôme National Supérieur D’expression Plastique in 1989. In 1995 he moved to Perth WA. Canato lives and works in France and Australia.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Canato is a photographer working in video and new media. Initially based in Paris, his early work explored new concepts and interpretations of photography using triptychs and diptychs, image/text combinations, unexpected supports, frames or back-lit boxes to perform mechanisms such as synesthesia phenomenon. He relocated to Perth, Australia in 2005 where his photography has evolved to a more traditional approach to the medium.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a15
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TLCMap IDtb9a16
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TLCMap IDtb9a17
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TLCMap IDtb9a18
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TLCMap IDtb9a19
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/petra-nampitjinpa
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Papunya on 8 November 1966, Petra is the youngest daughter of Paddy Tjangala, who was an important figure in the Mt Liebig community. Her mother Betty Nungurrayi was from Haasts Bluff. The family spent time at Yuendumu and Papunya before settling at Mt Liebig, closer to Paddy’s Dreaming country. Petra began painting for Papunya Tula in the mid ’80s after instruction from her sister Sandra , who was in turn taught by their father. Petra usually painted Bushfire and Two Women Dancing Dreaming stories. In 1986 her work was included in the Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Mt Liebig painter Petra Nampitjinpa was taught to paint on canvas in the early '80s by her sister Sandra, who was instructed by their father Paddy Tjangala. They were some of the first young women to begin painting for Papunya Tula.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a1a
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Details
Latitude-23.3782137 Longitude150.5134227 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/beth-jackson
- Birth Place
- Rockhampton, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Beth Jackson, Curator and Arts Writer, born in 1966 and based in Brisbane. Director of Artfully, an independent curatorial and arts consultancy practice since 2012, with a focus in art for the public realm.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a1b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vera-mbitjana-williams
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Alice Springs on 6 August 1966, her language group Pitjantjatjara. Her mother is a Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu. Her father is a Pitjantjatjara man who grew up at Hermannsburg. Vera grew up at Amoongana, Hermannsburg and Alice Springs, receiving her secondary schooling in Alice Springs. In 1984 she designed a stained glass window for the Araluen Art Centre in Alice Springs as part of a college project. Today she speaks six Central Australian languages. Since 1987, she has been living at Ernabella with her husband. In 1988 she began working in the print workshop at Ernabella Arts. The following year, she exhibited her screen printed and handpainted designs in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Desert Impressions exhibition in Melbourne and Ernabella Arts exhibition Look at us Now at Tandanya in Adelaide. Vera was awarded the 'Best Developing Artist in SA’ in 1989. Her screenprints for fabrics have been exhibited in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Sydney and Melbourne. Vera also works on canvas, and at the time of writing had just begun to work with lithographs and etchings. Her screenprint Cattle Dogs and Snakes was included in an exhibition of Contemporary Australian Textiles in Krefeld, Germany. In July 1993 Vera attended a print workshop at the University of the Northern Territory in Darwin to further her studies in this medium.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara speaker also fluent in five other Central Australian languages. A dedicated artist in the media of screenprint and fabric design, and more recently, canvas lithography and etching. She was the "Best Developing Artist in SA" in 1989 and, since then, her work has been widely exhibited in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a1c
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Latitude-26.286773 Longitude132.13302 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yipati-munti
- Birth Place
- Ernabella, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Pitjantjatjara speaker, Alison Munti was born at Ernabella on 22 December 1966. Her usual painting subjects include Snake, Lizard and Wild Fig Dreamings. She started painting in 1985 for Maruku Arts and Crafts. Her usual place of residence is Amata, but she maintains close ties with both Ernabella and Fregon communities. Her sister Isobel and aunt Nyurpaya also painted occasionally.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara artist, now known as Alison Munti, who lives at Amata (SA) and now paints for Tjala Arts.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a1d
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TLCMap IDtb9a1e
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/diena-georgetti
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Diena was an active participant of the 1980's QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a1f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-burton
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Brisbane in 1966, Jane Burton was living and working in Melbourne in 2008. In 1991, she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, and in 1993, was awarded an Honorary Research Associate, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart.
Burton’s solo exhibitions since this time include Wormwood at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2007); I did it for you , Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2005); Available Light , Dickerson Gallery, Sydney (2004); The Fall , Bett Gallery, Hobart (2004) and The Other Side , Dickerson Gallery, Sydney (2003).
Burton has also participated in several important group exhibitions including: City of Hobart Art Prize , Carnegie Gallery, Hobart (2007); Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize , Monash Gallery of Art, VIC (2006); Anxious Bodies , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2003); and Moral Hallucination: Channeling Hitchcock , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2000).
Among her various awards and achievements, Burton has been the recipient of a London Studio Residency , Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council (2005); an Arts Development Grant , Arts Victoria (2003); and the Lloyd Rees Travelling Scholarship (1993) which enabled her to undertake a four-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
Her work is held in private collections throughout Australia, as well as major public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart and Artbank.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Contemporary photographer, Burton was awarded the Lloyd Rees Travelling Scholarship in 1993 and consequently undertook a four-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. She has exhibited extensively since then in both solo and group exhibitions around Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a20
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-richens
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Installation artist and digital artist/designer actively involved in 1980-1990 Artist-run spaces including That Contemporary Art Space, The Queensland Artworker's Alliance and Bureau.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a21
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-philp
- Birth Place
- Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1966 in Tweed Heads, Michael Philp is a Minjungbal man (Minjungbal is a tribe of the Bundjalung nation) and father to a son. He studied music in Adelaide before moving to Lismore in 1996. Michael is a self-taught artist and finds painting healing. He started painting after many years working in education and welfare. He has sold work to Planet Corroboree in Byron Bay. His paintings explore what it is like for younger Aboriginal people today living in a mainstream world.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Michael Philp is a Minjungbal man, a tribe of the Bundjalung nation. His paintings explore what it is like for younger Aboriginal people today living in a mainstream world.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a22
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Latitude-28.5471732 Longitude150.3073801 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/leonie-binge
- Birth Place
- Goondiwindi, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Goondiwindi in 1966, Leonie Binge has lived at the Toomelah Mission near Boggabilla, NSW her whole life. In 1999 Binge enrolled in the Certificate IV, Aboriginal Visual Culture at Boggabilla TAFE, graduating in 2001. In 2006 she gained her Certificate II Pulp and Paper Manufacturing, also from the TAFE college.
Binge was a founding member the Euraba Paper Company in the late 1990s and left soon after but rejoined the group in 2005. That same year she exhibited her pastels on handmade paper images at the Cowra Regional Gallery in the exhibition Paperworks, in Paper as Object, a 2001 – 2004 national touring exhibition.
In 2005 Binge was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House and in the Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin. In 2006 Binge’s work was included in two exhibitions; Euraba Paper at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery and in Goomeroi Artists from Boggabilla at Gunadah Regional Gallery both in NSW.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Leonie Binge is a papermaker working with the Euraba Paper Company in Boggabilla, NSW. Her works on handmade paper have been included in the 2005 Parliament of NSW Art Prize and the 2005 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a23
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Latitude-28.8631616 Longitude153.048155 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-robinson
- Birth Place
- Casino, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Casino in 1966, Peter Robinson is a member of the Wahlubal tribe from the Upper Clarence River area in the Bundjalung Nation. His parents are both from the Tabulam, Baryulgil area. He spent fifteen years in Bundaberg before returning to Kyogle in 2006 with his wife and six children. Peter’s first exhibition was held at Roxy Gallery in Kyogle in January 2008. Titled 'The Robinson Clan’, it was a group show shared with his twin brother, Paul, and cousin, Samantha. His work has been exhibited at GunnaWannaBe café, Lismore and in 'The Year of the Apology Exhibition’, Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, 2008. His images have been produced on mugs, his boomerangs sold in New South Wales and Queensland and his paintings are in private collections in France, Germany, New York, Sydney and Brisbane.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Peter Robinson is a member of the Wahlubal tribe from the Upper Clarence area in the Bundjalung Nation. Waterholes and the platypus are featured in his ochre and acrylic paintings on canvas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a24
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dianne-jones
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Diane Jones was born in 1966 in Perth, Western Australia. In 1994 she completed an Art Foundation course at Perth TAFE and went on to complete a course in Aboriginal Orientation at the University of Western Australia. She has studied jewellery design and making at North Metropolitan TAFE and in 2001 she undertook a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University in Perth.
Jones has exhibited in many group shows since 2001 including 'Girls On Film’ at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2001), 'High tide: Contemporary Indigenous Photography’ at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts (2002), 'Black on White’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2005), 'Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia’ at the Art Gallery of NSW (2008) and 'Lines in the Sand: Botany Bay Stories from 1770’ at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (2008).
Jones is represented in the collections of the University of Wollongong, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia, Monash University, the Art Gallery of Western Australia an the Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Melbourne based Photomedia artist whose work inverts the accepted view of Australian art history by repositioning the representations of Indigenous people by placing them into iconic Australian artistic images.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a25
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rick-vermey
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Sculptor and electronic media artist and designer
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a26
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32.4925 Longitude137.765833 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/donny-mckenzie
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Donny McKenzie, born 1966, is a descendant of the Wangkanguru people of the Simpson Desert on his mother’s side, and the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Rangers region on his father’s side. McKenzie was born in Port Augusta in South Australia where he recalls making sandstone rock carvings along the foreshore as a child. His adult art practice began in 1989 when he undertook TAFE studies in Mildura. Since then he has worked across a variety of media including painting, wood carving, sculpture and glass. He has also worked as an arts educator and workshop facilitator with schools, youth groups and in gaols, and regularly participates in creative activities associated with community projects and festivals. In 2005 McKenzie took part in the week long National Limestone Carving Symposium, an event which takes place annually at the Old Gaol in Mount Gambier. The Symposium allowed McKenzie to work with limestone for the first time. The celebrated sculptor Silvio Apponyi was also at the Symposium and was impressed by the way McKenzie worked “from the heart” (McKenzie, pers. comm., 2009). Apponyi and McKenzie have since established a strong creative friendship, with Apponyi mentoring McKenzie in the development of his sculpting techniques. In 2008 they co-facilitated a sculpture workshop for young people at the U-Turn youth facility in Port Augusta.In 2004, McKenzie participated in ' ARID’, a public sculpture project jointly hosted by the Fountain Gallery and the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden in Port Augusta, which saw sculptures created by artists from Port Augusta and the region spread throughout the Botanic Gardens. McKenzie gained approval from traditional owners of the region to create a large hebal block sculpture of a pregnant woman, titled Birthplace . Before colonisation, Port Augusta was a birthing place for Aboriginal people from the surrounding desert region because it was possible to access both salt water for healing and fresh water. To this day, Indigenous and non-Indigenous women from across the state continue to make their way to Port Augusta hospital to have their babies and McKenzies’ sculpture, which was acquired by the Port Augusta Council, acknowledges the historical and contemporary significance of Port Augusta as a healing place and birthing site for women from different cultures.'ARID’ was highly successful and later established as a biannual project: it attracts many artists from within the region as well as further afield, and an increasing number of Aboriginal artists have contributed work to the exhibitions. The exhibition series is one dimension of a growing artistic sector in Port Augusta, and the efforts of people such as Sam Yates – the coordinator of the 'ARID’ exhibitions – and McKenzie ensure many Aboriginal artists from Port Augusta participate in projects and exhibitions. McKenzie encourages and mentors Aboriginal artists in the region to explore different media and develop their own artistic language. The Yarnballa Cultural Festival, which took place for the first time in 2008, also contributed to a re-energised art and culture sector in Port Augusta. The inaugural Festival coincided with 'Port Augusta Re-Imagines’, when Port Augusta was the location of the 2008 Regional Centre of Culture Program. McKenzie was involved in the Festival in a range of capacities: he was an organising committee member, painted several Festival banners and contributed to the creation of large paper and cane sculptures of an eagle, fish and goanna which were carried across the old bridge by local school children at the start of the festival. He also exhibited paintings and glasswork in 'Ripples in the Sand’, an exhibition that took place at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre Gallery (before being toured to regional venues in other parts of the State) which was commissioned especially for the Festival. 'Ripples in the Sand’ consisted of artistic interpretations of the town and its region created by Indigenous artists who reside there. The Country Arts SA educational resource for the exhibition states that McKenzie’s imagery is “firmly based in his love of country. His knowledge of country is evident in the depiction of flora, fauna and landmarks unique to the area.” (p. 5).In 2005 McKenzie was commissioned by the Port Augusta Hospital to create a one metre high sculpture of a midwife holding a baby, which is on permanent display in the grounds of the hospital. He also contributed to the design and creation of the art installations at the Port Augusta Court Complex which opened in 2007. In 2006 McKenzie was awarded the Port Augusta NAIDOC Artist of the Year Award. In that year, he participated in the 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre, and staged 'Donny McKenzie – an exhibition of hebel stone works ' at the New Land Gallery in Port Adelaide, showing sculptural works that addressed Aboriginal people’s experiences in prison and deaths in custody. In a conversation with the author (2009), McKenzie stated that he had permission from his elders to explore this theme further in his work, as well as the experiences of members of the Stolen Generation. He also described the way that, as a sculptor of public art, the concept for each work is not predetermined but rather emerges from the ideas and emotions that arise for him in each particular location. Beside his artistic practice and his work as an art educator and facilitator, McKenzie has had a very diverse professional life: working as a fireman, a pest control provider, a child care and aged care worker, a miner and as a health worker with the Pika Wiya Medical Centre. Many of these jobs involved helping others, black and white, and McKenzie spoke with the author of how rewarding he found such work, and having the opportunity to hear people’s stories. These sensibilities have informed his sculptural practice.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Wangkanguru/Adnyamathanha painter and sculptor based in Port Augusta who participated in the 2004 'ARID' public sculpture project in South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a27
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Details
Latitude-33.7511954 Longitude150.6941711 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alana-harris
- Birth Place
- Penrith, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Wiradjuri/Ngunnawal photographer, Alana Harris was born in Penrith, Sydney in 1966 and raised in Cowra NSW. She completed her Higher School Certificate at Cowra High School and went on to receive a Diploma in Photography at the ACT Institute of TAFE in 1988.
In 1989 Harris became the Senior Photographer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra. Harris is quoted in her artist statement in the Narragunnawali catalogue saying that “as an Aboriginal photographer I feel it is important to portray Aboriginal Australia whether it be in portraits, landscapes or documentary photography as I know it to be.” She was the Senior Photographer with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) for 12 years and has worked as the Access Manager in the Archives and Production Program with AIATSIS.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
staffcontributor
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Indigenous photographer Alana Harris has worked as the Senior Photographer Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and her work is concerned with portraying Indigenous Australians in all forms of photography.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a28
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/melissa-coote
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a29
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/penny-evans
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Penny Evans was born in Sydney in 1966. She is a Kamilaroi woman based in Lismore, with family originating from Garah and Mungundi near Moree. Throughout the 1990s Evans exhibited and sold her ceramic work through Gondwanna Indigenous Art Gallery in Alice Springs, Walkabout Gallery in Sydney and from her own studio/shop 'Chowk Ceramics’ in Enmore, Sydney. Her ceramics have been sold internationally, were exhibited at the 'Munich International Craft Fair’ in 1999 and 2000 and featured in The Journal of Australian Ceramics and Pottery in Australia .
Her artwork has appeared in group exhibitions, including 'Year of the Apology Exhibition’ at Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina, 2008; Grafton and Tweed River Regional Galleries National Parks and Wildlife Service Art Awards 2007 and 2008; 'CommUnity’, a post NAIDOC exhibition, Boomalli Art Gallery, Sydney, 2002; and 'Homebrand – Contemporary Australian Ceramics’, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 1997.
In 2001 Penny’s work was Highly Commended in the Freedom Ride Poster Competition, Sydney Opera House.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
staffcontributor
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Evans is a Lismore based Indigenous artist. Her ceramic work has been exhibited and sold thoughout Australia and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-33.88477 Longitude151.22621 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/james-powditch
- Birth Place
- Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- James Powditch creates mixed media works incorporating sculpture, assemblage and painting, while integrating his love of cinema and architecture. Born in 1966 in Paddington, Sydney, to Jenny Magrath and artist Peter Powditch, he lived with his mother in Sydney and the Sunshine Coast, Queensland from 1967. Powditch recalls that he spent his childhood in a beanie assembling lego in front of the television, absorbing cinematic influences as much as he loved building practical assemblages. From 1979-84 Powditch attended North Sydney Boys High School. During his years at school, he constantly went to the cinema, even figuring out ways to slip into the R-rated screenings. Powditch’s cinephilia paid off, informing the Super 8 film he shot for his final year Higher School Certificate major work. In 1987 Powditch commenced studies in Visual Arts at the City Art Institute (CAI now College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales) where he took a particular interest in film heroes such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, and Francis Coppola. Powditch left the CAI in 1987 to work as a general store hand at the Ray Hughes Gallery in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was during this time that he was inspired to begin building assemblage type artworks. In 1990 he left the gallery to travel to Europe, living in Spain, Greece, England and finally, France, where he gained work on the building of Euro Disney on the outskirts of Paris. Powditch continued his work abroad until 1992 when he returned to Australia where he moved to Newtown and converted his lounge room into a studio space. Following his return Powditch began work for the Sydney Theatre Company and The Australian Museum as a set and props builder. He worked for the companies for five years, acquiring a wide range of visual and building skills, many of which helped shape his constructed assemblage artwork. From the early 1990s Powditch showed his works at small artist run spaces and festivals such as Level 2 Gallery in Newtown (1998 and 1999), Walking the Streets Festival, Newtown (1993, 1994, 1998 and 2000), 'Sculpture by the Sea’ (2002), and the Tamworth Country Music Festival (1998). It was not until early 1997 that he teamed up with friend Rodney Simmons, a painter, at TAP Gallery in Darlinghurst for his first significant exhibition. For two years Powditch continued producing works for joint exhibitions in artist run spaces. In early 1999 he decided to travel abroad, exploring Canada, the United States of America and Mexico. While in the US, Powditch visited Fallingwater, an influential house from 1936-37 designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The visit to this site became the major influence for Powditch’s first commercial show on return to Australia later in 1999. Held at Sydney’s Dickerson Gallery in Woollahra, the exhibition, comprising a range of architectonic sculptural pieces not unlike architectural models, were inspired by various projects designed by Wright. While Powditch was influenced by building and architecture, it was his love of cinema which became the greater influence on his work. In 2000, he held the exhibition 'Widescreen’, followed by two film based shows in 2001, 'Technicolor’ and 'Cinemascope’. The titles of his works at the time – Parallax View, Zabriskie Point, Manchurian Candidate, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Planet of the Apes – were borrowed from films significant to the artist. Having once enjoyed the resourcefulness of putting together theatre and museum sets from a wide range of materials, Powditch began making assemblages using a mix of new and recycled building materials such as timber, plastic, metal, fabric and linoleum, much of which he found strewn along Newtown’s backstreets and abandoned warehouses. In 2001, after purchasing a 640sqm 1950s clothes factory in Marrickville and gutting and redesigning of the interior, Powditch had a plentiful supply of old building material from which to make his work. In his new space there were two separate studios, one for himself, the other for his partner, Diane Adair, a graphic designer. In 2003, thirteen years after he had left to travel to Europe, Powditch renewed his connection with the Ray Hughes Gallery, becoming an exhibiting artist at the gallery. He also took opportunities to assist the packing and installation crew at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In the same year, Powditch and his father, Peter, held a joint exhibition, 'The Powditch and Powditch Show’ (Ray Hughes Gallery), exploring their differing styles, if not dissimilar qualities in their workmanship, given that Peter also uses recycled materials. In 2003 Powditch held his fourth cinematic exhibition, 'Spaghetti Western’. As the title suggests, his works responded to the genre of Italian westerns from the 1960s and 1970s and paid tribute to director Sergio Leone, one of Powditch’s cinematic heroes. In 2005 Powditch was awarded the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Prize for the work Greensleeves of Home II; in the same year he won the Blake Prize for Religious Art for God is in the Detail. Ray Hughes Gallery hosted Powditch’s 2005 film-inspired exhibition 'Boo!’ which drew on films such as: To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men and Lord of the Flies. The exhibition was to mark the end of Powditch’s long running association with Ray Hughes; he left the Gallery shortly afterwards in 2006. During a relatively quiet year in 2006, Powditch continued to work with cinematic themes supplemented by thoughts on the environment and human civilization, combining these investigations into his 2007 shows. 'It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine)’ at the Finders Street Gallery, and 'Enjoy Civilization’ (Defiance Gallery at the Seymour Centre, University of Sydney) explored issues of environmental greed, consumerism and trade as well as continuing to acknowledge cinema. 'End of the World’ included the painted assemblage Butterfly Effects, which was to become the winning piece in the 2007 Mosman Art Prize. During the same year Pulp – Show us your Map of Tassie was Highly Commended in the Paddington Art Prize. In 2008 Powditch’s portrait of actor, Aden Young was hung in the Archibald prize, his first inclusion into the show. The following year Powditch was again accepted into the Archibald with a tribute to his father. His work is held in the collections of the Ballarat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale, Tweed River Art Gallery and Murwillumbah.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Dr De Lorenzo is an art historian and teaches in the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South WalesCox, Nick
Note: Nick Cox is a student of Landscape Architecture at University of New South Wales
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- James Powditch is a Sydney based mixed media artist. He creates assemblages from various materials, including recycled timber, metal, fabrics, plastic and other natural and synthetic materials. Powditch is inspired by film, the environment, architecture and politics.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2b
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Latitude-35.115 Longitude147.3677778 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.8001 Longitude144.9671 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-austin
- Birth Place
- Carlton, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Melbourne based Gunditjmara oil on canvas painter, Adrian Austin was studying for his Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Design at the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) in 2005. That same year he was in three group exhibitions; Gathering of the Land at A-Space, NMIT, Sorry – It’s not so hard to say at Bundoora Homestead and Long Ago, Here Today at LaTrobe Street Gallery. He was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards with his painting, Blue Streaks of Light 2005 that Austin describes in the Awards catalogue as“a spritual painting. The face of a Dreaming spirit is included in the body of the painting.” He aslo states that he enjoys working with “abstract imagery that flows from my mind.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Gunditjmara oil on canvas painter, Adrian Austin was a finalist in the 2005 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/george-matoulas
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Printmaker and binder working in the field of artists' books, often on collaborative projects with other artists and writers. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Australia, for example in Melbourne and Sydney, and internationally in Italy and Switzerland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-ellis
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor Kate Ellis lives and works in Melbourne. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science at La Trobe University’s Lincoln Institute in 1989 before completing an Advanced Certificate of Art and Design at Prahan College, Melbourne in 1990 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 1995.
Ellis has held several solo exhibitions at Melbourne galleries 1st Floor and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and in 2006 held a solo show at Arc One Gallery as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Ellis has also participated in a number of group exhibition since the early 1990s including A Taste in Art , Sotheby’s Australia, Melbourne (1997); Alter Point (Next Wave Festival), 1st Floor, Melbourne (1998); Darebin La Trobe Acquisitive Art Prize , Bundoora Park Homestead, Melbourne (1999); Animal Magnetism , Platform 2, Spencer Street Station, Melbourne (1999); Oblique Shadows: Asian influences in Australian Sculpture , Sculpture Square, Singapore (2001), VCA Gallery, Melbourne Mornington Regional Gallery(2002); wall/paper , Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2003); Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects | Store 5 | 1st Floor , Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2005); You’re so Vain: 5 contemporary sculptors , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); and Unsettled Boundaries , the Melbourne International Arts Festival touring show that travelled to Geelong Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, La Trobe Regional Art Gallery and Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (2006).
Among her various achievements, Ellis has been the recipient of the Darebin La Trobe Art Prize (1999), the Linden Post Card Show, Donlevy Fitzpatrick Award (1999) and the National Women’s Association Award (1992).
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- Sculptor Kate Ellis plays on ideas of the mutant and the hybrid. Casting wax limbs - some female, some dog - she creates scientific-like exhibits that challenge the nature of beauty and the feminine fetish as created by mass culture.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a2f
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Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-windberg
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Tony Windberg was born in Melbourne in 1966. He resides and works in Northcliffe, in the South West region of WA. Graduating from Curtin University in 1986 (Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts, major: Painting), Windberg has won numerous art awards, held several solo exhibitions and has been selected to exhibit in significant state and national group exhibitions. He is represented widely in public, corporate and private art collections. Windberg combines a variety of artforms, materials and techniques. These range from the conventional to the unconventional. He sources materials from his surrounds such as ash, charcoals and resins, all of which are used with symbolic intent. He also uses pertinent synthetic ‘domestic’ surfaces such as paint sample cards, shade-cloth, insect mesh and vinyl flooring.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- West Australian resident printmaker and drawer who works with the nature of illusion and the illusion of nature.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a30
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-38.6509683 Longitude146.20186 Start Date1966-01-01 End Date1966-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-frazer
- Birth Place
- Foster, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1966
- Summary
- A printmaker, painter and sculptor whose work is held in many Australian as well as international collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a31
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude53.5673603 Longitude-2.8859603 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-rimmer
- Birth Place
- Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
- Biography
- Christopher Rimmer (b.1965) is a British born Australian photographer, best known for his emotive images of the African wilderness.
Rimmer was born in Ormskirk, Lancashire, UK, before emigrating to South Africa as a child. Here, he would experience many personal challenges including the loss of his parents and brother at an early age; experiences that would later impart a profound impact on his photographic work. The mood of 1970s Apartheid in South Africa would likewise go on to occupy Rimmer’s adult life and become represented through his work. Indeed, Rimmer’s move to Australia in 1981 was perpetuated by avoiding conscription into the South African Army. Rimmer began taking photographs as a teenager while in South Africa, at first using a plastic 35mm Hanimex camera, he sold his first photograph to the angling magazine ‘Tight Lines’ at the age of 15 in 1980.
Rimmer began formal training once in Australia, first under Werner Hammerstingl and then at Rusden College, Melbourne under Paul Green, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Photography and Graduate Diploma of Education in 1991. Here, Rimmer attained experience in utilising medium and large format film cameras.
Following graduation, he taught darkroom printing at three Melbourne schools and was appointed Victorian editor of Scuba Action Magazine in 1991. Rimmer spent hundreds of hours taking underwater photographs in exotic locations such as the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef which also featured in publications.
In 2009, Rimmer was diagnosed with cancer and completed a course of chemotherapy in recovery that also saw him lose 25kg. Only five weeks later after the completion of his treatment, Rimmer returned to his artistic endeavors, heading into the African wilderness in the attempt to regain his personal and spiritual well-being through the creation of further work.
Rimmer’s best known series of works have drawn from excursions he made in 2009 to his former homeland and other areas of the African wilderness (Etosha Pan, etc.). Christopher Rimmer – In Africa, opened in Melbourne in March 2011, and Spirits Speak opened at Without Pier Gallery, Melbourne in June 2012, both being well received critically and also through popular recognition. In each, Rimmer seeks to make a connection with the landscape of his childhood, drawing strength from the beauty of its culture and wildlife. He employs sepia toning through much of his photographic work which highlights the sense of time passing, and also the fragility of his subject matter- the African wilderness, including species that are under threat of hunting.
His most recent exhibition, Signs of Life, highlights the way a period of human activity is inevitably subject to the passing of time. The result, expressed in his photographs of the old mining towns of Kolmanskop and Elizabeth Bay, depicts a once proud moment of human endeavour that becomes eroded by the changing landscape it inhabits. Rimmer states it is this product that he finds both visually beautiful, while also serving as an analogy for the ultimate futility of human endeavor.
Today, Rimmer is undertaking work on his latest project, “Amopondo”, which will be exhibited at the New York Art Expo 2015. He is also undertaking a commissioned project with St Kilda, Tourism, that will include a publication incorporating his works, which will also be displayed as large banners suspended from vacant buildings in the area.
Rimmer is a member of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2009, he received an Excellence Accreditation from the Fédération Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP), Paris, France in 2009, and a Platinum Accreditation in 2010. He was also shortlisted for Black and White Photographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by the British B+W Magazine.
In 2010, Rimmer drew the media’s attention when sample photographs for an upcoming exhibition he had displayed on Facebook were deleted by the company. The photos displayed bare-breasted and breast-feeding tribal Himba women as the subject of his current series. The photos were deemed unsuitable for viewing (by children) and pornographic, violating Facebook’s terms of use policy. This caused some debate over the ethics of Facebook’s censorship policy regarding not only Rimmer’s work, but other artists’ work and wider art forms.
In 2013, he also withdrew a long running association held with Nikon, due to the company’s promotion and production of optics specifically made for trophy hunting, including large animals found in Africa- the very feature of his most emotive work. He is also a supporter of the World Lion Day’s campaign to promote conservation awareness for the species, alongside other organisations and individuals including the National Geographic.
Rimmer’s photographs of Africa have been widely published in both traditional and online media. He has exhibited in group and solo shows in Australia, UK, France and US. His work is represented in several public and many private collections.
Writers:
AngelaTandori
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Christopher Rimmer is an English-born photographer who relocated to South Africa as a child, before immigrating to Australia in 1981. His powerful photographs of the African landscape, its people and majestic wildlife, encapsulate the heart and spirit of Africa.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a32
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elisa-markes-young
- Birth Place
- Poland
- Biography
- Elisa Markes-Young, artist, was born at Gorlice, Poland in January 1965, daughter of Edward Markes, a doctor, and Renate, née Hadaschik. The family migrated to Germany in 1981.
Markes-Young is largely self-taught, utilising and expanding on techniques learnt as a child from both her mother and in school. She later studied languages at the University of Cologne.
She met the artist Christopher Young in 1995 while on holiday in New Zealand. Shortly after Christopher moved to Germany, they married in 1996. She began exploring various mediums including pottery, illustration and photography.
Together the couple moved to Western Australia in 2002. They live and work from Margaret River. Focussing full-time on her practice, Elisa began exploring textiles as a medium.
The Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced #24 exemplifies Markes-Young’s ongoing enquiry into identity and the unreliability of our memories:
“Memory is a mystery. We imagine it as being some sort of a cupboard where things are stored and pulled out when needed. But sometimes things are misplaced and it’s only then, when our memory fails us that we brood over its nature. We ask ourselves how could we forget…?” (Elisa Markes-Young, 2011)
A complex repeating pattern degrades as it moves across the surface of the work. New patterns evolve, highlighting the malleability of memory.
Markes-Young has won multiple Western Australian art awards including the inaugural Mid West Art Prize 2011 with her work The Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced #24.
Markes-Young’s work was selected for the 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial (2008-2010) as well as the 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial (2011-2013). Both of these survey exhibitions toured Australia extensively.
Her work was also published in Mary Schoeser’s Textiles: The Art of Mankind (Thames & Hudson) in 2012.
Elisa Markes-Young’s work is represented in Royal Perth Hospital Art Collection, Tamworth Regional Gallery Art Collection, Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection, various Western Australian Council collections as well as private collections.
Writers:
zebrafactory
duggim
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a33
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TLCMap IDtb9a34
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/khaled-sabsabi
- Birth Place
- Tripoli, Lebanon
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- A sound, video, photo media, installation artist and musician based in south western Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a35
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/patricia-piccinini
- Birth Place
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Internationally recognised artist working in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, digital prints and sculpture. Piccinini presents innovative installations that grapple with themes such as medical science, virtual reality and technology. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally since 1991 and in 2003 she represented Australia at the 50th Venice Biennale.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a36
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/belinda-nakamarra-baker
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu in 1965, her language group is Warlpiri and her country is Yawarrka and Pawurinji. Her Dreamings are Ngurlu and Purlukuku. A person of great drive, when Belinda began working at Lajamanu school she was non-literate, but taught herself and became an assistant teacher at the school. She also helps on husband “Mad Bobby” Paton Japaljarri’s canvases and has been painting since 1987. She resides at Lajamanu.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and assistant teacher at Lajamanu school. Baker has been painting since 1987, sometimes in collaboration with her husband "Mad Bobby" Paton Japaljarri.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a37
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amanda-upton
- Birth Place
- QLD
- Biography
- Amanda Upton, contemporary illustrator and painter, had her illustrations published from the age of eighteen and began her career as a cadet illustrator for the Courier Mail and then the Sydney Morning Herald , where her work appeared regularly for over two decades. Her work has featured in magazines and journals throughout Australia and is included in Luerzers Archive Magazine’s collection of two hundred of the world’s best illustrators.
In 2000, Upton was a Walkley Award finalist. She has had many group exhibitions and solo shows and her work is included in various regional gallery collections. Upton has continued to paint and illustrate from her home studio in Austinmer on the NSW South Coast.
Writers:
Upton, Amanda
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Amanda Upton, contemporary illustrator and painter, began her career as a cadet illustrator for the Courier Mail and then the Sydney Morning Herald, where her work appeared regularly for over two decades.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a38
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gail-mabo
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Gail Mabo, dancer, actor and visual artist was born in Queensland in July 1965. Mabo studied dance at the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre in Sydney from 1984 to 1987. Much of her career has been in the area of dance and choreography. She performed in Jimmy Chi’s Bran Nue Dae in its 1991 Sydney season and worked as a choreographer and dancer in Tracey Moffat 's 1986 short film Watch Out and as an actor in Moffat’s Nice Coloured Girls in 1985.
Mabo is the daughter of celebrated land rights activist Eddie Mabo and in 2005 she directed the stage show KOIKI which was a performance based on the life of her father. In 2007 KOIKI toured to the Dreaming Festival in Woodford Queensland. Mabo added visual arts to her portfolio in 2004 when she began a Certificate IV in Visual Arts at the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE. She completed this course in 2005 and immediately enrolled in a Diploma of Visual Arts at the same TAFE, graduating in 2007. Mabo has enjoyed immediate success as a visual artist and has been involved in many group exhibitions through the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE and has also had two solo exhibitions in 2006 and 2007 at the Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery in Townsville. In 2007 Mabo was still living in Townsville in the house she was raised in.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Daughter of the celebrated lands right activist Eddie Mabo, Gail Mabo began painting in 2004. She has held a number of successful solo exhibitions at the Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery in Queensland and is also recognised as a successful dancer and choreographer who has worked with both Jimmy Chi and Tracey Moffatt.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a39
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karen-canuto
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Karen Canuto of the Kokolamalama/Kokojelandji tribal group of Far North Queensland was born in 1965. She works mainly in ceramics, both greenware and handbuilt but has also worked as a painter. Her work is informed by the natural environments of the rainforests and the marine life of the Great Barrier Reef. Canuto was a finalist in the Robin O’Chin awards for Arts and Crafts in 1999 and was the winner of the Indigenous Section of the 2000 Brisbane Memento Awards. Her work featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Karen Canuto of the Kokolamalama/Kokojelandji tribal group of Far North Queensland was born in 1965. She works mainly in ceramics, both greenware and handbuilt but has also worked as a painter.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3a
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-sorbie-martin
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1965, Lisa Sorbie Martin from Moa and Murray Islands in the Torres Strait works across the mediums of painting and textile. Her work was featured in the 'Great South Land’ exhibition at the new Parliament House in Canberra in 1999 and the 2000 exhibition 'Ilan Pasin’ at Cairns Regional Gallery.
Her artist statement in the catalogue for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” explains that her inspiration “comes from three sources: culture and family; ocean and environment; my faith. My art reflects the positive and colourful uniqueness and beauty of all these.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Lisa Sorbie Martin from the Moa and Murray Islands in the Torres Strait works is a painter and textile artist whose work has been included in a number of major group exhibitions including 'Great South Land' at the New Parliament House in Canberra in 1999.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeanie-pwerle
- Birth Place
- Utopia Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1965
- Summary
- Jeanie Pwerle is one of a group of women from Utopia who began making batik designs on silk at Utopia station
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3c
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/april-napaljarri-spencer
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu c.1965. A Warlpiri speaker, her country is Yarripilangu and Goanna and Ngalyipi (snake vine) Dreamings her usual subjects. She lives in Alice Springs, but has connections with the community at Kiwirrkura. She began painting in 1989 after watching her brother, Andrew Spencer Japaljarri , when she was living at Hidden Valley. Her brother taught her about their father’s Dreamings. 'I dance and paint for the Dreaming’. She worked with the Jukurrpa group based at the I.A.D. in Alice Springs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1965
- Summary
- Contemporary Aboriginal artist originally from Yuendumu NT, her work is centred on her Dreaming stories.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3d
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Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/meggerie-napanangka-brown
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1965, and a Warlpiri speaker, Meggerie Brown’s country is Mt Theo and her Dreamings are Bush Tomato and Bush Banana. She lives in Yuendumu, has connections with Willowra community, but works with the Jukurrpa group based in Alice Springs. 'When I was fourteen, I used to watch the old women painting at the Warlukurlangu Gallery at Yuendumu. My mother showed me how to paint my Dreamings. I sold my first painting when I was about seventeen.’
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- A Warlpiri artist and member of the Yuendumu community, with connections in Willowra (NT). Brown also painted with the Jukurrpa group based at the Institute of Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/josephine-tilmouth
- Birth Place
- Napperby, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1965 at Napperby, where she still lives. Her grandfather’s country is Yuendumu, and she is an Anmatyerre speaker. The Dreamings she paints are Honey Ant and Witchetty Grub. She occasionally sells her paintings through Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative in Alice Springs, as well as the Napperby painting enterprise.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist who lives at Napperby (NT). She occasionally sold her paintings through Jukurrpa Artists in Alice Springs.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a3f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fabrianne-nampitjinpa-petersen
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Papunya on 22 July 1965, Fabrianne was living with her mother Maudie Petersen at Mt Liebig when she first started painting after four years at Yirara secondary college in Alice Springs. Fabrianne learned by watching other young women painters at Mt Liebig, Sandra Nampitjinpa and her sisters. In 1982 she worked in the Mt Liebig school as a teachers aid. She married the son of Johnny and Narpula Scobie and moved to Kintore where in the mid 1980s she began painting for Papunya Tula alongside her mother-in-law, who was at the time the only older woman in Kintore painting for the company. Fabrianne’s country is north-west of Mt Liebig. She paints Bush Potato, Witchetty Grub, Honey Ant and Kunatjarrayi Dreamings.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Fabrianne grew up in Papunya and continued her secondary education at Yirara College in Alice Springs before commencing painting in the early 1980s at Mt Liebig, where she also worked as a Teachers Aid. Later she worked with her mother-in-law Narpula Scobie, painting for Papunya Tula Artists at Kintore.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a40
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rebecca-currie-cavanagh
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Rebecca Cavanagh (Currie) is 43 years of age and has been painting Aboriginal Art since the age of 16.Rebecca was named Koolyn which means “black swan” by her aunty and elder of her clan, being the Bandjalung/mununjalli Clan.It was her elders that encouraged Rebecca to continue painting the traditional art of here culture and also to grow with her own interpretation of Aboriginal Art.
Rebecca Cavanagh now lives in Maroochydore at the Sunshine Coast but was originally raised up in the suburbs of Brisbane. She has many exhibitions that take you to far North of Queensland through to Brisbane down to NSW and over to Perth her first piece of work sold from her exhibition was to be hung in Parliament House. Many of Rebecca’s works have travelled overseas once purchased and Rebecca has had a wonderful feedback from ones as far away as Germany, Paris, United States of America, Canada, Japan and Thailand.
As well as painting for her own pleasure Rebecca Cavanagh has visited many schools across Queensland painting murals as well as teaching and sharing with them the culture of Aboriginal Art and Aboriginal medicine, theseschools include Kruger State School,Kuluin State School, Tara State School, Kippering State School, Redcliffe State School, Goodna State School, Richland State School,Bremer State School, Oakey state school, Dalby State School, Dinmore State School, DalbyHigh, Inala State School, RedbankHigh, TaraHigh, Redcliffe High and Bremer High.
Rebecca has also been noted for her ability to place non-Aboriginal person’s life story into the design of Aboriginal Art, therefore joining the two cultures together and allowing others to see their life in the eyes of an Aboriginal Artists.
Writers:
Rebecca Cavanagh
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a41
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephen-crowther
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1965
- Summary
- Ceramicist and educator Stephen Crowther was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a42
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/val-law
- Birth Place
- Walgett, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Val West
Val West states, “My 'Woven Stories’ body of artworks represent connections to the Dreaming and to the land through feeling deeply connected to the South Coast, NSW, Dharawal Nation through experiences lived, family, friends, collegues and to my families Aboriginal Nations of Walgett, Brewarrina & Dennawan NSW which are the Gamilaraay, Wailwan & Murrawarri Language Groups. Intrinsic to my 'Woven Stories’ artworks is also the interwoven stories inspired by the woven organic of South Coast and North Western NSW weaving – 'Woven Stories’ references continuing connections to the Dreaming through songlines represented by intricately interwoven strands of weaving, 'Ancestral twine’ (Spirit Bird Xavier Rudd), and includes skills and techniques of weaving that have been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. My 'Woven Stories’ artworks also represents the continued practice of contemporary weaving today with traditional techniques and materials which continues to keep the Dreaming present.”
In 2009 Wollongong City Gallery, Pallingjang Saltwater 2009 exhibition was developed by Wollongong City Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW, Wollongong City Council, Arts NSW, Australian Governments Indigenous Support Program of the Development of the Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts. Sixteen South Coast Aboriginal Artists were selected to exhibit artworks and included a print component, print workshops were facilitated and artworks printed by Master Printmaker Tom Goulder at Duck Print Fine Art Studio.
Johnathan Jones (AGNSW) kindly states, 'The detailed study of flora is echoed in the woven imagery of Val Law (West), with her Woven Stories print series. Woven forms, like that seen in the sculptures of Julie Freeman and Phyllis Stewart who both weave with local grasses, vines and bark, often decorated with nuts, shells and feathers, are translated into print media by Law, who brings together the different strands or threads of life to create a whole sense of self. Her work, like that of her peer Regina Pilawuk Wilson (b.1948) from Peppimenarti in the Northern Territory, is a filigree of lines forming and re-forming, referencing her earlier line design work.’ Johnathan Jones – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW. Wollongong City Art Gallery,Pallingjang Saltwater Together Dreaming 2009, pg 24.
Sheona White (AGNSW) kindly states 'The Gallery was very honoured to have Uncle Vic Chapman (Yuwaalaraay), the first Aboriginal primary school headmaster in Australia and artist in his own right, as part of it’s team of dedicated Gallery Guides. He and local artist Valerie Law (Gamilaroi) also became workshop tutors at the Gallery and provided invaluable insight, information and support through the complex subjects that arose in relation to Indigenous art at the Gallery. Local artist Kevin Butler soon joined Uncle Vic and Valerie as local Indigenous artists at the Gallery, when in 1997 he was selected as the Gallery’s annual Resident Artist. The art of all three was represented in the inaugural Pallingjang exhibition and subsequent exhibitions since then.’ Sheona White Curator Pallingjang Saltwater 1997 and consultant curator Pallingjang Saltwater 2009. Currently working at the Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW. Wollongong Art Gallery, Pallinjang Saltwater 2009 – Together Dreaming screen 15, 34, 24 & of 164. Pallingjang Saltwater 2009 Catalogue, Wollongong City Art Gallery p.g 7, 14, 24 & 25, 2009.
[PDF]Pallingjang Saltwater – Together Dreaming togetherdreaming.com/wp-content/uploads/.../catalogue_low_res.pdf
Duck Print Fine Art Limited Editions, Pallingjang Saltwater 2009, Wollongong City Art Gallery & Art Gallery of NSW AGNSW http://www.duckprintfineart.com.au/pallingjang2009/
Val West(Law) states “My 'Community Artworks’ body of artworks is inspired by Dreaming stories taught to me by respected Elders and Storytellers June Barker, Lorraine Brown and Francis Bodkin, and is also inspired by the landscape, seascape, fauna and flora experienced while living in the Illawarra, South Coast NSW.”
Collections
5 artworks by Val West(Law) collected in the Wollongong Art Gallery Permanent Collection from 1996-2012
Gaygar Duck and Platypus DreamingVal West (Law)acrylic polymere on canvas, 1996
GamilaroiVal West (Law)polymer acrylic, ochers on board and cloth, 1998
Woven Stories 8 Val West (Law)aquatint etch on paper, 2009Master Printmaker Tom Goulder, Printed at Duck Print Fine Art Gallery,For Pallingjang Saltwater 2009 Exhibition,Wollongong City Art Gallery,Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW.
Woven StoriesVal West (Law)aquatint etch on paper, 2009Master Printmaker Tom Goulder, Printed at Duck Print Fine Art Gallery,For Pallingjang Saltwater 2009 Exhibition,Wollongong City Art Gallery,Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW.
Water lilies DreamingVal West (Law) aquatint on paper, 2012Master Printmaker Tom Goulder, Printed at Duck Print Fine Art Gallery.
University of Wollongong Permanent Collection
Family ReunionVal West (Law)acrylic polymer on canvas, 1986
Exhibitions 1995 – 2014
2014 Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Cooperative$300 Dollar Donation Exhibition
2011 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize exhibitionParliament of New South WalesCampbelltown Art CentreCOFA College of Fine Art.
2009 Pallingjang Salt Water 2009 Wollongong City Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales AGNSW, Wollongong City Council, Arts NSW, Australian Governments Indigenous Support Program of the Development of the Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts.
2009 On This Island NG Art Gallery& Duck Print Fine Art Studio
2009 Scarf Exhibition Edmund Rice College
2009 One Year On Vision and Space Gallery
2008 Sorry day Exhibition Vision and Space Gallery
2008 Continuing the Circles Exhibition, Vision and Space Gallery, Deidre Armstrong
2007 Print makers Inaugural Exhibition Vision and Space Gallery Art Arena and Project Contemporary Art Space.
2007 Milestones Art Heritage andPlace Exhibition. University of Wollongong Project Contemporary Art Space.
2007 Collected Women’s Exhibition Wollongong City Gallery.
2008 NAIDOC Week Exhibition Vision & Space Gallery.
2004 Peoples Choice Exhibition Wollongong City Gallery.
2002 Pallingjang Salt Water 111Wollongong City Art Gallery.
2000 Mum Shirl Tribute Sacred Trust of Memory Exhibition. Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative.
2000 Diriyay (War Cry) Aboriginal Expo Homebush Sydney.
2000 Boomalli Exhibition BoomalliAboriginal Artist Cooperative.
2000 Pallingjang Salt Water 111 Wollongong Cty Gallery Wollongong City Council.
1999 Boomalli Members ExhibitionBoomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative.
1998 NAIDOC Visions exhibitionWollongong City Gallery exhibition toured to Parliament House of New South Wales
1998 NAIDOC Visions exhibition Wollongong City Gallery.
1998 NAIDOC Week Exhibition University of Wollongong.
1997 Pallingjang Salt Water ExhibitionWollongong City Gallery.
1996 Looking Into Aftertime Project Contemporary Art Space.
1995 Unjustified Project Centre for Contemporary Art Space
Artworks In Publication
1999 Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative,artwork titled Earth, Wind, Fire and Water by Val West (Law)Printed Cards.
1999 NSW Reconciliation Council Commissioned Val West (Law)Logo painted for 1999, NSW reconciliation Council Conference.
2000 NSW Reconciliation Council Poster printed of artwork titled Bridge over Troubled WatersCollaborative artwork Kevin Butler and Val West ( Law )
2000 NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, printed postcards forNAIDOC 2000 artwork Bridge over Troubled Waters
2009Wollongong City GalleryPallingjang Saltwater 2009Woven Stories pg 16, Woven Stories 8 pg 24, Woven Stories 10 pg 25.
2010 NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs poster re-printed of collaborative artwork titled Bridge Over Troubled Waters CollectionsWollongong City Gallery.Wollongong University.Private Collections New Zealand the UK and Australia.
Community Artworks – Murals
2014 Holy Spirit College, Welcome Poles of Kindness, Peace and Respect.
2006 Engadine Primary School
2007 Grays Point Primary School
2008 Keiraville Primary School
2008 Wollongong Botanic Garden Discovery Centre with Keiraville Primary School After-school Art Class Collaborative Mural.
2008 Corrimal Primary School
2008 St Francis Xavier Wollongong Primary School
2009 Penshurst Primary School
2011 Corrimal High School Collaborative Mural Project In2Careers Corrimal High School.
Community Artworks – Public Art Commissions
2000Oak flats cycle and Walkway Project. Shellharbour Council commission for artworks drawing of Whale Starfish Shell & Dolphins artist Val West (nee Law). Embossed in sets from Shellharbour Village to Oak Flats by Shellharbour Council. Project Coordinators Sue Barnett and Ashley Frost
2001Ribbonwood Neighbourhood Youth Courtyard Mosaic Project. Wollongong City Council.Project Coordinator Cultural Services Primary ArtistsTori de Mestre, Janett Clauston and Val West ( Law ) Commission to assist the facilitationwith Dapto High School mosaic workshopsand with the collaborative mosaic construction of the Mosaics for the Youth Courtyard.
2006Six Daughters of the West WindMerrigong Environment Sculpture Project.Wollongong City Council.Project Coordinator Cultural Services Sue Bessell. Primary Artists Tina Lee and Alison Page. I was selected as an Artist for clay hand forming for lilly pillies tiles at the base of one of the sculptures titled Six Daughters of the West Wind Merrigong Environment Sculpture at Mt Keira.
Awards
2004Deans Merit Award, Outstanding Academic Performance,Bachelor of Creative Art, Visual Art.Wollongong University
2004Contribution to Public ArtworksWollongong City Council
Education
Bachelor of Creative Art Visual Art, University of Wollongong, UOW.
Certificate 1V Training and Assessment TAFE.
*Statement of attainment Ceramics Hand forming Practice, West Wollongong Technical and Further Education.
*Child Care Certificate.
*Certificate in Child Care Studies.
*Completed most of the Bachelor of Teaching, University of Wollongong.
*Completed most of a Post Graduate Diploma in Vocational Education & Training VET, University of Sydney UTS
Writers:
vwest
Platypus
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2017
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Val West is an Aboriginal artist, her ancestry is Aboriginal from the Gamilaroi & Murawarri Aboriginal nations and feels deeply connected to D'harawal Country. She is a Painter, Printmaker and Community Artist. She is represented in the Permenant Collections of Wollongong Art Gallery and the University of Wollongong. She has a Bachelor of Creative Arts Visual Arts, University of Wollongong.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a43
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/heather-blacklock
- Birth Place
- Beverley, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Painter Heather Blacklock, also known as Yorga, was born in 1965 in the small town of Beverly, approximately 130 kilometres south-east of Perth, Western Australia. She is one of ten children.
Her paintings are inspired by the stories told to her as a child by her grandfather, Angus Wallam. Her work is also informed by the past including her family history and that of the Aboriginal people of Western Australia.
Blacklock began exhibiting in group shows in 2005 in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, and in 2007 she began showing her work in solo exhibitions. She has shown at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, the Royal Brisbane Show and the Gift and Hardware Home Trade Show in Sydney. Her work has been exhibited in curated group shows in Western Australia including 'Spirit of Carrolup’ (2008) held at Mugart Boodja Art Gallery in Katanning, Western Australia. In 2009 she was included in two exhibitions, 'Noongar Koort Boodja – Noongar Heart Land’ at Gadfly Gallery in Perth and in 'The Legacy of the Koorah Coolingah (The Legend of Children Long Ago)’ at Brisbane’s Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Blacklock’s work is in the collections of Rio Tinto, Blackmores and the National Trust of Australia (NSW).
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Noongar painter who lives in Queensland. Blacklock was included in 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah' held at Brisbane's Powerhouse Arts Centre in 2009.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a44
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adrian-mcgregor
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Adrian McGregor is a landscape architect, urban designer and public artist. He was born in 1965 in Newcastle, New South Wales. While in high school he had interests in both flora and design and worked part-time at a local plant nursery. By the end of his schooling McGregor decided to embark on a degree in landscape architecture. From 1984 to 1987 he studied at the University of Canberra and received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. After graduating, he worked in Sydney before moving to the United Kingdom and North America to work on many environmental projects. Between 1994 and 1995 McGregor decided to further his educational qualifications by studying horticulture at the Gold Coast Institute of TAFE. In 1998 he founded mcgregor+partners, a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in Manly, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. His art practice, whether working alone or collaboratively, shares many attributes with his landscape architecture. Embedded in outdoor spaces, he uses his public art to address themes of environmental awareness and sustainability. When working collaboratively with other artists, each participant contributes his or her knowledge and ideas into a creative process that is more than a sum of its parts. Three such projects include Amoeba (2004) Surrogate Trojan (2008), Lube Ring 101 (2008-09). For Amoeba, McGregor collaborated with colleagues Rupert Carmichael and Christian Borchert in the installation of a temporary project that demonstrated qualities in both public and sustainable art. Displayed for a single day (28 October 2004) in Martin Place, Sydney, the project consisted of 132 amoeba-like cells made of used tyre rings painted white, pink, orange or blue (to attract attention), each filled with Stratum Green, a soil substitute made of used tyres, with the occasional sprinkler placed in the middle. Laid out in a grid on the granite-paved surface, the playful work demonstrated regeneration and expressed a desire to use temporary public art to provoke surprise and debate about excessive waste. In this instance it was a team of landscape architects who demonstrated the recyclability of bald tyres in a temporary symbolic art piece. Surrogate Trojan was an outdoor collaborative project that McGregor worked on alongside architect/artists Russell Lowe and Richard Goodwin. Erected at Lee Wharf, Honeysuckle (Newcastle), Surrogate Trojan was part of Steffen Lehmann’s Back to the City project, in Newcastle, (24 January – 17 February 2008) and was awarded the prize for Best Installation in the Urban Context. In this work, a shipping container was filled with a bed of canola seeds, providing a setting for a short film on genetically modified (GM) foods. Strategically placed near a wharf where once there had been a protest against the importing of GM seeds, the work was designed to raise consciousness about inadequate food labelling as much as it also entertained visitors by raising the perils of GM foods sneaking through our harbours and into supermarket shelves. Les Murray’s enigmatic short poem, Stone statues of ancient waves, tongue like dingoes on shore, announces a new model of collaboration for McGregor in the creation of Lube Ring 101 at Ballast Point, Sydney. Murray’s words, cut out of old oil tanks recycled from the site, are integrated into the skeletal cylindrical structure that also carries eight wind turbines to generate night lighting for the site. This permanent public artwork forms part of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority collection.Sustainability is the ethos behind McGregor’s public art installations as well as his more substantive landscape architecture and urban planning projects such as Chang Gung hospital (Taiwan, 1998), Parramatta Road (Sydney, 2001 and ongoing) and Green Square town centre (Sydney, 2001 and ongoing) to name a few. His temporary art works aim to make the public aware of the environmental issues such as waste management or genetically modified foods, while his landscape architecture projects focus on long term sustainability.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Catherine De Lorenzo is an art historian and senior lecturer at the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW.Lin, Jason
Note: In 2008 Jason Lin was studying Telecommunications Engineering at University of New South Wales.
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2008
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Adrian McGregor is a collaborative artist, landscape architect and urban designer whose works raise public awareness of environmental issues and sustainability.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a45
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/caroline-narkle
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Caroline Narkle, Noongar artist, was born in Narrogin in Western Australia in 1957, the youngest of Bella Kelly and Largy Narkle’s four children. When she was five years old, she was taken away from her parents and brought to Wandering Mission (also known as St Francis Xavier Mission) with her sisters Cheryl and Lorrice and her brother Geoffrey Narkle . Caroline Narkle remained there until 1969, when she returned to be with her mother who was living on the Mt Barker reserve. Narkle remained in Mt Barker, where she married and had seven children. In 2008 she moved to Albany with her family.
Narkle began painting in her adult years, following in the footsteps of her mother, Bella, a renowned Noongar landscape artist whose work is admired throughout the Great Southern, South Coast and Southwest regions of Western Australia. Bella taught Narkle painting techniques, and Narkle regards her as her primary artistic influence. Her artistic skills developed further over four years of study in Visual Arts at Great Southern TAFE in Mount Barker and Albany. She feels indebted to TAFE lecturer Dianne Sheehan for her teaching, encouragement and friendship. Narkle’s landscape paintings bear some resemblance to those of her mother, and like Bella, she paints indoors, drawing on a mental image of places she has been or feels strongly attached to, rather than paintings directly from life. Narkle also paints her memories of being at Wandering Mission, such as the bell that would call the kids to meal times and church, or girls making beds and washing clothes.In 2009 Narkle was included in the Brisbane Powerhouse exhibition 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah (The Legend of Children Long Ago)’, and the exhibition 'Noongar Koort Boodja – Noongar Heart Land’ at Gadfly Gallery in Perth. She paints in association with Mungart Boodja Art Centre in Katanning.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Noongar artist and daughter of renowned landscape painter Bella Kelly. Based in Albany, she paints in association with Mungart Boodja art centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a46
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joanne-dunn
- Birth Place
- Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Joanne Dunn (painting as Joanne Reid) is a Wiradjuri woman, born in 1965 at Lake Cargelligo in New South Wales, Australia. In 1980 Dunn moved to Orange, New South Wales. Dunn is a self-taught artist, and during her career developed her own style, often combining Aboriginal and European art forms and also experimenting with abstract pieces. Dunn started “Jemalong Art” (jemalong meaning platypus) in June 2000, prior to which she painted for eight years with various Aboriginal organizations.Dunn has held a number of exhibitions both in Australia and the United States of America (in Nashville, Tennessee). She developed her talents into a commercial enterprise with the assistance of the Parkes Forbes Business Enterprise Centre, a not-for-profit business advisory service.In 2001, Dunn presented the first of a number of major exhibitions of her work in Sydney at the Country Embassy, hosted by Peter Croft, Chief Executive Officer of Parkes Forbes Business Enterprise Centre and the Department of State and Regional Development.The exhibition was opened by The Minister for Small Business, the Hon. Sandra Nori MP, as part of the launch of the Indigenous Small Business Advisory Service and featured 42 artworks by Dunn. In praise of the art, the Minister said: 'The exhibition highlights the talent and drive that Dunn has to translate her creative pursuits into a successful business and a source of financial independence’.Another major exhibition at the State Parliament House in Sydney was opened by the then Premier of New South Wales, Mr. Bob Carr, and hosted by Peter Croft, Chief Executive Officer of Parkes Forbes Business Enterprise Centre. The exhibition consisted of 30 artworks by Dunn and was on display for twelve months.Dunn’s depiction of Australian flora and fauna and her unique use of traditional Aboriginal methods also created interest in Nashville, Tennessee, when her works were exhibited at the Centennial Park Arts & Crafts Centre as part of the Australian Festival in 2003. Dunn will be making her first visit to Nashville in September 2006 where she will be exhibiting her works as part of the Australian Festival.Her works have also become sought after for official and private collections. One of Dunn’s major works was purchased to hang in the Orange Court House. Other works have been purchased by the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, State and Federal Parliamentarians.Several of her works were purchased by a Sydney based firm for T-shirt and wall hanging designs and manufacture.Dunn’s works extend from fine art to community projects. She designed the new welcoming signs located on the outskirts of Orange at each point of entry to the city. Dunn developed a totemic design in 2003 by adapting it to a land drawing, which will be the basis for construction of a giant platypus to be built in Orange at the Gosling Creek Reserve. The overall theme for the site is “drawn from the land” which indicates that inspiration, ideas and materials are drawn from the site and pays tribute to Indigenous and non-Indigenous occupants of the area. The platypus design is the first component of the project which will become a land or earth art measuring 70 metres in length. The image will be visible from several sections of the park and from the air, connecting the entry signs from the outskirts to the city centre. Although the project has been developed is yet to be constructed whilst awaiting funding advice from Orange City Council. Another of Dunn’s achievements includes use of her art works by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training to illustrate promotional materials for the Elsa Dixon Aboriginal Employment Program. Similarly, her work was selected to adorn materials for the Indigenous Self Employment Program. These arrangements were negotiated by the BEC. Dunn teaches Aboriginal Art and Cultural Practices through the New South Wales Technical and Further Education system.More recently Dunn was invited to participate in the “Water Works” showing held at the Orange Art Gallery in November 2005. The story behind Dunn’s painting is:“Waterworks is a thematic depiction of the history of the Orange waterways as seen through the eyes of a Wiradjuri woman. Its themes include the local river systems, ranging from Mount Canobolas to the Lachlan and including local fauna and flora”. Dunn was also invited to exhibit at the Careflight Exhibition, held in Orange, in December 2005. Her latest project is a reconciliation project at Bowen Public School in Orange, New South Wales, which embraces the coming together of all children, with a particular emphasis on troubled youth.Peter Andren, Independent Federal Member of Parliament (1996-2007) for Calare, is a great supporter of Dunn and has said in the context of Dunn’s Nashville exhibition, “This will be a great opportunity both for Dunn and to raise an awareness and appreciation of Aboriginal art in America. Aboriginal art covers a wide spectrum from Central Australia and Arnhem Land and urban Australia, from ancient to so-called traditional and modern. Dunn’s unique style has received wide acclaim, particularly her interpretation of nature and reconciliation themes”.
Writers:
Allas, TessCroft, Peter
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 19 February 1965
- Summary
- Joanne Dunn (painting as Joanne Reid) is Wiradjuri woman based in Orange, NSW. She is a self-taught artist who has exhibited locally and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 17-May-09
- Age at death
- 44
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a47
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TLCMap IDtb9a48
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-daw
- Birth Place
- Esperance, WA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 7-Sep-20
- Age at death
- 55
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a49
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adam-cullen
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Adam Cullen, painter and Archibald Prize winner, was born in Sydney in 1963. He studied Fine Arts and Professional Art Studies at the City Art Institute in Paddington, initially graduating in 1987. Later he returned as a research student when the former CAE joined the He University of New South Wales, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1999. Despite his apparent conventional academic trajectory, Cullen was initially best known for his confrontational stunts and punkish ploys. In one performance he walked around for a week with a severed pig’s head chained to his ankle, during which time he was banned from public transport. His friend and fellow student, Andrew Frost, saw this as an indication of his long term obsession with decay and death.Cullen’s most challenging performance piece was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. Home Economics consisted of Cullen and fellow artist Cash Brown, standing at a table with various domestic appliances and easily purchased ingredients. Then as Cullen read from sources found on the internet, Brown drew accompanying diagrams to show how weapons of mass destruction could be made by all.His joy in challenging authority can be seen in his later collaboration with Mark 'Chopper’ Read on a children’s book entitled Hooky the Cripple . Cullen’s work approached difficult social issues with a light touch. Crime, masculinity and cowboy culture, were all exposed through a lens of humour. Formally, his paintings united high and low culture through the combination of bold, gestural brushstrokes and appropriated imagery. Cullen was the recipient of a number of distinguished prizes most famously the Archibald Prize in 2000 for his portrait of the actor David Wenham. Ice was also a regular finalist in the Archibald, the Sulman and the Blake Prize. In 2002 Cullen represented Australia at the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo.For many years he suffered from ill health, which was exacerbated by a life style characterised by drugs and heavy drinking. At the time of his death he was a diabetic, and had his pancreas removed and was heavily medicated, not for pleasure but for survival. Andrew Frost wrote 'Adam has left us his legacy: the good, the bad and the ugly, the funny, the insightful and glacial glistening of truth, the dancing black line, the splat of curdled enamel on the infinity of a single colour acrylic. It wasn’t conceptual he always said, it was optical. Just look and you will see.’
Writers:
Chalk Horse Gallery
Joanna Mendelssohn
duckydo37
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2018
- Born
- b. 9 October 1965
- Summary
- Adam Cullen delighted in confronting both his fellow artists and the establishment with his works that explored crime, masculinity and cowboy culture through a lens of bleak humour.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 28-Jul-07
- Age at death
- 42
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4a
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-hickey-donovan
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Michelle Hickey-Donovan, photographer and mixed media artist, has Daingatti heritage on her mother’s side, and Wiradjuri heritage on her father’s side. Born in Sydney, Michelle moved to Richmond in Melbourne at the age of six. In 1998 she enrolled in the Koorie Art and Design Course at RMIT University in Melbourne, specialising in Applied Photography. Exhibitions have included “2000 Nothink!” (2000), at the Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne and “? Lost & Found “ (2001), at the Koorie Heritage Trust and Immigration Museum, Melbourne.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1965
- Summary
- Photographer and mixed media artist of Daingatti and Wiradjuri heritage.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4b
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-waples-crowe
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Peter Waples-Crowe, mixed media artist, was born in Sydney in 1965. Raised in Wollongong, he completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 1989. A descendent of the Wiradjuri and Ngarigo nations, his works – which combine figurative elements with symbolic motifs – are a means by which he can explore his sense of connectedness with his ancestral lands. They also express his concerns about the contemporary challenges Indigenous people face, and are informed by the knowledge and experience he has gained from working in the area of Indigenous health with communities in New South Wales and Victoria. He has participated in a number of exhibitions, including “Icons” at the Wayward Gallery in Byron Bay (2003), the solo exhibition “Sacred Details” at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne (2005), and the 22nd and 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (2005 & 2006). Waples-Crowe was short-listed for the 2005 and 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. In 2009 he was living in West Melbourne.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
staffcontributor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Melbourne based mixed media artist of Wiradjuri/Ngarigo descent whose works explore the complexity of contemporary Indigenous identity.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4c
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/warren-brown
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, drew obsessively as a schoolboy living in Sydney’s Marrickville West. He began work as a copy boy at News Limited in 1982 then got a cadetship as an artist. He joined Wollongong’s Illawarra Mercury in 1984 after convincing the editor of the need for a cartoonist: “It started off once a week and ended up daily”, Foyle reported (p.94). He replaced Benier as editorial cartoonist on Sydney’s Daily Mirror in 1986, where he continued the Rigb y/Benier style of duo-board cartoons. Vince O’Farrell took over on the Mercury . An original c.1970s cartoon by 'Warren’ is at ML PXD 764. In late 1988 Brown and O’Farrell were working on a comic strip, which the latter claimed would be 'bigger than Mickey Mouse’ (Foyle, 96).
Warren has been political cartoonist on the Sydney Daily Telegraph since its merger with the Daily Mirror in 1990 and, according to Ann Turner’s criteria (circulation figures), is one of the two most influential cartoonists in Australia. (The other is Mark Knight , on Melbourne’s Herald Sun .) 'The Telegraph sells over 400,000 copies weekdays; 350,00 copies on Saturdays and 720,000 on Sundays – making the Sunday Telegraph Australia’s largest selling newspaper’, Turner comments, admitting the figures taken from Audit Bureau of Statistics do not reflect actual readershi
'I’ll count to ten’ from the Telegraph of September 1998, and 'Britannia’ of June 1997, were exhibited in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cats 24, 61. Warren exhibited again the following year and spoke about his work at the Old Parliament House Seminar on Australian Political Cartooning on 5 December 1998. He had three originals in the 2001 exhibition: 'Keeping it up’, 'Liberty weeping’ and 'Terrorism’ (according to NMA website). Warren Brown was nominated for a Walkley in 1990 (and possibly later). He later won a Stanley Award for best editorial cartoonist.
Warren Brown returned to Marrickville to live in 1992. Under a self-portrait in the Weekend Australian 1-2 April 1999, 6, Brown of the Daily Telegraph comments:
'In every pub, on every train, driving every cab, there is someone itching to tell you what constitutes a great cartoon. Why? Because “it must be great to have a job taking the piss out of politicians.” It is. The tricky part is whether you torture your victims subtly or take them out with an axe.’
The panel says:
'The artist: “Irreverent. Habitually funny and capable of anything. Must be looking forward to a bright future under a new editor.”
The politician: “Not bad. Rose to the occasion recently when he had the dove of peace flying out of Kosovo and the Nato hawk flying in.” '
Warren Brown has also appeared on television, as a reporter on the ABC’s history-based Rewind program in 2004 and as one of the initiators of Peking to Paris , a re-enactment of the 1907 car rally, also shown on the ABC, in 2006.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. c.1965
- Summary
- Influential contemporary Sydney newspaper cartoonist and historian. Brown began work as a copy boy at News Limited in 1982 before joining Wollongong's Illawarra Mercury in 1984 after convincing the editor of the need for a cartoonist. Since then he has gone on to win a Stanley Award and receive nominations for a Walkley.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4d
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/craige-andrae
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Craige Andrae is the recipient of several grants awarded by the South Australian Department for the Arts and Cultural Development, as well as the Australian Council for the Arts. In 1997 Craige Andrae was awarded a Samstag Scholarship, which took him to London, and in 1998 he won the Rundle Mall Sculpture Competition in Adelaide. His work is represented in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4e
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/keith-hensel
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 22 April 1965
- Summary
- Hensel was an industrial designer employed by Nielsen Design Associates, Sunbeam and later principal designer for Sunbeam Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 11-Jan-13
- Age at death
- 48
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a4f
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tania-benbolt
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Tania Benbolt was born in Adelaide in 1965. She is of the Kokatha and Wirangu peoples of South Australia. She is a member of the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre where she paints. In her artist statement for the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2007 'Our Mob’ exhibition she says that painting at Ceduna “relaxes me, plus I learn new art skills as I go along.” Benbolt left the Ceduna organisation in early 2008.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Tania Benbolt is a painter from Ceduna, SA. Showed work in the Adelaide Festival Centre's "Our Mob" exhibition of 2007.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a50
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Latitude-36.3944998 Longitude145.3600618 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-hamlyn
- Birth Place
- Mooroopna, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Bangerang painter Michael Hamlyn was born in Mooroopna (VIC) in 1965. He is the son of Irene Thomas who is a respected storyteller of the Bangerang people of Shepparton (VIC). Thomas was the storyteller of the book and CD-ROM, How The Murray River Was Made , edited and illustrated by Jan Deans and Robert Brown, published in 2007 by the University of Melbourne.Hamlyn studied visual art in 2005 at the Taree (NSW) campus of the North Coast Institute of TAFE under the tutelage of Russell Saunders. His paintings of synthetic polymer on canvas often depict native Australian animals and his family’s stories told to him by his mother. An exhibition of his paintings was held at The Aboriginal Community, Strategic Planning and Policy Unit (SPPU) in Shepparton following which, the organisation continued to display and sell his work.Hamlyn spends five months of each year living in Taree, and seven months in Shepparton working as a seasonal worker and fruit picker.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Bangerang painter of animals and family stories, Michael Hamlyn studied art at the North Coast Institute of TAFE, Taree campus.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a51
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alex-zubryn
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Alex Zubryn, painter, was born in Melbourne in 1965. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne from 1983-1985, during which time he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, later returning to the VCA/University of Melbourne and finishing a Masters of Fine Arts in 1998.
After completing his undergraduate studies at the VCA, Zubryn was awarded the College’s Travelling Grant, which enabled him to visit Italy in 1986 to study various collections, as well as travel to major museums in Europe. After returning to Melbourne, Zubryn undertook an artist residency at Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne (1987-88) and he joined Christine Abrahams Gallery, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1989. In the same year, he once again made a study trip to Italy, followed by Greece and the USA. Zubryn’s extensive travels continued, when in 1998-99 he visited countries such as Russia and France, and later Germany, among others, in 2001, gaining further insight into the history of art across numerous cultures. His travels in 2001 had in fact been prompted by a studio residency at the British School in Rome, awarded to Zubryn by the Australian Arts Council.
Zubryn’s paintings often present everyday scenes, such as the works in his series ‘Hard Rubbish’ (2010). This group of paintings depict objects discarded on the nature strip, presenting a juxtaposition between the private realm of the homes from which the objects originated and the public nature of suburban streets. In an early series, around 2004, Zubryn portrayed large, powerful tree trunks, which were inspired by ranks of gums near Melbourne Zoo. Zubryn’s paintings, such as those from ‘Things of an Urban Nature,’ draw upon photographs as visual references, yet they retain a painterly application of the medium.
Since 1988, Zubryn’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. His solo exhibitions have included ‘Things of an Urban Nature’ (2003) Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney (also exhibited at Mass Gallery, Melbourne in 2002), and ‘Other Cities’ (2004) La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell Victoria. Turning to group exhibitions, Zubryn’s work appeared in the 1999 Deacons Graham and James Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Art Prize at The Victorian College of the Arts in 1999 and 2001 and ‘Rome Academici’ at the Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, and at the British School in Rome in 2005, later travelling to the University of Hobart.
In addition to his career as an artist, Zubryn has worked extensively as a teacher. Prior to his position as Associate Lecturer of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, he was involved in various community projects and taught at Trinity Grammar School and The School of Early Childhood, La Trobe University.
Notable awards in Zubryn’s artistic career have included the previously mentioned Victorian College of the Arts Travelling Grant (1986) and the Rome Studio Residency presented by the Australian Council in 1999. Furthermore, in 2008, Zubryn received a commission from the Director of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) to create a painting in commemoration of the new stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), which is on display in the MCC members stand.
Zubryn’s work is held in several prominent Australian collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, and Artbank, as well as overseas collections, such as Foundation Colas, France, and various private collections.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Alex Zubryn, painter, was born in Melbourne in 1965. He studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and has been represented in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1988. In addition to his artistic practice, Zubryn is an Associate Lecturer of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a52
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gavin-okeefe
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Illustrator, graphic designer and musician, was born in Melbourne. Having trained as a violinist, he worked professionally in an orchestra. His illustrations have appeared on book jackets, in science fiction magazines, horror comics, media guides, educational resource books, and in “Visions of Fairyland” (1985). He cites his 'major artistic and literary influences’ as 'Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Dodgson, Rene Magritte, Mervyn Peake, Richard Dadd, Richard Doyle, Henri Rousseau, William Blake, Maurits Escher and Terry Langtry’. In 1989-90 he did a series of pen and ink drawings for 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, published in Melbourne by the Carroll Foundation in 1990.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Late 20th century Melbourne illustrator, graphic designer and musician, O'Keefe exhibited in the 1990 exhibition "Alice 125 : A celebration of the world's favourite book" which celebrated Lewis Carroll's classic novel.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a53
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lauren-berkowitz
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Lauren Berkowitz studied sculpture at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne and later received a Masters in Fine Arts (Sculpture) at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Since 1985, she has shown in 20 solo exhibitions and 66 group exhibitions in Australia, Japan and the United States. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including Project Grants from the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council and, most recently, an Arts Victoria International Cultural Exchange Grant, which assisted her participation in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (2003). Lauren Berkowitz is an installation artist, working mostly on ephemeral and site-specific works that evoke the passage of time and our place within it. Often inspired by the landscape but troubled by its degradation, her works also references the history of contemporary art, in particular American painting and sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s. Berkowitz’s work is made with an almost obsessive attention to detail after painstaking research and, ultimately, total dedication to the moment of making. Recently she has made use of sands, gravel and salt, as well as plant detritus, to make installations that resonate meaningfully within the landscape, while paying homage to Robert Smithson’s earthworks and Frank Stella’s stripe paintings, among others. Her 2004 exhibitions in Sydney at Artspace (an ephemeral floor-piece) and Sherman Galleries (works designed for domestic and corporate spaces) featured sands and salt, referencing the coastal and built environment of Sydney and Australia’s desert regions. In 2005, her installation, Shadows and Light, at the Lake Macquarie City Gallery, comprised coal and indigenous wood shavings, reflecting the history of the region. Lauren Berkowitz’s work is held in the collections of a range of institutions in Australia and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Lauren Berkowitz is an installation artist, working mostly on ephemeral and site-specific works that evoke the passage of time and our place within it. Often inspired by the landscape but troubled by its degradation, her works also references the history of contemporary art, in particular American painting and sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a54
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1965-01-01 End Date1965-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/treahna-hamm
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Yorta Yorta possum skin cloak maker, printmaker, sculptor, weaver, and painter, Treahna Hamm was born on the 16th May 1965 in Melbourne and grew up at Yarrawonga near her ancestral lands on the Murray River, Victoria but disconnected from her mother and culture. Never denying her identity and heritage, Hamm has maintained strong connections to her environment and has since meeting her birth mother in Sydney in 1992, she has begun incorporating Yorta Yorta stories into her work. After establishing herself as an artist of repute in the capital cities of the eastern states of Australia, she returned to live and work in her ancestral homelands of Echuca/Moama/Barmah along the Murray River in 2001 and became involved in art projects with the local Yorta Yorta people of the Murray River (Dhungala). Working with the local community is important for Hamm as she sees herself as helping to reclaim the art and cultural practices of her people. As Hamm stated in an interview conducted for this biography, “As a Yorta Yorta artist I focus on the reclamation, revitalisation and regeneration of South East Australian art (Yorta Yorta in particular) and that of the stories connecting me to my culture and heritage as an expression of who I am within my community. Other influences relate to the environmental stories of the Murray River (Dhungala) and the Barmah Forest not only as artworks but for education as well.” Hamm has been creating and exhibiting art since 1982 when she enrolled in an Art and Design course at Wangaratta TAFE. She continued her education at Charles Sturt University (CSU) Wagga Wagga where between 1984 and 2000 she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), a Diploma of Education and a Masters of Visual Arts. It was here at CSU that she became influenced by abstract expressionism and aware of the 'urban’ Aboriginal art movement in general and the then newly formed Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in particular. In 2004 Hamm completed a Bachelor of Arts (Njernda studies) at Victoria University and at the time of writing (2008) she was a PhD candidate at the Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology (RMIT), Melbourne. Throughout her career Hamm has participated in workshops that challenge and develop her skills as an artist including Theo Tremblay's 1989 Print Workshop at Canberra School of Arts alongside the Melbourne based Indigenous artists, Ellen Jose and Karen Casey. Hamm was also involved in a weaving workshop in Melbourne 2002 that was facilitated by internationally acknowledged weaver Yvonne Koomatrie and local respected weavers “Aunty” Dot Peters and “Aunty” Pat Harrison. Hamm’s works, Brmah nurrtja biganga (Barmah Forest possum-skin cloak) 2005, Yakapna yenbena dunguja bigagga (Family ancestor strong flight possum cloak) 2007 and a woven grass sculpture, Yabby, 2005 were included in Culture Warriors, the first National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in 2007/2008. In the accompanying catalogue, Stephen Gilchrist (Aboriginal Curator, National Gallery of Victoria) writes of her weaving that, “Hamm’s whimsical woven Yabby, 2005 demonstrates her command of the coiled bundle technique of Indigenous weaving, and despite the exaggerated size of the crustacean, sensitive detailing is not sacrificed and the artist highlights its irresistible tactility.” Hamm has received a good deal of recognition of her work including winning the 1996 Australian Heritage Commissions’ National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award for her work Remains To Be Seen. She was one of the City of Melbourne’s commissioned artists for the 2006 public art work, Birrarung Wilam (camp by the river of mist), with fellow artists Lee Darroch and Vicki Couzens, as part of the 'Birrarung Marr’ precinct on the eastern banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne. Hamm’s work is held in a number of international, national, state and university collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, Koorie Heritage Trust, Print Council of Australia, National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, and Queensland University of Technology.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2010
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1965
- Summary
- Treahna Hamm is a possum skin cloak maker, etcher, printmaker, painter, sculptor and public artist. A visual artist since 1982, Hamm's work discusses issues of identity, assimilation and connection to land and community. She has a Masters in Visual Arts from Charles Sturt University.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a55
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Latitude57 Longitude-4 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-douglas
- Birth Place
- Scotland, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1964
- Summary
- John was an active participant in the 1980's QLD ARI sector, including the Tropical Artist Guild located in Cairns and That Contemporary Art Space in Brisbane.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a56
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daryl-austin
- Birth Place
- Lincoln, England
- Biography
- Born in Lincoln, England in 1964, Daryl Austin came to Australia and settled in Adelaide. He is painter and lecturer of painting at the Adelaide Central School of Art. Austin is currently represented at the Greenway Art Gallery (GAG), in Adelaide. GAG has consistently supported Austin, hosting at least 6 solo exhibitions over his career.
Austin studied a BA in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia 1983 – 1986. In 1987 he became a member of the South Australian Workshop, and remained so until 1992. He was granted residency at the Fremantle Arts Foundation, Western Australia in 1991. A solo exhibition was held in conjunction with this residency, titled 'Chance, Choice, Artifice and Repetition’.
Austin’s work has been exhibited as part of selected group exhibitions since his graduation in 1986. He held his first solo exhibition in 1989, 'Recent Works’ at Club Foote Gallery in Adelaide. In 1992 he was included in the 2nd Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Austin’s talent has been recognised by numerous awards, starting in 1993, when he won two separate distinctions, the EVA Award, Adelaide and the Kernewek Lowender Art Prize. Subsequently he won the Santos Whyalla Art Prize (1997) and the City of Whyalla Art Prize (2002). In 2003 he was awarded the University of Adelaide – Vice Chancellor Portrait Commission and in 2005 the Parliament of South Australia – President of Legislative Council Portrait commission.
Austin began lecturing in Painting at the Adelaide Central School of Art and the University of South Australia in 2001. In 2006 he was instated as the Head of Painting at the Adelaide School of Art, where he continues to lecture.
Daryl Austin’s work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Legislative Council, Parliament of South Australia in addition to several corporate collections in Australia.
Writers:
Downer, Stella
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- English-born Contemporary painter based in Adelaide, South Australia. Currently represented by the Greenway Art Gallery, Adelaide South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a57
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a58
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a59
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phil-gamblen
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Phil Gamblen was born in the UK in 1964 and migrated to Canada in 1966. During the 1980s he trained and worked as a gem cutter. In 1991, following a period of travel, he settled in Western Australia. He studied at the Claremont School of Art and Curtin University of Technology, Perth, completing a Honours degree in Fine Art with a sculpture major in 1998. In 2002 he participated in the 'BioFeel’ exhibition at the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP). At this time his artworks utilized motion and light to investigate technological aspects of contemporary culture. He was also exploring the relationship between art and science and the re-use of obsolete and discarded materials.
This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Artist based in Western Australia who has investigated new technologies, scientific processes and discarded materials in his work.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5a
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simeon-nelson
- Birth Place
- London, UK
- Biography
- Simeon Nelson BA (The University of Sydney) FRSA is an artist and in 2006 was Senior Lecturer in Spatial Design and Sculpture in the School of Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His work is the embodiment of disparate artistic strands linked by the creative need to set up aesthetic or conceptual oppositions. It oscillates between opposing poles: small, intimate objects and larger installations; private studio practice and public artworks. These explorations, in a politicised sense, mirror what happens in the world at large: the recluse versus the activist. As Nelson says:
Beauty for me is conditional and relative. It cannot exist without its close relation and opposite, repulsion. I love exploring ways in which these qualities can be fused into one experience (or object or installation), or can be set up as oppositional poles to be played within.
Simeon Nelson has been commissioned for a number of large public projects in Sydney, such as the redesign of Chifley Square (1995-97); and, in association with Hassall Architects, design of the sculptural treatment for Luna Park and artwork for the M4 freeway noise-abatement wall. In 1997, Nelson represented Australia at the IX Triennale-India in Delhi. He was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2000 and, in 2003, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize, London.
Since 2001, Simeon Nelson has been based in London. New directions in his practice reflect critical engagement with a different society and set of relationships with the natural world. An exhibition of new sculpture, 'Mappa Mundi’, organised by University of Hertfordshire Galleries, toured the UK during 2005-06.
Passages , a monograph on the artist’s work by Benjamin Genocchio, was published by UNSW Press, Sydney, in 2000.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Sculptor and installation artist, Simeon Nelson has been commissioned for a number of large public projects in Sydney including the redesign of Chifley Square (1995-97); and artwork for the M4 freeway noise-abatement wall. In 1997, Nelson represented Australia at the IX Triennale-India in Delhi.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucy-tyler-sharman
- Birth Place
- USA
- Biography
- cartoonist, painter and cyclist, is a controversial world champion cyclist born in USA (aged 34 in 1998) who represented Australia in cycling in the 1990s despite retaining her US citizenship. Having completed 'graphic art courses’, she draws cartoons and caricatures signed “Lucy” of competitors and officials with whom she has clashed. She also paints in acrylics; one of her murals covers a wall at the Australian Institute of Sport, Adelaide. She was living in Perth in 1998 but may since have returned to America.
An article by Lindy Joubert in Melbourne’s Sunday Herald-Sun , 25 October 1998, p.25, included examples, one of a sheep being chased by three kiwis on bikes and one a self-portrait lying on the ground bound, with a muscly young man with a whip standing on her.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. c.1964
- Summary
- Contemporary USA-born Perth-based cartoonist, caricaturist, mural painter and world champion cyclist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5c
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Details
Latitude36.5748441 Longitude139.2394179 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/akira-isogawa
- Birth Place
- Japan
- Biography
- Akira Isogawa is an internationally renowned fashion designer based in Sydney. He arrived in Australia from Japan in 1986, on a working holiday.
Isogawa works with a team of pattern makers and sewers in his Sydney studio. He also draws on the skills of craftspeople from overseas and has some aspects of production manufactured in China. From 1998, one of Akira Isogawa’s most rewarding enterprises has been designing for the Sydney Dance Company. In 2005 Isogawa worked with director Graeme Murphy on the performance Grand, designing and producing around 100 costumes. He also collaborated with lighting experts, a team of 18 dancers and wardrobe supervisor Fiona Holley, and acknowledges the important influence that this involvement has had on aspects of his fashion design.
Writers:
Powerhouse Museum
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Internationally acclaimed Australian fashion designer based in Sydney. He has had a long association with the Sydney Dance Company as a designer of their costumes.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5d
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Latitude33.3061701 Longitude44.3872213 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mazin-ahmad
- Birth Place
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Biography
- Mazin Ahmad, painter and abstract visual artist, was born in 1964 in Baghdad, Iraq.
As early as five, Ahmad showed an interest in art. He recalls enjoying observing his older brother drawing, later trying to emulate the techniques on his own. His family, especially his father, encouraged his early artistic endeavours. Throughout his primary and high school years Ahmad was recognised by his teachers for his artistic talents.
Following high school, Ahmad was accepted into the Baghdad Academy of Fine Arts and graduated in 1990. He then established his own studio in the heart of Baghdad creating a number of sculptures, paintings on canvas, and murals using a variety of mediums including sandstone, marble, ceramics and mosaics. In 2002 Ahmad, his wife and two daughters moved to Australia.
After arriving in Sydney, Ahmad became an active member of a number of Sydney art societies. Some of these societies include the Liverpool and Fairfield Artists’ Association, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre Network, South West Artists, Auburn Artists Society and BAN (Blacktown Artist Network). Being involved in these organisations enabled Ahmad to familiarise himself with Sydney’s diverse cultural and art scenes.
Ahmad’s work investigates what he sees as the intimate relationship that exists between people and the environment. Working from his South West Sydney base, Ahmad builds on his earlier academic training within the arts by using a contrast of organic and geometric forms within his paintings. By doing this the artist attempts to explore the ancient traditions of his new land and its intrinsic connection with humanity.
Whilst Ahmad applies symbols from Iraqi artistic traditions to express meaning within his work, he also draws upon the rich historical meanings and stories found within Aboriginal art, especially those addressing continuous and cyclical themes. Ahmad feels that Aboriginal art effectively communicates the importance of humanity’s need for oneness with the land. He states that “As an artist, I attempt to place on canvas a rough texture of human life, illustrating not a smooth journey but rather one that [is] eventful, complete with activity. To describe these relationships, I have adopted symbols from ancient civilisations and traditions, as well as using hot colours associated [with the] land” (Artist’s website).
Ahmad’s early works in Australia were primarily paintings using a mixture of oil and acrylic on canvas. Yet with interests in poetry, sculpture, installation, stage design and literature, Ahmad was soon creating installation and public art projects which involved a variety of design techniques. An example of this cross-disciplinary interest is Invisible Map (2009, installation) created in collaboration with a writer Nazrin Mahoutchi, where both artists used found objects, photography, digital media and painting.
Ahmad’s work has featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Australia, Iraq, Jordan, United States, Austria, Sweden and Germany. In Sydney, Ahmad has exhibited in a number of galleries including Paddington Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, MLC Gallery, Fairfield Museum and Gallery, Blacktown and Campbelltown Art Centres, The Tap Gallery, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Art Room Gallery, St George Museum of Hurstville and the Pokolbin Gallery in the Hunter Valley, all in New South Wales.
His work is also held in a number of private international collections in the United States of America, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Dominican Republic and the Middle East. In Sydney, Ahmad’s work is in the permanent collections of Blacktown City Council and Auburn City Council.
Ahmad’s major exhibition titled 'The Human Being, the Land and the Love’, was held in 2007 in the Fairfield Museum and Gallery and later shown at the Paddington Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney. This exhibition was funded by the NSW Ministry for the Arts. The exhibition expressed Ahmad’s love for the land, both his birth land and his newly adopted Australia, each shaped by millennia of human habitation. The exhibition was a major breakthrough for the artist within the Sydney art scene.
Ahmad’s work has been recognised both in Australia and internationally. In 2005 he was chosen as one of eighteen artists to represent Australia in the 'Fifth Annual International Biennial Contemporary Art Exhibition’ in Florence, Italy. The artist was awarded the first prize of the Blacktown Art Prize 2006 and Auburn Mayoral Art Award in August 2009 for his art contributions to the Auburn community.
As well as continuing to create public and private works, Ahmad leads art workshops in Sydney local municipalities in an attempt to pass on his artistic knowledge and help develop skills for future generations. His aim is to establish an art school that caters especially to the needs of mentally disabled youths.
In 2011 the artist and his family were living in Fairfield, Sydney New South Wales.
Writers:
Paton, AnnaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Mazin Ahmad is an Iraqi-born abstract artist who works primarily in painting. After moving to Australia in 2002 he has completed a number of public art works and installations around Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marrnyula-mununggurr
- Birth Place
- Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Marrnyula Mununggurr is among the generation of exceptional female artists working at Yirrkala who have been taught to paint by their fathers and grandfathers and are now painting many of the sites and designs that would once have been the sole domain of men.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a5f
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Details
Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/agnes-nakamarra-simons
- Birth Place
- Darwin, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Darwin in 1964, her language/tribe is Warlpiri and she lives at Lajamanu. Her country is Yarturlu-yarturlu and her Dreamings are Ngurlu, Pirlarla and Laju. She works with her husband, Doug Tasman Japangardi, and started painting in 1987.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Lajamanu artist who started painting in 1987 with her husband Doug Tasman Japangardi.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a60
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/molly-nupurrurla-stevenson
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu in 1964, Molly was Warlpiri and lived at Lajamanu. Her country was Yumurrpa and her Dreamings were Yarla and Wapurti. She started painting in 1986.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist, born at Lajamanu (NT). She started painting in 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a61
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/blair-malthouse
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Blair Malthouse was born in 1964 in Queensland and is a Mulluridji/Jirrabul descendant. His work, which is informed by native flora and fauna, is across the media of screenprinting, painting and linocut printing. He was featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Queensland-born Blair Malthouse is a Mulluridji/Jirrabul descendant who works in the areas of screenprinting, painting and linocut printing and whose work is informed by native flora and fauna.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a62
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joanne-nalingu-currie
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter Joanne Nalingu Currie was born in 1964 in Queensland. Her works of synthetic polymer on linen reflect the landscape and traditional designs of her country in South West Queensland. Currie is a member of the Campfire Group of artists based in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Joanne Nalingu Currie's works of synthetic polymer on linen reflect the landscape and traditional designs of her country in South West Queensland.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a63
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.5506507 Longitude-46.6333824 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cida-de-aragon
- Birth Place
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Biography
- Cida de Aragon was born in 1964 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
She gained her first degree in architecture from the University of Sao Paulo in 1988, but after five years studying architecture, De Aragon found that she was more interested in “the visual aspect, graphics, and installation of arts using digital media”. However, De Aragon feels that her background in architecture is useful to her collaborative art work, such as her involvement with Back to the City, a Newcastle-based project that brings together artists, architects and landscape architects to create public instillations.
In 1988 De Aragon moved to London and undertook casual art and design studies at three colleges: typography and graphic design at St. Martins School of Art and at Sir John Cass School of Art, London Guildhall University; and painting and engraving at the Camden Art Centre. During 1990-91, she worked as a graphic designer in a London-based practice, following which, she undertook a Master of Arts in Computing in Design Middlesex University, London (1992-93).
During 1992-93, De Aragon received a CAPES Scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education and was then registered as an Architect in Germany. Being more interested in graphics and installation of arts using digital media than in architecture, in 1994 she began working as a Graphic Designer and Media Artist in Berlin. Subsequently, she taught digital image design at the Film Academy of Baden-Wurttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany (1997-98). The experience of travelling and living in London and Berlin informs the intellectual materials of her work, as she says: “One of my works – an interactive computer installation – is made in 3 languages (Portuguese, my mother tongue, English, and German) and is auto-biographical; exposing the strong influences of the many cultures and places I’ve lived.” Throughout the years of 1993-2008 De Aragon exhibited individual and group work in Germany, Belgium and Australia.
In 2003 De Aragon immigrated to Brisbane, Queensland, where she worked for three years before moving to Newcastle in New South Wales in 2006.
De Aragon’s work is inspired by digital culture, music, language and media. Her work is focussed on the public sphere with a view to improving or changing an urban condition, even if only temporarily. She says:“I hope with my work I can contribute to the development of tolerant and diverse societies. I always say that being a Brazilian means, by default, having to carry a plurality of simultaneous identities inside me. I wish to explore this condition to the maximum and to reflect it in my work.”
De Aragon lives and works in Newcastle with her husband, architect Steffen Lehmann.
Writers:
Patel, NehaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Brazilian born artist with training in art, architecture and graphic design. Her art practice ranges across permanent and temporary works, often engaging with public spaces.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a64
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-25.537583 Longitude152.7019182 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fiona-foley
- Birth Place
- Maryborough, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Fiona Foley, printmaker, painter, sculptor and photographer was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1964 and raised in nearby Hervey Bay. These towns and nearby Fraser Islander are all part of her traditional country. Foley grew up surrounded by the stories of her family, the Wondunna clan of the Badtjala people and was influenced by the book, The Legends of the Moonie Jarl (Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1964) that was written by her great uncle Wilf Reeves and illustrated by her great aunt, Olga Miller. In 1983 Foley graduated from East Sydney Technical College with a Certificate in Art. From 1984 to 1986 she studied for her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts. In 1987 Foley completed her formal training with a Diploma of Education from the University of Sydney. Foley, along with nine other artists that included Michael Riley, Bronwyn Bancroft and Tracey Moffatt, was a founding member in 1987 of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in Sydney. Boomalli’s aim was to promote the work of Aboriginal artists who did not live in the remote areas of Australia or were supported through federally funded arts centres. Boomalli went on to become the launching pad for many now successful artists besides the founding members. Foley’s portfolio of etchings, paintings, photography and sculpture have afforded her significant recognition as a contemporary artist. Since winning the commission of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW in 1994 to work on the installation The Edge of Trees with Janet Laurence, situated outside the Museum of Sydney, Foley has become known as a successful public artist. She has since been the commissioned artist for other public art projects including, The Lie of the Land, 1997 at the Melbourne Museum and Witnessing to Silence at the Brisbane Magistrates Court in 2004. Her photographic, printing, painting and public art works often speak of the untold and hidden histories of Australia in terms of the colonial interaction with Aboriginal people. Witnessing to Silence informs its audience of Queensland’s documented history of Aboriginal massacres while Black Opium (2006, State Library of Queensland) speaks of Queensland’s 'Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897’ in which the supply and sale of opium to Aboriginal people was stringently legislated against alongside the recommendations to establish Reserves in which Queensland Aboriginal people were forcibly removed to. Foley is one of Australia’s successful international artists whose work is often included in important group exhibitions such as “Global Feminism”, 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, USA or solo shows such as “Strange Fruit”, 2006 at the October Gallery in London, England. It is not only Foley’s artwork that is in demand. Her thoughts on Australian history and politics are also being sought and in September 2007 Foley presented a keynote address at the 9th Biennial European Association for Studies of Australia at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Other speakers at this conference were Germaine Greer and Mark McKenna from the University of Sydney. Foley works from her home base of Brisbane, Queensland and continues to generate solo exhibitions based on historical, political and social issues of Australian life as well as continuing her career as a public artist.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2007
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor and installation artist, Fiona Foley's work often discusses the hidden histories of Australia's colonial past and its interface with Aboriginal people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a65
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-north
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1964
- Summary
- Ceramicist and educator Mary North was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a66
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/paul-andrew
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Paul Andrew has been a practicing and exhibiting artist since 1984 in diverse media including painting, photography, media, super 8 filmmaking, video art, installation and artist-run culture.
The subject keywords for his practice spanning three decades includes: Polyvalence, Queer Theory, Queer Activism, Gender Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Homophobia, HIV/AIDS, Artist Collaboration, Artist-Run Culture, Self-Publishing, DIY, The Archival Impulse, Walking, Nature, Environmental Activism, Digital Analogues, Documentary.
The archival impulse of his work stems largely from his discontent about the significant absence of queer arts and culture histories in Australia while making documentaries, community service announcements and video art in Sydney in 1990 at the height of the HIV AIDS pandemic.
Since 1990 he has worked with neglected queer histories across various platforms and extended this archival impulse into other visual arts subjects and platforms.
Based in Brisbane until 1989 before leaving Queensland during what he describes as “the oppressive Bjelke Peterson regime” he moved to Sydney for work as a curator at The Australian Centre For Photography.
In Brisbane he was an active participant and co-ordinator of Artist-Run Culture in diverse Queensland-based artist-run spaces. These ARIs included That Space, That Annexe, Axis Art Projects, Bureau and Breathing Concrete.
During this time his attention was on young people’s agency and he worked passionately as a curator, artist books maker, designer, arts writer, arts administrator, queer activist, filmmaker, community broadcaster, moral rights/infrastructural activist.
His enthusiasm for collaboration and community contributions methodologies employed during this period has developed over time and remains a particularly useful model in today’s multiplatform/transmedia, open source, social media environment.
In 2012 he began a social media group for researching and developing a public archive, oral history and artist interviews site dedicated to mapping the neglected histories of 1980-2000 Artist-Run Culture in Brisbane and Queensland.
Writers:
Paul Andrew
Paul William Andrew
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Paul is an active participant of the local global 1980 - Now Queensland artist-run, arts and culture sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a67
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a68
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.5471732 Longitude150.3073801 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/thelma-bartman
- Birth Place
- Goondiwindi, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in Goondiwindi, Queensland in 1964, Thelma Bartman is a painter and handmade paper maker who works with the Euraba Paper Company in Boggabilla, NSW. Bartman was awarded the position of Chief Rag Cutter with the company after her mother, Stella O’Halloran retired. Bartman has exhibited her paintings at Cowra Regional Gallery in 2005 in Paperworks, in Christmas Show at the Fairway Studios in Goondiwindi, Qld and in Euraba Artists at the Moree Plains Gallery, NSW in 2004. Bartman was a finalist in the 2005 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House, Sydney.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Thelma Bartman is a paper maker and painter associated with the Euraba Paper Company of Boggabilla, NSW. Her acrylic paintings on handmade paper depict local landscapes.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a69
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-29.4285225 Longitude147.9779203 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daphne-wallace
- Birth Place
- Lightning Ridge, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Gamilaroi/Ullaroi-Yuwaaliaay artist, curator and cultural advisor, Daphne Wallace grew up at Nobby Opal Fields in Lightning Ridge, north-west NSW. Wallace has worked in curatorial positions in the National Gallery of Australia and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, the Museum of Sydney, the New England Regional Art Museum and the Wilson Street Gallery in Newtown, Sydney.
Wallace has been a finalist in the 2005 and 2006 Country Energy Art Awards and a finalist in the 2005 inaugural Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize with her oil on canvas work, Minmin on the Plains 2004. Wallace’s work is in the permanent collections of the New England Regional Art Museum, Art Bank as well as private collections in New Zealand, Japan, Germany, England, Holland and Australia. In 1982 she moved to Armidale, then Canberra (1990-93) and then Sydney (1993-96). In 1997 she returned to Armidale and was still living there at the time of writing.
Writers:
Allas, TessJohnson, VivienNote: based on interview with the artist March 4 2008
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Wallace is a Gamilaroi/Ullaroi-Yuwaaliaay artist whose intensely coloured and textured abstract and pictorial paintings are interpretations of the Yuwaaliaay stories passed down to her by her grandmother. They are evocative of her spiritual and emotional attachment to her home in Lightening Ridge.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.1999142 Longitude136.8253532 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/geoffrey-drake-brockman
- Birth Place
- Woomera, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Geoffrey Drake-Brockman was born in Woomera, South Australia in 1964. In 1985 he obtained a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Western Australia, and in 1994 an MA (Visual Arts) from the Curtin University School of Art. He has been exhibiting since 1986. In 1997 he staged a major solo exhibition titled 'The Identity Appliance’ at Goddard de Fiddes in Perth. In 2001 he exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney. His awards include the Sir Charles Gardiner Annual Art Award in 1993, and the 1997 AIIA Telstra AFR National Award for Excellence in Information Technology.
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Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Geoffrey Drake Brockman is a sculptural and installation artist who has incorporated the use of robotics and lasers into his work.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-31.2282721 Longitude119.327784 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mitch-dunnett-jnr
- Birth Place
- Southern Cross, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Mitch Dunnett Jnr was a painter, printer and photographer and a descendant of the of Wirangu people of South Australia and the Noongar of Western Australia. He was born in 1964 at Southern Cross in the Western Goldfields of Western Australia and grew up in Ceduna in South Australia. In a telephone conversation with the author in March 2009, his father Mitch Dunnett Snr said that his son left Ceduna in the 1980s and moved to Adelaide to finish his high school studies. He studied for a while before finding himself running foul with the law, ending up in Adelaide Gaol. In 1988, whilst still an inmate he painted his seminal piece Take the Pressure Down which referenced the death in custody of fellow inmate Kingsley Dixon, a 19 year old Aboriginal man who was found dead in his cell at Adelaide Gaol in July 1987. The work was acquired by the South Australian Museum.In the 1988 exhibition, A Changing Relationship: Aboriginal Themes in Australian Art c. 1938 – 1988 , curators Catherine De Lorenzo and Dinah Dysart included a photograph taken by Polly Sumner of Dunnett titled, Mitch Dunnett, Adelaide Jail, 1987 after he witnessed the death of Dixon.In 1988, after release from prison Dunnett was given a residency at the Flinders University Art Museum. He also began working at Co-Media in Adelaide where he produced his offset lithographic posters, two of which, Survival in solidarity and Keeping our culture, telling our stories were acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.Dunnett was included in Queensland Art Gallery’s Balance 1990 exhibition with his work Death of the Tasmanian Devil 1988 . This synthetic polymer paint on canvas painting depicts the moon as an aggressor strangling the life out of a Tasmanian Devil. “The moon”, he says, in his artist statement in the accompanying catalogue is “symbolising the White settlers causing the extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines. After all, the White men have now taken over the moon by landing on it.” When describing the animals depicted in this painting Dunnett says that working at Co-Media taught him to be “polite with animals” and to make them “look polite and kind and not violent”. The story of the 'Death of the Tasmanian Devil’ was a Dreaming story told to Dunnett by his father. In the story the moon and the devil fight spilling blood across the land. This blood becomes the ochres found around the West Coast of South Australia. Yellow ochre from the blood of the moon and red ochre from the blood of the devil. Dunnett worked with Kerry Giles who also had an association with Flinders University Art Museum (where Giles had two residencies). Together they staged a joint photographic exhibition Pages of History at the South Australian Museum in April 1993.In 1996 he enrolled at Tauondi Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide studying art under the tutelage of photographer, Nici Cumpston . This college began life in 1973 and was originally known as 'The Aboriginal Community College’. It has been located at many different premises but is now in Port Adelaide.His works are in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Flinders University Art Museum, and the South Australian Museum.Mitch Dunnett died in Adelaide in 1996 due to complications arising from renal failure.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- South Australian painter who had a residency in the Flinders University Art Museum in the 1980s and was included in Queensland Art Gallery's 'Balance 1990' exhibition.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1996
- Age at death
- 32
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6c
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Details
Latitude-31.5770385 Longitude117.8173038 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nikki-carabetta
- Birth Place
- Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Nikki Carabetta was born in Kellerberrin, a small town east of Perth in Western Australia, in 1964. Carabetta’s great-grandfather on her father’s side was a Brinkin man from the Northern Territory who was removed with his sister to Western Australia as a child. He remained in Western Australia and ultimately married a Yammagi woman, and thus Carabetta identifies as both Yummagi and Brinkin, with ancestral country in both the Western Australian wheatbelt and the Darwin region of the Northern Territory. For the first seven years of her life, her family lived between a number of small towns in south-western Western Australia, moving according to where employment was available to Carabetta’s father, who worked as a shunter and then gang leader on the Commonwealth railways. However the family’s transient life was also due to her father’s quest to learn more about his heritage and to find his family. After spending time in Brisbane and Rockhampton in Queensland, Carabetta’s father traced his ancestry to the Brinkin people and the family moved to Darwin in 1974. Carabetta would go on to live between the Kullaluk community in Darwin and the cattle station town of Peppimenarti until she was eighteen. In her early adult years she lived in Brisbane, where she studied nursing; Perth, where she worked in the Aboriginal Unit at Murdoch University; and Sydney, where she studied Law at the University of Sydney, and worked for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service. In 1996 she moved to Adelaide. Carabetta’s art practice has been informed by a range of experiences. She began dot painting with elder relatives and community members while she was living in Peppimenarti and Darwin as a child. While living in Sydney in the 1980s her engagement with the urban Aboriginal political movement exposed her to forms of politically expressive Aboriginal art being produced there at the time. However it was only in 1998 that she began to paint regularly. Carabetta’s employment as an Aboriginal cultural awareness officer for Normandy Mining and education officer at the South Australian Museum was cut short when a cycling accident prevented her from working, and led to her discovery that she suffered from fibromyalgia. She took up painting as a form of diversional therapy, and after being encouraged to further her art education by friends and family, enrolled at Taoundi College in 2004. She went on to complete an Advanced Diploma in Visual and Applied Arts in 2007. Carabetta predominantly works with acrylic paint on canvas and wood, and she regards art as a means to maintain and share her culture. Stylistically she has been influenced by the Aboriginal artists that she has observed and been mentored by in the Kullaluk community and in Peppimenarti, as well as Op art which she encountered while studying at Taoundi College. Her works reflect upon her personal journey, Aboriginal identity, and political issues pertinent to Aboriginal people. They are inspired by childhood memories, her sense of attachment to different parts of Australia, and her sense of affiliation with the urban, rural and remote Aboriginal communities with which she has lived over the course of her life.Carabetta has participated in a range of exhibitions since she completed her study, including 'Tappa Tautta’ at the South Australian Museum (2006) and 'Towards Reconciliation’ at Gallery M (2008). She held a solo exhibition at the Elderton winery as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival (2008) and exhibited her work alongside that of Robert Dodd in 'Coming Together’ at the Town Hall and Library of Norwood for Reconciliation Week, 2008. In 2007 she was awarded the inaugural Indigenous Artist Award at the Campbelltown Art Exhibition in Adelaide, and was commissioned to paint a fibreglass dolphin titled Yerlo Parri for The Port Festival 'Big Splash’ event, which was acquired by the Port Adelaide Information Centre. Carabetta regularly participates in the Art at the Hart Artists & Celtica Festival as a selling artist and also sells her work through the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Shop. Besides continuing her art practice, she conducts workshops at the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre in Adelaide.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Adelaide-based Aboriginal artist with Yammagi and Brinkin heritage whose paintings are a means to share and maintain her culture and reflect upon her personal journey, Aboriginal identity, and political issues pertinent to Aboriginal people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6d
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brenda-l-croft
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Gurindji photographer and curator, Brenda L Croft was born in 1964 in Perth, Western Australia. In 1985 she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) from the Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney, and in 1995 she was awarded her Masters of Art Administration, from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
In 1987 Croft, along with nine other Indigenous artists, co-founded Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative in Sydney and in 1990 she became Boomalli’s General Manager. She held this position for the next six years. She has worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the National Gallery of Australia and in 2009 she began working as a lecturer at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.
Croft has been included in a number of key exhibitions including 'Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia’ (2008) at the Art Gallery of NSW, 'Photgraphica Austalia’, ARCO Spanish International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid (2002) and 'Retake’, National Gallery of Australia (1998).
She is a five time finalist at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and her work is held in many public collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Brenda L Croft has had dual careers as both a photographer and curator. She was one of the founders of Boomalli in Redfern, and first came to prominence in the 1992 Biennale of Sydney. As a curator she was responsible for Beyond the Pale at the Adelaide Biennial in 2000 and Culture Warriors, the first Aboriginal art Triennial in 2007. Her photography is concerned with family, land and people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/natalie-austin
- Birth Place
- Port Augusta, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Natalie Austin was born in Port Augusta, South Australia, in 1964 and was raised in Coober Pedy. She is a descendant of the Antikirinya, Southern Kokatha and Yankunytjatjara peoples. Austin was taught by her mother to paint in 1999. Exhibitions include 'Our Mob’ at the Adelaide Festival Centre and the 2008 'Ripples in the Sand’ exhibition at the Port Augusta Cultural Centre.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Antikirinya/Southern Kokatha/Yankunytjatjara artist based in Port Augusta, South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a6f
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/francine-kickett
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Francine Kickett, of the Wiilman Nyoongah Yorga peoples, was born in Narrogin, Western Australia in 1964. Narrogin is approximately 200 kilometres south-east of Perth. Kickett was raised in the Dryandra Woodlands near Cuballing, which is 14 kilometres north of Narrogin. She belongs to three main family groups, the Humes, Thorns and Abdullahs, of Western Australia. In the mid 1970s her family moved to the eastern Perth suburbs of Belmont and Riverdale where she completed her schooling.
In 1997 Kickett graduated from Curtin University of Technology in Perth with an associate degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art for which she specialised in textile designs and visual art. Her work is inspired by the colour and landscaped forms of the Nyoongah Boodja (or land) and she pays particular interest to the femininity of the local Indigenous flora and fauna and interpreting these forms (as well as issues relating to Nyoongah women) into contemporary art.
In 2001 Kickett was awarded the Indigenous Designer of the Year Award. This award followed her 1998 NAIDOC South West Artist of the Year award and in 2002 she presented a paper on the History of Indigenous Fashion at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander conference in Adelaide, South Australia.
Kickett was included in the Brenda L. Croft curated exhibition 'South West Central: Indigenous Art from south Western Australia 1833-2002’ at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2003.
In 2009 Kickett enrolled in a Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Institute in Fremantle, which is run by artist Joanna Robertson. In June and July the same year, the students in this course exhibited their work at Kidogo Arthouse in the exhibition 'Moorditj Mob’.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Textile artist who is informed by the natural forms of the Western Australian landscape. Kickett was included in 'South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002' at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a70
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/suzy-evans
- Birth Place
- North Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in North Sydney in 1964, Suzy Evans is a painter and business-woman. She is from the Kamilaroi people of Moree in north-west New South Wales and it is from this connection that she draws her artistic inspiration. Evans describes her works of acrylic paints on wood, paper and canvas as “colour abstract representations of cultural symbols” (2009 pers. comm.).
Evans came to the visual arts relatively late in life when, in 2003, she enrolled in the Certificate in Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Practices at the Moree campus of the New England College of TAFE. She showed her work for the first time in 2004 in a TAFE end of year group show. After leaving TAFE, Evans work was shown in a group show of Indigenous students at the University of Technology in Sydney (2006); in 'Harmony – Sydney '07’ shown at Sydney Olympic Park and in Beijing, China (2007); and 'Harmony '08’ at Gallery M16 in Canberra (2008). She exhibited a series of totem poles during a group show at Moree Plains Art Gallery during its 20th anniversary celebrations (2009).
Her work has been used by ANTAR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) in brochures promotion Indigenous Health, and in 2007 she was commissioned by NITV (National Indigenous Television) to realise their creative brand.
In 2008 her work Bengerang was shortlisted in the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
In 2005 Evans set up a small business, 'modernmurri – new Aboriginal products’, that sells lino-cut printed greeting cards as well as a range of paper, fabric and wooden products. In 2009 she returned to live in Moree, which is in the heart of her traditional country.
Evans has work in the permanent collection of the University of Technology, Sydney.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Suzy Evans is a Kamilaroi painter whose colour abstractions are informed by the cultural symbols of her people. She was a finalist in the 2008 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a71
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-zsoldos
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Artist and photographer. Active participant in the Queensland ARI scene since 1985.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a72
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/garry-jones
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Garry Jones, painter, screen printer and sculptor was born at the Sydney Women’s Hospital in 1964 and raised in Green Valley in the western suburbs of Sydney. Some of his earliest experiences of racism were at school where he was constantly told that “his lot” were trouble and that he would “never make anything of himself”. These experiences led Jones to believe that he did not “fit in” with his environment and gave him an early understanding of racism within Australian society. Jones has always been creative and was known at school as “the artist”. His uncle, the well-known artist and cartoonist, Danny Eastwood, guided him from an early age but he did not begin seriously to create work until he was studying for his Bachelor of Science (Architecture) degree at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the late 1980s. Jones’s work discusses identity, racism, abjection and alienation and it is “honesty and self-exploration and awareness building that motivates and guides my practice.” Jones was hung in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 2000, that same year he won the Works on Paper section of the National Indigenous Heritage Art Award in Canberra with his work Thirroul 1. The judges of this award commented that it is “a highly accomplished charcoal drawing, evocative of length of time and ancestry. The metaphysical layers offer the possibility of intellectual and heartfelt engagement at many levels, yet the work itself is cool and restrained.” Jones’s artist statement for this award winning drawing states that “the work was produced as part of a series of charcoal drawings following the uncovering an Aboriginal burial site close to Thirroul Beach [NSW]. The work was an intuitive response to the coast over a series of nights and reflections on the process of archaeology in interpreting heritage.” His work was included in Wollongong City Gallery’s “Pallingjang (Saltwater) III” in 2002. In 2003 Jones was a recipient of a Fulbright Postgraduate Award that enabled him to travel to the University of New Mexico in the United States where he undertook research into contemporary Native American visual arts that will be explored in more detail in future studies. Jones currently lectures at the University of Wollongong in Creative Arts at the School of Visual Arts and in Aboriginal Studies at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre. Having achieved more than his early school experiences predicted for him Jones states that highlights in his life include “learning to like and trust people and recognising that I can have moments of great inspiration and enjoy them, even if nothing materialises from them”.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Garry Jones is an Indigenous printmaker, painter and sculptor whose early experiences of racism in western Sydney inform much of his practice today. Jones was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2003 and in 2007 was lecturing in Creative Arts at the School of Visual Arts at the University of Wollongong.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a73
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/glenn-lumsden
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- comic book artist, was born in Sydney. Self taught as an artist, he lives and works in South Australia, where he is a member of the Barossa Studios comic book group with David de Vries (b.1961, NZ), David Heinrich (b.1967, Gawler SA), Rod Tokely (b.1964, Melbourne) and Dave Williams (b. 1974, Armidale). Lumsden and de Vries teamed up in 1988. Lumsden, who draws American, British and Japanese style action comics with a superhero theme, began drawing comics for Australian independent publications in the early 1980s and the Barossa Studios group now has contacts with almost every American comic book publisher. De Vries and Lumsden draw Phantom for Marvel Comics and also work on Batman books.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Contemporary South Australian comic book artist. He is a member of the Barossa Studios comic book group.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a74
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-sharp-1
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Peter Sharp (b. 1964, Sydney) completed a Bachelor of Art Education at City Art Institute, Sydney (1987) before graduating with a Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts (1992).
Influenced by annual journeys to the Australian desert, and life on Sydney’s coastal fringes, Peter Sharp’s bold abstractions in paint, print, charcoal and sculpture examine the microcosms and macrocosms of the natural environment with an economy of form, motif, line and gesture.
Sharp’s work is a physical manifestation of the metaphysical, or what it is like to experience the immersive elements of nature and the environment. From the inky depths of the ocean and its inhabitants, which yielded subject matter for the exhibitions Whale (2004), Sounding (2005) and Close to the Bone (2006) at Liverpool Street Gallery; to the delicate patterns and ephemeral beauty of the spider’s web, seen in Spider (2007) and Web (2008) at Liverpool Street Gallery, Sharp’s work cohesively and seductively explores the sublime and transcendental qualities of nature.
Influenced by an Indigenous approach to the landscape (nature is part of you, and you are part of nature), Sharp creates a sensory and immersive experience. His work aims to maintain a dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous abstract artists who explore the diversity of the Australian culture, landscape and nature: the desert, the bush and the ocean.
From 1989-1999 Sharp held regular solo exhibitions at Coventry Gallery, Sydney. In 1996, he was awarded the Jacaranda Drawing Prize and in the following year was granted a residency at the Cite’ des Arts Internationale, Paris, where he collaborated with French printmakers to create a series of lithographs and etchings. In 1999, he was invited to exhibit at Kunstraum 34 in Stuttgart, Germany and in 2001, he participated in the award winning television documentary Two-Thirds Sky, which culminated in an exhibition of the same title held at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre.
Sharp’s paintings have been exhibited in the Wynne Prize (1996, 2003); the Sulman Prize (1998, 2008); and the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2009, 2010) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as in numerous regional gallery exhibitions throughout Australia. In 2012, a survey exhibition, Will to Form, was exhibited at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, which contained two decades of Sharp’s work. In conjunction with the survey exhibition, a hard cover, 120-page colour catalogue was published, titled Peter Sharp: Will to Form, which featured essays by Andrew Frost and Gillian Serisier.
Sharp’s work is represented in public institutions and corporate collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, The Holmes à Court Collection, Artbank, The Macquarie Group Collection, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Grafton Regional Gallery and the University of Wollongong as well as private collections in Australia and overseas.
Peter Sharp lives and works in Sydney.
Writers:
liverpoolstreetgallery
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Peter Sharp (b. 1964, Sydney) completed a Bachelor of Art Education at City Art Institute, Sydney (1987) before graduating with a Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts (1992).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a75
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a76
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/viola-dominello
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1964, in 1986 Dominello received her Bachelor of Art Education from the City Art Institute. In 1992 she received her Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts from the College of Fine Art (University of New South Wales) and in 2005 Dominello received her Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Art. She has also studied in Italy and New York. Dominello has spent much time in Venice, Italy painting the city and surroundings. She paints using watercolour and oil paint and draws using charcoal. Over the last 12 years Dominello has exhibited in both Sydney and Italy. Her work was part of the Moet & Chandon Touring exhibition in 1993 and the NSW Travelling Arts Scholarship exhibitions in 1990 and 1995. She has exhibited in group exhibitions at Penrith Regional Gallery and Lewers Bequest in 1998 and 1999 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. In 2005 she was selected to exhibit in the Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as in the Waterhouse Natural History Prize, Museum of South Australia.
In 2006 Dominello was selected to exhibit in The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney. Her works are in the collections of Artbank, University of New South Wales, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice and many private collections.
Writers:
Downer, Stella
downes
fishel
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- A painter and drawer, Dominello has spent much time in Venice, Italy painting the city and its surroundings. She has held and participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions including the Dobell Drawing Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2005.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a77
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Details
Latitude-33.8896116 Longitude151.1800986 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-becker
- Birth Place
- Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jane Becker is a Sydney-based painter and sculptor. Jane was born in Sydney at the King George V Hospital, Camperdown in 1964, to German born Jewish parents, Peter Becker (b. 1927 Berlin), who was a highly successful businessman and Katherine Landecker (b.1935 Konigsburg, East Prussia), a medical practitioner.
Jane began drawing and cartooning as a teenager and after graduating from North Sydney Girls’ High School in 1981, she studied Bachelor of Arts majoring in Visual Art at the City Art Institute, part of the Sydney College of Advanced Education (later known as the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales) graduating in 1984. She continued her studies at the College of Fine Arts, graduating in Bachelor of Education (Art) in 1986 and then completing a Graduate Diploma in Painting and Drawing in 1991.
Her early work was characterised by an interest in small mixed media installation, in matchboxes, cigarboxes and small custom frames. An exhibition most indicative of her work of this period was her early solo exhibition in 1992 at the First Draft West Gallery, Annandale 'Land of the Giants’.
During the early 1990s Jane began working as a workshop artist at Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She worked on floats and scenic design for the Mardi Gras parade and parties. This period also saw her become more active in curating and promoting lesbian and queer art in Sydney. She was a member of steering and visual arts committees, curator, and exhibitor of the 'Word of Mouth’ II, III, IV, (1992- 1994) exhibitions and artist collective established by artist and community worker, Sue Reynolds, which was part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Art Festival. She was also a founding committee member (1996-1997) of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Art Gallery 'Raw Nerve’, Erskineville. In 1997, Jane became the Workshop and Design Manager of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and in 2001 became Art Director – a position she held for two years.
The decade working at Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras had an impact on Jane’s work. Her work, which had been concerned with scale at the small level, now became large. Indicative of this transition is the work My Queer House , which was shown in its first iteration at the 1997 'Queer Crossing’ group exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington curated by Craig Judd and Liz Ashburn. The original work was a small 30 × 20 × 25 cm installation. This work was later reconceived and remade on a much larger scale and exhibited in 2005 at 'Sculpture by the Sea’, Sydney where it was selected by Art Gallery of New South Wales director Edmund Capon for Art Gallery Society of New South Wales Prize. The first decade of new millennium saw Jane’s work continue in the direction of large public art, such as Future Totems (2007), commissioned by Art and About (City of Sydney Council) and exhibited at the forecourt of Customs House.
Writers:
Dr Gillian Fuller
fulleg
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Jane Becker is a Sydney-based painter and sculptor. She was Workshop & Design Manager of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 1997-2002.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a78
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Details
Latitude-34.2532589 Longitude140.4579655 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charmaine-wilson
- Birth Place
- Barmera, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Charmaine Wilson was born in 1964 in Barmera in the Riverland region of South Australia. She is a descendant of the Pitjantjatjara and Ngarrindjeri peoples and in 2006 was based in Port Augusta. Wilson participated in the 2006 'Our Mob’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara/Ngarrindjeri artist who participated in the 2006 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a79
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-34.4816626 Longitude150.4177868 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/estelle-asmodelle
- Birth Place
- Bowral, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Estelle Asmodelle started painting as a small child and usually won the school art prizes, first exhibiting at the Berrima District Art Show at the age of 10. After leaving school Asmodelle started painting abstract pieces while studying towards a physics and maths degree at Wollongong University. During this period she started creating large canvas work, many paintings of which were displayed at public arts events. Asmodelle’s first solo exhibition was at Wollongong Regional Art Gallery (now called the Wollongong City Gallery) and it was entitled, ‘The 26 Cent Exhibition,‘ for people were required to pay 26 cents to enter, while each work cost a total of 26 cents to create. This eccentric show lead to many group shows in the region and also in Sydney at art departments within various universities, most notably at the Sydney University Art Department.
During her varied career Asmodelle continued to paint and exhibit and large canvas work using synthetic polymer became her preferred method. In the early 90s she moved to Japan to live and work and soon afterwards exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum as part of the ‘UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition’ in 1991. This lead to commissions, usually from Japanese firms, for her work. During this period Asmodelle also started the ‘Tokyo Eki (train station) Exhibition,’ displaying and selling her work in Shinjuku, Ikebukuro and Tokyo train stations as a permanent exhibition, while contributing in group shows within Tokyo’s art galleries in Ginza, Shibuya and Ueno.
In 2000 Asmodelle moved to Los Angeles and participated in numerous group shows and sold some larger canvas works. A few years later she returned to Sydney after living abroad for 9 years, and continued to exhibit in Los Angeles, in particular as a regular contributor at the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA).
From 2008 Asmodelle started showing her work in solo exhibitions in Sydney, most notably at the Global Gallery, Gigi Gallery and several others. She also ran solo exhibitions in regional towns in country NSW, from Berrima to Scone, especially at Artemis Gallery. During this period she started creating digital works in conjunction with her physical canvas works. From 2010 Asmodelle has continued to show and sell work though group exhibitions, including shows with the Redfern Artist Group, of which she is a member.
Several abstract canvas works of Asmodelle’s reside in private collections in Japan and Australia. While the larger body of her canvas work has been sold to private individuals, some businesses in Japan and the US have also purchased her work. Her digital designs have been purchased by companies and businesses for online content since 2008, and many of these designs have been the subject of design awards within Australia, some receiving gold and silver medal placements within the web designer awards networks.
In 2010 Asmodelle published her first art book, Transience, a collection of her canvas work created over a period of 20 years, which is thematically ordered. In 2014 a second book is planned, entitled, Aesthetic in Abstraction which is a retrospective of her digital works.
Writers:
belindalee
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Estelle Asmodelle, abstract painter and digital artist, is known for her large-scale, brightly coloured abstract work. In 2010 she published her first art book, Transience, a small collection of her abstract work created over a period of 20 years.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7a
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Details
Latitude-34.598056 Longitude138.745 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/melissa-smith
- Birth Place
- Gawler, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-35.115 Longitude147.3677778 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rik-barnsley
- Birth Place
- Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Rik Barnsley has a background in silversmithing that has informed his art practice since the mid 1980s. Recognised for his unique vessels, wall pieces and furniture, Barnsley also has a notable commission history. He has exhibited in Chicago and London and is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.560833 Longitude143.8475 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-douglas
- Birth Place
- Ballarat, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Douglass is a ceramics designer, interior designer, lighting designer. A founder-member of Whitehall Interprises, est.1987, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-hau-ewing
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 27 September 1964
- Summary
- Ewing is an artist and designer working in illustration, painting, graphic design and printmaker.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- c.7 December 2021
- Age at death
- 57
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7e
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lee-harper
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Lee Harper is an emerging contemporary arts practitioner based in Tasmania. She was awarded a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts with Honours at the University of Tasmania in 2011. Harper has participated in a number of exhibitions, including a solo show, 'Somoar-Objects Of Memory’, at the Sidespace Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre in 2012, Sawtooth ARI’s group show, 'Clean Living’, as part of the Establishment program conducted by Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) in July 2012, and '...come to life…’, an exhibition showcasing emerging young Tasmanian artists, which was co-curated by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) and CAST and held at the QVMAG, Launceston, from 13 July 2012 to 17 February 2013.
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Lee Harper is an emerging contemporary arts practitioner based in Tasmania.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a7f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/warren-vance
- Birth Place
- Melbourne
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Warren Vance has exhibited regularly in Adelaide and Melbourne, with work included in group exhibitions 'Australian Perspecta', 1993 and 'Chemistry', 2000. During 1999 he was involved in the Sydney Studio Residency Program. He is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a80
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Latitude-37.840896 Longitude148.1269588 Start Date1964-01-01 End Date1964-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/colin-hood
- Birth Place
- Lake Tyers, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Colin is a proud Kurnai man, the son of William (Jock) Hood and Margaret Hood (Bryant). The family lived on the Lake Tyers Mission before moving to Bruthen. Colin now resides in Bairnsdale.
Colin, who was born in the bush at Lake Tyers in 1964 was taught wood burning, spear making, boomerang making and throwing by his father and his Pop Bryant (Keith). In the 1970s, Colin’s maternal grandfather made spears and boomerangs for a museum in Lakes Entrance while Colin’s father was well known in the area for his souvenir or tourist art.
Colin continues the family tradition of artefact making. He is a competent wood burner and notes that wood burning was harder in the old days before wood burners. Colin recalls heating wire in the fire to adorn his art work and frequently burning his young hands.
In more recent years, Colin has developed skills in painting and produced a range of carved and decorated timber snakes. His carved walking sticks are in constant demand.
Colin is currently involved with an artefact making program where he works with a group of young men. He enjoys taking the group out into the bush to find appropriate wood for boomerangs, spears, clap sticks and other artefacts.
When asked why he makes his art, Colin says “because I love it and enjoy it “ . He adds that he likes to show his children the culture and commented that his ten-year-old youngest son has just started wood burning “the same age I was when I started with my Dad “ .
Writers:
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation, VIC
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1964
- Summary
- Carver, woodburner, spear and boomerang maker. Based in Bairnsdale, Victoria and associated with the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a81
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a82
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a83
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a84
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Latitude48.7784485 Longitude9.1800132 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/steffen-lehmann
- Birth Place
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Biography
- Steffen Lehmann, who works at the intersection of art and architecture, was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1963, the son of an artist and engineer. Upon leaving school he trained as an apprentice in a cabinet maker’s workshop and in 1983 held an internship at an architect’s office. That same year he enrolled in a design course at the Fachhochschule Trier and later at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, from which he was awarded a Diploma in 1988. During the 1980s he also took various master and special summer classes with leading architects in Salzburg, before completing his undergraduate architectural studies at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, London (1988-90). Thereafter he worked for three years in Tokyo with Japanese architect Arata Isozaki (1990-92) whose ideas on global citizenship struck a sympathetic chord with Lehmann. When he returned to Germany, Lehmann lived in Berlin where he established his own architectural practice and the Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design (s_Lab). Whilst there, he read for his PhD at the Technical University, Berlin (1999-2003). In 2003 he arrived in Australia to take up a chair in architecture at Queensland University of Technology before moving to the Architectural Design School, University of Newcastle, New South Wales. As a practicing architect, public artist, curator and editor, Lehmann is also involved in international research initiatives concerning environmental sustainability and urban renewal. Lehmann’s ideas-based practice reflects a number of influences, one being the vibrant intellectual climate of post-Wall Berlin in the 1990s, which saw a 'positive clash’ emerge between communist and capitalist ideologies, with new synergies developing between people and public spaces. An exploration of the relationship between the citizenry and the city echoes in many of Lehmann’s projects. Travel has been another determining influence on the artist. His witnessing of diverse physical and natural environments of many cities has informed his interdisciplinary approach to public art. Finally, he has been inspired by the work of numerous artists, in particular Gordon Matta-Clark. Lehmann uses site-specific installations to provoke interactions between people and places. He has developed many such projects in collaboration with his wife, the media artist Cida de Aragon. Although much of their work has been temporary, the Brisbane installation, Resilience (2007-08), which commemorates the women’s suffrage movement in Australia, is a permanent work. Lehmann views his role as curator of interdisciplinary collaborations as the most effective means to generate dialogue between artists and architects about urban renewal. His Back to the City (2008) project examined ways in which artists and designers might suggest new possibilities for post-industrial cities such as the port city of Newcastle after the demise of its coal and steel industries. Lehmann’s fairly loose curatorial brief encouraged innovative collaborations around ideas of temporality and locality that would first of all inspire the participants and viewers, and then lead to a richer debate on urban renewal. For one month, parts of the city were energised by unexpected art works, many informed by local experts, and all aspiring to leave lasting impressions on a seemingly-altered city fabric. Lehmann believes shared memories can empower residents to contribute to debates on urban renewal. His ideas are further explored in his 2008 book Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions. In his teaching at Newcastle University, Lehmann has encouraged small scale cross-disciplinary studios between architecture, art and photo media. In 2008 he was appointed the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development for Asia and the Pacific.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Ferrara, Stephanie
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Steffen Lehmann is a German-born architect, public artist, curator, editor and professor of architectural design who brings together creative partnerships between artists and designers to address environmental sustainability and urban renewal.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a85
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Latitude47 Longitude20 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a86
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Latitude41.3828939 Longitude2.1774322 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dani-marti
- Birth Place
- Barcelona, Spain
- Biography
- Trained as a painter, Dani Marti studied fine art in New York and Sydney, gaining a Master of Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, in 2000. In 2006 he was undertaking a Master of Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Marti’s artistic process is driven by the symbology of everyday industrial materials, craft practices, conceptualism and formalism. He creates dynamic woven constructions and sculptural installations that combine intellect and a sensual, Baroque minimalism. These works have a strong inflection of portraiture and resemble swatches of fabric that capture personalities, moods and intensities. As such, they recall the intimacy of fabric in contact with the body and represent not only states of feelings but also regimes of class and power and the idiosyncrasies that relate to the mental and emotional aspects of sexuality.
Many of Marti’s woven constructions are abstract representations of friends or people whom he admires (for instance, Rover Thomas and St Francis of Assisi), and include synthetic fibres, rubber, barbed wire, copper wire and cotton thread. The patterns and textures of these works suggest individual identities similar to the coded signatures of DNA. His installations are characteristically immersive and large-scale, juxtaposing theoretical concerns and articulating the private and social perceptions surrounding the body.
Since 1998, Marti has held over 19 solo exhibitions and was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award (2001, 2002). In 2005, he was selected for the Beijing Biennale. Among his most recent woven commissions are Phillip and Katherine (European Monarchs) (2004), for the AMP Building, Circular Quay, Sydney, and Different Trains (2003) for Melbourne’s Crown Casino. In 2002-03, Marti worked with Dale Jones Evans Architects to conceptualise and design wind-wall installations for Docklands/Mirvac, Melbourne.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Contemporary installation artist who trained initially as a painter, Marti's practice is driven by the symbology of everyday industrial materials, craft practices, conceptualism and formalism. He was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award in 2001 and again in 2002.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a87
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Latitude4.6529539 Longitude-74.0835643 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maria-fernanda-cardoso
- Birth Place
- Bogota, Colombia
- Biography
- Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a leading Latin American artist who has lived and worked in Sydney since the mid 1990s. She graduated from Yale University with a Masters degree in Sculpture in 1990, and a BA from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota in 1985. She has exhibited widely in over 25 countries in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Fundacion La Caixa in Barcelona, the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, among many others. In 2011 she begun a PHD candidature at Sydney University, specializing in art and science.
Her early work is materials based and since the early 1990s she has specialized in making “animal art”, as she is drawn by the human/animal connection. One of her most renown projects, the Cardoso Flea Circus, premiered in 1995 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, an art and science institution in California. The project toured the world in Museums and festivals, and it was last seen at the Sydney Opera House in 2000 a sold out season in 2000. The Cardoso Flea Circus (the tent installation) is in collection of the Tate Gallery in London, while some of the flower pieces belong to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sand Diego, and the Miami Art Museum.
In 2004 she represented Colombia at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting a large installation of starfish titled Woven Water, which are now part of the collection of the National Art Gallery in Camberra and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Maria Fernanda Cardoso is an internationally renowned artist, born in Colombia, currently living in Sydney, Australia. She is well known for her unconventional use of materials and the use of animals as inspiration.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a88
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Latitude-12.9822499 Longitude-38.4812772 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vanila-netto
- Birth Place
- Salvador, Brazil
- Biography
- Born in Salvador, Brazil in 1963, Vanila Netto arrived in Australia in 1987. She creates photographic scenarios inspired by architecture, design and science fiction. Her practice explores the depth of the relationship between pleasure and austerity in the context of today’s excessive consumption and waste production. Excess is envisioned as if in an evaporating state within the visual and economic culture.
In 2001, Vanila Netto completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, following which she received the university’s Australian Postgraduate Award. She was represented in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in three consecutive years (2001-03) and was included in the 2003 Citigroup Private Bank Australian Photographic Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Vanila Netto was represented in 'Others’, curated by Judy Annear, Level 2 Contemporary Projects, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2002), and in ’2004: Australian Culture Now’, a collaborative project spearheaded by Charles Green at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne.
Netto’s work has been exhibited internationally in Spain, China and the United States. Her debut solo exhibition at Sherman Galleries in 2004 was followed by representation in the gallery’s group exhibition, 'MIX-ED: Diverse Practice and Geography’, curated by Simeon Kronenberg and held concurrently with the 2004 Biennale of Sydney.
In 2006 Netto won the Citigroup Australian Photographic Portrait Prize for her work The magnanimous beige wrap part 1 – (contraption).
In 2008 Netto held several solo exhibitions including 'Contagious’ at Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography, 'kissmisswillcall’ at BREENSPACE in Sydney and 'Communication by Contact’ at the Fremantle Art Centre in WA.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Brazil-born photographer and installation artist Vanila Netto has been living and exhibiting in Australia since 1987. A four times finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005), Netto won the Citigroup Australian Photographic Portrait Prize in 2006 and her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a89
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Latitude-17.5241721 Longitude146.0311418 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-blackman
- Birth Place
- Innisfail, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Mark Blackman, mixed media artist, sculptor and muralist, was born in 1963 in Innisfail, Queensland. Blackman is a descendent of the Batjala people of Fraser Island, North Queensland. Blackman recalls being unusually creative as a young child, often creating paintings and drawings for church activities and events when he was attending a Catholic school in Innisfail. He left school at 14 to enter the workforce, and after undertaking a carpentry apprenticeship in 1979 while living in Mackay, went on to work as a carpenter for 16 years. Seeking a change of direction, in 1986 he worked for the CYSS (Community Youth Support Scheme) at Innisfail, during which he was involved in art activities. This experience led him to pursue art more seriously.
Blackman moved to Adelaide in 1991. He was motivated to make the move because of fond childhood memories of his family’s seasonal fruit-picking trips to the Riverland region of South Australia. His art practice gathered pace in the 1990s, when he began to participate in a number of public art projects. In 1994 he designed and facilitated the creation of a 3 by 6 metre billboard as part of Adelaide’s NAIDOC Week celebrations. Thematically, the mural design was a celebration of the International Year of the Family, and it featured silhouetted figures framed by a distinctive geometric netting effect which would become a motif of Blackman’s other work. The billboard is now located at the Warriappendi school in Marleston, where he was employed as a youth worker for a number of years. In 1997 he was commissioned by Adelaide City Council to design four public sculptures to be situated in the city centre. Numerous public art commissions followed in Adelaide and elsewhere in Australia, including two public sculptures for the Brisbane suburbs of Geebung and Mitchelton (the latter created in collaboration with artist Chetana Andary) made from bronze, stone, steel and timber, which were commissioned by Brisbane City Council in 1996. Other public works include Karra Kundo , a sculpture he created in 2001 that sits at the Holland street entrance of Linear park in Adelaide, To Lose, Leave and Find , a public art work created in 2002 for Holdfast Shores at Glenelg, and World of Knowledge, a public sculpture commissioned for the Mikkawomma Reserve in Port Adelaide in 2003. In 2006 Blackman was the lead artist in the creation of the River of Dreams Mural at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in North Adelaide. Blackman’s commitment to public art projects reflects an inclusive and democratic approach to art, and a desire to create work that engages with people who would not normally visit art galleries. Blackman has also regularly been commissioned to create designs for logos, promotional materials and theatre sets, and has been employed as a facilitator and consultant for numerous art projects, festivals and events.
Blackman has also participated in a number of exhibitions. In 1998 he staged two solo shows, Converging Channels BC (before carp) and Sand Shadow Series, at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide. A number of works for these shows consisted of tree bark, sand and acrylic paint on panels. These works expressed his concerns with Australian waterways, focusing on specific places such as the Coorong, Patawalonga River, and Mannum on the Murray River. The Sand Shadow Series was specifically concerned with Blackman’s connection to the Batjala people of Frazer Island. Group exhibitions have included the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards of 1994 and 1996, 16 Songs , which toured to several galleries in America between 1995 and 1997, and the 1995 Sorak Biennale in Korea, at which he was also an artist in residence at the Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul, Korea. In 1998 he participated in Isintu: Ceremony, Identity and Community , which was shown at the Flinders Art Museum in Adelaide and then toured to the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 1999, and the following year he exhibited work alongside Darryl Pfitzner Millika and David Pearce in 3SPACE – C21st Indigenous Explorers , a national touring exhibition initiated by the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute for the 2000 Telstra Adelaide Festival. Later exhibitions include Ngapartji Ngapartji which took place at Fringe Hub, Adelaide University during the Adelaide Fringe (2004) and Indigenuity , at Gallery M in Marion (2007.
Alongside his art practice, Blackman has been involved in youth care and education for a number of years. He has qualifications in juvenile justice and protective care, was employed as a youth worker for the Department of Family and Community Services for several years, and has played a mentorship role with Indigenous students at a number of schools.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
fulleg
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Indigenous artist based in Adelaide whose practice has traversed painting, mixed-media works, sculpture, murals and public art projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8a
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Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/irene-napurrurla-james
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born Lajamanu c.1963 of the Warlpiri language/tribe. Her country was Mungkurlurrpa and her Dreamings were Warnarri (Bush Bean), Marlujarra and Wintiki. She lived at Lajamanu. She workd with her husband, Joe James and started painting in 1986. She was the daughter of Lizzie Napaljarri .
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1963
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT) who often worked with her husband, Joe James. The daughter of artist Lizzie Napaljarri.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8b
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/munganbana
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1963 Munganbana is of the Jirrbal Bar-Burrum Yidinji tribes from the rainforests in North Queensland. He works in a variety of media including lino cut prints, synthetic polymer on canvas, batik fabrics and greeting cards. His love of nature informs his work, which is themed around sea and riverscapes, rainforest and wildlife as well as drawing from his Aboriginal heritage with works that show a contemporary interpretation of traditional designs. Munganbana work has featured in international exhibitions including 'Contemporary Australian Visions’ at the Hamburg Museum in Germany in 1991 and the 'Reconciliation '97’ Conference in Coventry, England in 1997. His work is in the permanent collection of the Queensland Museum.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Munganbana works in a variety of media including lino cut prints, synthetic polymer on canvas, batik fabrics and greeting cards. His love of nature informs his work which is themed around sea and riverscapes, rainforest and wildlife as well as drawing from his Aboriginal heritage with works that show a contemporary interpretation of traditional designs.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8c
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-dabah
- Birth Place
- QLD
- Biography
- Screenprinter and painter Peter Dabah was born in 1963 in North Queensland, the eldest of six children. Until he enrolled in a two year art course at Cairns TAFE he worked as a wardsman and handyman at Yarrabah Aboriginal Reserve (south of Cairns) and as an apprentice chef. After completing the course Dabah relocated to Adelaide and enrolled as a student at the Underdale Campus of South Australian College of Advanced Education and then at Tauondi Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide where he took a course in painting and creative writing.
In 1989 – 1990 Dabah was the Artist-in-Residence at Flinders University in Adelaide. Following this residency he staged his first solo exhibition 'Picking Up The Pieces’ at the Flinders University Union Gallery as part of the 1990 Fringe Festival. He has two paintings and one screenprint in the permanent collection of the Flinders University Art Museum. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- North Queensland born painter who held a 1989/1990 residence at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8d
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dulcie-williams
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1963, Dulcie now lives at Nyirrpi. She started to paint at the same time as her husband, Peter Japaljarri Tex , and they sometimes co-operate in paintings depicting Snake Dreaming. Dulcie also paints Possum and Goanna Dreamings.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Born in Yuendumu, now living in Nyirrpi (NT), she often paints in collaboration with her husband Peter Japaljari Tex.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8e
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Details
Latitude-24.6729937 Longitude134.0760569 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/patricia-boko
- Birth Place
- Titjikala, (Maryvale) NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Titjikala (Maryvale) in 1963, Patricia Boko is a Pitjantjatjara speaker who lives with her husband and four children in Alice Springs. She works as a translator/interpreter at the Institute for Aboriginal Development Language Centre. She was taught to paint by her mother, Eileen BOKO, her maternal grandfather’s Dreamings (Snake, Homesick) from the Petermann Ranges. She has participated in exhibitions in Alice Springs and Canberra and sold her paintings through Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative and the CAAMA sho
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara artist and translator/ interpreter at the Institute of Aboriginal Development Language Centre in Alice Springs (NT), Patricia Boko's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the country. She was a member of Jukurrpa Artists in Alice Springs.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a8f
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brendan-smith
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1963
- Summary
- Brendan was an active participant of the 1980's QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a90
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/chrissy-feld
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1963
- Summary
- Chrissy was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a91
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/scott-clifford
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1963
- Summary
- Scott was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- c.1994
- Age at death
- 31
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TLCMap IDtb9a92
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Latitude-28.816667 Longitude153.283333 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gilbert-laurie
- Birth Place
- Lismore, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Gilbert was born in Lismore in 1963 and belongs to the Yaegl and Widjibal tribes of the Bundjalung nation. He grew up with his grandparents around Yamba and Lismore and later moved to the base of Nimbin Rocks. In the mid 1980s, Gilbert and Oral Roberts set up an artists’ studio at The Chocolate Factory in Lismore where they worked for many years.
Gilbert has done several public artworks, has sold his work to hospitals in England and Germany and more recently to the Woodstock Museum in New York. His work has also appeared in group exhibitions, including 'Aquarius 08’ at Lismore Regional Gallery. He was the winner of the 'People’s Choice Awards’ for the 2005 and 2006 National Parks and Wildlife Indigenous Art Award. Gilbert is a musician and a dancer with the Bundjalung Custodians and teaches art.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Gilbert Laurie is an Indigenous artist living in Nimbin and belongs to the Yaegl and Widjibal tribes of the Bundjalung nation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9a93
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Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/margaret-brown
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- Margaret Brown is a Antakarinja woman from north-west South Australia. She lives in the Point Pearce region of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia and is associated with the Adjahdura Aboriginal Coastal Arts organisation. Through this group she was able to show her painting Stolen Generations in the 2008 Our Mob exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Acrylic on canvas painter who participated in the 2008 'Our Mob' exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9a94
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Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jody-broun
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Jody Broun is a Yindjibarndi woman whose family connections are from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Broun was born in 1962 in Perth. She has teaching qualifications and has a Masters degree in philosophy from the University of Western Australia. In 1998 Broun won the prestigious Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and in 2005 she won the Canberra Art Prize. In 2009 Broun was living in Sydney (NSW) and working as the Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Jody Brown won the 1998 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9a95
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:34 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shaw-hendry
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Shaw Hendry moved to Adelaide in 1990 and was a long-serving Technical Officer at the University of South Australia. Folling a 1990 residency at the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee, Belgium, Hendry received several South Australian artist grants to develop various art projects. His work is represented in numerous public collections around the country, including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 23-Apr-10
- Age at death
- 47
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TLCMap IDtb9a96
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cathy-wilcox
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in Sydney on 11 June 1963, the youngest of three children. She has drawn all her life and made caricatures of her classmates at school. While completing her BA in Visual Communications at Sydney College of the Arts, she worked at David Jones and met Jenny Coopes as a customer, who agreed to look at her work. This led to a spot as temporary replacement at the Sydney Morning Herald and her first published cartoons in 1984. She went to Paris for three years in 1985, where she worked as an illustrator and studied. After returning to Sydney in 1987, she began illustrating children’s books and in 2002 had illustrated 17 of them, including her own Enzo the Wonderfish .
Wilcox became resident cartoonist for the 'Stay in Touch’ back page in the Sydney Morning Herald from January 1989, following Reg Lynch and Matthew Martin (the latter again an occasional contributor in c.1993-97). Since 1993 she has been employed as the political cartoonist on the Age . Her small cartoons, and occasionally her large editorial cartoons, also appear regularly in its sister Fairfax publication, the Sydney Morning Herald . (Since late 1995 she has from time to time filled in for Alan Moir and provided the main cartoon on the Herald editorial page.)
A member of the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club, Wilcox won Stanleys for Best Editorial/Political Cartoonist and Best Single Gag Artist in 1994 (see SMH 31 October 1994, 5). With Kerry Millard she was runner-up for the Single Gag Artist’s Stanley in 1996, won by Glen Le Lievre . Her cartoons, Keep my seat warm published SMH 3 January 1997, Try your luck , Conscience Vote [on euthanasia] and Downer’s Dilemma published Age 15 January 1997, SMH 9 June 1996 & SMH 27 June 1997 were exhibited in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cats 6, 30, 35, 59. She was runner-up to Bruce Petty in the 1998 Bringing the House Down for the best cartoon in the exhibition. In the 1999 show she had 4 cartoons hung and one of Howard, Beazley and Meg Lees building sandcastles used on the cover of the catalogue. She was presumably was also in the 2000 show, while her three originals shown in the 2001 Bringing the House Down were: Your street , Queue jumper (2 lifesavers watching drowning swimmer, with one saying: “Better leave 'em. Could be a queue jumper”, published Age 31 August 2001) and War and Peace (both illustrated NMA website).
Several Wilcox cartoons were included in both 1999 b/w art exhibitions curated by Joan Kerr, Craig Judd and Jo Holder at S.H. Ervin Gallery and State Library of New South Wales. “The government will legislate that Australia was uninhabited./ We need that certainty” , published SMH 1 January 1997 (ML PXA 806/2), was in the 'Land’ section of the SLNSW exhibition; “I’m single and the child’s a bastard just like his father” (ML PXA 806/8), published SMH 1997, was in 'Women’; and Australian Police Joke (ML PXA 806/9), published SMH 14 October 1997, was in 'Crime’. Then one day, much to nearly everyone’s surprise, the High Court, by a majority of 4 to 3, ruled that politicians were, as it turned out, unconstitutional , published SMH 12 August 1997, was included in the SHE exhibition (ill. Kerr). 10 originals, including all the above, were purchased from the artist by the SLNSW in January 1999: see PICMAN. Wilcox spoke in a panel discussion on 'the great (neglected) tradition’ at SHE on 21 February 1999 with Joan Kerr and Patrick Cook . She was one of the 9 artists included in the Bunker Gallery’s women cartoonists’ exhibition in 2002-3. Her originals included Dag Pride March ('Men Who Wear Sandals With Socks’, 'Old Ladies With Shopping Trolleys’, 'Boys Without Attitude’, 'Women Who Dress For Comfort’, 'Stamp Collector’, 'Mugaccini Drinkers’, etc) and a gag about executive payouts (both ill. in catalogue).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Contemporary Sydney newspaper cartoonist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9a97
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christopher-dean
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Christopher Dean has been exhibiting regularly since 1988 in over twenty artist run spaces throughout Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, USA and UK. He has exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art and The National Gallery, Canberra. He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship and the Australia Council’s Los Angeles Studio. He also lectures and writes widely in art history and theory.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Sydney born artist, curator and teacher
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9a98
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-chaloner
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- comic strip artist, was born in Sydney but now lives and works in Perth. Owner and founder of Cyclone Comics, formed late 1980s, where he is co-publisher in the late 1990s; has four regular monthly titles (listed Shiell & Ungar). In 1994 he was writing and drawing the Flash Domingo strip (about a platypus space ranger) and editing Dark Horse Down Under (Cyclone Comics, 1994) which displayed the work of many Australian comic book artists. Influenced by 1970s American comic book artists, he has also worked for American companies.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Contemporary Australian cartoonist, comic book and graphic novel artist/writer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a99
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-alison-cavanough
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- Jane Cavanough is a landscape architect who designs site specific art in public places. Born in Sydney in 1963, Cavanough initially studied landscape architecture at the University of Canberra (1982-85) before commencing a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney (1991-93). When environmental public art emerged as an important idea in Australia in the early 1990s, Cavanough was well placed to combine her dual skills in landscape design and art. She later established Jane Cavanough Artlandish Art and Design (for public art commissions) in 1997 and Artlandish Incorporated (for community development projects) a decade later. After graduating in landscape architecture, Cavanough worked for Urban Landscape Planners and the Department of Public Works in Sydney, before spending two years in London and Manchester at the Groundwork Trust, a community-based landscape architecture practice. Whilst in Manchester she attended a conference on environmental sculpture and was inspired to become an artist. Thus she returned to Sydney in 1991 to study sculpture at SCA. In her first year as a visual art student she was the recipient of the 1991 SCA Jerome de Costa Award for outstanding work, and in 1992 she received the Art Gallery of New South Wales Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship for outstanding emerging artists. Also in 1992 Cavanough exhibited in the Blake Prize and in various artist-run galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. Whilst still an art student Cavanough was engaged as a landscape architect in the Arts Council of New South Wales (later renamed Regional Arts NSW) Creative Village projects in Jerilderie (1992) and Gloucester (1993), with artist Michael Kieghery and architect Rod Simpson. Creative Village was an approach to interdisciplinary, sustainable and community-informed rural town design developed by the Arts Council. For Cavanough it provided an opportunity to work in a cross-disciplinary (art/landscape architect/architect) team. Cavanough began working primarily as an artist in 1993. Shortly after graduating, she initiated and co-organised (with Gillian Smart and Frances Joseph) 'Artful Park 1’ and 'Artful Park 2’, in Centennial Park, Sydney, between 1994 and 1996. These were among the first environmental sculpture projects in Sydney. Her big break as an artist came in 1997 when she was commissioned to create sculpture for the Ponds Interpretation Trail as part of a larger landscape design project for the Centennial Park wetlands. The interpretive project consisted of five public artworks including four hardwood wings attached to pylons that spine like weather vanes, thirty steel and hardwood 'reeds’, eight mosaic seats, and seven sandstone plinths with relief carvings of local water birds. In 1998 the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects awarded Context Landscape Design and Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust the Project Award for Design: Rehabilitation and Infrastructure for their work on The Ponds Interpretation Trail. Cavanough works with a variety of materials including mosaics, sandstone, timber, forged steel, cast iron, laser cut sheet metal, ceramics, fibreglass and mist. This has led her to collaborate with a wide range of designers, artists and fabricators including: Cynthia Turner (mosaics), Marlie Kentish Barnes (stone), Ian Bartholomew (wood carving), Graham Bartholomew (steel work), Glenn Moon (blacksmith), Ian Jackson (playground design), and the firm Ross Engineering (steel fabrication). Cavanough has also worked with designers from established firms such as Hassell, Umbaco, Philips Marler, Context, and Pod Landscape Architecture. In 2003 Cavanough was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study the relationship between sculpture, community and landscape. This provided her with the opportunity to travel to the United Kingdom, France, The Netherlands and Germany to look at public art, sculpture parks, playgrounds, and garden festivals. According to her report, she learnt much about the interrelationships between successful art projects and funding models, project management models, new materials and new kinds of partnerships with artists and designers. In 2008 and 2009 Cavanough developed two memorial works: Mount Kembla Mine Memorial (2008) and the Australian Korean War Memorial (2008-09). The Mount Kembla Mine Memorial commemorates the 1902 disaster when ninety-six miners were killed in the largest peace-time land disaster in Australia. Designed in collaboration with Umbaco Landscape Architects and finished in 2008, the work consists of sandblasted basalt pavers, basalt dry stone walls around hand carved slate monoliths inscribed with poems by Conal Fitzpatrick. The Australian Korean War Memorial in Moore Park, designed in collaboration with Pod Landscape Architects in 2008, explores the significance of commemoration, regeneration and remembrance, using the circular form with yin-yang divisions seen in the Korean flag. The central serpentine pathway, carved with the names of countries comprising the United Nations forces, symbolises commemoration. This pathway, set within a field of cast bronze flowers based on the South Korean national flower, the Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus), symbolises regeneration. At the base of the vertical flower stems are cast concrete blades representing the mountainous and harsh Korean landscape, inscribed with significant battles fought by the United Nations forces. In August 2008 Cavanough completed Wind Vanes at Ryde Wharf Reserve, Sydney. Working with Graham Bartholomew, Cavanough used tallow wood, galvanised steel and copper to create this wind responsive work – three tapered poles, each topped with a carved rowing boat, referencing the marine history of the area. The poles arise out of a decorative mosaic paving with a marine theme developed by collaborating Indigenous artists, Adrina Khobane and Rebecca Jones. 2008 also saw Cavanough complete work for the Ryde Wharf Reserve Public Art Project and Wollongong Botanic Garden Equal access play garden. She continues to design site specific, interactive and public art.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Barnes, Amy
Note: Amy Barnes is a Landscape Architecture student at the University of New South Wales.
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Jane Cavanough is a public artist who combines her background in landscape architecture with her art practise to produce a range of environmental and commemorative artworks.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a9a
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mathew-lynn
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1963, Mathew Lynn is an artist best known for his portrait paintings.
According to the artist, his mother misspelled 'Matthew’ with only one 't’ and so it has remained. At the age of eleven his family moved from Sydney’s Lower North Shore to Queenstown in New Zealand where his parents ran a ski lodge for four years. The family returned to Australia and Mathew completed his final two years of high school at Sydney Grammar School.
Upon leaving school in 1981, Lynn began a Bachelor of Visual Communication at Sydney College of the Arts, but found it too restrictive for his artistic needs – the following year he enrolled in a Bachelor of Art at the same institution, but found it not restrictive enough. It was perhaps these experiences that led him to be largely a self-taught artist, eventually developing his own techniques for portraiture.
A keen musician, Lynn played in bands for a few years after leaving school and travelled to Ghana in West Africa to learn the traditional drumming of the Dagomba people. On his return from Africa he took various jobs, including making some illustrations for the Sydney Morning Herald , which allowed him to return to his love of drawing and painting. However, it was not until the following year (1989) that he made a serious foray into the art world, when his portrait of artist and friend Albertina Vegas was accepted into the Archibald Prize exhibition. It would be another eight years before he was once again an Archibald finalist.
In 1993 he was accepted into the Wynne Prize with a driftwood construction titled Humidity , inspired by his time living and beachcombing on the lower Central Coast of NSW. At around this time Lynn found work at an art shop as well as doing casual teaching and tutoring. He was Artist-in-Residence at Sydney Grammar School in 1994 and completed a Master of Art at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in 1996.
Lynn returned to the Archibald in 1997 with a portrait of television presenter Jeanne Ryckmans. The painting earned him the runner-up prize (the first time it was awarded) and won him the People’s Choice award. His portrait of Guan Wei for the 1998 Archibald gained Lynn another runner-up prize. Lynn’s paintings have featured regularly in the Archibald since 1997; his Heiress entry for the 2009 Archibald was a portrait of fellow artist Joan Ross, wearing her kangaroo fur dress.
Writers:
Allen, BenDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Predominately a portrait painter, Mathew Lynn was awarded Runner Up at the Archibald Prize in 1997 and 1998. He was born in Sydney in 1963 and in 2004 moved with his family to the Blue Mountains.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a9b
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Latitude-34.4278083 Longitude150.893054 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/douglas-blake
- Birth Place
- Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Architect Douglas Blake, born in Wollongong in 1963, began drawing from an early age. His family moved to the Central Coast when Blake was four years old and in his teens Blake exhibited some early drawings in the Central Coast and Toukley Arts societies (1982-85). His interest in drawing and sketching led him into architectural drafting prior to completing a Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) and a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, between 1995 and 2000. With business partner Derek Brooke, Blake established the architectural firm T.A.N.K (Thoughts. Analysis. Notions. Knowledge).
Throughout his training Blake continued to draw and paint in oil, acrylic or mixed media. Whether depicting urban or rural landscapes, or portraits, Blake explores a broad array of ideas and modes of representation and covers a range of approaches from realism through to abstraction. Some paintings are clearly inspired by Jackson Pollock’s action painting; others by James Gleeson’s surrealist imagery. Blake even extends his abstraction to a series of self-portraits which attempt a fusion between art and architecture, the two having played an integral role within his life. At times, free forms and curves are juxtaposed with the linear, rigid and angular.
His sometimes panoramic landscapes make use of realistic motifs even when referencing much broader issues, such as religion and world events. For Blake, this provides another dimension and sense of depth within works. An image of a cow in a golden pasture may at first glance appear to conform to a tradition of bucolic landscapes until one spots the miniscule cross in the background, transforming the piece into a reverie on distances between religions – the cow is sourced from the Islamic holy book, the Quran, whose second chapter is known as 'The Cow’ (Al-Baqarah) and deals with genesis and creation. Here Blake is commenting specifically on the currently strained relationship between Christianity and Islam, despite their monotheistic traditions sharing similar origins.
Blake regards the initial experimental act of applying paint to canvas as akin to what he sees as a 'rawness’ and spareness, qualities that he admires in the elemental and paired back architecture of Tadao Ando, whose works he saw first hand in 2003. In 2008, Blake returned to art precedents for inspiration, in particular addressing a detail in the painting by Roman neo-classicist Vincenzo Camuccini (d. 1844) Mort de Cèsar (1793-1806, Capodimonte, Naples). This was inspired by an image which Blake came across online and is a departure from previous inspirations for his art.
In 2005 Blake exhibited in the Mary Place Gallery exhibition 'In the sole of the architect’ with other artist/architects including Dale Jones-Evans, Steffan Lehmann and Julius Bokor.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr CatherineAkbar, Nikki
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Douglas Blake is an architect and artist whose landscape and portrait paintings reference a variety of Western and Eastern influences from the fields of architecture, religion and art.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a9c
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fil-barlow
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- children’s book illustrator, comic strip artist and puppeteer, was born in Adelaide. His first comic strip, done in second grade at primary school. His first printed comic Fudsey , drawn in fifth grade aged 12, ran for four weeks in a Sunday paper. Barlow studied art in Melbourne before moving to the Gold Coast in 1992 to work as a designer for artists working in the movie industry. Moved to Brisbane in mid-1994 with Helen Maier and Matt Thompson, the two artists associated with Kinetic Comics. A prolific artist, his major works include Zooniverse Comic (1986-87), published USA. In 1987-89 worked on children’s animation television series, Alf , in LA. et al. (see Shiell). He established 'Zoonimedia’, his own publishing house, in 1992. Has also made puppets. Influenced by international comics like Shiver and Shake and Asterix .
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Contemporary Brisbane children's book illustrator, comic strip artist and puppeteer. Barlow was 12 when his first printed comic - 'Fudsey' - ran for four weeks in a Sunday paper. Before establishing his own publishing house, Zoonimedia, in 1992 Barlow worked as a puppeteer on the children's television show 'Alf' in California.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9a9d
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1963-01-01 End Date1963-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nici-cumpston
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Barkindji photographer, Nici Cumpston was born in Adelaide in August 1963. She spent her childhood growing up in Broken Hill (NSW), Alice Springs and Darwin (NT) and in the province of Manitoba in central Canada, returning to live in South Australia in 1979. Her family background is Aboriginal, Afghan, English and Irish. In a lecture given in 2002 at The Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia (USA), Alison Holland stated that it was important for Cumpston that people know about this mixed cultural background “in order to set the scene, as she is intent on showing the diversity amongst all. Nicole says, 'I don’t particularly look like any of these nationalities and I want people to know how different we all are.’”Cumpston’s artistic career began when she enrolled in a Diploma of Applied and Visual Art with the North Adelaide School of Art in 1987 (graduating in 1989) and held her first exhibition, 'Doubts’, at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 1988. It was at the art school that Cumpston was taught the technique of hand colouring photographs with transparent oil paints by Kate Breakey who was employed to present a photographic workshop to the students. This is the style of photography that Cumpston would gain recognition for later in her career.For the next eight years Cumpston worked in Photographics for the South Australian Police Department where she processed the slide film used in the new speed and red light cameras that were being introduced across South Australia. She also processed and printed crime scene, accident investigation and forensic autopsy films. This work taught Cumpston to be proficient with colour film processing and printing and the importance of daily equipment maintenance and testing procedures. It also provided her with an understanding of colour printing methods including how to read a print to enable accurate colour correction. In correspondence with the author, Cumpston has said that she is “not sure if it is through seeing the process of documenting crime scenes that I have developed a way of documenting the landscape looking for evidence of past Aboriginal occupation. I feel like I am an investigator when I go out into the bush as I am always photographing everything I see, like I am gathering evidence.”During her time with the South Australian Police Department Cumpston completed her Advanced Diploma of Applied and Visual Art, again at the North Adelaide School of Art (1992-1994) where she furthered her studies in photography and took courses in ceramics and textiles. Upon leaving the Police Department in 1996 Cumpston began lecturing in photography at the Tauondi Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide, South Australia – a position she held until 2006. From 1998 to 2004, while working at the College, Cumpston undertook and completed her Bachelor of Visual Art and her Honours degree at the University of South Australia, majoring in photography, where she learnt to experiment with many different photographic techniques including working with a variety of films and papers including digital and infra-red film. Her exhibiting career did not rest during these work and study years. In 1998 Cumpston participated in her first major exhibition, ’3 Views of Kaurna Territory Now’ (curated by Vivonne Thwaites) with fellow photographers Darren Siwes and Agnes Love at the Adelaide Festival Centre.In 1999, when Cumpston was in the second year of her Bachelor degree, her mother passed away. Though struggling with grief, Cumpston continued with her studies. Later that same year she was commissioned by the State Library of South Australia to work in collaboration with Adelaide based photographer Andrew Dunbar. Cumpston and Dunbar’s brief for the State Library was to create a series of portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, which was the launch exhibition of the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts. This exhibition, titled 'Nakkondi/Look – Indigenous Australians 1999-2000’, was then invited to tour to Noumea in October 2000 for the 8th Festival of Pacific Arts. In her Kluge Ruhe lecture, Alison Holland described the images taken by Cumpston and Dunbar as “a snapshot of 'real’ lives of indigenous Australians across the spectrum of experience” and said that both the photographers “approached the project with 'open eyes’ and invite their audience to do likewise: to look and see Aboriginal people as they really are, not as they may be conventionally portrayed.” Again, in correspondence with the author, Cumpston stated that working with Dunbar provided a great opportunity for her as he set a very high standard and she had to “work hard and learnt quickly how to create images that pleased everyone involved.”Cumpston was commissioned again in 2000, this time by the Centenary of Federation to work on another collaboration titled Weaving the Murray. Seven Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists were commissioned to literally weave the social and cultural histories of the Murray River. Initially brought into this project as a documentary photographer, Cumpston ended up becoming involved in the weaving practices of the other participants and helped with the creation of the giant woven Murray Cod, Ponde. Whilst working on this project Cumpston learnt that her family was not only connected with the Darling River but also the Murray. Creating more images than was required by the commissioning agents, Cumpston utilised the extra photographs to stage her first solo exhibition, 'Reflections’, at Tandanya in 2002. At the same time as preparing for 'Reflections’, Cumpston was chosen to work as the assistant to her old mentor and now friend, Kate Breakey, who was on a trip home from the United States participating in the Returning Artists Residency, a South Australian School of Art, (University of South Australia) initiated project. Breakey in turn worked with Cumpston on producing the photographs for the “Reflections” exhibition and encouraged her to hand colour the work, a series of mural sized images of the Murray River.After her father’s passing in 2005, Cumpston took time away from work and travelled to Breakey’s home in Tucson, Arizona, (USA) to grieve. During this six-week trip Cumpston worked with Breakey as her studio assistant on Breakey’s forthcoming exhibitions. Upon her return to Australia Cumpston took up a four-week arts residency at the Bundanon Trust on the south coast of New South Wales. Following this residency she began a large commission of pencil and water-coloured hand painted photographs for the Commonwealth Law Court building in Adelaide. During this commission Cumpston had to change her technique of printing as the rolls of photographic paper she always worked with were no longer in production. For this commission she created the images on film. Negatives from the processed film were scanned and printed onto canvas. This new technique came about after experimenting with different papers resembling the type she was accustomed to working with that would allow her to continue using transparent oil paints. Not finding any that satisfied her, she moved to canvas, substituting transparent watercolour for oil paint when she found that oils rubbed the photographic image from the new surface. The end result of this work was installed in foyer of the building along a 12 metre and a 5 metre wall. The works titled Eckerts Creek, Murray River National Park and Flooded Gum, Katarapko Creek are large panormaic images of the waterways and trees of the Murray River. In correspondence with the author, Cumpston has said of this body of work that she hoped that people would “feel as though they are in the country even though they are within a building in the city.”Cumpston began to be nationally noticed as an artistic photographer when she was invited to submit work for consideration for the 2006 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Queensland Art Gallery which led to her first Sydney solo exhibition at Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery later that year. In 2007 Cumpston entered the River Murray Art Prize, for which she won the People’s Choice Award. That same year Judith Ryan included her in the Heide Museum of Modern Art exhibition, “Power and Beauty: Indigenous Art Now” from November 2007 to March 2008. Her work sat alongside the works of Fiona Foley, Lin Onus, Gordon Hookey, Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, and Julie Gough, Ray Thomas, Ellen Jose, Philip Gudthaykudthay, Samantha Hobson, Ricardo Idagi, Ellen José, Ricky Maynard, Clinton Nain, Wingu Tingima, Gulumbu Yunupingu and twenty artists from the Kayili Artists and the Warakuna Artists groups, both of the Gibson Desert, Western Australia, including Coiley Campbell Tjakamarra, Dorothy Ward Nangala, Eunice Yunurupa Porter Panaka and Molly Malungka Yates Tjarurru.From 2006 to 2008 Cumpston worked at the University of South Australia where she wrote and delivered a new compulsory course, 'Indigenous Arts, Culture and Design’ for the undergraduate visual art and design students. In 2007 Cumpston, with Nerina Dunt, co-curated 'Indigenous Responses to Colonialism: Another Story’ at Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre (her first professional curatorial experience). In that same year she worked alongside Julie Gough as the Project Manager for Gough’s South Australian School of Art residency.In 2008 Cumpston began working full time as an assistant curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the gallery’s first Indigenous identified curatorial position. Marita Smith’s Gallerysmith also began representing her in Melbourne, this was the first commercial gallery to represent the artist.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Nici Cumpston is a photographer who creates images of significant Indigenous cultural landscapes of the Murray/Darling basin. Her images are mostly pencil and watercoloured hand painted black and white images.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cameron-robbins
- Birth Place
- Melbourne
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
zauthor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Artist and curator Cameron Robbins is a lecturer in Sculpture at RMIT. He regularly works with the collaborative group Down Street Studios.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-kennedy
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Indigenous artist Lisa Kennedy was born in Melbourne in 1963, and is a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of northeast Tasmania. A painter and mixed media artist, she has also authored and illustrated two children’s books: Lielle’s Spirit Bird (1995) and Nick’s Amazing Journey (2000). Kennedy has a Diploma of Visual Arts from East Gippsland TAFE and in 2002 completed a Graduate Diploma of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. In 1999 she produced a number of etchings while participating in an Australian print workshop in Fitzroy, Melbourne, several of which are now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. In 2005 Kennedy was short-listed for the Deadly Art Award of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Exhibitions include “Songlines and Dreamings” at the Bunjilaka Gallery of the Melbourne Museum (2005) and “Tribal Expressions” (2006) at BlackBox, The Arts Centre, Melbourne. In 2009 Kennedy was living with her family in South-Gippsland, Southern Victoria.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Trawlwoolway artist and children's book author and illustrator based in South Gippsland, Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-normand
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Sculptor, printmaker, painter, photographer, author and environmentalist.
Writers:
7write6
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2021
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bill-hart
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tas., Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Artist and Lecturer based in Hobart, Tasmania who works across the mediums of software art, digital printmaking and immersive installation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/philip-wolfhagen
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tas., Australia
- Biography
- Philip Wolfhagen is, quintessentially, a painter of the Australian landscape, one whose work has been exclusively absorbed into his private obsession with Tasmania, the terrain of his personal origins. His work is physical, dense in its application, sombre in mood and tonality, the result of a deeply experienced, enduring engagement with an ancient, yet eternally living subject.
While Philip Wolfhagen’s work only came to the attention of Australian critics and collectors in the early 1990s, he is already regarded as one of Australia’s most outstanding landscape painters. His work was represented in the Moët and Chandon Touring Exhibition (1996-97); Australian Perspecta: 'Between Art and Nature’ (1997); 'The Artist’s Garden’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (1995); and 'Windows on Australia 1’, Australian Embassy, Tokyo (1995). His monumental, six-panel painting, Archipelago , 2003, the result of working 'en plein air’ for 12 days on Deal Island in Bass Strait, won critical and popular acclaim.
Philip Wolfhagen’s 2004 solo exhibition, 'The Inner Edge’, shown at Sherman Galleries, Sydney, and the Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, included his most abstracted landscape paintings to date. Writing in the catalogue, art critic Peter Timms said:
It is, I think, the real daring of Philip Wolfhagen’s atmospheric essays on the agricultural northern Midlands area, where he lives, that they complicate our emotional and intellectual responses to pastoralism, cutting through the rhetoric of both environmentalists and farmers, while cheerfully snubbing the snow-capped-mountain clichés of the tourist industry . These are paintings not only about the love of nature but the nature of love.
Philip Wolfhagen’s work is held in major public and corporate collections in Australia and in private collections nationally and internationally.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1963
- Summary
- Winner of the 2007 Wynne Prize, Philip Wolfhagen is a contemporary landscape painter whose critically acclaimed works explore his relationship to, and engagement with, the natural surroundings of Tasmania, where he has born and still living in 2008.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/claire-lambe
- Birth Place
- Macclesfield, England, UK
- Biography
- Claire Lambe was born in Macclesfield, United Kingdomin 1962, she lives and works in Melbourne. Lambereceived her Master of Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, Londonin 1995, undertook a postgraduate year at the Universityof New South Wales, Sydney in 1990 and completed herBachelor of Fine Arts at Bristol College of Art, Bristol,United Kingdom in 1985. In 2010 Lambe established theartist-run space Death Be Kind with Elvis Richardsonin Brunswick, Melbourne
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- English-born Melbourne based artist
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aa8
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maggie-renvoize
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- cartoonist and illustrator, was born on 24 September 1962 in south-east England, youngest of six children. She came to Australia for a holiday in 1982, decided to stay, and studied design at Sydney College of the Arts in 1984-88. Ever since she has been working an illustrator, inspired by 'animals, friends, good red wine and Life’. She began drawing her pen, ink and wash 'Homozone’ cartoons for the Sydney Star Observer in 1996. Examples include Mardi Gras 97… Equality for Vegetables 1997; Lesbian Bitches (dogs) 1997; Art Mardi Gras Style (couple looking at range of phalluses … 'it’s so nice to absorb a bit of culture over Mardi gras’) 1997. The last was discussed in Joan Kerr, Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White and exhibited in the 1999 National Trust S.H. Ervin cartoon exhibition. With Jeff Allan, Renvoize spoke in the 'Queertoons’ forum at the S.H Ervin Gallery on 14 February 1999.
Seven of Renvoize’s original cartoons were acquired by the SLNSW in December 1998 via Craig Judd: The dregs of summer published 15 May 1997; Remedial Pool Classes…More Snarl Now Girls published 22 May 1997; Staying Abreast of the Times (3 women labelled 1920s, 1950s and 1990s) published 26 June 1997; PMT [premenstrual tension] Enter at Own Risk (woman with chair in manner of lion tamer entering door thus labelled) c.1997; The Nightmare (naked woman running away from horde of surgical instruments) c.1997; Mardi Gras…/ I come to relieve the monogamy (2 men with 'Mardi Gras’ banner chatting) published 26 February 1998 (exhibited SHE); Familiarity beats contempt published 17 September 1998 (PICMAN). Some are simply signed 'M’.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist. Renvoize came to Australia for a holiday in 1982, decided to stay, and studied design at Sydney College of the Arts in 1984-88.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/chris-bray-cotton
- Birth Place
- Portsmouth, England
- Biography
- illustrator and cartoonist, was born on 3 July 1962 at Portsmouth, UK. She studied at the University of Western Sydney in 1990-93 and was awarded a BA in Graphic Design, with a major in illustration. She won first prize in the University Christmas Card and Poster Competitions in 1993 and came second in the University Advertising Poster Competition the same year. While a student, she worked at the Chris Cross Art advertising agency. Her first published cartoons appeared in Burn , a gay and lesbian magazine, in March 1993. The series included her colour cartoon 'Fortunately Brenda also had a problem with decision making’, later (1999) published on the Internet. It depicts a woman seated at her kitchen table contemplating a razorblade, knife, pills and pistol laid out in front of her. A noose hangs from the wall and the oven door is open. Bray-Cotton’s treatment of her subject is decidedly good-humoured, although with something of the sardonic tone of Dorothy Parker’s poem, 'Résumé’, published in the author’s first collection Enough Rope , 1927: 'Razors pain you;/ Rivers are damp;/ Acid stains you;/ And drugs cause cramp./ Guns aren’t lawful;/ Nooses give;/ Gas smells awful;/ You might as well live.’ (Also an accidental but interesting parallel with the Bulletin cartoonist Jean Cullen, who suicided by putting her head in a gas oven.)
Examples of Bray-Cotton’s black and white work include: Fuck the good ship lollypop (curly-haired moppet [Shirley Temple] wearing leather straps across her bare breasts, fishnet stockings and holding a whip); Annie had a liking for domesticity (seated, naked woman, shown from the neck down, with clothes pegs on her nipples, an extension cord tying her to the chair and a rolling pin between her legs); and Marlene wondered if it was inappropriate to excuse herself for breathing (big, awkward-looking girl).
Her work has been reproduced in the Star Observer , Cosmopolitan , Cleo , House & Garden , Campaign (magazine), Sponge (magazine), DIY Feminism (?), Capital Q (newspaper), and the Good Weekend magazine in the Sydney Morning Herald . She has been designing postcards for the Ink Group since 1992. Bray-Cotton illustrated the Travel Box guidebook in 1997 and collaborated with Avantcard and astrologers Bernadette Brady and Darrelyn Gunzburg to produce a series of free postcards profiling the twelve signs of the zodiac. Her three solo exhibitions include one of illustrations at Hester Gallery, Sydney, in 1996.
In response to Joan Kerr’s 1999 black and white artists survey Bray-Cotton explained that she draws cartoons as a 'RELEASE OF ANGST USUALLY’ and bemoaned the fact that 'MOST PEOPLE LAUGH BUT WON’T PUBLISH’. In her letter to Kerr she stated 'The magazine [ Burn ] is old and I grabbed the easiest cartoons to send you, being photocopies of some of my stuff… I have 'blocks of cartoons’ through different periods of time so the tone is quite varied.’
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Contemporary Sydney illustrator and cartoonist. Bray-Cotton's first published cartoons appeared in 'Burn', a gay and lesbian magazine, in 1993. Since then her work has appeared in the Star Observer, Cosmopolitan, Cleo, House & Garden, Campaign, Sponge, DIY Feminism, Capital Q, and the Sydney Moring Herald/Age Good Weekend magazine.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brian-tanti
- Birth Place
- Malta
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Tanti began his career as a panel-beater, progressing into coach-building with training in the United Kingdom. He worked with the Fox Museum, Melbourne beginning in the early 1980s and rose to Curator and Director of The Fox Classic Car Collection. He is currently (2015) engaged in a carbon fibre motorcar design, the FR-1.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zai-kuang
- Birth Place
- China
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/noga-freiberg
- Birth Place
- Negev, Israel
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aae
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rafael-butron
- Birth Place
- Manila, Philippines
- Biography
- Rafael Butron’s work focuses on landscape and the simplification of imagery towards a child-like form of representation. Part of the Sydney Printmakers Society, Butron has also worked at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales (UNSW), as a printmaking technical officer. A well-established artist, he has exhibited around Australia and internationally in locales such as New York and Bangkok; he has exhibited in group exhibitions as well as many solo exhibitions.
Born in Manilla, The Philippines, in 1962, Butron escaped the political upheaval at the time and moved with his family to Australia at the age of ten, settling at Randwick in Sydney. After leaving school he took courses in painting and printmaking at Seaforth TAFE in Sydney’s northern beaches from 1982-84. In 1988 Butron graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the City Art Institute (now COFA). He decided to undertake a Diploma of Education at the University of Sydney in 1992 so he could teach at secondary schools. However, while working as a casual teacher he was offered a job at COFA as a technical assistant and soon assumed the role of Technical Assistant Officer in 1993. Whilst teaching at COFA, he enrolled in a Master of Art under Idris Murphy and completed his formal studies in 1997.
Butron’s oeuvre began with relatively detailed and realistic works, but has gradually become simpler, reflecting his intent to evoke simplicity through what he calls “monochromatic shapes” (pers. comm.) that serve as basic descriptions of the subject matter, much as a child might see the world. He has said of his art, “I hope that my works could one day be so simple that they will be non-eventful, to the point where the subject matter is unrecognisable” (pers. comm.). In his studies of the landscape around Sydney, Butron has pared back images to the absolute minimum, relying on memory, and the emotional attachment to that memory, in order to manipulate the image.
Since 1990, the artist has divided his works into four categories that embrace the figurative, the land, the water, and cricket and to each of these categories he has assigned a quote. His figurative paintings deal with recurring memory where the figure is a symbolic representation of the artist’s own presence in the landscape. Butron has considered these works as reflecting Henri Bergson’s observation, “Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed”. In the Land series, Butron has employed simplified form and colour to record places that elicit an emotional response, again citing Bergson: “There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation”. Similarly, in the Water series, Butron has used pared-down colour and form to suggest water and place as they are dwelt on within the psyche, drawing from Bergson’s expression, “The present contains nothing more than the past and what is found in the effect was really in the cause” Finally, in the Cricket series he has attempted to capture the light in which the game is played as well as his love of the sport, referencing the 3rd Duke of Dorset’s well-known phrase, “What is human life, but a game of cricket?”
Butron has regularly contributed to group exhibitions in Sydney from the 1980s and has exhibited works in the Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing Exhibition in Thailand (2008); the Sydney Printmakers exhibition, Atelier Skåra, Gressvik, Norway (2003); and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile (1999). His work is held in various private collections and public institutions, including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; COFA at UNSW; The Cricketers Association of New South Wales; the University of Western Sydney; and Silpakorn University in Bangkok. His main exhibitions have been held in Wilson Street Gallery, Newtown, and with the Sydney Printmakers annual exhibition since 1998. Butron has been published in Imprint magazine (spring 2008), The Multicultural Art Alliance , The Big Event newsletter and catalogue and The Newtonian (2010).
He has worked with colleague and master printmaker Michael Kempson in Cicada Press, and has also worked in a highly collaborative way with other artists, including his mentor, Idris Murphy. Butron’s minimalist aesthetic is in stark contrast to the more figurative and detailed work of his wife, printmaker Anne Starling, but the two have shared exhibition spaces, while residing in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra with their two children.
Writers:
Hitchcock, ZeenaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Rafael Butron's work focuses on landscape and the simplification of imagery towards a child-like form of representation. A well-established artist, he has exhibited around Australia and internationally in locales such as New York and Bangkok; he has exhibited in group exhibitions as well as many solo exhibitions.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/russell-rodrigo
- Birth Place
- Sri Lanka
- Biography
- Architect, urban artist and memorial designer Russell Rodrigo was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Australia in 1967.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Min Kyoung Bang, Kathy
Note: Student in Architectural Computing, University of NSWDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Russell Rodrigo is a Sydney based architect and urban designer with a specialist interest in memorials.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sandra-higgs
- Birth Place
- Coen, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Sandra Higgs was born in Coen, in the Cape York region of Queensland, in 1962. A Kantju artist, Higgs learnt weaving techniques from her grandmother. Her weaving practice has been informed by a long period of residence at Nira Nina Bush Place, Spring Beach and Cape Barren Island in Tasmania. During this time she participated in the exhibition 'Crossing the Strait: Tasmania to the South Coast’, which was held at the Wollongong City Gallery in 1999. Higgs has created woven baskets, bags and fish traps using water reed grass, flax, cordyline, jute, dodda vine (snotty wood), rafia, pine needles, feathers and cotton string. As she is quoted as saying in the 'Crossing the Strait’ catalogue, “Aboriginal fibre artists and their craft are essential to provide the link between past cultural practices and present cultural artistic expressions.” (p. 38). Her work is in the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Kantju weaving artist born in Coen, Queensland. Higgs has made use of a variety of natural fibres to create fish traps, baskets and woven bags.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab2
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Details
Latitude-18.6683457 Longitude128.597836 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robyn-napurrurla-green
- Birth Place
- Gordon Downs, Western Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Gordon Downs station c.1962 of the Warlpiri language/tribe, Robyn Green’s country is Yirningarra and her Dreamings Ngapa and Janmarda. Her mother, Louisa Lawson Napaljarri , also paints. Robyn and her husband, Joe Green , are a formidable husband and wife team, one of several from Lajamanu. They started painting in 1986. They work together on background dotting, although both also paint works separately.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT), daughter of Louisa Lawson Napaljarri, who often works in collaboration with her husband Joe Green.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab3
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Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/georgina-napangardi-martin
- Birth Place
- Ali Curang, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Alicurang (Warrabri) in 1962, Georgina Martin is Warlpiri/Katitji. Her country is Mt Theo and she paints Goanna, Bush Bean and Bush Onion Dreamings. She lives at Willowra and started painting in 1988 through the CDEP program. 'We always go bush, hunting you know, bush tomato, kangaroo, everything, take the kids, everybody.’
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri/Katitji artist of Willowra who started painting in 1988.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab4
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Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rebecca-nampijinpa-egan
- Birth Place
- Watiyakurlangu, south of Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born on 1 August 1962 at Watiyakurlangu, south of Yuendumu, Rebecca was a Warlpiri/English speaker and grew up at Yuendumu. Her Dreamings were Sandflies (Pama), Ngapa (Water), Warlukurlangu (Fire), Watiya Kurlangu (Mulga Tree) and Yankirri (Emu). She moved to Adelaide in 1986 and began painting in 1987, driven by homesickness for the country she had left behind. She sent messages to her family to find out her Dreamings so she could paint them and ease the pain of separation. She painted from her childhood memories of the women painting their bodies and dancing boards for ceremonies. She sold her work through galleries in Adelaide. She also visited schools in Adelaide showing her paintings and talking about her Dreamings. In 1991 she returned to Yuendumu to obtain the approval of senior Nampijinpas/family members at Yuendumu for her paintings. She subsequently won the Kings Canyon Frontier Lodge NT Art Competition and was resident artist at the Corkwood Gallery.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 8 January 1962
- Summary
- Artist originally from Yuendumu who took up painting whilst living in Adelaide in the late 1980s. She won the Kings Canyon Frontier Lodge NT Art Competition and was a resident artist at Corkwood Gallery, Alice Springs (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab5
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Details
Latitude-21.8987641 Longitude134.8420227 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judy-purvis-kngwarray
- Birth Place
- Utopia, NT, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- As with other women artists of Utopia, Judy Purvis Kngwarray came to painting via making batik work.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab6
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/connie-nungarrayi-collins
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1962, and a Warlpiri speaker, Connie Collins has been living in Alice Springs since she was a child. She paints Kangaroo Dreaming from her father’s country, Pirrpirrpakarnu, which lies on Mt Doreen station, west of Yuendumu, and she is attending an Institute of Aboriginal Studies Bridging Course.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist born at Yuendumu, now living in Alice Springs (NT), where she studied at the Institute of Aboriginal Studies.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab7
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jennie-nampijinpa-hargraves
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu c.1962, her language and tribe was Warlpiri and she lived at Lajamanu. Pirlinyanu was her country. Her main Dreaming was Ngapa (Water). She also painted Dreamings for the site of Kunajarrayi, for which she was kurdungurlu (manager, guardian) rather than owner, also Wanakiji (Bush Tomato), Yarla (Yam), Warna (Snake) and Laju (Witchetty Grub). She worked with her mother, Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi , and started painting in 1987.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lived in Lajamanu (NT). She often worked with her mother Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab8
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lawrence-watson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born Yuendumu c.1962 and a Warlpiri speaker whose Dreamings are Ngapa (Water) and Yankirri (Emu). Lawrence Watson was one of the youngest male artists working with Warlukurlangu Artists in the early 1990s. He began painting in 1988 and exhibiting in 1989. In 1990 the artist’s work was included in Tigari Lia, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. His work combines elements of the older artists’ approach such as asymmetrical layouts, with an exuberant exploration of the stylistic possibilities of Western Desert art.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu, NT. In 1990 Watson's work was included in the exhibition 'Tigari Lia, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia' at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ab9
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lynette-napangardi-tasman
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Place of birth Yuendumu 1962, her language/tribe is Warlpiri and she lives at Lajamanu. Her country is Jirrparanpa, Kunajarraya and Parralya and her Dreamings are Wardapi, Yarla, Ngurlu and Ngayaki. She paints her stepfather and mother’s Dreamings. Lynette’s father was a white man and to prevent the child being taken away, her mother, Molly Tasman , had to stand up to welfare and argue that she could bring up the child equally well herself. Lynette worked with Mary-Ann Tasman , her sister-in-law, and with her mother and started painting in 1986.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and daughter of Lajamanu painter, Molly Tasman. She began painting in 1986, and worked with her mother and her late sister-in-law, .
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aba
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yvonne-nampijinpa-robertson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1962, Yvonne is a Warlpiri speaker whose country is Watiyawanu, to the east of Yuendumu. In 1984, she started painting wooden artefacts and later her Ngurlu (Seed) and Rain Dreamings on canvas. While living in Yuendumu, she sold her works through Warlukurlangu Artists, and later to shops and galleries in Alice Springs. She now lives in Alice Springs, where she is attending the Bridging Course at the Institute for Aboriginal Development through which she became involved with the Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative, based at the Institute.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Born at Yuendumu in 1962, Yvonne is a Warlpiri speaker whose country is Watiyawanu, to the east of Yuendumu. In 1984, she started painting wooden artefacts and later her Ngurlu (Seed) and Rain Dreamings on canvas, initially for Warlukurlangu Artists, later for shops and galleries in Alice Springs.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9abb
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Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dennis-nelson
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Dennis Nelson was born in Alice Springs in 1962. He is the son of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, one of the founders of the desert painting movement, and his second wife Gladys (Yawitji) Napanangka, who was among the first group of women at Papunya in the early 1980s to paint for Papunya Tula Artists. Dennis identifies with his mother’s Warlpiri language group rather than Johnny’s (Pintupi). Gladys had four children from her previous marriage, and Johnny had two daughters Narlie and Maggie from his. Together Gladys and Johnny had six more children: Dennis, Mike, and four daughters, Candy, Minnie, Emma and another who passed away.
Dennis attended school in Papunya and remembers going “after school or smoko time” to the Old Town Hall building alongside the school classrooms to watch the painters at work. He says his father taught him to paint: “Use brush – cut 'im – he learn me. When I’m a little boy he sat me down in the gallery”. Dennis’ paintings are strongly reminiscent of his famous father’s early works: “I carry on his style. I know.”
Johnny also taught him his stories: the Kalipinypa Water Dreaming with “lots of birds playing round after the rain”; the “Death Spirit [that] comes from under ground in the middle of the desert” and Tjikari where the “Men Dreaming [are] still there now”. Dennis said his father took him and his brothers and sisters to these places – to Kalipinypa via the shortcut through Nyirripi and to Tjikari in the middle of the desert.
In the school holidays Johnny’s family went hunting for bush tucker, goanna and kangaroo and later “we used to drive round everywhere – Mt Liebig, Kintore, Kiwirrkura – everywhere.” For ten years Dennis worked in the Papunya School and occasionally painted for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1990s, then for Warumpi Arts before its closure in 2004. He now paints for the Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya. He lives with his wife Rachel Napaltjarri at Five Mile Outstation.
Writers:
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra, who paints for Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya, was taught by his father Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, one of the founders of the desert art movement.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9abc
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fleur-macdonald
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Artist and Arts Writer Fleur MacDonald was an active participant in the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9abd
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michelle-andringa
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Artist Michelle Andringa was an active participant of the Queensland and NSW ARIs scene. Michelle collaborated with artist Virginia Barratt for the performance event "Gun Crazy: You gotta Laugh", held at The Demolition Show at The Observatory Gallery, 10-31 March, 1986. Michelle curated and performed in the collaborative "Performance Week" at That Contemporary Art Space in 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9abe
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/racheal-bruhn
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1962
- Summary
- Rachael was an active member of the 1980's QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9abf
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ac0
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Details
Latitude-30 Longitude135 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/naomi-dixon
- Birth Place
- South Australia, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Naomi Dixon was a painter and ceramicist. She painted with synthetic polymer on rocks, metal, ceramics and board. Together with her husband Paul Dixon, she worked tirelessly lobbying the Marion City Council to preserve the wetlands opposite the Flinders Medical Centre which became known as Warriparinga (windy place by the river) on which the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre stands.
Dixon showcased her work in the exhibition Kaurna Nepo Porendi held at the City of Marion Council Chambers Gallery in May 1994. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 25 August 1962
- Summary
- Painter and ceramicist, Naomi Dixon was also an enviromentalist and lobbyist. Her work is held in the collection of the Flinders University Art Museum.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 24-May-99
- Age at death
- 37
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ac1
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Details
Latitude-30.2985996 Longitude153.1094116 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/annie-franklin
- Birth Place
- Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher, was born at Coffs Harbour, NSW, on 3 June 1962; 1982-86 Diploma of Art (Printmaking) Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW. In May 1990 Franklin met five Tiwi women artists who were completing a month’s residency at their first printmaking workshop at Studio One in Canberra, where Franklin had worked for several years as a printmaker, illustrator and community artist. None had previously worked with linocuts or lithography, although most had experimented with screenprints and some etching, so she was invited to spend three years with Munupi Arts on Melville Island as Arts Co ordinator at Yikikini to teach printmaking skills to the community.
Between 1987 and 1997 Franklin held seven solo exhibitions, mainly with Shade of Ochre Gallery, Darwin, and aGOG, Canberra. Her work has been included in numerous group shows, including the Queanbeyan City Art Award (First Prize 1987), the Mornington Peninsula Print Prize (1988, 1990) and the Fremantle Print Prize (1990); two travelling exhibitions with Tiwi women artists from Melville Island, Munupi Dreaming in 1991 and Ngingingawula Murrakapuni, Ngingingawula Jilamarra in 1992; the 1995 Asialink touring exhibition to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong, Changing Places: Cross Cultural Art from Australia , and the National Women’s Art Exhibition Bias Binding: Women’s Art Register 1975-95 at the National Gallery of Victoria, both in 1995.
Our endangered species 1990, colour screenprint, was included in Earthly Delights: a group exhibition about the environment at aGOG from 18 August to 6 September 1990. From July 1996 until c.2000 Franklin lived on a block 120 km south of Darwin in the remnants of prehistoric forest, which she was helping restore. Her exhibition Continuum (aGOG March-April 1997), inspired by Dr Jean Liedloff’s book The Continuum Concept (USA, 1977), consisted brightly-coloured paintings and tiny black-and-white etchings printed by Chris Denton at Studio One, Canberra, including a self-portrait as 'The Sculptor’ (JK copy) working on the third component of the exhibition, a large luxuriant multi-media installation (mainly lush red triffid-like objects with hands reaching out for jewels), The Yearning . Early in 2001 she had a sell-out exhibition of small jewel-like rather Moorish looking paintings at Helen Maxwell Gallery.
IMAGE: Yikikini 1991, woodcut (ill. Imprint 27/3, spring 1992, cover), depicts Aboriginal women in the Yikikini Women’s Centre at Pularumpi working at printmaking with their white female teacher, i.e. Franklin. She described the women’s centre as 'a long windowless tin shed which retains the intense heat of the tropical sun, cooled only by three of the six ceiling fans that still work.’ Her teaching influenced various artists, including Fatima Kantilla (see ATSI biographies). Most, however, work with rich colour and decoration, as does Franklin herself in her paintings, screenprints and sculpture.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Not only known for her promotion of the arts, Annie Franklin spent four years living in what remained of a prehistoric forest south of Darwin while she helped with efforts to regenerate it. She was invited to Melville Island to work as Arts Coordinator at Yikikini Women's Centre to teach printmaking techniques there. She participated in two travelling exhibitions with women artists from the centre
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ac2
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Details
Latitude-30.6449458 Longitude152.9924524 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kevin-butler
- Birth Place
- Nambucca Heads, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Kevin Butler, painter, was born on the 14th May, 1962 at Nambucca Heads, NSW. As a child, Butler was always drawing but did not begin to paint until 1988. A member of the Stolen Generations, Butler found that painting was his way of getting in touch with his Aboriginal heritage. Removed from his birth mother at the age of two weeks and then raised by a non-Aboriginal family in Sydney, at the age of 16 he left home and moved to Menangle, a rural community on the outskirts of Sydney. Butler stayed in Menangle for five years before returning to Sydney to seek employment. He worked for Telstra for a short time and it was whilst working for Telstra that he began painting. In 1990 Butler moved to Wollongong and began his career as an artist and his first exhibition was later that same year, when he participated in a group show, 'Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow’ at the Sydney Opera House. Between 1990 and 2007 Butler participated in 25 group exhibitions including the 2006 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize, in which he was a finalist. It was from the exhibition “Unjustified” at the Project Centre for Contemporary Art in Wollongong in 1995 that Butler sold his first work to an art institution, when Wollongong City Gallery purchased Assimilation. This work shows a grey maze with dead-ends of drugs, abuse and alcoholism among other disparate topics. A small figure attempts to find his way through the maze to the welcoming arms of home and mother that are painted above the maze in bright and happy colours. Assimilation was Butler’s comment on being one of the Stolen Children and Butler gave Lorena Allam, the Media Officer for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission’s 'National Inquiry into the Forced Removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families’ permission to use the Assimilation image as the Inquiry’s poster. The Australian Museum, also impressed by the work, created a three-dimensional walk through version of it for the 'Indigenous Australians’ exhibition in 1997. In 1996 Butler was granted 'Artist In Residency’ at Wollongong City Art Gallery. The Gallery gave him 24 hour access to a studio within its building and a solo show at the end of the year. This exhibition, ’50,208 From Dreams to Screams’ is Butler’s only solo exhibition (as at 2007) and the exhibition featured works that commented on the Stolen Generations and environmental and political concerns that affected Aboriginal people at that time. Butler’s commitment to his community is very strong. Between 1993 and 2007 he produced 27 murals at local libraries, primary schools including five for Bass Hill Primary School and one for the Wollongong Youth Centre in December 1993, where he worked alongside children of the delegates from the 1993 World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education. In 1996 he painted the hood of a car that was used in the Variety Club of Australia’s 'Bondi to Batchelor Bash’ car rally and in 1997 he donated a painting for the Cancer Foundation of NSW to auction. Butler has received many art awards and awards in recognition to his services to his community including winning the 1993 Mil-Pra AECG 'Dream for the Future, Working in Unity’ art competition and the 1994 Illawarra Sexual Health Unit’s 'Aids and the Koori Family’ art competition. In 2004 he was the recipient of Wollongong City Council’s NAIDOC Award presented for recognition of his contribution to public arts within the local government area. In 2007 Butler was still working in the area of community arts and group shows and says that “like many other indigenous artists, the work that I produce comes from the heart. My artworks contain personal issues such as the Stolen Generations and are created with a lot of my own emotions that I transfer onto canvas.”
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Butler is a self-taught painter, muralist and community artist. His highly coloured paintings of synthetic polymer on canvas discuss personal issues relating to his experiences as a member of the Stolen Generations.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ac3
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Details
Latitude-31.2728076 Longitude149.2733225 Start Date1962-01-01 End Date1962-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/none-r-e-a
- Birth Place
- Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- r e a, an artist of the Gamilaraay people of northern New South Wales, works with photography, digital media and moving images, exploring creative environments through installation. She initially studied Electrical Trades at Petersham TAFE, Sydney in 1989, and then completed a Visual Arts Diploma at the EORA Centre at Petersham TAFE in 1990. She subsequently completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1993. In subsequent years, r e a has completed a Masters of Visual Arts at the Australian National University, Canberra, and a Masters of Science, Digital Imaging and Design, (CADA), New York University, New York.
In 1993 she participated in a number of group exhibitions including Continuity at The Performance Space, Sydney andSayin’ Something: Aboriginal Art. She was also included in Ten Years of Land Rights in New South Wales at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney, where she commenced a short-term position as Assistant Curator.
In 1994, r e a’s work was exhibited in Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Blackness: Blak City Culture! at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne and the touring exhibition True Colours: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists Raise the Flag. She received a development grant from the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council that same year, and commenced a second short-term curatorial position with the Aboriginal Art department at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. r e a held her first solo exhibition, Ripped Into Pieces Blak Body at The Performance Space in 1995, and undertook the Torque ARX4 Residency in Perth that same year. She held the solo exhibition EYE/I’MMABLAKPIECE at the Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia, Adelaide in 1996, the same year she that participated in the 1996 Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition and Abstracts: New Aboriginalities(which toured the United Kingdom). She was awarded the “Pop, Mass 'n’ Sub Cultures” residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. In 1997 she received a Visual Arts and Craft Board grant for new work from the Australia Council and was guest curator of Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. That same year her work was included in Australian Perspecta 1997 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Telstra 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Because of her experience working with new media was nominated to the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council.
In 1998 r e a exhibited with Brook Andrew in bLAK bABE(z) & kWEER kAT(z) at Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney as part of the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She is a Director on the Board of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, a position she held for four years.
In 2004 r e a was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake research into creative technologies, and in 2006 she received a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council. Her 2009 multimedia work PolesApart was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, and her work is also in the collections of the Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of NSW, among others.
Writers:
d/Archive and Scanlines
fishel
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Artist who works across the mediums of photography, digital media, film, video and installation and explores a range of themes around Indigenous identity, representation and experience since colonisation. She is a descendent of the Gamilaraay and Wailwan people of northern NSW.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ross-smith
- Birth Place
- New South Wales
- Biography
- Ross Smith, Wiradjuri painter was born in 1962 and grew up on a Aboriginal Mission in Condobolin in New South Wales. Married with four children, Smith was a finalist in the 2005 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize with his acrylic on canvas painting, Min Min Lights and again in 2007 with his work, Camouflaged Hunters.
Smith has also shown at the Gosford Regional Art Gallery on the NSW Central Coast.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Wiradjuri painter, Ross Smith was a finalist in the 2005 and 2007 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/darren-pracy
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Cartoonist, was born in Sydney. Wanting initially to be a vet, he attended Hurlstone Agricultural College but developed an interest in being a cartoonist after publishing gags in the school newspaper. After completing his School Certificate and having some cartoons published in the National Review , he was employed as a cadet artist with the Sydney Fairfax group and was a graded artist within three years, Aged 18 he became editorial cartoonist with the Sydney Sun . He claimed his major influences varied from the American Mad magazine cartoonists to contemporary editorial cartoonists (eg. Paul Rigby ) and even Walt Disney and Warner brothers. He hid a Gladstone bag in every cartoon and often featured a ginger striped cat and a budgerigar that commented on the news. His first book, Pracy: Draw Your Own Conclusion… , an anthology of his Sun cartoons, includes a self-portrait (inside back cover). A second collection, Hawke, Line and Sinker , was endorsed both by Neville Wran and Nick Greiner.
Pracy died suddenly at work on 19 September 1984, aged 22. He had not long returned to Sydney after some weeks in the US on a travelling art scholarship. His last Sun cartoon, drawn on 19 September 1984 and published the following day, was a comment on Peacock being banned from a TV show. It shows a couple in front of a television set watching a program featuring Bob Hawke, with the wife saying: “… Personally, I think it’d be a good idea if ALL Pollies were banned from ALL T.V. shows” [caption in caps].
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Late 20th century Sydney newspaper cartoonist. Pracy began as a cadet artist with the Sydney Fairfax Group before becoming an editorial cartoonist at the age of 18. He published two anthologies of cartoons before his sudden and premature death at the age of 22.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 19-Sep-84
- Age at death
- 22
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-kirk
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Abstract Expressionist painter David Kirk was born in Sydney in 1962. He was first drawn to painting while studying art at Sydney Boys’ High School, and his first notable artworks date from the late 1970s. After leaving school he worked from a studio behind a butchers shop in Maroubra, Sydney, while working full-time as a clerk with the NSW Department of Motor Transport. Bored with clerking, he enrolled into a BA course in Visual Art at the City Art Institute, Sydney (now College of Fine Arts UNSW). He studied at the City Art Institute from 1982-1984 and Majored in painting and drawing. His teachers included Kate Briscoe, Anne Thompson, Michael Esson and Susan Archer. In 1983 he exhibited his work for the first time at a selected students group show at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney.
Through the late 1980s Kirk exhibited in several group exhibitions, and had his first solo show at the Julie Green Gallery, Sydney in 1991. The following year the artist’s work was singled out for praise at a group drawing show at the Julie Green Gallery by the respected art critic Elwyn Lynn. Since the early 1990s Kirk has regularly exhibited in solo and group shows in Sydney and occasionally interstate. In recent years he has exhibited at the Washhouse Gallery, Rozelle, Sydney.
Kirk works mainly with oil or acrylic on stretched canvas, although he uses other media with his work on paper. Artists Ian Fairweather, Colin McCahon and early Mark Rothko are acknowledged influences on the artist, although Kirk’s painting and drawing expresses a dynamic, highly individual style. The mid-career artist has lived for many years in the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, where he lives with his wife Jane Palfreyman. His studio at the back of his home is a converted old millinery workshop which dates from 1908.
Devoid of any artistic pretention, David Kirk’s gentle humour can often disarm viewers who are startled by his powerful images. Coastal views, often inspired by the landscape at Merimbula on the South Coast of NSW, seem to be the overriding theme during his career. In recent times he has also produced semi-abstract images based on plant growth, the plight of nature, as well as views of the Tasmanian coast.
Writers:
Clifford-Smith, Silas
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- David Kirk is a mid-career Abstract Expressionist painter based in Sydney. Inspiration for his work comes from the sea, nocturnal animals, poetry and the environment.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fiona-gunn
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lynda-draper
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Ceramicist. Born in 1962 in Sydney, Lynda Draper lives and works on the South Coast of New South Wales. Between 1980-83 Draper studied a Bachelor of Art Education at the City Art Institute, Sydney. In 1985 she received a Ceramics Certificate from the East Sydney Technical College and in 1987 she received her Post Graduate Certificate in Ceramics. In 1991 Draper received a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and in 2007 she graduated with a Masters of Fine Art also from the College of Fine Arts.
Draper works with stoneware and hand builds small-scale imaginative scenes based on personal memory and experience. Draper has taught at the Ecole des Arts Decorative in Switzerland, Sydney TAFE, the University of NSW and with the NSW Department of Education.
Draper began exhibiting in 1986 and has received a number of awards, including the Sass and Bide Art Prize (2006), Australian Council VAFC Grant (2005 & 1998), Winner of D’art International Museum of Ceramics, Italy (2005), Gold Coast Ceramic Award (2002 & 1997), Port-Hacking National Pottery Award (1997-2001), Fishers Ghost Art Award (1997-1999) and the Young Ceramic Artist Residency at the Canberra School of Art (1986).
Draper’s work is represented in the collections of the International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; Renwick Alliance Gallery, Smithsonian Institute Washington, USA; FAGrue Collection Castelli, Teramo, Italy; Collection of the Dutch Royal Family; Myer Foundation; Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; and University of Wollongong, NSW.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Contemporary ceramic artist, born in Sydney in 1962. She works with stoneware and hand builds small-scale imaginative scenes based on personal memory and experience.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ac9
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/leann-edwards
- Birth Place
- Robinvale, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Leann Jean Edwards, artist and designer, was born on Manatunga Mission, Robinvale, Victoria in 1962. She is a descendant of the Wiradjuri and Yitha Yitha Nations of New South Wales, and the Mara clan of the Yolgnu people of the Northern Territory. Edwards undertook a Koori art and design course at the East Gippsland College of TAFE between 1991 and 1995 and achieved a Visual Diploma of the Arts at Monash University in 1996, however her art practice preceded this training. One of her first exhibitions was 'Manatunga Memories’ at the Nicholson Gallery, Bairnsdale, in 1993, which consisted of paintings that recalled her early childhood life on the Manatunga Mission. Edwards’ art practice is inspired by her sense of the injustice Indigenous people suffer, and her commitment to presenting the perspective of the “under dog”. She creates bold, vibrantly coloured paintings that are dense with lively community activity. Drawn from her own experiences and memories, as well as the stories shared by her relatives (which she writes down), they explore urban Indigenous experience and capture the humour and pathos of family life.Edwards’ art practice is often connected to her involvement in Indigenous community projects, to which she also brings her strengths as a dancer and educator. In 1992, she was invited by the Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place, a Museum of East Gippsland Aboriginal culture in Bairnsdale, to produce wall designs based on the artefacts that were on display inside the museum. In 1997 she was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to produce a design for a hot air balloon that was part of the Melbourne Moomba Festival 'River Spectacular’. In that year Edwards was among a group of Koori artists who founded the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation, and she has participated in a number of the Corporation’s exhibitions. Edwards was also involved in the Mallacoota Arts Festival over a number of years, at which she performed as a dancer and contributed artistic designs. Edwards has painted a number of school murals, one of which was designed for the Bairnsdale Primary School (known locally as '754’) and dedicated to Fred Bull. Fred Bull, brother of renowned Gurnai painter Ronald Bull, had been a friend of the artist’s grandfather Edward William Rogers and an important member of the Bairnsdale Primary School community. Edwards was assisted by a number of Bairnsdale Primary School children in her creation of the mural. In 2001, Edwards participated in an artist exchange program at the Ashiwi elementary school in Zuni, New Mexico, and in the same year she held a solo exhibition titled 'The Kirby Women’ at the Dreamtime Gallery in Sante Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition was a tribute to Edward’s grandmother Sylvia Kirby, and to her ten sisters. As she described in conversation with the author, each painting in the exhibition contained a narrative based on Edward’s memories of how each of the Kirby women had touched her life. In 1999 Edwards was able to explore a new artistic medium when she participated in an Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Two etchings she produced at the workshop were acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and included in the Gallery’s 2004 exhibition 'Place Made: Australian Print Workshop’. At the time of writing, Edwards worked as an Aboriginal culture and language teacher at a number of schools in the East Gippsland region, and ran a business as a freelance designer. She was living in Lakes Entrance and had three children and three grandchildren.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Aboriginal artist, designer and dancer based in Lakes Entrance, Victoria, whose paintings and prints narrate urban Aboriginal experiences.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9acb
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/georgina-clark
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- printmaker, born Canberra; studied ESTC 1980-81; Chisholm IT, BFA 1982-83, Grad. Dip F/A 1984-85. Does etchings and screenprints, e.g. To Goya Quien mas rendido é (2 women, man with ladies’ legs, 2 dalmations) 1984, etching; illus. in Interior Motives: The Mitchelton Print Exhibition 1988 , Benalla & Shepparton Art Galleries catalogue, 1988, 6.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Printmaker, born Canberra, ACT.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9acd
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lorraine-connelly-northey-1
- Birth Place
- Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Waradgerie artist, Lorraine Connelly-Northey drifted away from her former government job to embrace and reconnect with the country of her mother and an Indigenous lifestyle. This meant exploring the Mallee and Riverina environments around her birthplace and coming face to face with the remnants of white domesticity and the displacement of her culture. Since beginning her artistic career in 1990, Connelly-Northey has brought weaving into a contemporary art practice and embraced the techniques and styles of her Indigenous heritage. As the artist has stated; “I want to be more than just a traditional weaver. I want to be a distinguished weaver with an instantly recognisable style and voice”.
Combining the crafts of her Indigenous mother (Lucy Williams-Connelly) and the collecting nature of her Irish father, Connelly-Northey re-interprets the traditions of Aboriginal weaving. Her mixed cultural heritage has informed much of her work, which questions the social and political environments within Australia. Instead of using traditional grasses and natural fibres in her works, the artist uses rusted wire, iron and the leftover scraps of the Australian environment. Connelly-Northey thus recreates and recycles the detritus of white settlement and colonial enterprises. These works are reminiscent of traditional Aboriginal cultures. She takes her knowledge of coil weaving and transforms it into a contemporary discipline, which embraces both her Irish and Aboriginal roots.
Connelly-Northey’s narbong (string bags) and kooliman (bowls) are taken directly from the Australian landscape and its forgotten fencing wire, rusted iron, rabbit proof fences, bedsprings and fly screens. The strength and rigidity of these materials are countered by the soft colours and textures of more traditional elements like galah and pelican feathers or echidna quills. The delicate nature of these materials compliments the bare history, brutality and humanity of the abandoned wire and metal. The works become post-colonial expressions and it has been said they “verge on abstraction” (Helen Bongiorno, November 2005) with their hard lines and reduced forms. The scale of her works is larger than tradition merits, but this serves to highlight the gestures of creation and true nature of the materials.
Connelly-Northey’s sculptural pieces have been collected by many art galleries and spaces throughout Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of NSW. In the decade since 2000, she has participated in many solo and group shows, including the 2010 'Sydney Biennale’ and the 2008 'Adelaide Festival’. Connelly-Northey’s success as an artist belies her lack of formal training, but highlights her intuitive and beautiful response to creating.
Connelly-Northey’s more recent works have explored the strong history of the possum skin cloak in Aboriginal society. These larger works still utilise the discarded metals that have become synonymous with Connelly-Northey’s practice, but in this instance they evoke the lost art of making possum skin cloaks which was an integral part of the lives of South-Eastern Indigenous Australians. Her cloaks reference this history, the many years of Aboriginal domesticity prior to white settlement, and the damage done since then. The thin forms, sparse holes and harsh materials used, are a reminder of the erosion of Aboriginal culture and the hard circumstances faced by Aboriginal peoples. They are a form of protection, now made sinister. One of Connelly-Northey’s cloaks was exhibited at the 10th Adelaide Biennale, ‘Handle with Care’ exhibition (2008).
By recreating these items and various dilly-bags and vessels throughout her career, Connelly-Northey is continuing a tradition and reaffirming the longevity of Aboriginal culture. She comes from a strong and vibrant history of weaving and there is a strong sense of recycling and reclaiming culture in everything that the artist creates. Connelly-Northey’s self-exploration and inherent skill allows her to select abandoned, useless and abused materials, giving them new lives, through workmanship and exhibition.
Writers:
teganortwiggy
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Connelly Northey is a contemporary weaver who uses abandoned materials to create her artworks and explore post-colonial realities. She has been practising since 1990 and her works speak of a discourse between her Indigenous and Irish roots.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ace
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-foster
- Birth Place
- Kyneton, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Silversmith Robert Foster set up F!NK and Co in 1994, joined by partner Gretel Harrison in 1997. Foster wanted a business that would support his one-off handmade works, starting with production of his now well-known aluminium F!NK water jug.
From the outset, F!NK was envisaged as a company of designers and many acknowledge Foster’s generosity and enthusiasm in providing them with a start. He insists on a close connection to the tooling part of the process to ‘maintain the sensitivity and integrity of the design’.
F!NK objects are now sold extensively in Australia and overseas. Increased demand for the F!NK water jug led Foster to explore offshore manufacturing, and he proceeded to have jug forms made in China, mostly for assembly in Australia.
Foster’s work is in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, and was included in the Museum’s 2007 exhibition 'Smart works: design and the handmade’.
FROM THE DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA’S HALL OF FAME AWARD 2019:
Robert Foster was born in Kyneton, Victoria to art teacher parents who also painted and made pottery. He studied gold and silversmithing at the Canberra School of Art, now ANU School of Art, under renown silversmiths Ragnar Hansen and Johannes Kuhnen. He graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) and a Post Graduate Diploma of Arts (Visual) in 1986. He went on to establish a studio, Fink & Co in 1993 and rapidly became a major figure in the ACT and national design industry.
Best known for designing tableware, lighting, furniture and other objects, he also had a number of major sculpture commissions including Ossolites in the foyer of the ActewAGL building in Canberra. Each piece he made is imbued with a distinctive personality and movement; objects ‘that might, Nutcracker-suite style, come to life as the owner sleeps.’
Foster’s iconic Fink jug epitomises his design ethos and technical prowess and is a landmark achievement in Australian design. When commissioned to create the jug by Canberra restaurant The Republic, Robert took aluminium tubing, an everyday yet sustainable material, and fashioned it into a sleek, economically-viable product. The original tooling involved old pieces of steel from his father’s tractor and wood from a fence post. The Fink jug now features in collections both nationally and internationally including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and major Australian institutions including the National Gallery of Australia.
He won numerous awards including the ANU Alumnus of the Year award in 2015. He regularly lectured, gave specialised workshops and was a key-note speaker at international conferences.
Following his untimely death in 2016, two grants were set up in Robert’s name to ensure his dedication to helping others continues. One is the ANU Robert Foster Gold & Silversmithing Honours Scholarship and the second is the Capital Arts Patron’s Organisation’s Robert Foster Memorial Award.
Writers:
Powerhouse Museum
staffcontributor
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. c.1962
- Summary
- Foster studied silversmithing at the Art School, ANU, founding the Canberra-based jewellery and household object design company F!NK + Co in 1993. In 1997, Gretel Harrison was a partner in FINK + Co. Foster was elected to the Design Institute of Australia's Hall of Fame in 2019.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-Jan-16
- Age at death
- 54
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9acf
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/angela-cavalieri
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Artist-printmaker exploring the recreation of text and narratives in visual form. Cavalieri was included in the La Biennale di Venezia Padiglione Italia Nel Mondo (The Venice Biennale, Italian Pavillion In The World Project), 2011. Also in 2011, she was awarded the Manly Library Artist Book Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anton-james
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Anton James was born in Melbourne in 1962. He is a landscape architect, based in Sydney, who specialises in innovative public art and design projects.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineSteinweg, Kate
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Anton James was born in Melbourne in 1962. He is a landscape architect, based in Sydney, who specialises in innovative public art and design projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad1
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-kelly
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Artist Deborah Kelly was born in Melbourne in 1962. She began making socially engaged artwork in 1983 and has exhibited across Australia and internationally.
Earlier in her career Kelly worked as a cartoonist; in 1985 she was represented in ‘The Heidelberg School Picnic’, the State Library of Victoria exhibition of the work of contemporary Australian cartoonists. In 1991 she participated in ‘Out of Line’ with Jane Cafarella, Trudy Clutterbok, Kaz Cooke , Bronwyn Halls, Judy Horacek , Kathleen McCann, Nicole McKinnon, Joan Rosser and Jo Waite . Her cartooning work was primarily made for print media rather than exhibition and was published extensively around Australia from 1981 to 1988.
The media through which she worked became increasingly varied after 1989. Her photomedia project Hey, hetero! (2001), created in collaboration with Tina Fiveash , has been displayed on bus shelters, billboards, screens, magazines, newspapers, and text books in Sydney, Melbourne, Wellington, Glasgow, Berlin, Minneapolis and Claremont. Her 2009 work Tank Man Tango: a Tiananmen Memorial was a distributed dancing memorial for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and was performed in over 20 cities and towns around the world.
At the 2008 Singapore Biennale, her work involved projections onto clouds over the city; this was a reiteration of her Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned work, Beware of the God , first shown in 2005. Her work for the Sydney Biennale in 2014 was a large collaborative collage work 'No Human being is Illegal’.
Kelly is a founding member of boat-people.org, a group of Sydney-based art and media workers who collaborate on public work about issues of race, history and borders.
Kelly also began creating gallery-based artworks in 1988 and continued this practice in parallel to her public work. Her solo shows since 2007 have featured collage, video and installation work.
Deborah Kelly sometimes curates in collaboration with people and institutions. Major curatorial projects include BORDERPANIC with Zina Kaye at Performance Space, Sydney, in 2002; Terra Nullius at Galerie ACC in Weimar and Halle 14 in Leipzig with Frank Motz in 2009; and SEXES at Carriageworks Sydney with Bec Dean and Jeff Khan in 2012.
Kelly lives and works in Sydney and Melbourne..
Writers:
Kelly, Deborah
zauthor
kellyd
fulleg
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Deborah Kelly is a socially engaged Melbourne born Sydney based artist whose work is shown and collected nationally and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad2
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/diane-mantzaris
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Staff Writer
mantzaris
fishel
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Artist regarded for her pioneering application of digital imaging to printmaking/artmaking. Mantzaris has exhibited nationally and throughout Asia in touring exhibitions. Her practice crosses several fields and she is represented in public collections nationally and private collections throughout Asia and Europe.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad3
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jennifer-dunne
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Jennifer Dunne, painter and mixed media artist, was born in Melbourne in 1962. A descendent of the Kirrae Wurrung and Gunditjmara peoples, Dunne’s acrylic and ochre works often depict the designs that were traditionally incised on the interior surface of possum-skin cloaks owned by members of Victorian Aboriginal tribes. The 19th century cloak that is housed in the Melbourne Museum has been a source of inspiration for Dunne: the cloak was discovered at Lake Condah, which is in Gunditjmara country (her Great-Grandmother’s country) in southwestern Victoria. Dunne was short-listed for the 2005 and 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Gunditjmara/Kirrae Wurrung painter whose works draw on and are inspired by the Possum skin cloak tradition of Indigenous people of Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad4
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/junko-hagiwara
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Painter, born in 1962 in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1969 Hagiwara’s family moved to Tokyo and it wasn’t until 1980 that she returned to live in Australia. Between 1993 and 1994 Hagiwara studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and from 1995 to 1998 she studied with Bela Ivani in Sydney. In 2006 Hagiwara won the Waverly Watercolour Art Prize and in 2004 she was awarded the Newnham Pring Memorial Prize in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Hagiwara has also won the Works on Paper Prize in the Waverley Art Prize in 2002, The Watercolour Prize in the Drummoyne Municipal Council Art Society Annual Art Award and the Works on Paper Prize in the North Sydney Art Prize both in 1998. In 2007 Hagiwara was selected to show in the Salon des Refuse at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney. She is also frequently selected to exhibit in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Writers:
Downer, Stella
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Contemporary painter, lives and works in Sydney. Hagiwara spent a number of years living in Japan before returning to Australia. She is a frequent exhibitor in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and in 2007 Hagiwara was selected to show in the Salon des Refuse at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, NSW.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad5
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kaz-cooke
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and writer, was born, she states, at 5.17 a.m. in Melbourne on 17 December 1962 and has 'lived variously in Darwin, Alice Springs (briefly as anything) and Sydney [she was at Bondi Beach in 1994]. Now I’m back in Melbourne [1996].’ Rather than going to art school, she began her career in 1981 as a cadet reporter with Fairfax on the Melbourne Age and worked on general news as well as the women’s pages and the Entertainment Guide. Her 1988 Acrid Rain [falling from the bicentennial logo onto a cross woman] was reproduced in Bridges & Heimann (p.82). She is a member of the Black and White Artists Club (at least from 1994 & probably earlier). In c.1996-97 she wrote a weekly column in the Sydney Morning Herald’s 'Good Weekend’ magazine illustrated only with bizarrely incongrous photographic vignettes of famous people such as Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana as joke self-portraits but in 1999 was again illustrating her weekly articles in the Australian with her own cartoons.
In 1984 Cooke created the cartoon character 'Hermoine the modern girl’. She appeared in The Eye for years then as a weekly feature in the Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald (late 1980s) as well as in several books including The Modern Girl’s Guide to Everything , The Modern Girl’s Guide to Safe Sex and The Modern Girl’s Diary . After The Modern Girl’s Guide to Safe Sex had been on sale for a year, it was seized by the NZ Customs who, she claims, said they were 'alerted to the likely content of the book by the word sex on the cover’. Cooke’s commentary and cartoon collection Real Gorgeous (featuring 'Hermoine the Modern Girl’) was published as a CD-ROM by Film Australia in 1995; it received the 1995 AFI Award for Best Short Film.
She stated in a geekgirl interview in 1996: “I’m learning to get a whole lot better at making stuff happen on computer, but I still really love drawing in old-fashioned pen and a bottle of the blacker-than-black waterproof ink – delicious”. In 1997 she did a calendar printed on “paper” made from sugar cane pulp. Her novel, published 1997, was about [the city of] Darwin. She wrote and illustrated a book of advice on etiquette problems, Keep Yourself Nice (Allen & Unwin, 1990); its illustrations include cover of (a leering male) “Hi there, cupcake!” and (female with chainsaw) “Should I use a fish knife?” Living with Crazy Buttocks (Penguin 2001), a collection of essays mainly published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age with others based on radio pieces, is relatively lavishly illustrated with her own spiky cartoons. Her first children’s book, The Terrible Underpants (Puffin, Ringwood: Vic., 2000) – written when she was 'a mum’ – consists of 15 full-page colour cartoons and a brief narrative.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Prolific contemporary Melburnian cartoonist, illustrator, filmmaker, comedian and writer.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad6
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karen-atkins
- Birth Place
- Box Hill, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Karen Atkins was born at Box Hill, Victoria, in 1962 and grew up on the outskirts of Melbourne where her time was devoted to painting and riding horses. School holidays spent on her uncle’s wheat and sheep farm at Boundary Bend on the Murray River fostered her love of the land and the solitude of its wide spaces.
Having completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Monash University and her Diploma of Education at the Hawthorn Institute of Education in Melbourne, she moved to north-western Victoria in 1986. There she married a farmer and shared the regular calendar chores associated with life on a sheep and wheat farm including droving, fencing and working as a shearer’s 'rouseabout’.
During the ten years spent on the land she learned to appreciate Australia’s interior: the huge skies, flat landscape and elegant sparseness. Nonetheless, following the death of her husband in a farming accident, she moved to Sydney in 1996 and began painting full-time. The undulating topography awakened a new interest in vistas, the extensive harbour and its many inlets. Atkins’ Sydney home, a stone and brick cottage in Crows Nest built for quarrymen in 1890, with its views from the studio to the garden and harbour beyond, provided an inspiring space for her work.
Upon arriving in Sydney, Atkins accepted a number of commissions for community art murals – at McMahon’s Point Community Centre, Chatswood Mall in Victoria Street, and Northbridge Public School – all of which were completed between 1996 and 2006. In 2007 she received her most significant public art commission, Bears Party (Grasmere Reserve, Cremorne), Atkins’ only mosaic-based public art piece to date. She has also participated in temporary events designed to bring art to a wider public, such as 'Art on the Boardwalk’, an annual event sponsored by North Sydney Council.
In March 1997 Atkins joined the Royal Art Society (RAS) as an exhibiting member. The RAS, established in 1880, offers an active program for members, including approximately eight annual group exhibitions. Atkins was elevated to an Associate (ARAS) in 1999 and has received many awards from the Society. In 2000 she received a Special Commendation at Crows Nest Club Art Prize.
In 2005 she was employed by St Lucy’s, Wahroonga, a school for children with special needs, to assist with the development of St Lucy’s at Play , a book on the children’s art. In 2006 the school invited her back as artist-in-residence, a position designed to encourage children to explore the world through play and creative expression, and that energised as an artist. She maintained an association with St Lucy’s via engagement with the children’s creative activities, leading to annual exhibitions of the children’s art which serve as fundraisers for the school’s Creative Arts Centre.
It is as a textile designer that Atkins has also forged an association with fashion designer Sophia Nguyen and her company SARISSA. Atkins has an additional role as media agent for the company – she wears SARISSA clothes at public events.
Atkins believes “people respond to the spirit of my paintings” which are informed by her cultural upbringing and travels. She states: “My paintings are a meandering through personal experience and recollections. They celebrate beauty and wonder of everyday events. I use texture and a colour-drenched palette to tell stories and convey heartfelt emotions that I hope engage viewers and connect them to universal themes and feelings” (Atkins pers. comm. 2008). Such ideas also informed her December 2008 exhibition, 'Souvenirs’, in which she explored the links between collectable items, relocation, memory and globalisation through still life, interior and figure compositions.
By 2008, Atkins had participated in over one-hundred group and seventeen solo exhibitions – many at Salmon Galleries in McMahon’s Point, Sydney. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Writers:
Biancardi, DominicDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- Karen Atkins, born in Box Hill, Melbourne, is a Sydney based painter, textile designer, art teacher, community and public artist who is as inspired by her locale as much as by working with children with special needs.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad7
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-hurle
- Birth Place
- Geelong, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1962
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ad8
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TLCMap IDtb9ad9
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TLCMap IDtb9ada
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alice-kettle
- Birth Place
- Winchester, England
- Biography
- Alice Kettle was born in Winchester in England in 1961. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the University of Reading in 1984 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Textile Art at Goldsmiths College in 1984. She is a writer and lecturer and has held research fellowships and visiting Professor positions at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Winchester.
In 2000 Kettle completed a commission for the Australian National Library in Canberra, which took the form of 3 large wall hangings representing the Australianlandscape in an expressive style.
Writers:
Belinda von Mengersen
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Textile artist, writer and lecturer
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9adb
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Latitude30.2489634 Longitude120.2052342 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/song-ling
- Birth Place
- Hangzhou, China
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9adc
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Latitude-10.416667 Longitude142.166667 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/victor-motlop
- Birth Place
- Torres Strait, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Torres Strait Islander, Victor Motlop is from the Wagadagam tribe of Bamaga/Saibai Island and was born there in 1961. Motlop works in a variety of media including woodcarving, weaving and lino cut prints. His limited edition prints are sold through the Australian Print Network in Sydney.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Victor Motlop of the Torres Straits works in a variety of media including woodcarving, weaving and lino cut prints.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9add
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/iain-halliday
- Birth Place
- Darwin, NT, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Halliday is a designer active in interior design and furniture design as a partner in Burley Katon Halliday, Sydney and New York.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ade
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Latitude-18.6683457 Longitude128.597836 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/patricia-napangati-lee
- Birth Place
- Gordon Downs, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Although one of the younger Balgo artists in the early days of painting at the community – she was born near Gordon Downs Station c.1961 – Patricia Lee was more active than most in the activities of the older women in the Balgo community, including painting and ceremonial life. A Warlpiri speaker, she worked closely with her mother, Margaret Anjule, and grandmother, Dora Napaltjarri, both good artists in their own right. Her traditional country was in the Tanami Desert at Mongrel Downs, and her paintings often depict Wanayarra (Rainbow Snake) and Bush Tomato Dreamings from this area. Her work has a strong narrative element and she may be credited with 'introducing’ the technique of paint flicking into Balgo art. She began painting in 1984, and her work is included in the National Gallery of Australia collection. She usually sells her work through Warlayirti Artists. It was also featured on the cover of the Balance exhibition catalogue (Queensland Art Gallery, 1990) and included in Flash Pictures at the National Gallery of Australia in 1991-2.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1961
- Summary
- Widely exhibited Kukatja artist and an active participant in her community. She may be credited for introducing a new painting technique to the Balgo movement.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 2005
- Age at death
- 44
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9adf
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TLCMap IDtb9ae0
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/eddie-blitner
- Birth Place
- Naiyarindji country, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Edward (Eddie) Taita Blitner is a Mara/Alawa man from Naiyarindji country in the Northern Territory. He lived for many years at the Ngukurr community (now called Yugul Mangi) on the Roper River, 70 km inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria in south-east Arnhem Land. He attended Concordia College in Adelaide until he was 16 years old and as a young man worked as a stockman and farmhand. He learned to paint from the age of seven – his grandfathers taught him to blend ochre, carve, and passed on to him the stories of the work they were doing. According to his artist statement on the website for Darwin’s Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery, “My grandfathers, Fred, Gerry and Donald would be painting or carving and we kids would sit around them and watch them grind the ochres and mix the colours, after a while he would tell us the story for that particular painting and also teach us the songs and dance for that story. When he was in a very good mood, he let us paint the sides of the bark painting, that was my start”.
Eddie’s father, Walter Blitner, is also a well-known carver and painter. Eddie Blitner paints with natural ochre effects on canvas in his own unique style. He is also a wood carver. His art is sold through galleries in Alice Springs, Katherine and Darwin.
Writers:
Brown, Stephen K.
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. c.1961
- Summary
- Edward (Eddie) Blitner comes from a family of artists and carvers, being taught art by his grandfather as a child. Eddie paints mimi and animal totems in a rarrk style with ochre-effect acrylic on canvas, and makes didgeridoos and large bird carvings.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae1
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jimmy-jungarrayi-kitson
- Birth Place
- Ali Curang, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1961 at Ali Curang, Jimmy is Warlpiri/Anmatyerre. His country is Rabbit Bore, north-west of Willowra. His Dreamings are Budgerigar and Kangaroo. He lives in the Mutitjulu community at Ayers Rock. He has been painting since 1983, and usually sells his work through Maruku Arts and Crafts. He has family ties with the Willowra community. 'We paint to keep our country strong. When I pass away, my son Japaltjarri will take it on.’
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Warlpiri/Anmatyerre artist and member of the Mutitjulu community at Uluru (Ayers Rock), with family connections in Willowra (NT).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae2
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nancy-napanangka-campbell
- Birth Place
- Six Mile, Ti-Tree , NT, Six Mile, Ti-Tree (Tea Tree), NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Six Mile, Ti-Tree in 1961, Nancy Campbell is a Warlpiri speaker, with no close relations among the other Anmatyerre artists at Napperby, where she lives. Her country lies around Anningie and Ti-Tree. Her principal Dreamings are Louse and Kangaroo. She has been painting since 1986. Her work has been exhibited in several state capitals.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist based at Napperby (NT). She has been painting since 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae3
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gordon-hookey
- Birth Place
- Cloncurry, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Waanyi artist, Gordon Hookey was born on the 2nd February 1961 in Cloncurry, Queensland. Hookey says he began painting in Grade One and has remained an artist ever since. Hookey worked as a labourer before moving to Sydney in the late 1980s to enrol in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW. Whilst at COFA Hookey became an artist member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative, then located in the inner city suburb of Redfern. He completed his degree in 1992. Hookey’s early paintings addressed many of the past injustices inflicted upon Aboriginal people. According to Dr Joseph Pugliese who wrote about Hookey for the 2004 Sydney Biennale catalogue, 'Reason and Emotion’, his style “cuts across generic boundaries and aesthetic styles – where the conventions of history painting, protest art, cartoons, pop art, graffiti, surrealism and mural art converge on a single canvas.” Hookey began exhibiting immediately upon graduation and in 1993 he exhibited his work in 'Dante in Australia’ at the Centro Deantesco in Ravenna, Italy. In 1995 he exhibited in 'Native Title’, at Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Adelaide. Hookey’s reputation as a political artist began to grow from 1996 and the increasing appreciation and respect within the Aboriginal arts community for his work was confirmed in 1997 when festival producer Rhoda Roberts invited Hookey to participate in 'Off-Shore, On-Site’ for the 'Festival of the Dreaming’ – the first Cultural Olympiad for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 'Off-Shore, On-Site’ was a group residency and exhibition of international Indigenous artists hosted by Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in South Western Sydney. Casula Powerhouse subsequently commissioned him, along with New Zealand based Samoan artist Andy Leilei, to participate in a 1998 residency and exhibition titled 'Furious’ which was part of the 2nd Pacific Wave Festival. Hookey’s works King Hit (for Queen and Country); Brick Shithouse and Ten Point Scam were included in the 2000 Adelaide Biennale exhibition 'Beyond the Pale’, which was curated by Brenda L Croft included and it was at this time that Hookey’s practice began to gain notoriety and the attention of the print media. Bruce James, art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald declared of Hookey’s work in 'Beyond the Pale’ on the11th March 2000, that he “wanted the Queen of Australia just as I want John Howard, her Prime Minister, to see Hookey’s scalding canvases and constructions, the sting in the tail of the show.” Hookey’s 2003 work Sacred Nation, scared nation, indoctrination was included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s exhibition, 'Colour Power’, that opened at the Ian Potter Centre in Federation Square in November, 2004. This large three-panel piece speaks, among other things, of the wanton destruction of pristine environments by the government of the United States of America in its search for oil and of the Australian government’s complicity in such behaviour. This work, when first acquired and displayed in 2004 by the NGV, was the subject of much discussion in the local Melbourne tabloid press, which led to the then Victorian Liberal Opposition Arts Spokesman, Mr Andrew Olexander calling for its removal from display. 2004 Sydney Biennale curator Isabel Carlos included Hookey’s 2004 work, Paranoia Annoy Ya in this international event. A large installation piece, it was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art and participating in the biennale afforded Hookey an audience he never had before. In 2005 Hookey showcased his new exhibition, 'www.gordonhoo.com’ at the gallery of his new dealer, Nellie Castan in Melbourne and in 2007 Brisbane gallery Bellas Milani Gallery began to represent him also. In 2006 Hookey had three arts residencies – one for the Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, one at Melbourne’s Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Space and the third at the Banff Centre in Canada. The Canadian residency was partly funded through the Australia Council for the Arts. 2007 saw Hookey participate in the National Gallery of Australia’s 1st National Indigenous Art Triennal, 'Culture Warriors’ curated by Brenda Croft. Hookey continues to create work that responds to the national events and policies that affect Aboriginal people and since 2001 his work has begun to comment increasingly on international events such as 'The War on Terror’ and global warming. Even though Hookey returned to live in Queensland in 2002, he remains a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative and in 2006 he became an active member of the Brisbane-based Aboriginal arts group, ProppaNOW. Other Brisbane artists involved with ProppaNOW include, Richard Bell, Laurie Nilson, Jennifer Herd, Bianca Beetson and Vernon Ah Kee.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Political artist, Gordon Hookey of the Waayni people of north west Queensland is an oil painter and sculptor whose work is informed by domestic and international events and policies that effect Indigenous communities globally.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae4
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barbara-campbell
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Performance artist, was born and raised in Queensland then lived in Sydney until she married the sculptor and installation artist Neil Roberts in the late 1990s and moved to Queanbeyan. (He died early 2002). Her Cloche (1999) – seen only as a video, the medium by which her performances are recorded – shows her chopping off her hair in order to remove a flapper-style close-fitting cap glued to her head (see JK 'Wombat Manifesto’ lecture, published in Republics of Ideas ed. Brad Buckley and John Conomos).
In 199(7?) Campbell did a memorable performance at Old Parliamen House, Canberra that used research carried out for her Sydney College of the Arts MA on images of Truganini (kissing a plate while smothered in thick red lipstick to bring up the signature of the white maker of a Truganini image to the sounds and sights of a session of Federal Parliament on TV in the background.)
In November 1999 Campbell did Inflorescent as the final performance for her residency program at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Performance Studies – a 'part-cycad, part-homosapien specimen’ visible for an hour. Her body was inscribed with cycad-frond patterns and other decorative motifs using special ink that showed up only under ultra-violet light concealed within a woven palm-leaf fan she swept across her body. Initially a counter-point to the Macleay Museum exhibition Adorned , she repeated it in the small room at Canberra Contemporary Artspace’s Gorman House on 14-15 April 2000. Viewed only through the external window of the Gorman House small cube room (shades of Duchamp’s Etant Donnés at Philadelphia), she lay naked in the dark on a chaise longue (shades of Manet and Titian) slowly fanning herself to reveal the tattoo-like inscriptions on her body.
She organised two performances as part of 'LIKENESS: Portraiture and Biography symposium’ at 5.30 pm. on Saturday, 5 May 2001 at Sydney University’s College of the Arts, Balmain Rd, Rozelle: 'SECATEUR, A life of pruning; pruning a life. Vera Violet Isabel Campbell performs the art of flower arranging’ and at 6.00pm 'REMANENCE: Hugh McKenzie Campbell demonstrates the act of water-dowsing’ (the latter performance was cancelled because of rain). Both drew from video recordings of the artist’s paternal grandparents gathered over a six-year period to April 2001 (between Hugh’s 101st birthday and Vera’s 99th). REMANENCE was developed and premiered at the Department of Performance Studies, Sydney University in May 2000. SECATEUR was developed at Sydney College of the Arts in April 2001. The LIKENESS symposium was jointly presented by the National Portrait Gallery, SU’s Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and SU College of the Arts.
In 2001 Campbell’s clever and caustic art-historical performance about international modern art and its teaching in Australia, specifically Sydney University, titled The Machine, Oiled Again , was held under the stair bridge to the Power Department of Fine Arts (see JK article 2002). The five performances connected with SU (including Sydney College of the Arts) were to be recreated in a retrospective in May 2002 with a catalogue/book funded with SU sesqui-centenary funds, but the event was postponed until the end of the year after Neil’s death.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Performance artist. For the final work of her residency at the University of Sydney's Centre for Performance Studies, Campbell inscribed her body with motifs that were only visible under ultra-violet light. She revealed them by sweeping a palm-leaf fan with a concealed UV light across her body. It was designed as a counter-work to the the university's Macleay Museum's exhibition 'Adorned.'
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/annette-ellis
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Annette Ellis Napangarti was born in 1961 at Papunya, not long after the settlement’s official opening. Her grandfather Tom Onion Tjapangarti was Honey Ant Boss for the Papunya area. With Mick Wallankarri Tjakamarra, he was a key figure in authorising a team of painters led by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and including Annette’s father Don Ellis to paint the now famous Honey Ant mural on the Papunya School wall in 1971 at the beginning of the desert painting movement.
Annette’s mother was Rosie (Purula) Ikunka Napurrula. Don and Rosie had a son, Tony, and three daughters, Barbara, Sarah and Annette (the youngest). The family lived in the Papunya area before the settlement was established. Annette later went to school in Papunya and remembered doing pottery with Geoffrey Bardon as a school girl. Later she attended Yirara College in Alice Springs.
Annette’s first husband was Fraser Daniels from Yuendumu, younger brother of Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and himself an occasional painter for Papunya Tula. Annette and Fraser had three daughters, Jessie, Evalun and Tarmina. After Fraser’s death Annette married David Dixon, son of Mick Wallankarri and Topsy Napaltjarri. They have a daughter, Clarinda.
Annette has lived in Papunya all her life. She identifies as Luritja: her grandfather was one of the last speakers of Kukatja in these parts. She paints the Honey Ant Dreaming story for Papunya, which she learnt from her grandfather. She began painting for Papunya Tjupi in 2007 and often works in the art centre alongside her sister Sarah. Asked why she paints, Annette said: “I want to paint the Honey Ant Dreaming for my grandfather and father. It makes me happy when I paint.”
Writers:
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Annette Ellis Napangarti, who paints for Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya, is the granddaughter of Tom Onion Tjapangati, the Honey Ant 'Boss' who supported the Papunya School Honey Ant Mural project in 1971.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae6
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/colin-tjakamarra-mccormack
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Walangari Karntawarra Jakamarra, also known as Colin McCormack was born in Alice Springs in 1961.
He is of the Arrernte, Luritja, Walpiri, Yankuntjatjarra, Pintubi, Anmatjerre and Alyawarre peoples of the Central and Western Desert.
Walangari has held many executive positions and been the director of various Aboriginal councils. He chaired CAAMA (the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association), the first Aboriginal owned radio station and was a director of the first Aboriginal television station, Imparja. He is committed to improving the lot of his people and helping ensure that the voice of Aboriginal Australia is heard.
He has Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees and an Associate Diploma of Aboriginal Education.
Walangari has designed and conducted his own very successful cross-cultural course at the Institute of Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs. The course was attended by many overseas and local professionals and students. Like the course, Walangari sees his paintings as a form of communication between cultures.
Walangari is multi talented. He is a gifted musician and dancer, with a wonderful stage presence but it was the legacy of his famous 'great-grandfather’, Albert Namatjira and the inspiration of his 'grandfather’ Clifford Possum that encouraged him to paint.
While his paintings tell the traditional stories of his people and feature the iconography of the 'Western Desert’, Walangari uses a fuller colour spectrum and unique effects to forge a striking path within modern Aboriginal Art. His paintings are widely acclaimed and he has exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas.
In 1995 he painted the first prize for the inaugural Indigenous Surfing Competition sponsored by Billabong and Coca Cola and Walangari’s life and paintings have been featured in many TV programmes & publications, including the “International Artist” magazine.
The Australian Museum featured Walangari in the CD ROM that they produced as part of their Living Colour exhibition in March 2000 and in 2003 he was commissioned to paint a work for the Rugby World Cup Paris Exhibition. In the same year his work featured in the annual selling exhibition Art Paris in the Carrousel du Louvre.
The National Gallery of Australia has acquired one of his early works.
Writers:
Farr, Delia-Rose
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Walangari Karntawarra is an Aboriginal elder and internationally exhibited painter originally from Alice Springs whose work uses his traditional 'Central Western Desert' iconography to tell Dreaming stories. Tertiary educated, he is also a talented musician, teacher and public speaker. Walangari regards his art as a means of cross-cultural communication.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae7
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lisa-pultara
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Alice Springs c.1961, Lisa Pultara is an Anmatyerre speaker with Northern Arrente affiliations. Lisa’s traditional country lies around Napperby station. She paints Water, Fish and Sugar Ant Dreamings for this region, and has been painting since 1986. She lives at Napperby.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1961
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist who lives in Napperby (NT), which is also the site of her traditional country.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ae8
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TLCMap IDtb9ae9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/zelio-maric
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1961
- Summary
- Zelico was an active participant of the 1980s Qld ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aea
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Latitude-27.5610193 Longitude151.953351 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ross-pulbrook
- Birth Place
- Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1961
- Summary
- Pulbrook worked as a designer, photographer and writer. He worked for John Brumley and Associates, University of Qld and Canberra's AGPS Design Studio and other outlets in addition to his own work as a photographer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-Jan-21
- Age at death
- 60
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aeb
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sandra-taylor
- Birth Place
- Andamooka
- Biography
- Sandra Taylor, Kokatha/Antikirintya artist, was born in 1960 in Andamooka, South Australia. In 2007 she was living in Coober Pedy. She participated in the 2006 NAIDOC week exhibition in Coober Pedy and the 2006 and 2007 'Our Mob’exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Indigenous artist with Kokatha/Yangkunytjatjara heritage who was included in the 2006 and 2007 Our Mob exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aec
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aed
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jo-darbyshire
- Birth Place
- Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Painter and poster designer, was born in Perth. Her posters include Women for Survival (National Gallery of Australia), annotated '“it’s urgent – you can’t expect to be led, you must take personal action”. Greenham Common [3 women’s signs]’ and 'Close Pine Gap Nov 11 1983’ (printed by Garage Graphix, Mount Druitt, 'designed and authorised by Women for Survival’). Women’s action against global violence: close the gap [Pine Gap], 1983 (National Gallery of Australia), was made at the Tin Sheds Art Workshop, Faculty of Architecture – University of Sydney. Not your average women’s dance: National Foundation for Australian Women’s Conference 1990 was produced in the Australian Capital Territory (the National Gallery of Australia’s copy was donated by Helen Maxwell, who represents Darbyshire). Darbyshire painted a portrait of Katerina and Anika Annels for Joan Kerr c.1997.
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Writers:
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Painter, designer, political activist and a member of Women for Survival, Jo Darbyshire has created a number of works highlighting feminist issues.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aee
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Latitude-32.3922289 Longitude142.4162971 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/crunchie-richard-bennett
- Birth Place
- Menindee, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Nuddij (also known as Richard John Bennett) was born in 1961 of a Ngalakan (a tribal estate located north of Roper River and east of Wilton River, Northern Territory) father and Barkinji (Pooncarrie, New South Wales) mother. His mother, Isabelle, was removed from her family in Menindee when 14 years old (c.1940) and was raised at Garden Point Mission, Melville Island. Similarly his father was removed from his Arnhem Land family and raised on the same mission, where they both married, had children and lived for a further 10 years before leaving in 1957 to work on a NT plantation. Richard’s father passed away a few years later and after living a few years in Darwin, Isabelle returned to New South Wales to re-unite with her mother and raise her family in Menindee.
Richard visited his Northern Territory family as a young adult (c.1980s) and states that he was given the name Nuddij. The meaning of Nuddij is unknown to the author, but Dr Brett Baker, University of New England, who is an expert in Ngalakan linguistics believes it is the tribal skin name 'ngarritj’. Richard has been making art most of his life, with carved emu eggs only one of his specialties. His training and associates in Menindee are not known. In 2006, Ah Chung’s Bakehouse Gallery in Menindee (director: Howard Setton) held Nuddij works from the early 1990s but few other indigenous artists were evident there, suggesting Nuddij was largely self-taught. In both subject matter and style his work reveals both western New South Wales and Northern Territory influences. In one example held in the collection of the Australian Museum in Sydney, the image of a crocodile dominates the work but it is carved in Barkinji style.
He was painting in this style in 1990, however by 2006 he was painting realistic pictures of bush animals (kookaburra, kangaroo) and figurative Barkinji tribesmen for sale in Broken Hill (Art on Argent Gallery, Argent St) and Adelaide. In May 2008, Nuddij won First Prize (Open) for Tribesman with Dijaridoo in the inaugural Far West Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Prize at Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery.
Writers:
Brown, Stephen K
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Richard Bennett paints and (to a limited extent)carves emu eggs and in both subject matter and style his work reveals the influences of his parents' heritage countries in western New South Wales and eastern Arnhem Land.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9aef
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Latitude-32.7218138 Longitude152.1440889 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-herbert
- Birth Place
- Nelson Bay, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Herbert was a film maker, forming a company "Arcadia Pictures" with Sophie Jackson while attending the City Art Institute. After further training at AFTRS, Sydney, he produced a number of short films, features and TV series. He also worked on a number of films as art director, stylist and props acquisition.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 28-Jun-17
- Age at death
- 56
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af0
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Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/therese-ritchie
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af1
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vera-zulumovski
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- Printmaker, was born in Newcastle, NSW. NGA has 5 prints, apparently all linocuts, including Three Eligible Daughters and Epiphany at the Bogie Hole , both of 1991 (NGA). Veiled woman on a balance beam 1996, linocut, 71 × 54 cm, was Highly Commended in the 1996 Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints (Moorabbin, Vic., 1996).
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Zulumovski is a printmaker represented in the National Gallery of Australia's collection, and recipient of commendation from the Silk Cut Acquisitive Award for Linocut Prints.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af2
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brad-miller
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Brad Miller is an artist and academic at the College of Fine Arts; he lives and works in Sydney. His artistic practice bridges the fields of media arts, experimental design studio, participatory urban media architecture, software development and expanded photography. Typically, his large-scale responsive installations explore identity and memory with a focus on the relationship of things and the inevitability of change—while grappling for permanence in the construction of identity.
Structured by code, the content of his installations comprise original photographic images and sound: augment_me (2009) and data_shadow (2011) and—separately—crowd-sourced images and audio that explore a specific city or natural world: mediated_moments (2012), #capillary (2013) and le_temps (2013). The random and conscious associations created by the works, Miller believes are the subject because it is these that have a complex and subtle effect on self in an age of social media and photography as a real-time communication tool. His recent works: plasma_flow (2012) and starry_night (2014) use algorithms to simulate natural phenomena and so called natural interfaces where our assumed uniqueness is confronted and our mediated relations made more apparent.
Miller has written on the nature of self in the age of ubiquitous networks and the mediation of memories. He has presented his research at: ‘Somatic Embodiment, Agency & Mediation in Digital Mediated Environments’ Sydney (2010) and International Symposium of Electronic Arts Istanbul (2011). While working with collaborators, Miller has presented his contributions at: ICDHS San Paulo (2012), ISEA Sydney (2013), Media-Arts History Conference Riga (2013) and Digital Arts Forum, Copenhagen (2013). As part of his hybrid Media Arts/Design practice Miller has also established himself as a researcher with a multi-disciplinary group (UNSW FBE/QUT/USYD) examining urban informatics, data visualisations and participatory engagement.
Writers:
brad miller
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Brad Miller has typically manipulated found images and sound to create single channel video and multi-channel interactive works exploring memory and associations.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af3
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TLCMap IDtb9af4
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ian-andrews
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Ian Andrews is a Sydney based independent film, video and sound artist who began practising in 1981. Much of Andrews’ work consists of video/sound collage, “cut-up,” and agit-prop culture jamming utilising a diverse range of visual styles – from animation to “found” footage.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af5
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-aslanidis
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Painter and Installation artist who works the space between sound and vision
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af6
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/penny-coss
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af7
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/richard-ferlazzo
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Ferlazzo is a Holden design director, based in General Motors Holden's Port Melbourne design studio. He studied industrial design at RMIT. His team, working with Michael Simcoe, developed the 2015 Buick Avenir limousine and the Chevrolet Volt electric city car. in 2013, he was appointed Design Director, GM Australia working on GM's international programs.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af8
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ross-harley
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Ross Rudesch Harley is an artist, writer, and educator in the field of new media and popular culture. His work crosses the bounds of cinema, music, art, design, architecture and media art practice.
He first started working with video in the late 1970s, making music video for Brisbane/Sydney power-pop bands The Riptides and his own bands The Myth, Phollowers, and Catchcry (with ex-Riptide Andrew Leitch and Michael Gorman; and Screaming Tribesmendrummer Murray Shepherd. During the Eighties, his experimental work and found-footage videos and installations have been exhibited in many festivals, galleries and exhibitions including Australian Perspecta, Montbeliard Video Festival, Roslyn9 Oxley Gallery, Ars Electronica and New York MoMA’s Video Viewpoints series.
In 1986 he curated the Know Your Product exhibition on local post-punk culture for the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. From 1986-91 he was managing editor then editor of the art theory journal Art + Text, which had considerable impact upon the contemporary art scene in Australia.
He was the director of the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, TISEA in 1992. A couple of years later, together with Peter Callas and Alessio Cavallaro, he produced and toured An Eccentric Orbit: Electronic Media Art in Australia for audiences in the US and Europe.
Since 1996 he has been responsible for the Cardoso Flea Circus audio/video with Colombian-born artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Their video-tent installation was recently acquired by the Tate in London as part of its permanent collection.
Between 2000 and 2005 he collaborated (with Gillian Fuller) on the Aviopolis multimedia project (book, website, CD-ROM, DVD) about airports. The book was published by Black Dog Publications, London, 2004. Between 2005 and 2012 his research and art projects include: “Video Art Online: from Ubu to Imperial Slacks” a critical history of video art in Sydney together with video artist John Gillies; “My Own Private Airspace”, a multichannel video of personal airflights and itineraries (with Leo Martyn animator and Lawrence English sound); and “The Incredible VHS Video Remix Machine“, the working title of a collaborative project with Elvis Richardson based on archives of VHS tapes and VJ presentation tools.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Ross Rudesch Harley is an artist, writer, curator and educator in the field of new media and popular culture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9af9
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andy-petrusevics
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- In 1986 Andrew Petrusevics received a ‘Desiderious Orban Youth Art Award’ from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council and three years later a VACB Studio Residency in Tokyo, Japan. He has exhibited regularly in Adelaide since 1984 and in 1988 he was Visual Arts Coordinator for the Adelaide Festival Fringe. His work is represented in several public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9afa
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Latitude-36.3944998 Longitude145.3600618 Start Date1961-01-01 End Date1961-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judy-horacek
- Birth Place
- Mooroopna, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, print-maker and writer, was born on 12 November 1961 at Mooroopna, Victoria. She mostly lived in Melbourne until the late 1990s then moved to Canberra where she still lives with her partner, Francesca Rendle-Short. After passing the HSC in 1979, Horacek completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and English Literature at MU. Initially she wanted to be a writer; her first cartoon, was done in the mid-1980s to illustrate a story written as a member of a community writing group. It made her decide to be a cartoonist instead. Her earliest, very didactic, feminist cartoons were intended for Judy’s Punch , an annual published by Melbourne University, but only one was published before it expired.
Horacek completed a Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies at Victoria College of the Arts with the aim of becoming a print curator, drawing cartoons for community journals like Legal Aid (see WAR) until the perfect print curator job was advertised at the AGSA. 'It was Jan. 20th 1988, when I heard that I didn’t get the job, that I officially became a cartoonist’ (interview with Bridget Cole-Adams, WAR Bulletin March 1999. The position went to Sarah Thomas, later Curator of Australian Art AGSA.)
Horacek’s cartoons have been included in numerous black and white art, political, environmental and women’s exhibitions and publications (see Joan Kerr Archive). The 'Mabo and Moral Community’ issue of Meanjin 2/1993 (Winter) contained three of her postmodernism cartoons: Miss Marple and The Case of Contemporary Theory showing children in a car speaking 'theory’ (“First the death of God… then the death of the author… my goodness – who’ll be next?”), p.228; The Waiting Room of Meaning (“It’s been deferred again.”/ “Damn that Derrida”), p.383; and one of Captain Cook saying 'cogito ergum sum’ and an Aboriginal man replying 'Ahem… sum’ illustrating Tim Rowse’s article, 'Mabo and Moral Anxiety’. A gag on sheep was published in Overland no. 135 (winter 1994), 10.
Horacek has held solo exhibitions of her cartoons since 1992 and more recently of her editioned prints, many at aGOG Canberra and its successor Helen Maxwell Gallery where she continues to exhibit. Her 'Premenstrual in a postmodern age’ series was shown at aGOG on 11-29 November 1995 (see handlist). The Art of Thinking , an editioned print series, was exhibited there in 1997 (p.c). A Horacek retrospective, Laughter, the Universe and Everything , was held at the NGV on 6 March-11 April 1999 and toured Victoria and South Australia in 1999-2000. In 2002 an exhibition of her feminist cartoons at the NMA, I Am Woman, Hear Me Draw , celebrated the centenary of Australian women getting the vote.
An original untitled pen and ink drawing was included in Earthly Delights: a group exhibition about the environment at aGOG (18 August-6 September 1990) with 10% of the sales to Greenpeace. She participated in a community arts and environment project in North Carlton (c.1991) funded by the Australia Council and the Melbourne City Council, which took place over five months and involved students and adult community groups. She was employed for two days a week as cartoonist in residence to talk to community members and to produce cartoons based on their environmental concerns. She also ran cartooning workshops. The resulting cartoons were published in a variety of community arts and environmental magazines and shown in a number of exhibitions including a touring exhibition (see Joan Kerr Archive for interview and cartoons in Scratch! 1991). She has since run lots more cartooning workshops.
Although her early cartoons were obviously influenced by Glen Baxter, they were given a very individual, feminist stance, e.g. The difficulty was trying to conceive of an art outside patriarchy (a woman artist in a smock facing a blank canvas), published Scratch! A scrapbook of radical cartooning in Australia , no.2 (Winter-Spring, 1991), as a postcard and in Past Present (1999). They knew that it was only a matter a time before someone demanded a definition of postmodernism (a Red Indian woman looking towards a wide-eyed cowgirl anxiously biting her nails) also appeared as a postcard and in Past Present 1999 (both cartoons illustrated an article by Catriona Moore). She rapidly evolved her own style of simpler, linear and rather more naive drawing and she never went in for historical parody as Baxter does. Her historical and mythical figures are just like us, e.g. Mrs Mulicuddy(?) cleaning up after God (see postcard in Joan Kerr Archive).
Responding to a survey published in Scratch! (1991) in which contributors were asked questions about their practice, Horacek wrote:
Materials: Pencil, rotring isographs – most often 0.35 for lines, 0.5 for borders and lettering, 1.0 for colouring in, 0.25 for fine detail – eraser, set square, scrap paper, photocopy paper. For mistakes, either start again or use liquid paper or cut and paste with glue stick or double-sided sticky tape. Am currently mucking around a bit with dipping pens as well.
Attraction: The blackness and smoothness of line, the different textures possible when cross-hatching, the precision of line, its evenness (on the other hand, what I like about dipping pens is the unevenness of their line), the ready availability of photocopy paper, its bleedproofness.
Drawbacks: Isographs tend to block up and have to be shaken very vigorously, sometimes for several days, before they will work again. But this is less of a problem now because my pens are used such a lot.
Process: Drawing in pencil then ink over the lines. Depending on how this turns out it’s either the final version so I add pattern and stuff required or it’s a rough version which I trace in pencil then go over in ink, making adjustments at both stages. On bad days I may have to trace through several (100s) versions.
Advantages: Very reproducible – very clear and can be shrunk and stay legible. Can do detail and lots of pattern. I like the effects of different size nibs.
Disadvantages: The line is fairly rigid rather than free-flowing. You can’t sketch with isographs. Would like sometimes to use ink washes as tone but this requires bromiding for reproduction which is beyond the means of a lot of people (don’t know if I would be able to control inkwashes – this is just an idle thought as sometimes crosshatching doesn’t seem to come out right).
Horacek has published five cartoon anthologies: Life on the Edge (1992), Unrequited Love, Nos 1-100 (1994), Women with Altitude (1997, republished by Hodder in 1998), Lost in Space (1998) – essays as well as pictures – and If the Fruit Fits (1999). She appeared in the SMH from time to time in the early 1990s then regularly in the Australian . A 'Women with Altitude’ cartoon appeared weekly, then more or less fortnightly in the weekend Australian Magazine in the late 1990s (odd ones not in the series appeared more irregularly in 2000 and new ones from time to time in 2001 until mid-year when her contract expired and was not renewed). In January 2000 & April 2001 she drew [coloured] editorial cartoons in the Weekend Australian while Nicholson was on holidays. From 1999 Horacek cartoons appeared in the monthly Australian Review of Books until publication ceased in 2001. In 2002 she began appearing weekly in the 'Relax’ section of the Sunday Canberra Times as well as having small (single column) cartoons irregularly on the editorial pages of the Australian (both still happening 2003). She has always been hung in the NMA’s annual Bringing the House Down exhibitions (at OPH, Canberra to 2002 then NMA); in 2001 she had two cartoons, Your concern about global warning and 2001: A Federation Odyssey (NMA website).
In an interview published in the Canberra Times to coincide with the launch of If the Fruit Fits , Horacek explained:
I am surprised that my themes have stayed generally the same. I am interested in looking at the way in which we live in the Western world in the 20th century. I ask what do we do? Many of these things stay the same. I think I have become more subtle and concerned with the art form of the cartoon… The fundamental non-negotiable issues for me are feminism, social justice and common decency. These things inform my work. I want to be positive to people… My cartoons do not alienate men. Feminism to me is not about that… I do want to say things and be political but above all, I have a really strong desire to communicate and have people laugh.
Awards include the Fringe Festival Cartooning Award from the National Cartooning Exhibition, Melbourne, in October 1988. She won awards at both Hysterical Women cartooning exhibitions sponsored by WEL WA (Perth) in 1993 and 1996 (see Rona Chadwick and catalogues). Rainbow included her cartoon dated 2/1/01, The Unjolly Swagman (“I just don’t feel like doing anything.”/ [sheep] “Pull yourself together man – there’s a lot of national identity riding on this”), in her Federation anthology, where she was listed as 'freelance ACT’, with no citations of major awards, unlike the other well-known cartoonists.
In her October 1999 newsletter Judy announced the launch of her website www.horacek.com.au. Designed by Fiona Edge, it contains biographical information, excellent cartoons – including an animated version of Woman with Altitude – and information on Horacek products. It comes out monthly. As well as promoting her books, she sells fridge magnets, cards and brooches, mostly of female figures. For the past few years, Judy Horacek has been producing etchings and linocuts at Megalo Kingston, formerly Studio One, with the expert assistance of master printers, Barb McConchie and Deborah Perrow. In 2002 she produced her first screenprint, a four colour version of Woman with Altitude .
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist, print-maker and writer, Horacek has contributed cartoons to numerous publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Green Left Weekly and the Women's Art Register Bulletin.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- Melbourne based artist-printmaker who has worked in the field of artists' books since 1990. His work is held in major Australian collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mathew-jones
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karen-valerie-sandon
- Birth Place
- Frankston, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Feeling deeply connected to matters of Black and White Australia since becoming educated in the issues in the mid 1990s, Karen says that identity, justice, equality and diversity are strong themes. So too questions about humanity’s place on the planet and our environmental footprints are strongly evidenced in Karen’s work
“I am interested in culture, identity and a more genuine positive and respectful relationship with Indigenous Australia. My artwork goes across digital and darkroom photography, intaglio and photopolymer print making and sculpture from found materials, thus mirroring the ideas of a diverse dialogue.“
Writers:
karenVsandon
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1961
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yelena-dyumin
- Birth Place
- Omsk, Russia
- Biography
- Yelena Dyumin, painter and printmaker, was born in 1960 in Omsk, Russia, the active arts community of which inspired her artistic interests. In 1982 she completed a Master of Fine Art in painting with First Class Honours at the State University, Omsk, Russia. Dyumin lectured in fine art at the university from 1983 to 1997.
While lecturing, she continued her artistic education, undertaking an Advanced Master Course in Fine Art at the I. E. Repin State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St. Petersburg from 1992 to 1994, and a Professional Fine Art Master Class at the V. I. Surikov State Academic Art Institute in Moscow from 1995 to 1996. While living in Russia, she was a member of the Russian Association of Painters and Sculptors and a member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
In 2005 Dyumin moved to Sydney, Australia, where she has continued to pursue her artistic career. Her work, which encompasses a range of mixed media techniques incorporating etching, lithography, drawing and painting, blends her European heritage with a colour palette inspired by Australian nature and culture.
Dyumin has participated in exhibitions in Russia, Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Australia, and her work is held in a number of private collections.
Writers:
Dyumin, Yelena
Yelena Dyumin
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Yelena Dyumin is a Russian-born contemporary Australian artist based in Sydney. Her work encompasses a range of mixed media techniques, including etching, lithography, drawing and painting,
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b00
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-cusack
- Birth Place
- Dublin, Ireland
- Biography
- Born in 1960 in Dublin, Ireland, abstract landscape painter Michael Cusack emigrated to Australia in the early 1980s and lived in Sydney and Newcastle before moving to Byron Bay on the north coast of New South Wales, where he was still living and working in 2008. A graduate of the Hunter Institute of Technology in Newcastle, Cusack graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1997.
Since his first solo exhibition at Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle in 2001, Cusack has held regular shows at Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney; Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane; Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney; and more recently, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
Cusack has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including, Still Waters Clear Visions , Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW (2002); The Year in Review , S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney (2002); Acquisitions Show , Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW (2001); New Works 4 Painters , Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Sydney (2001); A Contemporary Perspective , Port Stephens Arts Centre, NSW (2000); Wish List , Nick Mitzevich Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (2000); Selected Works , Lindsay Street Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (1998 & 1999); Collectors Choice , Von Bertouchs Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (1998, 1999 & 2002).
Among his various awards and achievements, Michael has received a Highly Commended placing for the Newcastle Art Prize (2002); Maitland Art Prize (2000); and Weston Art Prize (1999). Michael has also been awarded the Newcastle Art Society’s Mattara Art Award (2000); Weston Regional Art Prize (1999); and Weston Major Art Award (1998).
Cusack’s work features in several major public and corporate collections including Artbank; BHP Billiton; Macquarie Bank; Newcastle Region Art Gallery and Newcastle Region Art Gallery in addition to various private collection in Australia, Hong Kong, United Kingdon and Ireland.
Writers:
Woobury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Contemporary abstract landscape painter, Michael Cusack's work has been described as exploring the "geography of inner experience, a psychological topography". His work is held in a number of corporate and public collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/philippe-de-kraan
- Birth Place
- Holland, Netherlands
- Biography
- Writers:
browns
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b02
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-bromley
- Birth Place
- Hanwell, London, England, UK
- Biography
- cartoonist, illustrator and painter, was born in Hanwell, London. Lived Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1958-59; attended Drayton Manor Grammar School, London in 1966-67; arrived Australia 1967 and went to high school at Mudgee. Studied Architecture NSWIT 1972-74 and SU 1976-77 (when he did illustrations for Honi Soit ). He travelled around Europe in 1975, drew for various publications in 1978 and won a Walkley Award for illustration in 1979 (commended in 1981). Employed by the National Times and the Sydney Morning Herald , he also illustrated books and calendars 1982-84. Technique characterised by the use of scraperboard. Won two 'Australian writers and art directors’ awards 1986. With Patrick Cook, Jenny Coopes, Bill Farr, Randy Glusac and Ward O’Neill, Bromley illustrated Alexander Buzo’s Tautology: I don’t want to sound incredulous but I can’t believe it (Penguin, Victoria, 1981). Image and short biographical entry in Australian Black-and-White Artists Club Book of Originals (1986), AGNSW (178.1988.1-102).
ML has scraperboard ill. of three young mug-lairs in a car n.d. (Px D586/BROMLEY – No 1).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Late 20th century cartoonist, illustrator and painter.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b03
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tracey-clement
- Birth Place
- USA
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1960s
- Summary
- Tracey is an artist and art and design writer who exhibits nationally and internationally. She is best known for her process-based installations.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b05
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rod-clement
- Birth Place
- Papua New Guinea
- Biography
- cartoonist and illustrator, spent his childhood in New Guinea and on the north coast of NSW. After gaining an Associate Diploma in Media Studies from Mitchell College, Bathurst, he spent three years on the dole then began to earn a living as an illustrator. 'This work included drawing maps and wildlife for the Australian Geographic , drawing criminals for Channel Nine, the odd day’s work as an illustrator at the Sydney Morning Herald and the occasional children’s book.’ The last includes Edward the Emu (with Sheena Knowles), Snail Mail (with Hazel Edwards), Counting on Frank , Just Another Ordinary Day , Edwina the Emu (with Sheena Knowles) and Grandad’s Teeth .
“He took over as the caricaturist at the Australian Financial Review after the previous incumbent overdosed on balding bankers and big-nosed execs. Clement then proceeded to overdose himself a couple of years after that, and by the time he had recovered another caricaturist had been installed. Then, in what was for him a fortunate twist, the AFR’s cartoonist went AWOL, and while the editors searched desperately for a worthy replacement, Clement filled in. He has been filling in ever since.”
When he wrote this preface 'About the Author’ for The Economic Rationalist’s Guide to Sex (Harper Collins: Pymble, 1997), Clement was aged 36 and the father of three girls. He signs his work 'Clement’. In 2001 he was still 'a pocket cartoonist’ for the Australian Financial Review . In 2002 he also filled in as SMH political cartoonist while Moir was away.
Cartoons in The Economic Rationalist’s Guide to Sex, all previously published in AFR or SMH , include one of a tattoo shop with 2 men, “I want something that sets me apart from the common herd, something that expresses the uniqueness and wildness of my personality.”/ “I only do tigers…”/ “Oh… That’ll do.” (n.p.), and small girl to shop assistant on 'Happy Mothers’ Day’ counter (back of book): “I want to get something for my mother that expresses my growing sense of alientation and resentment”.
Clement exhibited 'Pauline’s Instrument’ and 'Dumb Redhead’ (both on Pauline Hanson), published in the Australian Financial Review on 10 April and 12 June 1997, in the National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra, 1997), cats 54, 55. He won the 1998 Walkley Award for best illustration for his cartoon 'Scab’ (original included in NMA 'Bringing the House Down’ exhibition, 1998). He also exhibited cartoons in the NMA’s 1999-2001 Bringing the House Down annual exhibitions.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist and illustrator.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b06
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joe-japanangka-green
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- For reasons too complex to explain here, Joe Green had two skin names. He was born at Lajamanu, but he moved around a lot, including to Alicurang. Born c.1960 of the Warlpiri tribe/language, his country was Jila, and he painted Yankirrijarra (Two Emus), Warna (Snake), Watijarra (Two Men) and also Warnanarra (Rainbow Serpent) Dreamings. Joe Green and his wife Robyn Green were a formidable husband and wife team, one of several from Lajamanu. They both started painting in 1986. The two nearly always worked together, helping each other with background dotting. They also painted works separately. Joe Green was a strong individualist, whose extraordinary use of colour usually fleshed out the basic design on their paintings.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT). He was a distinctive artist amongst his community who also worked in collaboration with his wife, Robyn Green.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b07
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sally-hart
- Birth Place
- Ayr, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Sally was an active participant in the 1980s Queensland Artworker's Alliance and the Queensland ARI scene.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dymphna-kerinauia
- Birth Place
- Paru, Melville Island, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-nungarrayi-dixon
- Birth Place
- Bore Creek, Anatye, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born near Town Bore Creek, east of Papunya in 1960, Mary Dixon identifies as Warlpiri although she grew up in the area around Haasts Bluff. She moved to Mt Liebig settlement when it was established, closer to Warlpiri country. She had four children with her husband Colin Dixon , also a painter, as is her sister Maudie Peterson . Mary started painting in the mid ’80s when Papunya Tula Artists made regular trips to Mt Liebig. Mary’s principal subjects at the time were Witchetty Grub Dreaming and a Milky Way Dreaming. She was one of the exhibitors in the exhibition mounted by the Centre for Aboriginal Artists and Craftsmen at the Gauguin Museum, Tahiti in 1988 and another at the Chapman Gallery, for which Mary travelled to Canberra.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Mary started painting in the mid '80s when Papunya Tula Artists made regular trips to Mt Liebig to service the artists living there. Mary often painted Witchetty Grub Dreaming and a Milky Way Dreaming and sometimes collaboratively with her husband Colin Dixon.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0a
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maudie-napanangka-nelson
- Birth Place
- Ailerron Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- An Anmatyerre speaker, born at Ailerron station at the beginning of the ’60s, she grew up in Alice Springs, then lived at Mt Allan. Pauline Woods and Rene Robinson taught her the Dreamings she could paint: Honey Ant (from her great great grandfather), Emu with Baby, Bush Tucker, Bush Bean, Wild Fig, Women, and she had just started to paint them when interviewed in 1989. She has worked with the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Born on Aileron Station, she grew up in Alice Springs and started painting with the Jukurrpa group in 1989.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0b
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/matthew-tjupurrula-gill
- Birth Place
- Balgo Hill, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Matthew Gill’s work has received much attention from non-Aboriginal people, in part because of his fascination, to a far greater degree than anyone else in the Balgo community, with non-traditional designs and techniques. For example, he combined the X-ray technique of Arnhem Land with his own desert motifs. Born at the old Balgo Mission in about 1960, he began painting in 1982. He usually painted Snake, Emu and Water Dreaming stories from the area surrounding Lake Lazlett. A Kukatja speaker, he lived either at Balgo or in the Nyirrpi community. He was the son of Mick Gill . In 1989 the artist spent three months living and painting in Japan. Former Warlayirti Artists coordinator Michael Rae once described Matthew Gill as 'the most original and talented of all the younger artists at Balgo’.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- A Kukatja artist, and resident of both Balgo (WA) and Nyirrpi (NT), Gill's experimentation with different painting techniques produced a unique style. His work is in major collections in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2002
- Age at death
- 42
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0c
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Details
Latitude-21.8350768 Longitude133.1443462 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janet-nakamarra-long
- Birth Place
- Anningie, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Anningie in 1960, Janet Long is a Warlpiri speaker whose traditional country is Wantapari. Her aunts May and Molly Napurrula showed her the body paint designs for Wantapari Dreaming. She began painting on small boards in 1989 when the Willowra store first began stocking paint and canvas to supply local artists. Her half brother, Malcolm Jagamara , showed her how to paint in the new medium. On canvas, she paints Frog, Snake, Orphan Child and Witchetty Grub Dreamings. Janet Long was the Literacy Worker at Willowra School, producing bi-lingual literature for use in the teaching program. To that point, she had lived all her life in Willowra, but her bi-lingualism and skill in dealing with western systems were increasingly drawing her into wider contacts, including research assistance in the gathering of biographical data on the Willowra artists for this dictionary. All statements in this dictionary from Willowra artists were gathered and translated into English by Janet.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- One of the first artists to commence painting in Willowra (NT) in the late 1980s. A literacy worker at the local school, her bi-lingualism had also drawn her to roles in translation and research. She gathered biographical data for Willowra artists for this dictionary.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/billy-zurvas
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Billy Zurvas a Mandanji painter and carver of the Maranoa region of Southern Queensland, was born in 1960. His works in the media of synthentic polymer on canvas are depictions of the bush tucker of his traditional country as well as paintings of survival. Zurvas is well known in Queensland as a carver of leather, emu egg, wood and animal horn. He was represented in the 2001 Queensland exhibition, “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Billy Zurvas's works in the media of synthentic polymer on canvas are depictions of the bush tucker of his traditional country as well as paintings of survival. Zurvas is well known in Queensland as a carver of leather, emu egg, wood and animal horn.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/loris-bradley
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1960 in Queensland, Loris Bradley uses mixed media on paper to express her ties to her environment. She was a featured artist in the 2001 “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” exhibition in Brisbane and states in the accompanying catalogue that she intentionally uses “recycled materials to confront the accepted behaviour of the throwaway society.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Born in 1960 in Queensland, Loris Bradley uses mixed media on paper to express her ties to her environment.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b0f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/philomena-yeatman
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Philomena Yeatman of the Gunganji people of Yarrabah, North Queensland was born in 1960. Yeatman is a traditional weaver of baskets but began her artistic career working in screenprinting and jewellery making. She weaves her baskets from natural materials such as the leaves from pandanas and cabbage palms. Her baskets were included in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. She states in the accompanying catalogue that “to make these baskets is a skill passed on through the generations and shows the patience that has been part of Aboriginal culture for centuries.” In 2003, Yeatman participated in Queensland Art Gallery’s “Story Place” exhibition.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Philomena Yeatman is a traditional weaver of baskets but began her artistic career working in screenprinting and jewellery making. She weaves her baskets from natural materials such as the leaves from pandanas and cabbage palms.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b10
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/carol-nampijinpa-daniels
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu c.1960, Carol Daniels is a Warlpiri speaker. She lives at Yuendumu, but also has family connections with the Mt Allan community. She paints Fire and Bush Potato Dreamings. She started painting in about 1985: 'I was watching my uncles painting and my sister told me the Dreamtime story to make a painting.’ She has recently been working with the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu who worked with the women's painting group, Jukurrpa, based in Alice Springs (NT) in the late 1980s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b11
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robin-napaljarri-daniels
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu, c.1960, her language/tribe is Warlpiri and she lives at Lajamanu. Her country is Kunajarrayi, and her Dreamings are Ngalyipi (Bush Medicine Vine), Laju, Warna, and Yarla. She started painting 1987.
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Writers:
Staff WriterCataldi, Lee
Note: secondary biographerRockman, Peggy Napurrurla
Note: secondary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu, now living in Lajamanu (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b12
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/denise-napangardi-tasman
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu c.1960. A Warlpiri speaker she lives at Lajamanu and her country is Yawul-lawulu and Dreamings are Yurrampi (Honey Ant), Wardapi (Goanna), Wintiki and Puurda. She worked with her husband, the late Jimmy Robertson, and started painting in 1986.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lives in Lajamanu (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b13
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marjorie-nungarrayi-watson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu c.1960, her language/tribe is Warlpiri and she lives at Lajamanu. Her country is Pirrpirrpakarnu and her Dreamings are Warla, Ngalyipi and Mala. She works with her sister, Beth Patrick , and s tarted painting in 1987. She has been described as a 'transitional’ painter for the way she often does a very bold Aboriginal flag on the painting, sometimes other motifs, or divides the painting into Aboriginal colours, with the sun in the middle, and then puts the dots and design on top of that. According to those who know her, this is done in a quite conscious sense of pan-Aboriginal pride. She works in the pre-school at Lajamanu.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lives in Lajamanu. The incorporation of the Aboriginal flag in her paintings, overlaid with dots and design, reinforces the political in her aesthetic.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b14
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rachel-napaljarri-jurra
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1960 at Yuendumu and a Warlpiri speaker, she began painting in 1985. Her country is Jila Well, west of Yuendumu, and she paints Kangaroo, Pirki (Cave), Prickle and Green Parrot Dreamings. She was married to the late Isaac Yama. She lives sometimes at Yuendumu and sometimes at Hidden Valley, a town camp on the edge of Alice Springs, where she works with other painters like Rosie Fleming Nangala and Polly Napangardi Watson . Her cousin, Eunice Napangardi , taught her to paint her Dreamings. She usually works with the Jukurrpa group. She has sold her work to the Centre for Aboriginal Artists, but is primarily associated with the Jukurrpa group. 'Living at my little sister’s camp and watching Eunice Napangardi ; my aunty told me my Dreamings.’
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and member of the women's collective, Jukurrpa Artists. She lives between Yuendumu and Alice Springs (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b15
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/winkie-napaljarri-spencer
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu in 1960, Winkie is a Warlpiri speaker, and Andrew Japaljarri Spencer’s sister. She now lives in Hidden Valley town camp in Alice Springs. Apart from Goanna Dreamings, she paints Flying Ant (Pamapardu) Dreaming from her mother’s country at Nyirrpi. She started painting in 1991 and sold most of her works through Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative – she was a student of the IAD Bridging Course.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who painted with the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs. She has also carried out studies at the Institute for Aboriginal Development.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b16
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.5945192 Longitude144.5478903 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jay-younger
- Birth Place
- Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Muttaburra born artist, writer, curator, educator and academic lives and works in Brisbane. Active participant of Queensland Artworker's Alliance and the Queensland ARI sector since 1984.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b17
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.216667 Longitude131.9 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-tex
- Birth Place
- Papunya, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Papunya in 1960, Peter has a Warlpiri mother and a Pintupi father. He now lives at Nyirrpi, but has relatives at Kintore, Papunya and Lajamanu. His country is Kunajarrayi. His first painting of Snake Dreaming was produced in 1986 (or 1987), when his sister Nora Napaljarri (see Andy, Nora Napaltjarri ) gave him a canvas. He has sold his paintings through the galleries in Alice Springs and participated in exhibitions in Adelaide and Canberra.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: based on an interview with the artist conducted by Gabrielle Weichart
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- A resident of Nyirrpi, with family connections in Kintore, Papunya and Lajamanu, Tex sold his work through galleries in Alice Springs and participated in exhibitions in various cities around the country.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b18
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/beatrix-nangala-dixon
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Alice Springs in 1960, Beatrix Dixon is the daughter of Kitty Pultara and niece of Clifford Possum . Glenda Briscoe, who also paints occasionally, is her cousin. An Anmatyerre speaker, Beatrix’s traditional country lies around No. 1 Bore on Napperby station. She paints Emu, Dingo and Kangaroo Dreamings associated with No. 1 Bore, and began painting in 1986. She lives at Napperby. Her work has been exhibited in several national capitals, the USA and the UK.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist whose subject matter relates to her country around No. 1 Bore on Napperby station (NT, where she resides. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b19
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-tommy
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born c.1960 in Alice Springs, Michael Tommy is the husband of artist Barbara Charles . Both are Amnatyerre speakers. Michael Tommy’s country is around Coniston, and he usually paints Snake Dreaming and another story of Hunting Emu from this area, though he also paints his father’s Lizard (Perentie) Dreaming located around Mt Allan. Michael began painting in 1982 at Napperby. His work is strong with interesting effects of perspective and considerable tension between the design elements of the painting and the background dotting. His work has been associated with both the Napperby painters, and Yuelamu Artists, the painting enterprise at Mt Allan, where he and his wife live.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1960
- Summary
- Amnatyerre artist who has painted at Napperby and for Yuelamu Artists at Mt Allan (NT).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kerin-murray
- Birth Place
- Australia
- Biography
- Born 1960 Sydney AustraliaAttended Sydney College of the Arts 1978Attended University of NSW 1979Graduated University of South Australia 1985 withBachelor of Fine ArtsGraduated University of Western Sydney 1998 withMaster of Arts (Honours)
Live with partner in Katoomba NSW
Writers:
Kerin
Date written:
2023
Last updated:
2023
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-26 Longitude121 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-28.8166236 Longitude24.991639 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.02375935 Longitude150.2036527 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/donna-moodie
- Birth Place
- Gunnedah, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Gunnedah in 1960, Donna Moodie is of the Gamilraay/Kamillaroi people of north west New South Wales. Moodie’s synthetic polymer on board paintings depict the natural landscape including wildlife, Dreaming Stories as well as current political events. Her artist statement in the catalogue for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” reflects this inspiration and reads: “As an Indigenous woman, I wanted to express the dislocation I felt from my cultural heritage and my place in the community. My images depict hope in the future for Indigenous people and send a message calling for balance and harmony within our communities and among all Australians.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Donna Moodie's synthetic polymer on board paintings depict the natural landscape and its wildlife as well as traditional Dreaming Stories and current political events.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b1f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.5770385 Longitude117.8173038 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/valda-kickett-taylor
- Birth Place
- Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Perth-based artist Valda Kickett-Taylor is of the Noongar Balladong people of the central wheat-belt region of Western Australia. She was born in 1960 in Kellerberrin, which is approximately 200 kilometres east of Perth. Kickett-Taylor’s elder siblings were removed from the family home and placed into state care and it is this story and the story of her parents’ suffering as a result that informs some of her work. Other influences include stories of Aboriginal survival in the 20th century.
She first began painting when she enrolled in a three-year art course at Midland College of TAFE, which she followed with a Diploma in Aboriginal Visual Arts at the TAFE and an Associate Degree in Aboriginal Art at Curtin University of Technology. In 2009 Kickett-Taylor enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft at the Kidogo Institute in Fremantle, which was run by Joanna Robertson. This course provides the students with the necessary technical skills required to further their visual art practice, and in June 2009 the students of this course held a group exhibition, 'Moorditj Mob’, at the Kidogo Arthouse. Kickett-Taylor is also a member of Mungart Boodja Art Centre based in Katanning, Western Australia.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008 Kickett-Taylor was included in the Moorditch Mar-Daa Art Award and in 2000 was Highly Commended at the inaugural Kellerberrin Shire Keela Dreaming Cultural Festival, a bi-annual event celebrating Aboriginal culture. In April/May 2009 Kickett-Taylor’s work was included in the exhibition 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah (The Legend of Children Long Ago)’ held at the Brisbane Powerhouse. This exhibition showed twenty-five paintings by the original Carrolup children artists plus around twenty-five new works of artists from Mungart Boodja Art Centre who follow the Carrolup tradition.Kickett-Taylor has work in the permanent collections of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology (University of Western Australia) and the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University of Technology.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Western Australian Aboriginal painter who trained at Curtin University of Technology in Perth and Kidogo Institute in Fremantle. Kickett-Taylor's work was Highly Commended at the 2000 'Keela Dreaming Cultural Festival'.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b20
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.9559 Longitude115.8606 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/richie-kuhaupt
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Richie Kuhaupt was born in Perth in 1960. He studied at the Curtin University School of Art, graduating in 1995 with an MA (Visual Arts). Kuhaupt has had six solo shows in Western Australia, and his works have been selected for numerous group exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney in 1999 and 2000; Shaky Ground, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 1999, and Added Dimension, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 2000. Kuhaupt has received a number of awards including the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize in 2000, the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award in 2000, and the Waverly Acquisitive Award, Sculpture by the Sea in 1999.
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Writers:
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Perth-based sculptor and electronic artist whose exhibitions have included Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney in 1999 and 2000 and the 2002 Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b21
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maree-bradbury
- Birth Place
- New South Wales
- Biography
- Painter, Maree Bradbury was born in 1960 and in 2007 was living in Murwullimbah, NSW and working as a teacher of jewellery making. Bradbury has been included in group shows in the Northern NSW region including the 2006 'National Parks and Wildlife’ exhibition at Lismore Regional Art Gallery and the 'Whole Women’s’ exhibition also in 2006 at the Salt Resort, Cabarita. In 2006 Bradbury was chosen as a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House, Sydney and this exhibition toured to regional art galleries across NSW in 2007.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Painter and jewellery maker, Maree Bradbury was born in 1960 and lives in Northern New South Wales. Her acrylic on canvas paintings are informed by the natural worlds of flowers, trees, animals and the landscape.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b22
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:35 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-32 Longitude147 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephen-cummins
- Birth Place
- NSW
- Biography
- Stephen Cummins was an Australian filmmaker, curator and artist active during the 1980s and early 1990s. A founder-member of Queer Screen, Cummins’ work was an early contribution to Queer Theory and cinema studies and a number of his works, particularly in Super 8, are considered historically significant.Cummins’ Super 8 films included Blue Movie and Breathbeat [both 1984] Deadpan [1985], and Le Corps Image [1987], each film demonstrating the artist’s fascination with the subcultural signification of the male body. Later projects such as Elevation [1989] – a project funded by the Australian Film Commission – was a 16mm film project extending and refining Cummins’s approach. Resonance [1991] – made in collaboration with Simon Hunt – was screened internationally picking up a number of awards including being voted Best Short Film at the 38th Sydney Film Festival [1991], Best Australian film at the National Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and Best Short Film at the Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy [1992]. Cummins also made film and video projects for broadcast. The 1992 project Life’s Burning Desire [52 mins, Betacam] and the short Body Corporate [9 mins, Super 8, 1993] were both screened on SBS Australia.As a curator, Cummins organised programs of Australian Super 8 film to tour Europe and the US such as Eclectic Dreams [1986], 34° S 151° E [1987] and Surface Imprint [1989]. Cummins’ curated programs of film for Australian festivals including Bent, a program of SPLASH: The Sydney Film and Video Event at the Chauvel Cinema [1988].Cummins graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture/Photography from Sydney College of the Arts in 1984 and was awarded a Graduate Diploma, also from SCA, in 1986. From 1990 until the time of his death in 1994 Cummins was enrolled in the Master of Art Program at the University of Technology.
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Andrew FrostScanlines
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1994
- Age at death
- 34
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-riley
- Birth Place
- Dubbo, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Michael Riley, Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi photographer and film maker, was born in Dubbo in 1960 and spent his early childhood on the Talbragar Reserve. Riley was the second of Allen Riley and Dorothy Wright’s four children, the others being his older brother David and his two younger sisters, Carol and Wendy. Talbragar Reserve had been established just east of the town of Dubbo in 1898 on Wiradjuri land, land with which Riley’s father’s family had been affiliated for many generations. The Rileys were one of the last families to leave Talbragar Reserve, and Michael was seven or eight when his family moved into Dubbo. His mother was of Kamilaroi descent, and her parents, Bengalla and Maude Wright, were caretakers at the Moree Aboriginal Reserve. Riley’s childhood in Dubbo was interspersed with regular visits to Moree to spend time with his mother’s extended family.When Riley was sixteen he moved to Sydney to begin a carpentry course and he was to remain there for the rest of his life. As Brenda L Croft writes: “In Sydney, Michael initially lived in Granville, meeting people who became not only lifelong friends, but his surrogate family: Linda Burney, brother and sister John and Raelene Delany, Dallas Clayton and David Prosser. Here, too, he created enduring bonds with true family, including cousins Lynette Riley-Mundine, Cathy Craigie, Maria (Polly) Cutmore, Ian 'Yurry’ Craigie, Craig Jamieson and others” (2006 Croft, p26). In 1987 Riley moved in with Burney and his cousins Lynette and Craig in Leichhardt.In 1982 Riley enrolled in a photography course with Bruce Hart at Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney. Hart provided vital guidance and encouragement at this early stage, and subsequently employed Riley as a darkroom and studio technician at the Sydney College of the Arts. Riley’s photographic practice preceded this training however: in his early teens he had bought a 'Box Brownie’ camera and a home-developing kit and had developed his own photographs – of family, friends and landscapes – in his bedroom wardrobe. Riley initially pursued a humanist style of documentary photography, producing stills of Aboriginal people from the Redfern community, playing and watching the local football and participating in street marches. He also took a number of chic black and white portraits of Aboriginal women in the style of fashion photography. In a 2003 conversation with Hetti Perkins, Riley said of his early photographic works: “At that time I was interested in representing Aboriginal people in a different way to the negative images of Aboriginal people in the media. I’d decided to do portraits of young urban Aboriginal people in the 1980s who were doing their own thing, mixing into society, trying to break the stereotype of who Aboriginal people are.” (in 2008 Jones, p111).One of Riley’s first group exhibitions was the seminal 'Koori Art '84’, coordinated by Tim and Vivien Johnson at Artspace in Sydney. Two years later he participated in the 'NADOC ’86 group exhibition of Aboriginal and Islander Photographers’ at the Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney. The first to be wholly dedicated to Aboriginal photography, this exhibition was co-curated by Tracey Moffatt and Anthony (Ace) Bourke, the latter of whom would later represent Riley at Hogarth Galleries. The work Maria (1986), an image of Michael’s cousin Maria (Polly) Cutmore, was bought by the Australian photographer Max Dupain at the NADOC ’86 exhibition.In 1987 Riley co-founded the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in Chippendale with nine other Sydney-based Indigenous artists. A training position at Film Australia in that year made it possible for him to write and direct the film Boomalli: Five Artists, which documented the emerging practice of five of the Boomalli founders: Bronwyn Bancroft, Fiona Foley, Jeffrey Samuels, Arone Raymond Meeks and Tracey Moffatt. The following year Riley directed another documentary: Dreamings, the art of Aboriginal Australia, which accompanied the landmark Aboriginal art exhibition of the same name which was shown at the Asia Society Galleries in New York in 1988.The spirit and subject of Riley’s projects of the 1980s and early 1990s are a reflection of his involvement in the vibrant Indigenous activist movements of the time. In the years immediately prior to Australia’s bicentenary in 1988 Riley was one of several Indigenous and non-Indigenous photographers who worked to create a wide ranging photo-essay documenting Indigenous Australian life across the country. The project, coordinated by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, culminated in the publication After 200 years: photographs of Aboriginal and Islander Australia today (1988). A number of works that Riley had created among communities in Leeton, New South Wales, and Robinvale, Victoria – communities he visited with fellow Indigenous photographer Alana Harris – were included in the publication. In their affirmation of the resilience of Indigenous Australians, these works contributed a counter-narrative to the national celebration of 200 years of white settlement. Closely connected to the Indigenous political movements of the 1980s was the emergence of a dynamic and ambitious artistic fraternity of urban-based Indigenous artists, playwrights, actors, dancers, poets and curators. The Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Cooperative was one manifestation of the networks and collectives that came into being at this time, and another was the Black Playwrights Conference. In 1989 the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust commissioned Riley to document the conference; for this he was assisted by fellow Boomalli founder Brenda L. Croft. The footage created became part of the collection of the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust, and later the collection of the State Library of NSW. His 1990 series Portraits by a window, which was his first solo exhibition at Hogarth Galleries, included portraits of established political figures Charles Perkins and Joseph Croft, and captured in the early stages of the careers of Indigenous artists and curators such as Tracey Moffatt, Brenda L. Croft (daughter of Joseph Croft), Hetti Perkins (daughter of Charlie Perkins) and Djon Mundine. Mundine had just conceived the Aboriginal Memorial installation of hollow log coffins made by artists from Ramingining in Arnhem Land, a response to the Bicentennary celebrations of 1988 (collection of the National Gallery of Australia). Riley’s sensitivity to the disadvantage and social justice issues that marked the lives of members of the Redfern Aboriginal community informed the creation of the experimental film Poison in 1991. According to Croft, Riley had read a Rolling Stone magazine article titled 'Seven little Australians’ which told the story of a cluster of heroin overdoses amongst teenage Aboriginal girls in Redfern, many of whom Riley knew (2006 National Gallery of Australia website). Among the actors in the film were Lydia Miller, Rhoda Roberts, Lillian Crombie and the late Russell Page, all of who went on to establish careers in the arts.From the early 1990s Riley’s work became preoccupied with revisiting and reappraising the spaces of his early childhood; the landscapes of rural New South Wales, the family body of which he was a part, and the way both had been shaped by the forces of colonisation. A common place: portraits of Moree Murries (1991) was the first of a series of projects in which Riley reflected upon his family’s experiences on missions and reserves. This series consisted of understated, subtly emotive black and white shots of family members set against a worn cloth backdrop. It was exhibited at Hogarth Galleries in 1991, the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London in 1993, and some works from the series were included in the landmark 'Aratjara: Art of the First Australians’ exhibition which toured to galleries in Europe in 1993 and 1994. In 1998 Riley created portraits of members of the Dubbo community in the sister series Yarns from Talbragar Reserve (1998), which was exhibited at Dubbo Regional Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999. Both series evoke the pathos of rural mission and reserve life by honouring the hardiness, humour and familial solidarity of the subjects, portraying as worthy of empathy and recognition people whose stories have been marginal to those conventionally celebrated as characteristic of the national ethos and character. Other projects from the 1990s were similarly reflective, with Riley using images and scenes that were evocative of childhood memories as a backdrop for the exploration of themes of loss, ruin and death. At this stage, Riley sought to bring an enigmatic quality to his works by using abstract symbolism, creating strange atmospheres and generating emotional resonances that were often ambivalent. The 1993 autobiographical film Quest for country, made in the year that he established Blackfella Films with Rachel Perkins (daughter of Charles Perkins and sister of Hetti Perkins), narrated his return to his ancestral country in the regions of Dubbo and Moree and his impressions of how that country has been marked by the massacres of Aboriginal people and the ruinous environmental impact of farming. The photographic series Sacrifice (1992) consisted of a constellation of metaphorical and allegorical images that expressed a critical and interrogative engagement with the impact of mission life and questioned the nature of the sacrifice Aboriginal people had made in order to be accepted into colonial society. Stylistically, Sacrifice marked a departure from studio-style or real life settings and a movement towards a more conceptual approach to the form. As he says of the series in an interview with David Burnett, it reflects “on that period of time when people did sort of start to lose things, you know, because of the assimilation process and … the government [was] trying to put people on reserves to be good Christian Aboriginal people” (2002 National Gallery of Australia website). Sacrifice was his third solo exhibition at Hogarth Galleries in Sydney; it was acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. The 1997 film Empire, which was commissioned by Rhoda Roberts for the Festival of the Dreaming, and the photographic series flyblown (1998) drew on landscape and Christian imagery to further explore the degradation of Aboriginal land and society by white settlement and the Christian faith, but also to affirm the endurance of Aboriginal spirituality. flyblown was toured to the 1999 Venice Biennale by Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi as part of an al latere exhibition at the Palazzo Papadopoli of Indigenous photomedia artists titled 'Beyond Myth – Oltre Il Mito’. The other artists in this exhibition were Brook Andrew, Brenda L. Croft, Destiny Deacon and Leah King-Smith. The 1990s also saw Riley make a number of documentary films for the ABC. Among these were Blacktracker (1996), a biographical film about his grandfather, Alexander Riley, who had been a highly regarded tracker in the NSW Police Force between 1911 and 1950. Alexander Riley was the first Aboriginal person in NSW to be made a Sergeant and in 1943 he was awarded the King’s Medal. Tent Boxers (1998) was another documentary made for the ABC. This film related the experiences of Indigenous men who had toured with country fairs and circuses as amateur boxers in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In 1995 Riley was commissioned to create a permanent video installation, Eora, for the Museum of Sydney, which was dedicated to the original owners of the Sydney region. In 1998, Riley was diagnosed with renal failure: his immune system had never quite recovered from a case of rheumatic fever he’d suffered as a child. He continued to produce work, however his art practice was often interrupted by periods of time spent in hospital. In 1999 the Art Gallery of NSW commissioned the film I don’t wanna be a bludger for the 'Living here now: Art and Politics’ Australian Perspecta. The film, which Riley made with fellow Indigenous photographer and film-maker Destiny Deacon, was a satirical take on prevailing stereotypes of Aboriginal people. Riley’s last series of works, Cloud (2000), was the first in which he made use of digital manipulation. The recurring preoccupations with Christianity and Aboriginal spirituality, childhood memory, the spaces and animals of rural New South Wales, and the resilience of Indigenous Australia found expression in these minimalist images of lone, symbolic figures – including a boomerang, feather, locust and bible – suspended in an expansive blue sky feathered with cloud. This series marked a turning point for Riley’s international reputation: it was shown at the 2002 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery and was awarded the grand prize in the 11th Asian Art Biennial in Bangladesh. In 2003 Cloud was also selected for 'Poetic Justice: 8th International Istanbul Biennale’ along with the film Empire. In 2004 Riley was one of eight Indigenous Australian artists selected to be part of the Australian Indigenous Art Commission, which coordinated the permanent installation of their artworks and designs within the interior and exterior architectural spaces of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, opened in 2006. Besides Riley, the other artists included in the commission were Judy Watson, Paddy Bedford, John Mawurndjul, Ningura Naparrula, Lena Nyadbi, Tommy Watson and Gulumbu Yunupingu. These artist’s works were all enlarged and adapted to different media appropriate for the space. In Riley’s case, scaled up, laminated glass images from the Cloud series are now situated behind windows in one of the Museum’s buildings at street level. Riley passed away in 2004. The National Gallery of Australia’s retrospective Michael Riley: sights unseen toured nationally between 2006 and 2008.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi photographer, video artist and documentary film-maker who was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. His works focused upon Indigenous people's struggles in the wake of colonisation and explored themes related to religion, land and forms of social injustice.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2004
- Age at death
- 44
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b24
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sally-smart
- Birth Place
- Quorn, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Installation artist, was born in Quorn, SA; works Victoria.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Sally Smart is installation artist who works in Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b25
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Latitude-33.7962 Longitude151.2827 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-ann-cooper-bennett
- Birth Place
- Manly, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- EARLY YEARSJane Ann Cooper Bennett was born at Manly on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1960. She was named after her great-grandmother who had been born ninety nine years earlier in Premnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
William and Jane Cooper, Bennett’s great-grandparents, had emigrated to Australia in the first decade of the twentieth century. After World War I the family income was primarily derived from its commercial activities in Manly. In 1919 William opened a small kiosk selling umbrellas and he gradually expanded this business until it was a significant department store which traded as William Cooper and Sons. By the 1930s 'Coopers of the Corso’ was an icon of the Sydney retail shopping scene. William died in 1939 but the business continued to flourish under the management of Bennett’s grandfather, Douglas. After 46 years of trading, however, it was sold in 1965, a victim of the new retail trend characterised by American-style shopping malls.
Bennett’s parents married in 1959 but divorced prior to her birth and her father played no further role in her life. She was raised by her mother and grandparents in the family home at Seaforth which was situated on a steep hill known as The Bluff. The house commanded sweeping views of Middle Harbour and possessed terraced gardens carved into the landscape. A particular feature of the house was its large library crowded from floor to ceiling and on all four walls with books on subjects as diverse as art, astronomy, mythology, humour, poetry and ancient history as well as detective stories and classic fiction.
As a member of a family of insatiable readers, Bennett approached adulthood with the clear knowledge that art did not exist in isolation but was inextricably intertwined with all other topics of study and fields of endeavour.
STUDYBennett has always possessed a deep love of art and her creative passion was evident from a very early age. There was never any doubt that she would become an artist.
She attended Mackellar Girls High School at Manly Vale from 1973 to 1976. Despite the certainty of her future as an artist she did not study art as a subject. Bennett dismissed the curriculum at Mackellar as useless and typified by plaster of Paris and masonite works daubed with bold 1970s colour. She decided to study History instead, which at least provided context to some of the information she would subsequently need to know.
Her final two years of secondary education were at Ku-ring-gai High School at North Turramurra. In 1996 permission was sought, and later granted, for it to become a selective school for students of the creative arts but even when Bennett attended from 1977 to 1978 it had a reputation for encouraging creativity in its students. Unfortunately the brand of creativity at that time was mostly confined to ceramics and weaving, both of which Jane loathed intensely. She battled with the art teachers for permission to submit a painting as her Higher School Certificate major work as there was then a commonly held belief that paintings were too common to achieve the best possible marks.
In 1979 she enrolled at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education attaining a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1982 followed by a Graduate Diploma in Art Studies the following year. The School of Art at Alexander Mackie was renamed City Art Institute in 1983, and was eventually reborn as College of Fine Arts (COFA) in 1990.
EMPLOYMENTInitially Bennett accepted teaching positions in community centres and colleges such as Waverley Art Centre and Hornsby Evening College. Throughout the 1980s she also taught art classes at Macquarie University and briefly at Seaforth TAFE .
Teaching encouraged her to become more analytical in respect of her own art, rather than merely drawing and painting instinctively. Whilst not wishing to diminish the importance of instinct and spontaneity Bennett appreciated that professional artists also needed to experiment, develop technique and gain mastery of colour, perspective and composition.
Her penchant for plein air painting often resulted in much time and energy being devoted to talking to the public. Teaching classes after painting began to be too exhausting so by 1992 she ceased teaching to concentrate on full-time art creation.
PLEIN AIR PAINTING'Plein air’ is a French term meaning 'open air’. Its usage in the art world refers to the practise of painting outdoors.
Although artists have always painted outdoors, in 1824 John Constable, an English landscape painter, exhibited a series of works at the Salon in Paris. These paintings depicted rural scenes in natural light; nature as the focus not merely the background. Such plein air works are generally credited as influencing the Barbizon school painters of the mid nineteenth century in France who in turn were influential in the development of Impressionism.
In Australia the Heidelberg School art movement of the late nineteenth century was to influence much of the Australian art that followed. The artists associated with the movement painted plein air in the impressionist tradition and were inspired by the beauty and light of the bush landscapes in Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs and the Yarra River which flowed through them.
Bennett does not paint in a studio from sketches and photographs but has always preferred painting from life. Her ability to glimpse the underlying spirit of a subject and to convey senses beyond just sight, require her to experience these first hand before they can be captured on paper or canvas. In a career spanning more than 30 years she has become artistically adaptive and learned to conquer the logistical challenges of painting in wet, windy or dangerous environments. Such challenges still motivate and stimulate Bennett today.
INDUSTRIAL AND MARITIME HERITAGEBennett is best known for her work recording Sydney’s disappearing industrial and maritime heritage. She has built a significant body of work portraying iconic sites, structures and vessels.
The scale and bulk of her subjects are impressive and are frequently combined with a majestic but melancholy stillness. When Bennett does paint movement it is generally slow, even and measured. She really nails the sad solitude of disuse whether it’s a brewery, hotel, rail yard, silo, power station, wharf or ship and whether it’s at dawn or dusk or under a vibrant blue sky.
FURTHER READINGBennett, Jane, “Industrial Revelation”, http://janebennettartist.blogspot.com.au/Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, http://www.franceskeevilgallery.com.au
Writers:
Stephen Robertson Marshall
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b26
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/carmel-francesca-byrne
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Carmel works out of Scratch Art Space, an Artist Run Initiative she founded and now manages in Marrickville.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b27
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ella-dreyfus
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Ella Dreyfus is a contemporary visual artist who is well-known for her photographic exhibitions. She won the inaugural Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture and her solo exhibitions were held at Stills Gallery in Sydney and other Australian galleries. Her photographs embrace the ordinary, striking a rich source of humanity, compassion and emotional resonance.
Her monograph The Body Pregnant was published by Penguin in 1993, and an artwork from her 2001 series Transman was selected for a major exhibition Cheveux Cheris – Frivolites et Trophee at the Musee du quai Branly, Paris in 2013. In later years her art practice shifted towards the performative, interactive and reflective, where the complex relationships between the private/public and the physical/emotional realms are revealed, creating new possibilities for visually embodied experiences.
Writers:
elladreyfus
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Ella Dreyfus is a Sydney-based visual artist working in photography and installation practices.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b28
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joe-hurst
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Sydney based multi-media artist working predominately with sculpture and public art projects. Hurst was born in 1960 and is of Murrawarri descent.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Tripolone, EmmaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Sydney based multi-media artist working predominately with sculpture and public art projects. Hurst was born in 1960 and is of Murrawarri descent.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b29
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/narelle-jubelin
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Narelle Jubelin first studied Art Education at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Paddington, Sydney. In 1985, noticing the difficulties young artists has in finding somewhere to exhibit their work she(along with Roger Crawford, Tess Horwitz and Paul Saint)founded the artists’ cooperative, First Draft. This is now the longest continual artist run initiative in Australia, as it continues to transfer responsibilities to successive generations of young artists.
Her meticulous miniature images in petit point soon attracted critical attention and in 1990 she was selected for the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale, curated by Giovanni Carandente. In 1996 she relocated to Madrid, where she lives with the architect, Marcos Corrales Lantero, who has often collaborated with her on display structures.
In 2001 the Powerhouse Museum (Ann Stephen) commissioned a new work entitled Legacies in transit as a companion piece to Jubelin’s earlier Legacies of Travel and Trade 1990 in which she explored European perceptions of China through petit-point renditions of four photographs in the Powerhouse Museum taken by the professional photographer Hedda Hammer Morrison, who had worked in China in the 1930s and 1940s (later she came to Australia). This work rendered three family snaps from the Rosenzweig Shanghai albums in petit-point, framed them in found bone and wood frames and set them amongst a Shanghai version of Monopoly ('Shanghai Millionaire’) in which, for example, prestigious Mayfair is renamed 'The Bund’. The board belonged to Herta Imhof, née Rosenzweig, who in 1939, aged three, escaped Nazi-occupied Vienna with her Jewish family and settled in Shangai China where an open-door immigration policy provided a haven for successive generations of refugees.
In 2020 she participated in the Taking Care Project at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món
Writers:
Staff Writer
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Fabric and installation artist who has lived for many years in Spain. She works mainly in petit point embroidery, often reconfiguring images from architectural paintings and nineteenth century photographs, framing the resulting miniatures in antique frames
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b2a
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-poulet
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Artist and architect Peter Poulet was born in May 1960 in Sydney, NSW, to Russian immigrant parents Eugene and Natalie Poulet. His interest in painting and drawing since childhood led Poulet to study architecture at the University of Sydney between 1979 and 1984, where he gained a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) and a Bachelor of Architecture. It was during these years that Poulet became interested in sustainability, ultimately leading to his serving on the Royal Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter Council’s 'Sustainability and Education Committee’. Remarkably, Poulet’s final thesis for his degree at university was comprised of a group of paintings. These paintings would later be recommended by Marr Grounds, senior lecturer of architecture, to Frank Watters of Watters Gallery in East Sydney. In 1986, the Watters Gallery hosted Poulet’s first exhibition of works which explored themes of the urban/built environment and its imposition on the natural world. After finishing study in 1984 and graduating in 1985, Poulet worked for some private architectural firms before taking an architect post in the NSW Government Architect’s Office. He remained there from 1985 until 1987. In 1988, having been awarded the prestigious Monobusho Japanese Government Fellowship with a focus on the study of Japanese art and architecture, Poulet travelled to Japan to undertake postgraduate study in architecture at the University of Tokyo. He was enrolled there for two years before working with Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Poulet’s time in Japan and working with Ito encouraged him to engage with architecture as an art form. In 1989, having returned to Sydney to be with his partner Elizabeth Hogan, who was pregnant with their first child, Poulet resumed his position at the Government Architect’s Office and was later appointed Assistant Government Architect. Since his first exhibition, Poulet has been a well-received and prolific artist. He has shown his work regularly at the Watters Gallery and since his 2007 show at Christine Abrahams Gallery has been represented in Melbourne too. He was also honoured as Artist in Residence at Bundanon in 1999 and at the New England Regional Art Museum in 2002. His work is held in the collections of the major law firms Allen Arthur Robinson and Baker & McKenzie, and also in the University of New South Wales, Artbank, the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory, and the Bundanon Trust. Poulet’s abstract paintings use colour, fluidity of line, and the juxtaposition of forms to create new environments. His work is influenced by nature and natural phenomenon – light, air, the feeling of space, enclosure and human interaction with nature – giving his art an organic sentiment. His body of work has evolved to explore more complex relationships between objects and forms as he brings in more from the outside world into his pieces. Introduced elements reflect his ideas about the world and include thoughts that were present from the earliest works, thus maintaining continuity of influence and motivation – nature and expression of his feelings and emotions. This awareness of nature is also crucial to his architecture and his interest in sustainability. Throughout his life, there has been a constant sense of exchange between his architectural and art practices. He credits his architectural training with giving him the discipline to work to a deadline and still be inventive and creative. Similarly, his art contributes greatly to his practice of architecture giving him inspiration and a more painterly approach to his design. Although historically his art and architecture have occupied very different places there appears to be a convergence occurring. This was exemplified by the Concrete House for the 'Houses of the Future’ exhibition for sustainable design in 2005, where he used his painting to bring out the free form of the design. Poulet lives in Sydney, NSW, with his wife Elizabeth and their five children.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Livingstone, Elizabeth
Note:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Sydney painter and architect. Regularly exhibits modernist abstract paintings with strong references to the environment and nature.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b2b
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1960-01-01 End Date1960-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruark-lewis
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Ruark Lewis is a Sydney-based visual artist and writer. He works in a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, installation, artists-books, performance, public art, theatre and audio-video works. Lewis was born in Sydney in 1960 and attended Sydney Boys High School. While there he became interested in pottery. When he was eighteen Lewis suffered permanent spinal injury as a result of a motor-vehicle accident.
Lewis’s formal art studies were in ceramics at the Sydney College of the Arts. During this period he came under the influence of avant-garde composer, David Ahern, and became interested in an experimental realm that explored the relation between language, sound and art. Under Ahern’s encouragement, Lewis moved away from ceramics and began to pursue painting and drawing. Lewis also met and befriended the influential modernist Sydney architect, Bill Lucas. He was attracted as much by Lucas’s minimalist use of structural design as by Lucas’s utopian belief of the architect as a maker of prototypes, from which society could adopt and evolve.
Lewis’s newfound interest in language, art and design found a significant outlet for expression in his first professional position, that of a Curator of poetry readings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) which he held between 1984 and 1988. During this period the repertoire for readings quickly expanded into a forum that combined traditional poetic text with music, film, dance and radio. In addition to the forum providing an outlet to explore interdisciplinary connections, it brought Lewis into the orbit of young artists, composers, poets and filmmakers such as Martin Harrison, Chris Mann, John Gillies and Ania Walwicz. The curatorial role also fostered in the artist an awareness of the possible intersections between radical modes of creative experimentation, a regionally attuned avant-garde culture and a genuinely broad public audience.
Between 1987 and 1989, Lewis produced his first solo exhibitions in Sydney – entitled 'Transcription Drawings’. The works at these exhibitions are abstractionist in form and present transcriptions of sound and music. The drawings trace not simply the sound itself, but the artist’s embodied translation of that experience. This process, and the performative history it records, is central to understanding Lewis’s art.
At the end of the 1980s and during the early 1990s, Lewis spent much of his time in Melbourne where he again became immersed in a rich creative milieu of writers, artists and composers. These included Rainer Linz, Warren Burt, Alex Selenitsch and Paul Carter. Evidence of the dialogues and exchanges of this world can be found in the publication, New Music Articles(NMA), the ABC Radio program, The Listening Room and the Age Monthly Review. During this period Lewis developed the sound transcription principles of his Sydney exhibitions but on a larger scale, this time using the work of the composer, Robert Douglas. He also examined setting Paul Carter’s radiophonic piece, Mirror States. Although the project remains unrealised, it did enable Lewis to collaborate with Bill Lucas on design, sound and installation techniques which he would carry over into his later work.
Alongside sound and performance, the growing influence of literary text found expression in a series of transcriptions based on the French newspaper, Le Monde. Lewis worked in Paris as Artist in Residence at the Cite Internationale des Arts in 1991 where he began work with the documentarian, Kaye Mortley on a translation of Natalie Sarraute’s play, Pour en Oui Pour en Non. The Douglas and Le Monde Transcription Drawings were exhibited as a solo show as well as part of the Melbourne Festival in 1992. The collaboration with Mortley and Sarraute eventually led to the publication of Lewis’s artist-book Just For Nothing in 1997, a work notable for the use of colour-coding as its design principle.
Lewis’s most significant collaboration during this decade was with the writer, artist and thinker, Paul Carter. Lewis had long been attracted to Carter’s idea of “spatial history”, first proposed in Carter’s highly influential book, The Road to Botany Bay(1987), which sought to give voice to the multidimensional histories Carter saw as integral to the act of place-making in a post-colonial migrant Australia. An opportunity to work with Carter came in an extended multilayered translation on the work of the Central Australian Lutheran Missionary, Carl Strehlow and his son, T. G. H. (Ted) Strehlow, a poet and linguist. EntitledRaft, Lewis and Carter meditated through installation, drawing, text and sound the multilingual, bicultural and migrant legacy of the lives of father and son. Lewis designed a lattice-like structure comprised of wooden beams upon which are stenciled 24, 696 characters in the 6 languages familiar to the Strehlows (Greek, Latin, German, English, Arrernte and Diyari). The raft is also a reference to Carl Strehlow’s harrowing death in Central Australia in 1922, which his son memorialised in the autobiographical narrative, Journey to Horseshoe Bend (1969), a pivotal work for Lewis personally, who has found in Strehlow’s tragic allegory a structural density faithful to the fractured, layered histories of postcolonial Australia. In addition to what Carter has described as the “craft of translation”, Lewis produced a series of Water Drawings which disguise the Strehlows’ translated versions of Western Arrernte Rain Songs eventually compiled in Ted Strehlow’s landmark Songs of Central Australia(1978). Raft has been exhibited in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, the United Kingdom and Germany. Carter and Lewis produced a book, Depth of Translation (1999), which reflects on their collaboration and its significance in the wider context of Australian cross-cultural history.
A second project with Carter, Relay (1999), was one of a number of public artworks commissioned by the Olympic Coordination Authority to commemorate the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. The project provided Lewis with a new opportunity to explore the intersection of poetic text, public design and history. For this work he developed the colour-coding design principle first expressed in Just For Nothing. Relay is a prose poem engraved into the granite steps at Fig Grove and refers to four points in Olympic history: the 1986 games at Athens, Melbourne in 1956, Sydney in 2000 and a future games. Each point is colour-coded as a tier and the poem is accompanied by thirty graffiti clusters derived from the handwriting of renowned Australian Olympians.
During the 1990s Lewis developed his transcription drawing practice into a distinctive mode of concrete poetry with civic applications. This has been achieved through a range of collaborative and solo exhibitions, books, essays and public installations. A particularly important collaboration has been with the composer, Rainer Linz. In Banalities for the Perfect House(2005) Lewis and Linz created a series of performance texts which Lewis gathered from everyday sources such as newspapers, overheard conversation and cookery books. The origins of Banalities can be found in Lewis’s 1998 work, Untitled, created for the SBS TV program, Eat Carpet. The concept was later developed as a theatre piece, Banalities/Banalitäten,performed at the Berlin Poetry Festival in 2003. Here Lewis collaborated with the dancer, Jutta Hell and choreographer, Dieter Baumann to explore the intersection of Lewis’s spoken text and Hall’s dance. In the hands of Lewis and Linz Banalities moved in another direction, extending the polyvocal text designs of Raft and Just For Nothing into the realm of architecture and sound. The texts were inscribed on a variety of surfaces and then installed in wooden frames to create transitional house-like structures one might encounter on a construction-site. The spaces were then further rendered through the performance of Lewis’s readings from the transcribed texts and Linz’s sound work which was processed in real time through multiple computers and loudspeakers systems. Banalities for the Perfect House was installed at various sites including the Performance Space.
In 2008 Lewis and Linz were commissioned to create a public art installation in Canada for the Toronto Nuit Blanche Festival. Lewis devised a sound poem in the form of 550 coloured oil drums. Letters were inscribed onto the drums which were then stacked to form an industrial wall across a street. A sound composition was designed to accompany the poetic text which would unfold during the 12-hour period ('wake’) between dusk and dawn. Named Euphemisms for the Intimate Enemy, Lewis and Linz drew on the theoretical writings of the Indian postcolonial writer, Ashis Nandy.
Since 2001 Lewis has formed a collaborative relationship with the Sydney Indigenous artist, Jonathan Jones. The two became friends when initially commissioned to create a group installation, Reckonings, which explored Aboriginal-European ideas about reconciliation. Lewis and Jones have since worked on a number of large-scale projects that have fused the materials – text, environmental surfaces and lights – which now characterise their respectively distinctive creative signatures. In Homeland Illuminations (2007), Lewis fashioned a series of rectangular boards upon which were stenciled a transcribed text of Jones’s grandfather’s trade as a wool classer. These boards were then illuminated with Jones’ fluorescent lights. In the same year Lewis and Jones worked on a site-specific show alongside the poet, Amanda Stewart and composer, Rik Rue at Singapore’s Post-Museum, 'Index of Kindness’, in which they hung flags with superimposed fragmentary text drawn from the work of Sarraute and Nandy respectively and positioned throughout the gallery painted objects, often based on discovered pieces of garbage in streets and beaches. In these collaborations Lewis tabulated the interstices of everyday exchange, while revealing the ingrained relation between silence and conversation, orality and print, movement and stillness.
The inscrutable richness of such mundane yet richly elusive zones has provided Lewis with a plethora of forums to explore in his own writings. Following the transcriptions of Natalie Sarraute in 1997, he turned to the poetry of the Austrian post-war poet, Ingeborg Bachmann, illustrating a newly translated volume of her poems, Days in White (2003). The volume was translated by Angelika Fremd who had also worked as translator on Raft and Banalitaten. In his sound-poetry book False Narratives (2006), in which he again collaborated with Rainer Linz, Lewis engaged with the conventions of everyday language and speech to create a set of printed cards and lithographs that assemble stories into a concrete poem that can be rearranged by audiences. False Narratives was exhibited in Milan, Adelaide and Auckland. As with the artist’s earlier transcriptions, False Narratives negotiates the landscape of text, history, sound and performance and in so doing produces a new understanding of the original source. Like so much of that corpus of work, the final result is a densely patterned narrative that escapes the representational while balancing the linear and non-linear.
Lewis has more recently explored two interrelated areas. The first concerns his interest in creating environmentally integrated works. This is evident in the 2007 installation, Banalities for the Perfect House, which was created for the artist-run-initiative named SLOT in Redfern. For this project Lewis created a 7-metre high facade on the front of a building, upon which was stenciled the reassembled everyday stories of the community. The SLOT project points to the second of his current concerns: the relationship between transcription and local history. In 2009 Lewis created what he described as an “ephemeral public art installation” called Housing the Seafaring Nation. Three installation sites using billboards and stenciled text were created at Millers Point and attached to the facades of public buildings, including the National Trust Building at Observatory Hill. The texts are storyboards that originate from interviews and conversations with local people. Taken together, these sites re-inscribe Millers Point as the oldest continuing urban community in European-Australian history, one in danger of losing its public housing history to the interests of private development. In this and other contemporary projects Lewis’s longstanding engagement with the intersections between regional creative experimentation and a genuinely broad public interface can be said to have assumed a heightened level of urgency.
In addition to his own publications, Lewis has attracted the attention of various commentators. Most recently, an essay on the making of Relay has appeared in Paul Carter’s book, Dark Writing (2009). Lewis’s work is held in numerous national and international collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, The British Library, the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and Wollongong City Gallery. Lewis has lectured at the Sydney College of the Arts and is currently Convenor of Visual Arts and Performance at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies in Melbourne.
Writers:
Paull, James
paullj
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Ruark Lewis is a Sydney-based visual artist and writer. He works in a wide range of media such as painting, drawing, installation, artists-books, performance, public art, theatre and audio-video works.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- None listed
- Born
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- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
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Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Sydney based painter whose awards have included the Archibald Prize, Sulman Prize and the Portia Geach Memorial Award (twice). In 1999 she served as the official Australian war artist in 1999, when the Australian Army was in East Timor.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/athol-farmer
- Birth Place
- Gnowangerup, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Athol Farmer was born in Gnowangerup, in the Great Southern region in Western Australia, in 1960. Farmer spent most of his early life in Gnowangerup, finishing school there and working on farms in the area. He was inspired by the Noongar children artists who created paintings and drawings while living at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. As a child, Farmer had observed Bella Kelly and Revel Cooper – both artists associated with the Carrolup settlement – make their work, and Farmer’s own work has been greatly influenced by the Carrolup 'style’. In the book Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago) , Farmer states: “The Carrolup style is to me a way of looking back. It’s important because it is part of our history. It is a way of capturing the essence of the Noongar people, their way of life, a visual means of expressing our connection with the land” (2006, pg 79).In 1990, Farmer undertook an art course at TAFE in Katanning and he held his first solo exhibition in Katanning in 1992. The following year he was artist in residence at Hay Street Gallery, Perth. In 2006 he held the solo show 'Carrolup Connections’ at the Mungart Boodja Art Centre in Katanning, and in the same year he, along with his nephew Peter Farmer and Leonard (Jack) Williams, was commissioned by Curtin University to create a ceremonial wooden 'doak’ (a traditional Noongar hunting and digging tool that was used across several generations of a Noongar family) for use on formal occasions at the University. In 2007 Farmer travelled to Colgate University in New York to view a large collection of Carrolup paintings that had been unearthed at the University’s Picker Art Gallery in 2004, works that had entered the collection decades before. During Farmer’s visit, his own works were included in an exhibition staged at the Picker Art Gallery titled 'Palimpsest: Noongar Art Past and Present’ (2007). The following year he exhibited alongside Troy Bennell and Graham Taylor in 'Noongar Boodja: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ecology and Culture’ at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New York. In 2009 Farmer participated in the 'Noongar Country’ exhibition at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Katanning-based Noongar artist who was born and raised in Gnowangerup, WA. His work has been greatly influenced by the style of the Carrolup artists.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-andrew-bleyerveen
- Birth Place
- Goulburn, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Robert Bleyerveen; AKA @Robsuite majored in Painting and studied Printmaking at the Canberra School of Art, graduating in 1982. He held his first solo show at the Artist Collective, Bitumen River Gallery, Manuka ACT in 1983, followed by many solo and group exhibitions. His works have been installed into public spaces and reviewed in published critiques.
Bleyerveen engages with historical and contemporary conversations on cultural identity, exploring an intimate engagement through changing perspectives and attitudes. Drawing on his ancestral connections and with our growing Indigenous understandings, he’s sustained a close relationship with Canberra. Showing his art in alternative arts venues, ‘On Lonsdale St’ 2001-07 engaged with the revitalisation of Braddon. His exhibition ‘Both Sides of The Fence’ 2017 explored Aboriginal, convict and settler history of Belconnen.
‘Neither Here nor There’ focused on our shared Indigenous pathways to the coast. Since 2005 he’s developed his well- known Winyu Sun series based on our local native grasslands. Although continuing to battle nerve injuries in both arms, his exhibition ‘Treading Lightly in One Place’ (M16 artspace 2019) turned these physical constraints into a positive opportunity for deeper awareness and sense of discovery within his arts practice. His works merge our stories and histories together, resonating with our unique natural environment, to celebrate our connections to place, and relationship with each other.
Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation, Braddon ACT, 2019 ISBN 978-0-9944371-4-3
Writers:
OzArt
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2021
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Bleyerveen is a printmaker and painter.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b31
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ann-martin
- Birth Place
- Nowra, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-haselton
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Artist, Curator, short film Art Director and Educator, Louise Haselton has steadily built her national professional profile, working in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra. She has received several Project Grants from the South Australian Department for Arts & Cultural Development, as well as a Pat Corrigan Artist Grant. In 2011, she was the Art Gallery of South Australia’s SALA Featured Artist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/panos-courous
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
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Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Panos Couros is an artist, sound designer, arts producer, sound lecturer and creative associate.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vicki-couzens
- Birth Place
- VIC
- Biography
- Vicki Couzens, born in 1960, is a member of the Kirrae Wurrong and Gunditjmara clans of western Victoria. Couzens’ work encompasses a range of media, including painting, installation, mixed media, sculpture, printmaking, public art and possum skin cloak making. All of her art practice is a means to connect with aspects of her Indigenous heritage and to explore her sense of belonging to family, ancestors and country. Materials are selected for their potential to be interpreted as repositories of Indigenous experience so as to honour aspects of Indigenous history that have been suppressed by colonial paradigms, and affirm the continuity of Indigenous identity. In the catalogue for the “? Lost & Found” exhibition, Couzens states that 'the retrieval, revival and re-use of our language is an important part of our cultural regeneration as a People’, and her exhibition and artwork titles are often in the Kirrae Wurrong language.’ (2001, p.11).Her work has often been informed by sustained periods of research with clan elders and within museum archives. A defining moment in Couzens’ artistic career took place in 1999 when she and fellow Indigenous artist Lee Darroch participated in a printmaking workshop in Melbourne. During a visit to Museum Victoria, the artists were shown two possum skin cloaks that had been acquired from Lake Condah and Maiden’s Punt (Echuca) in the 19th Century. Lake Condah is part of the artist’s country, and Couzens said of the experience '...to see the cloak so close up – it was really awesome, it was really tangible. It was just like a loop to your ancestors and you could almost hear them whispering…’ (Reynolds, 2005:4).
Traditionally possum skin cloaks were highly individualised, and as Amanda Reynolds writes in Wrapped in a Possum Skin Cloak (2005), the designs that were incised upon the insides of the cloaks 'symbolised country, geographical features and the wearer’s clan and tribal affiliations’ (2005, p. 13).
Used for warmth, as baby carriers and as drums during ceremony (where they would be stretched across the knees of seated women), they were considered so much a part of a person’s life that when people died they were buried wrapped in their cloaks. After seeing the 19th century cloaks, Couzens and Darroch, along with Vicki’s sister Debra Couzens and fellow Victorian Indigenous artist Treanha Hamm , decided to revive the making of possum skin cloaks, and set out to create reproductions of the old cloaks, as well as a body of work (including prints, drawings and an 'old’ and 'new’ cloak making toolkit) that was inspired by the experience of reclaiming this knowledge. Completed in 2002, the Tooloyn Koorrtakay – Squaring Skins for Rugs project is now on display in the First Australians gallery of the National Museum of Australia.
Couzens went on to participate with Hamm, Darroch and Maree Clark in a research and reclamation project, which involved consulting with and conducting workshops with members of each of the Victorian Indigenous language groups, to facilitate the creation of their own possum skin cloak. The project brought about a great sharing of cultural knowledge between groups and between generations, and culminated in 35 out of the 37 Victorian Indigenous communities having their own cloak. Elders from each of these groups performed during the opening ceremony of the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, wearing their community’s cloak.In 2003 Couzens was awarded the inaugural Deadly Art Award (later the main award of the annual Victorian Indigenous Art Awards). She has participated in a number of exhibitions, including “ ? Lost & Found” (2001), at the Koorie Heritage Trust and Immigration Museum, Melbourne, “Mission Voices “ (2007), also at the Koori Heritage Trust, and “Ng woka, woka nganin: I am the land and the land is me”(2008) at the Bunjilaka gallery at the Melbourne Museum. In 2005, Couzens, Hamm and Darroch were commissioned by the City of Melbourne, and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria to create the 'Birrarung Wilam’ Aboriginal Park, which is located behind Federation Square in the Yarra River Precinct.
In late 2008 she was living in Warrnambool in Victoria and was a mother of 5 and grandmother of 4.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Kirrae Wurrong/Gunditjmara artist based in Warrnambool in western Victoria whose work encompasses painting, installation, mixed media, sculpture, printmaking and public art. Couzens is most well known for her involvement in the revival of the possum skin cloak making tradition in Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/allan-giddy
- Birth Place
- Morrinsville, New Zealand
- Biography
- Sydney based artist, Allan Giddy was born in 1960 in Morrinsville, New Zealand. He describes his practice as 'active public art’. He has photographic work in New Zealand’s national collection, but is better known for his sculpture, installation, video and digital media works. On leaving school Giddy completed an electrical trade apprenticeship, working in hospitals and heavy industry. Although he soon changed direction, this early trajectory later facilitated his use of light and energy technologies in his art, and seeded a lasting fascination with decaying industrial sites in need of reinvigoration. Giddy moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1989, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 1992. He was joint winner of the Sherman Gallery Sculptural Prize in 1992 and won the Helen Lemprière Travelling Art Scholarship in 1993. As a result, Giddy enrolled as a guest student at HBK Art Academy in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he researched the use of sensing systems in media art. He was then invited to become a guest fellow at the Centre for Advanced Investigation in the Interactive Arts (CAIIA) at the University of Wales in the United Kindom, where he studied interactivity and the (then fledgling) internet in art making from 1994 to 1995. During this time he attended the 1994 Symposium for Interactive Marketing Communication in Heidelberg, Germany, and exhibited his first solar powered work, Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy, in the associated Wandlung exhibition. This work is a solar powered digital backwards-counting 'clock’ that counts down how many hours Giddy has left to live, based on statistical predictions for the average New Zealand male born in the 1960s. Returning to Australia in 1996, Giddy exhibited frequently both in Sydney and overseas, including in the Netherlands, Germany and Finland. In 1999 he also conceived and co-curated his first exhibition, “Lumen”, at UNSW’s Solarch Solar Research Centre. Featuring works by COFA staff and students, “Lumen” examined renewable energy and light from multiple perspectives. At this time Giddy was studying for his Master of Fine Art (Sculpture) at COFA. In his investigations into light and time, culminating in 2001 with a solo exhibition, “Intersection” (Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney), audience participation often played a key role. A prominent work to emerge from this period was Pissoir, an 'interactive urinal’ that facilitated on-screen drawing through urination. During 2002 Giddy co-curated his second exhibition at Solarch, “Appliance”, featuring technology-inspired installations and artworks using renewable energy. He was subsequently awarded the Ecological Prize at Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, for his work Minor Attractor. This work collects solar energy daily, using it at night to attract insects, which then become part of an artificial ecosystem lit by the same UV light that attracts them. In 2006 Giddy’s Weather Cranes, a permanent public installation at The Armory, Sydney Olympic Park, reinvigorated a pair of heritage-listed cranes by rendering them humidity and temperature sensitive. Each crane holds a string of weather-responsive, coloured indicator lights that register climatic conditions. In many of his digital media works Giddy generates music from visual footage, creating his own conversion formulas to transpose colour, movement or other factors into sound. In both 2005 and 2008 he was a finalist in the Blake Prize and his 2008 work Stations of the Cross was amongst works selected to tour interstate (2008-09). In 2008 he was also selected for inclusion in “Figuring Landscapes”. This collection of moving image works, curated by Catherine Elwes, featured United Kingdom and Australia based artists who addressed issues of representation, nation and identity through landscape. The exhibition toured the United Kingdom, including the Tate Modern in London, before ending at Brisbane’s Queensland Gallery of Modern Art and Dell Gallery. In Sonic Wells (2008) Giddy’s pioneering use of technology in public art combined with his interest in reinvigorating post-industrial areas. This international installation, developed for the Cork Harbour Project (2008), linked Sydney’s Irish diaspora with its origins. In this work he built two 'wells’, one outside the Mercantile Hotel in Sydney and the other on Casement Square, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Each well collected ambient sounds that, transmitted live via the internet, were emitted from its 'sister’ well. People gathered around one well listened to live audio as it was incident at the other, and vice versa; it seemed that Giddy had created a virtual hole through the earth connecting these two harbour sites. In 2008, as Founding Director of the Environmental Research Initiative for Art (ERIA), Giddy was working on developing a research centre to trial the use of sustainable energy systems in art. ERIA’s goal is to develop and explore the use of sustainable technology both in the fabrication of public artworks (in a solar/wind powered workshop) and in powering the works themselves once installed. The intent being for the energy systems developed to be trialed for other purposes, including remote fieldwork, exhibitions and screenings. At the time of writing Giddy was engaged in a major public project, Earth v Sky, centred on two iconic Moreton Bay fig trees in Bicentennial Park, Glebe (on Sydney Harbour’s foreshore). He was designing a colour-sensitive lighting control system to illuminate the trees’ canopies in an inversion of the colours of the evening sky, responding in real time to the changing colours of the twilight, with the work to be powered by a silent wind turbine.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Champion, Scott
Note:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- New Zealand born, Sydney based artist best known for his sculpture, installation, video and digital media works.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-chapman
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Dale is an artist and educator. He was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-mccarthy-nee-jess
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Elizabeth McCarthy was born in Melbourne on 1960. She studied Visual Art at Prahran College in Melbourne Vic from 1978-1981. She completed Post Graduate studies at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1982-1983 and won the National Gallery Vic student Acquisitive Award in 1983. She has been selected for a number of National Drawing Awards. She continued her studies at Charles Sturt university completing a Master of Arts in Visual Arts in 2002.
Her first book “John Jess Seeker of Justice. The Role of the Parliament in the HMAS Voyager Tragedy” was published in 2015 by Sid Harta Publishers Melbourne. “The Power of Nature” followed in 2017, a book of her artwork spanning 30 years. Elizabeth McCarthy has been working and exhibiting as a professional artist since 1984.
Writers:
MOJ546
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- McCarthy is an artist with visual arts training in Victoria and Charles Stuart University, Wagga Wagga. She is the recipient of numerous awards for drawing and painting and has an extensive teaching career.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b38
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jenny-chirnside
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Jenny was an active participant of the 1980s Qld ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b39
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/polixeni-papapetrou
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Photographer, was born in Melbourne where she lives and works. Papapetrou originally trained as a lawyer, graduating with a BA/LLB, University of Melbourne in 1984. In 1997, she graduated with a Master of Arts, (Media Arts), RMIT University and in 2007 with a PhD, Monash University.
Papapetrou practiced as a lawyer between 1986-2001 but she began making photographs in 1987. From the outset of her practice, the themes of dress-ups, performance and the representation of identity have been a common thread in her work. Her first series, Elvis Immortal, made between 1987 and 2002, portrays Elvis Presley fans paying homage to Elvis on the anniversary of his death. Elvis Immortal was exhibited at the State Library of Victoria (1991), Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (1997), Old Treasury, Melbourne (1998), Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (2006) and RMIT Gallery Melbourne (2007).
A few years later Papapetrou turned to the figure of Marilyn Monroe in her series Seaching for Marilyn (2002). Papapetrou was drawn to the figures of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe because their image is so powerfully emblematic and instantly identifiable in contemporary culture. In Searching for Marilyn , Papapetrou visually explores a classic female icon that was as influential as Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe is probably the most well-known female of the 20th century but differed from Elvis in that she was the great female fantasy of an era and symbolized the way that society views specific gender roles – she was not only adored for her acting abilities, but also for her physicality and appearance. Rather than photograph fans and devotees as in the Elvis Immortal series, she decided to explore ideas about Marilyn Monroe as a Hollywood creation, existing only as a constructed identity and someone whose identity was constantly changing depending on what was expected of her. To portray this idea she photographed a female impersonator to show how he could become 'Marilyn’. Marilyn’s sexual identity was based on dress, theatre and performance rivalling that of a drag queen. The image of Marilyn was positioned in a triptych juxtaposed with images from art history to explore different facets of Marilyn’s identity such as in the work, Muse, where Papapetrou used Jean Marc Nattier’s painting of Thalia, the muse of comedy, to evoke the idea of the filmic Marilyn archetype as the muse or inspiration for post-war American values, with all their reality and sexual fantasy. Searching for Marilyn was first shown at Monash Gallery of Art (2002) and Nellie Castan Gallery (2006).
Between 1995 to 2002, Papapetrou examined various constructions of identity based on body and dress. In Curated Bodies (1996), Papapetrou explored the biological and social constructions of gender in a suite of photographs of drag queens and female body builders. Curated Bodies was shown at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (1996). Papapetrou continued her exploration of the body by photographing body builders in depth in her series Body/Building (1997-2002). She was interested in looking at how body builders were able to transform their body through diet and exercise. Papapetrou placed images of body builders against images of neo-classical architecture found in Melbourne such as Parliament House and Treasury to make the connection between Classical Greek notions of the ideal body and architecture. According to Papapetrou, the Hellenic ideal of beauty, which identified perfection with a virile muscular body, well suited to sports, still dominates in our culture. The works were run together to form a frieze that assumed the rhythms of an ancient Greek architectural frieze. Body/Building was first exhibited at Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (1997) and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2003).
In Authority (2001) Papapetrou looked at how identity isexpressed through the fashion brand logo. For this series, Papapetrou photographed friends wearing T-shirts with designer logos printed on them and compared them to well-known images from the art history of royalty and the aristocracy to make the point that 'fashion’ is the new royalty. Papapetrou explored the idea of brand as a metaphor for worship in contemporary society and made connections between how popular culture informs personal identity. Authority was first shown at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2001)
Since 2002, Papapetrou has turned her focus to the subject matter of childhood. Whether she is drawing upon ideas about the representation of childhood from 19th century photography, such as in Dreamchild (2003) and Wonderland (2004), exploring the power of dress ups as in Phantomwise (2002), revisiting the experience of childhood in colonial Australia as in Haunted Country ( 2006 ) or reflecting upon a lost freedom and the regulated lives of children growing up in the world today as in Games of Consequence (2008), she is reflecting upon the different facets of childhood and presenting a picture of a more knowing child.
The main protagonists in her work have been her two children Olympia (born 1997) and Solomon (born 1999). Papapetrou started making pictures about childhood because she wanted to communicate ideas about our culture that are best expressed through the symbol of the child, but more importantly, she is fascinated by the world of childhood. Her first body of work made with her daughter was Phantomwise in 2002. Olympia was four years old when they embarked upon the project. In Phantomwise , Olympia wore a series of masks that concealed her face from above the nose, but allowed her mouth and ears to be revealed. The eyes, eyebrows, and forehead are fully drawn in the mask and there was a small eyehole in place of the pupil that enabled Olympia to see. Papapetrou was interested in the performative nature of the mask and how it could be used as a device to move Olympia and the photograph from the 'real’ to the 'imaginary’ – both body and photograph were transformed by the mask. Phantomwise was first exhibited as Olympia Masked Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (2002) and curated in Photographica Australis , Sala De Exposiciones Del Canal De Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (2002), National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok (2003) and Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2003). It was also exhibited at Stills Gallery, Sydney (2003) and Monash University Gallery of Art, Melbourne, (2004).
Following Phantomwise , Papapetrou made Dreamchild (2003), a series based on the 19th century photographs of Charles Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, the genial author of Alice in Wonderland . She was drawn to re-staging Dodgson’s photographs because his portrayal of dress up games – the games that children play in everyday life and have often performed for the camera – typified the boundary-crossing experience that occurs in photography. She photographed her daughter Olympia in a variety of dress – Oriental, Middle Eastern, Victorian and other exotic costumes. The works raise questions about how Olympia presents herself as a female child and how she and the mother/artist explore the boundaries of her identity, through her dress-up performances before the camera. Dreamchild was exhibited at Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2003), Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria (2003) and photographic, New York (2003), Stills Gallery, Sydney (2004), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2004), Nexus Gallery, Adelaide (2004), Johnson Gallery, Perth (2005), Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2005) and 'Le Mois de la Photo’, 9th Montreal Photography Biennale, Montréal (2005).
Following Dreamchild , Papapetrou looked at how Lewis Carroll portrayed the girl figure in the character of Alice from Alice in Wonderland . In her series Wonderland (2004), Papapetrou explores the psychological and physical presence in the fictive role that her daughter steps into. While Olympia remains distinctively child-like – acting the part of a child – her girl’s presence latches onto a famous hallowed story, assuming a larger-than-life stature, and through the performance, Olympia’s self is challenged as much as it is celebrated. In staging the photographs for Wonderland , Papapetrou created a fantasy world to mirror Lewis Carroll’s dream where imagination and reality are almost mystically equated. She borrowed from the tradition of theatre and used scenic backdrops (as she had in some of the images in Dreamchild ) . The backdrops set the scene and dramatized the movement from reality to imagination as in theatre. The scenic backdrops were based on the illustrations that appeared in the original publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland made by Sir John Tenniel. The large canvases measuring 3m x 3m were painted by Olympia’s father, Robert Nelson. Wonderland was at shown at Stills Gallery, Sydney (2004), Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004), 'Le Mois de la Photo’, 9th Montreal Photography Biennale, Montréal (2005), Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales (2005), Monash University Gallery (2006) , Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria (2006), Te Tuhi Gallery, Manukau City, New Zealand (2007), Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland (2007) and Warnambool Art Gallery (2008).
In 2006, Papapetrou moved her work from the realm of fantasy into the natural world. This seemed an appropriate move as the children were growing older and their experience of the world was shifting from the imaginative interior world of dress-ups and make-believe into a more pragmatic experience with the world beyond the home. Her series Haunted Country, (2006) was inspired by nineteenth century real and fictional accounts of children who went missing in the Australian bush. To make these photographs, Papapetrou went to the sites of the most notorious disappearances including the Wimmera, Daylesford and Hanging Rock, where she staged scenes proposing what the physical and psychological circumstances may have been like for these lost and wandering children. Haunted Country captures feelings about the Australian landscape and our history to it, but also about children and their eternal vulnerability in both the natural and social orders. The landscape seems to act metaphorically, almost a resonant backdrop for a social 'distancing’ that can occur with children lost in other senses. Haunted Country was exhibited at Foley Gallery, New York (2006), Johnston Gallery, Perth (2006), Williams Contemporary, Auckland (2007), Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (2007), National Arts Center, Tokyo (2008) and included in many curated exhibitions in Australia and internationally including the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (2007) and Aperture Foundation, New York (2007), De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts (2008) and the McClleland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria (2008).
Making Haunted Country caused Papapetrou to think about the type of childhood she experienced compared to that of her children. Sensing that that the process of growing up in the modern world had changed and that her children – the subjects of much of her work – were growing up, the exploration of personal individuality seemed a natural next step. Games of Consequence (2008) is based on Papapetrou’s childhood memories of play, incidents that happened to her and feelings that she experienced growing up. By exploring her memories of play that occurred in places beyond the home, she wanted to reflect on the freedom that children of her generation enjoyed in these arcane spaces. To tell this story, Papapetrou ventured back into the landscape, but stepped outside the idea that the Australian bush equates with mortality (as in Haunted Country ) to consider the landscape as a medium in which she could explore ideas about the changed social landscape of childhood. The landscape is not portrayed as menacing as in Haunted Country, but some of the works hint at an undercurrent of danger in the air, which may be psychological rather than physical. In this series, Papapetrou uses the depth and complexity of the natural world as a backdrop in which she explores some of the idyllic and darker aspects of growing up. The land is represented as a space without constraints and a place where children can attempt to define their individuality through their surroundings. The series was first shown at the National Arts Center, Tokyo (2008), then Johnson Gallery, Perth (2008), Foley Gallery, New York (2008) and Nellie Castan Gallery Melbourne (2008).
Writers:
Papapetrou, Polixeni
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Polixeni Papapetrou is a photo media artist who explores the relationship between history, contemporary culture and identity in her work. Her subject matter includes Elvis Presley fans, Marilyn Monroe impersonators and body builders. More recently she has focused on the representation of childhood in photography.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b3a
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ray-thomas
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Ray Thomas, born 1960, is a Gunnai painter of the Brabralung clan. Thomas began painting in the 1980s when he contributed to a number of Aborigines’ Advancement League murals in Melbourne. In 2002 he was commissioned to create a kangaroo design for a silver dollar produced by the Royal Australian Mint. His paintings are inspired by Gunnai stories and designs, his sense of affinity with Gippsland country (in eastern Victoria), and also respond to contemporary political issues of relevance to Aboriginal people. Exhibitions have included “Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art” at the National Gallery of Victoria (1994), “Native Title Business”, which was toured nationally by the Regional Galleries Association of Queensland (2002-2005), and the solo exhibition “Secret-Sacred Country” (2002) at the Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by contributing a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Melbourne-based Gunnai painter whose works are inspired by Gunnai stories and designs and his sense of affinity with Gippsland country. His works also respond to contemporary political issues of relevance to Aboriginal people.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b3b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elizabeth-milsom
- Birth Place
- King Island, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Melbourne based printmaker who worked as an assistant in Bill Young's Print Workshop after graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1985. She has exhibited in over 40 exhibitions across Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b3c
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TLCMap IDtb9b3e
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TLCMap IDtb9b3f
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vicki-west
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- Vicki West is a Tasmanian Aboriginal installation artist who works with kelp, textiles, vines and seeds to create sculptural installations that speak of the impact of invasion, government policies, land rights and social justice issues. West is a descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania and her heritage inspires much of her artwork. She works with kelp, dodder vines and seeds that connects her to her ancestors, in particular the women and their kelp and weaving traditions.In West’s hands the kelp and the dodder vines take on a more contemporary form. With an understanding of the traditional knowledge of how to collect, dry and manipulate these materials, she brings to life objects that at first viewing appear 'ancient’ but on closer inspection have meanings and subtexts that are relevant to a modern audience. For example her kelp vests are armour-like costumes sewn to form a physically fragile vest that has the appearance of wearability. The dodder vine woven objects comprise rows of interconnected woven circles that hang suspended, evoking a fantasy world where light and shadow suggest the whispers and movements of ancestral spirits. Yet these same suspended objects have a contemporary sculptural appearance that today’s art audiences can relate to.West began making art in the early 1990s but did not exhibit until 1996 in the group show 'Buddhabungan’ at the Australian National University. She spent the next ten years exhibiting in group shows including 'Spinifex Runner’ curated by Diane Moon at Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW (1998); 'Knotted Up’ at Gallery B, University of Tasmania (2000); 'Journeys’ at Bond Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (2001); 'Native Title Business’ at Queensland Museum (2002) and 'We’re Here’ at the National Museum of Australia (2004).'A Nasty Piece of Work’ was shown at the Arts Alive Artspace in Launceston in 2005 and marked West’s first solo exhibition, her second solo, 'Shadow: A Nasty Piece of Work No 2’ also in 2005 was exhibited at the Poimena Gallery in Launceston and in 2008 'Re-earthing’ at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne was her third. West continues to show her work in group exhibitions such as the 'Premaydena’ with Lola Greeno as part of the 2007 Ten Days on the Island Arts Festival and 'Nguurramban: Where We Are’ at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda, Melbourne in July and August of 2007.In 2000 West was a finalist in the 17th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory with her untitled stitched kelp vessel. In 2003 she received her first arts grant from Arts Tasmania to develop a new body of work Journey to Other, which was the pre-cursor to 'A Nasty Piece of Work’. The grant also enabled West the opportunity to experiment with kelp and other fibres and dyes. In 2004 she won an Arts Tasmania residency at Lake St Clair (Residency Leeawulenna), which she undertook in early 2005. The intended result of this residency is a site specific installation (scheduled for completion in 2009), Living Culture, designed to be a functional protective structure made from materials found on site for its Aboriginal Weaving Garden – a garden that consists of local Indigenous plants utilised by Tasmanian Aboriginal people in Launceston. West is not only an exhibiting artist but also a curator and a workshop and conference presenter. In 2001 she curated the exhibition 'Taking Our Place’ at Gallery A, University of Tasmania (Launceston campus) and in 2004 she conducted a weaving workshop with fellow weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston and a kelp workshop at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. In 2006 she presented a conference paper at the Selling Yarns conference in Darwin and for the touring exhibition 'Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia’ at Object Gallery in Sydney. In 2007 she was invited to sit as a member of the Aboriginal Advisory Committee for Arts Tasmania.In 2008 West completed her Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, Launceston. This completed a period of study that began more than a decade earlier when she enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts (awarded in 1999) and then a Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours (awarded in 2001) from the University of Tasmania.West is represented in the City of Port Phillip Council art collection, St Kilda, Victoria; the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney; the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston; the National Museum of Australia, Canberra; and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1960
- Summary
- Vicki West is a Tasmanian sculptor, weaver and installation artist who works with vines, kelp and textiles.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b40
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/louise-owen
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Louise feels an urgency and obligation to address the global climate crisis. As an environmental artist, her work is concerned with our relationship with the natural environment. She explores remote places, using a range of methods and materials - sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography and sound recordings.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b41
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nameer-davis
- Birth Place
- Birmingham, England, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Nameer was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b42
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b43
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tony-ameneiro
- Birth Place
- London, UK
- Biography
- Artist-printmaker, draughtsman and watercolourist, Tony Ameneiro was born in 1959 in London to Spanish parents. Ameneiro immigrated to Australia in 1968. He studied art at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Sydney, NSW, from 1978-81.
Ameneiro began exhibiting in Sydney in 1984 with his solo exhibition titled 'Camouflaged Cakes’ at the James Harvey Gallery in Newtown, after which he continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe and the United States.
In 2007 he held a solo exhibition titled 'Skulls and Lilies, Lilies and Skulls’ at the Marianne Newman Gallery in Sydney.
Ameneiro has been a three-time finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2003, 2006 and 2012) and in 2007 he received the Fremantle Print Award.
His commissions include the 2001 and 2006 Annual Member Print Commission for the Australian Print Council.
Writers:
Ameneiro, Tony
amenet
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Ameneiro is an artist, printmaker and educator. He also works with watercolour and drawing and has been a three-time finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2003, 2006 & 2012). He was the winner of the Fremantle Print Award in 2007.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b44
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/suzon-fuks
- Birth Place
- Brussels, Belgium
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Intermedia artist, Suzon Fuks explores the integration and interaction of the body and moving image through performance, screen, installation and online work. Initiator, co-founder, coordinator and main curator of Waterwheel, an internet platform created during an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship. Fuks has been the Igneous co-artistic director since its inception in 1997.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b45
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/eugenia-raskopolis
- Birth Place
- Czechoslovakia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Installation artist whose work explores bodies, identities and issues of translation
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b46
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phaptawan-suwannakudt
- Birth Place
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Phaptawan Suwannakudt has worked extensively in the production of murals and in contemporary exhibitions of Thai traditional painting. After moving to Australia in 1996, she has employed her Thai artistic heritage in communicating new narratives about the Australian landscape and contemporary western society.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b47
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simryn-gill
- Birth Place
- Singapore
- Biography
- Photographer, was born in Singapore, grew up in Port Dickson, Malaysia, to which she frequently returns (series, A Small Town at the Turn of the Century , 1999-2000 – 38 large colour photographs detailing members of the town with heads and faces represented by fruit). Educated in Jaipur, India and the UK, she is married to a Chinese-Australian, with whom she has had two children (Raffel interview): a son born in Kuala Lumpur and a daughter born in Adelaide. She also lived in Singapore before arriving in Sydney in 1996, where she now lives. She began exhibiting in 1991, first showing at the IMA in 1993. Outside Australia, she has had solo exhibitions in Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, UK and USA and has shown in the Venice, Sydney and Berlin Biennales and the Istanbul Biennial. She has had residencies at the SAM, Artspace, San Antonio (Texas) and CCA Kitakyushu (Japan).
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Photographer, born in Singapore and moved to Australia in 1996. Has exhibited work in the Venice, Sydney, Berlin and Istanbul Biennales.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b48
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/paul-fairweather
- Birth Place
- Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Paul Fairweather, architect, designer, painter, installation artist and Director of Fairweather Proberts Architects Pty Ltd, was born in 1959 in Townsville, Queensland. There he spent most of his childhood until the age of twelve when the family moved to Brisbane. Fairweather and his four siblings were brought up in an artistic environment where his mother enjoyed needlework and other crafts and his father, upon retirement from engineering, enthusiastically embraced oil painting. Fairweather’s architectural projects and artworks both epitomise his strong interest in the arts. Indeed the artist feels the making and expressive features of art came to inform his approach to architecture. In 1979 Fairweather began working in various architectural offices – ETS consultants, Griffith University Building and Grounds, John Dimitriou Architects, John Grauf Builder, and Department of Works – while studying part-time at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1987, and established Paul Fairweather Architects in 1991. In 1996, he merged with Liam Proberts Architects to form Fairweather Proberts Architects (FPA). The practice has produced an extensive range of architectural, interior, residential, commercial and memorial projects. FPA has won numerous industry awards and architecture design competitions including sixteen Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) national and state awards, and 1st Prize in the National Police Memorial Design Competition (2005). Indeed the National Police Memorial (2006, Canberra) also won the RAIA Urban Design Award (2007) and Art and Architecture Award (2007) and the Design Institute of Australia Gold Award for Built Environment (2008). Fairweather began painting in 1990 and, with annual solo exhibitions since that time, is an active artist. His early interest in painting, often making use of an isolated object to explore colour, fluidity, light and shade, evolved to more complex investigations of emotion and meaning. This shift occurred with his 2001 Archibald Prize entry, Exhibitors of Exuberance, when he had to grapple with the demands of portraiture as well as material and surface. With a newfound interest in the present time and what he refers to as 'momentums of society’, Fairweather seeks to capture his own feelings as well as those of his subject. Fairweather’s command of space in public art projects shows the extent to which his practice straddles architecture and art. Light Installation (2006) uses oversized bright orange witches hats in a star formation to bring new vigour to an industrial warehouse adjacent to the rapidly gentrifying river front of West End, Brisbane. So too, his design is indebted to his art; Fairweather’s whimsical chair designs, especially the playful Mr Curley, and the intricate WWW (Web We Weave) chair (manufactured by Paul Hickey), reveal a degree of experimentation and fun which can be associated with much of his painting. The Fairweather Proberts Prize for Art, awarded annually to children in Catholic primary schools in the Brisbane archdiocese, seeks to award individuals or groups for excellence in art and design application.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Note: Malouf, Christopher Paul
Note: Architectural Studies student, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW.
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Queensland based architect, designer, painter, installation artist and Director of Fairweather Proberts Architects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/josie-kunoth-petyarre
- Birth Place
- Alhalkere, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Josie Petyarre was born at Ahalkere in Utopia. Some biographies give the year 1954. (The Australian Census lists a Josie Pitjara b.1959 to father Alec Ngwarai, Aranda, b.1925, mother Polly Ngale, Aranda b.1936. Siblings: Maisie, Sammy, Audrey, David.)
Petyarre was living at Alhalpere Store, Utopia, in 1987 when she was a batik artist contributing to the Utopia batik project and book (Utopia – A Picture Story). In 2008 she was living at the Utopia outstation of Pungalindum with her husband Dinni Kemarre and her adult children. Josie has painted and exhibited since the late 1980s after the CAAMA’s Summer Project Exhibition. Her past painting subjects were typically 'Women’s Ceremonial Body Paint’ but she also painted 'Yam Dreaming’ and 'Alhalkre Country’ (Leonard Joel, Oct. 2004, lot 396).
In 2005, Josie began making sculptures of animals, figures in ceremonial dress, cars and daily objects from Utopia, and was soon joined by Dinni, formerly a stockman. Dinni and Petyarre then worked collaboratively to produce wildly coloured painted wood sculptures of quirky objects incorporating contemporary themes. In 2006 they produced painted sculptures of Australian Rules footballers from each team and these were exhibited in 2007 at AFL World, Melbourne. Josie and Dinni attended the AFL World exhibition and the football grand final, leading Josie to produce realist paintings of Melbourne. In 2008, Josie and Dinni were joint finalists in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, with brightly painted sculptures of everyday objects such as tables and chairs and a police wagon.
Writers:
Brown, Stephen K.
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Josie was initially a batik artist contributing in 1897 to the Utopia batik project and book. She commenced painting in acrylics after 1988, producing paintings based on womens ceremonies. After 2006, she commenced working collaboratively with her husband, Dinni Kemarre, to produce wildly painted wooden sculptures of quirky, contemporary objects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-johnno-johnson
- Birth Place
- Northern Territory
- Biography
- John 'Johnno’ Johnson is a Canberra based Warramunga man who was born in 1959 in the Northern Territory. He is an installation artist and printmaker working in lithography. His 1994 installation Freedom, consisting of handcoloured lithograph and mixed media, was purchased in 1995 by the Art Gallery of NSW. The National Musuem of Australia also purchased the mixed media installation Barb Wire and Bad Dreams that same year. In 1995 Johnson worked alongside printmaker Theo Tremblay at Studio One Inc and produced a series of lithographs ( Changes, The Gathering and Beginnings & Endings ) which were acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. He submitted these same prints into the 1996 3rd Heritage Art Award, 'The Art of Place’. The heritage statement in the accompanying catalogue explains that these works “relate to Namadgi National Park in the ACT where the artist worked as a fencer in the 1980s. They also relate to sites of occupation found by the artist, which were undiscovered until that time. The works also relate to the shrinking population of Dingoes that live in the Park” (1996, pg 17).
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- 'Johnno' Johnson is a Canberra based installation artist and printmaker who is in the collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/junjadi
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Gugu Yalanji and Yidinji drawer/painter, Junjadi was born in Queensland in 1959. His works on paper and cartoon cells are contempoarary representations of the rock art of his region. He was a featured artist in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Gugu Yalanji and Yidinji drawer/painter, Junjadi was born in Queensland in 1959. His works on paper and cartoon cells are contemporary representations of the rock art of his region.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b4c
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kenny-tjakamarra-gibson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- One of the younger artists living at Balgo, Kenny Gibson was born in Yuendumu about 1959. A Warlpiri speaker, his country is near Jupiter Well, and his principal dreaming is Wanayarra (the Rainbow Serpent). He began painting in 1986, and his work demonstrates a high level of talent and imagination. He has a neat, careful technique, and yet was one of the innovators in the early days of painting in the Balgo community. His works achieve a real sense of movement. He sells his paintings through Warlayirti Artists.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1959
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and one of the innovators of the painting movement in Balgo (WA) in the mid 1980s. He paints for Warlayirti Artists and his work is held in major national collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b4d
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barbara-napaltjarri-charles
- Birth Place
- Napperby station, Napperby, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born on Napperby station c.1959, Barbara Charles and her husband Michael Tommy Tjapangati are both Anmatyerre speakers. Barbara’s country lies south of Twenty Mile Bore, on both Napperby and Coniston stations. Her paintings usually depict Snake and Witchetty Grub Dreamings from this area, which she shares with her sister Rachel. She started painting in 1983 at Napperby station. She sometimes painted for Yuelamu Artists while visiting relatives in Mt Allan. Later she and her husband moved from Napperby and took up more or less permanent residence at Mt Allan. Her work has been shown in several capital cities.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1959
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist who occasionally painted for Yuelamu Artists at Mt Allan, where she finally moved after many years spent in Napperby (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b4e
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judy-watson-1
- Birth Place
- Mundubbera, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Waanyi artist Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland in 1959, and raised in Brisbane. Her fine arts education began in 1977, when she began a two year Diploma of Creative Arts at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba. She moved to Hobart the following year to undertake a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania, which she completed in 1982. In 1986 she completed a Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts at Monash University in Gippsland, Victoria.While Watson had shown her work in a number of galleries during her student days, it wasn’t until the late 1980s and early 1990s that she came to be involved in significant exhibitions. Among her first solo shows were 'a sacred place for these bones’ at Griffith University in Brisbane (following a three-month residency there) in 1989 and 'groundwork’ at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in 1990. Early group shows included the seminal exhibition 'A Koori Perspective’ at Artspace, Sydney in 1989, the First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, 1993 and the 1993 Australian Perspecta at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) – which focused on the work of a range of indigenous Australian artists in recognition of the UN International Year of the Worlds Indigenous People. Watson specialised in printmaking during her fine art studies, and thus initially favoured works on paper, however she soon diversified her practice to include painting, installation and sculpture. An important early print in which Watson explored her Indigenous heritage was the 1988 etching touching my mother’s blood (National Gallery of Australia). the guardians (1986/87) was one of Watson’s first sculptural works, consisting of large figure-shaped panels adorned with mixed media and powdered pigment, representing the artist’s matrilineal Indigenous ancestors including her great-grandmother, grandmother and mother. This work was purchased for the AGNSW’s collection, and featured in the 'Aratjara: Art of the first Australians’ touring exhibition initiated by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf, in 1993. The theme of women’s connectedness that was explored in the guardians is highly significant for the artist, and the family members, sites and ancestral stories of Watson’s family history have been a foundation of her artistic practice since the early days of her career. A critical turning point came in 1990 when she and her family visited Riversleigh Station in north western Queensland, where her maternal grandmother Grace Isaacson was born. Victoria Lynn, writing for the catalogue of the 1995 'Antipodean Currents’ exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, notes that during the visit Watson “researched the history of Aboriginal people and the pastoral industry in the region. Her family showed her bush foods, Spinifex resin, native-bee’s honey (“sugarbag” as it is called colloquially) and rock paintings” (p.106). The creative and emotional resources Watson drew from this visit allowed her to consolidate her artistic language and, as she stated in a 2002 interview with curator Hetti Perkins, published in the book One Sun, One Moon, her practice has remained devoted to an “archeology of memory, history and site” (2007, p. 306). Watson has said that the stories her grandmother shared with her as a child allowed her to “learn from the ground up – to feel the power of the land under your feet that resonates through your body connecting you to country – but also to feel and acknowledge the pride and empowerment of cultural reclamation” (Watson quoted in T. Mia & S. Morgan’s article “Going home to Country”). As this statement conveys, Watson is often concerned with memorialising the human imprint upon the natural world and reanimating sites by honouring those presences. This was achieved on a grand scale in 1994, when Watson was commissioned to create a permanent installation for the floor of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Casula, NSW. Formerly a power station, the Art Centre conversion was in the last stages of completion at the time of the commission. Watson consulted with local community groups, conducted research in local land councils, museums and libraries, visited significant sites in the region, and workshopped ideas with Indigenous children and elders from the area to develop a design for the site. The Indigenous artists Cheryl Robinson, Gordon Hookey, Vivian Scott and Brook Andrew assisted Watson in the production of the Casula floor. Watson undertook a similar research and consultation process to produce another commission in 1999: an etched zinc wall encountered when one enters Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum. The work was entitled Wurreka, which means “to speak” in the Wemba Wemba language of north-west Victoria, and consists of 74 individually etched panels of zinc, which each contain an image drawn from the Indigenous cultural heritage of south eastern Australia. Watson adopts a contemplative and experimental approach to the traditional artists’ resources of ink, paint, charcoal, pastels and dry pigment, an approach that reflects her sensibilities as a printmaker. She attends to the way these materials react to each other, and the way different mediums and binders can be employed to achieve distinctive surfaces. Unpredicted effects that result, for instance, from the textures of the earth upon which she often works, the scrubbing away of layers of pigment, or the dried splashes and bubbles of ink, are allowed to dictate the progress of an image. Such processes, and her exploitation of the qualities of canvas as a cloth rather than a mere support for an image, reflect a fidelity to natural processes: the effects are evocative of the unpredictability of environmental and historical forces, and the way the earth retains the memory of layers of events. This approach is evident in the body of work Watson produced for 'Fluent’, the Australian exhibition co-curated by Brenda Croft, Hetti Perkins and Victoria Lynn for the Venice Biennale in 1997 in which Watson’s work was exhibited alongside those of fellow Indigenous women artists Yvonne Koolmatrie and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Watson has also integrated found materials such as shells, natural oxides and stringy bark into her works. The artist’s style is also marked by a tendency to extrapolate the symbolic and metaphorical resonances of the materials she uses in light of aspects of her own biography, and of the history of human occupation in Australia. As she writes of the work driftnet (1998), included in the 2000 Adelaide Biennial 'Beyond the Pale’, curated by Brenda Croft, it “references the destructive nature of those nets that entrap turtles and dolphins indiscriminately. It also alludes to my practice as an artist, travelling, collecting information, materials and meaning from places other than my own country. It holds the weave, the threads of cultural knowledge, a catcher of thoughts like a spirit net” (quoted in 'Beyond the Pale’ catalogue, p.88). The fact that Waanyi people are known as 'running water people’ is of great importance to the artist, and she evokes the qualities of water in many of her works. Watson has been a committed environmentalist since she shared a home with conservationists as a student in Hobart. When she moved to Townsville after her studies were complete she became a member of the North Queensland Conservation Council, and participated in conservation campaigns concerned with the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland and the Franklin River in Tasmania. In 1995, Watson was awarded the Moët & Chandon fellowship, and two important bodies of work resulted from the associated French residency, the first of which pursued environmental themes. The French government was undertaking nuclear testing in the Pacific at the time of her residency, and Watson produced a series of works articulating her sense of “feeling compromised” by these circumstances, as she explained in an article she wrote for Artlink entitled “Nucleus: Feeling Compromised” (1996). Two paintings from this period: the water boiled and turned white and pacific vessel were among the works selected for the 'In Place (Out of Time) exhibition: Contemporary Art in Australia’ exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1997. Also included in this exhibition were a series of etchings derived from periods of research undertaken at the Horniman and Science Museum and the British Museum (Museum of Mankind) in the United Kingdom during her French residency. The etchings, now in the collection of the AGNSW, are titled our bones in your collections, our skin in your collection and our hair in your collection (1997). They reflect another key artistic preoccupation for Watson: the racial classification of Indigenous Australians historically, and their fragmented and reified presence within the archival collections of museums around the world. Recurring themes in Watson’s work are shells, middens, termite mounds, vessels, fossils, plants, islands and maps, and these are frequently rendered in a manner that evoke the corporeal: bones, hair, scarred skin and blood. Through this treatment of the body, Watson explores both the human presence within the land and the impact of the malevolent structures of the State upon indigenous Australians. The latter was the theme of her 2005 work a preponderance of aboriginal blood, which resulted from a commission from the State Library of Queensland. The library sought a range of women artists’ responses, in the form of artists’ books, to the history of voting rights in Queensland. This was for the dual purpose of commemorating a century of Queensland women’s suffrage, and 40 years of Indigenous suffrage. a preponderance of aboriginal blood, which consisted of manipulated reproductions of assimilation policy documents splashed with red ink, was awarded the Telstra Work on Paper Award at the 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, 2006. In the award documentation Watson is quoted as saying of the archival material: “Its heaviness dictates an era of constriction and control for all Aboriginal people caught within its web.” In 2007 Watson addressed the theme in another artist’s book, but in a more personal register: under the act worked with family photographs and documentary evidence of her grandmother’s and great grandmother’s subjection to Queensland’s Aborigines Protection and the Restriction of Opium Act (1897). This work was included in 'Culture Warriors’, the inaugural Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Brenda Croft (2007). Over the course of her career, Watson has undertaken international residencies in Italy, India, Canada, Norway and France. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas, and her work is included in the collections of all major state galleries, as well as numerous overseas collections. At the time of writing, several survey shows of Watson’s work have been staged, including 'sacred ground beating heart: works by Judy Watson 1989-2003’, an international touring exhibition initiated by John Curtin Gallery in Perth, and 'Judy Watson: Selected Works 1990-2005’ at the Queensland University Art Museum. In 2006 Watson received the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Contemporary Art Award. Watson has held lecturing and tutoring positions at a range of universities, and has also been active in encouraging and assisting other Indigenous artists to research their heritage, access art resources, and develop approaches to creating art works that reflect their history, identity and location. She has undertaken a number of public art commissions subsequent to 'Casula floor piece’ and Wurreka. These include an installation in the Walama forecourt (2000) at the Sydney airport, for which artist Brook Andrew also contributed sculptural works. After consultation with Maningrida weavers in the Northern Territory, Watson designed large corroded steel structures that echo the shapes of dilly bags, termite mounds and sedge grass fences, while she also developed a shell theme for the site in consultation with La Perouse (Sydney) shellwork artist Esme Timbery. Other commissions include Ngarrn-Gi – Land (which means “to know” in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people of the Melbourne region), a 50 metre long, three-panelled zinc wall installed in the foyer of the Victorian County Court in 2002, and heart/land/river (2004), which consists of 18 large photographic glass panels with fibre optic lighting, at the Brisbane Magistrate’s Court. In 2005, Watson was selected to produce two works, a glass ceiling and a glass wall facade, that were permanently installed in the Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, which opened in 2006. Watson was among a group of eight indigenous artists whose work was integrated into the architectural fabric of the buildings, the others being Ningura Napurrula, Lena Nyadbi, Michael Riley, Tommy Watson, John Mawurndjul, Paddy Bedford and Gulumbu Yunupingu. After many years living in different parts of Australia and long periods of time overseas, at the time of writing Watson had returned to live in Brisbane with her family.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Watson is a Brisbane-based Waanyi artist who works across a range of mediums to explore familial, historical, political and environmental aspects of Australian Indigenous heritage and experience. In 2006 she was the winner of the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/joanna-flynn
- Birth Place
- Western Australia
- Biography
- printmaker, born WA. Her etchings illustrated in Roger Butler, My Head is a Map: A decade of Australian Prints (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia [NGA] catalogue, 1992) include One Hundred Skeletons [at feast], 1989, etching and aquatint (NGA) and One Hundred Stone Breakers 1989, etching, aquatint, roulette (NGA). Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery has Gulliver edn 22/30 (sort of Stalin head surrounded by girls), one of the prints by 11 artists chosen by Katrina Rumley for the Print Council of Australia’s (PCA) print subscribers’ edn 1992, ill. Imprint 27/2 (spring 1992), 15. See also Jo Flynn, Island , PCA catalogue, Melbourne, 1989. Very intricate work, but not cartoons.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- The printmaker Joanna Flynn, practitioner in etching and aquatint, is represented in the National Gallery of Australia with six prints.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b50
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TLCMap IDtb9b51
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rosemary-laing
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Photographer and art teacher, was born in Brisbane but has lived and worked in Sydney for years. She originally trained as a painter; she has a Dip Art Education, Brisbane CAE 1976-79; Dip Art, TU School of Art 1982; Postgraduate diploma SCA 1990-91, MFA Hons I, UNSW CoFA 1992-96. Since about 1988, however, she has been producing enormous photographs 'at the interface of nature and technology’ (Alexander 2001). She exhibits at Gitte Weise Galleries, Paddington, and teaches at UNSW CoFA. Natural Disasters (1988) 'saw the idea of the Australian landscape as a kind of media construction, existing only as point of transit’, Alexander states, while from paradise work (1990-91) 'explored the hyperral effects on plexiglass and cibachrome: a second nature where nature is swallowed up by artifice’. Blow-out was at Annandale Gallery in 1993. Her series greenwork (1995) and b rownwork (1996-97) began her explorations of the interface of nature and technology. In greenwork she digitally reworked four panoramic landscapes of trees by photographer Peter Elliston by transforming all points into lines. 'Locale and landscape was blown up onto computer printed vinyl, converting it into a hailstorm of pixels, or information signals… With the help of Sydney Airport (FAC), the artist created images that changed jets into a kind of condensed ground fog’ (Alexander). The series was first shown at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport in 1995. Aero-zone was shown at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan in 1999.
Laing’s series Flight research (1998-2000) looked at 'photographers who assume the role of director in relationship to their subjects’. The series is of a beautiful woman in a white dress with a skirt like a cloud floating in the sky (Candice Bruce owns the most famous one in the series). After being shown at Gitte Weise in 2000, flight research series was included in group shows at the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (December 2001-March 2002, with Gregory Crewdson USA and Sharon Lockhart USA), then in Constructed Realities at the Grand Arts Foundation, Kansas City (with Tracey Moffatt and three blokes – all presumably Yanks).
Laing’s next series, groundspeed 2001 (funded by Feltex carpets and a small UNSW ARC grant), consisted of large coloured photographs of bush locations on the remote South Coast of NSW: a 'ferny dell’ at the George Boyd Lookout, what remains of the big timber country near Morton National Park, and a rocky outcrop in an old bluestone quarry at Kiama. In each the ground was replaced by an old-fashioned Feltex carpet (fitted on site, not digitally manipulated), each of a different floral pattern: Red Piazza c.1972, Rose Petal (from England, c.1930) and Harrogate Flower (1978) respectively. The sites were selected, measured and photographed, the three carpets cut in Sydney, installed on site and the locations rephotographed on negative film in panoramic (wide and superwide) focus. From the 23+ rolls of film she took, a very few images were selected and blown up for exhibition at Gitte Weise (29 August-22 September 2001), followed by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, ARCO in Madrid and the Armory, New York.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Laing is most well known for her fantastical landscape images of bush floors and rocky outcrops laid with vintage Feltex carpet. Amazingly these scenes are created, not digitally, but by accurately cutting, fitting and laying the carpet on site.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nerissa-lea
- Birth Place
- South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- printmaker, born South Australia; does etchings/aquatints, including the de Chirico influenced A Case of Fratricide 1985 (Pinacotheca, Melbourne), illus. Interior Motives: The Mitchelton Print Exhibition 1988 , Benalla & Shepparton Art Galleries catalogue, 1988, p.17. Image and short biographical entry in Australian Black and White Artists Club Book of Originals (1986), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (178.1988.1 102).
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Printmaker who does etchings and aquatints. Lea was born in South Australia and her work includes the 1985 Georgio de Chirico-influenced 'A Case of Fratricide'.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b54
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-hickson
- Birth Place
- Singleton, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Artist and educator working with historical oil painting and environmental issues.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b55
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-bell
- Birth Place
- Maitland, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter, cartoonist and comic artist, was born in Maitland, New South Wales. In 2006 he was still working in the Hunter Valley, NSW making comic screenprints (National Gallery of Australia).
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Contemporary Hunter Valley painter, cartoonist and comic artist. Bell's work is held in the collections of the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b56
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Description
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TLCMap IDtb9b57
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/melinda-rackham
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Melinda Rackham is an artist and theorist who has been working online since the mid 1990s in her domain www.subtle.net. Her web practice has investigated the technological and psychological aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. She has just completed her PhD on the nature and construction of spaces and avatars within Virtual Reality Networked Environments at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.Rackham’s writing appears online and in print in arenas like Ctheory, Culture Machine, Leonardo, and Realtime. Conference presentations include Contagion in Australia, Invencao in Brazil, and Consciousness Reframed in Wales. She has participated in residencies at Polar Circuit in Finland and Discovery at Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. Her award winning web works have been shown in Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA.Rackham received the SoundSpace Award for Virtual Worlds at the 2001. Stuttgart Filmwinter, and the Faulding Award for Multimedia at the 2000 Adelaide Festival.She was the first Curator of Networked Media at the Australian Centre for Moving Image, and in 2002 she established empyre, one of the world’s leading online critical media art theory forums.She was Director of Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) from 2005 till 2009 where she forged significant industry partnerships and encouraged the critique of research and practice in art, science and new technologies. Currently Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Rackham’s focus is curating and writing on emerging art and cultures and their impact on our everyday lives.
Writers:
d/Archive
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Melinda Rackham is an network and media artist, curator, editor and writer. She has been working online since the mid 1990's in Australia and Internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b58
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/naomi-kim-grant
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Naomi Kim Grant was born in 1959 in Sydney, New South Wales. She is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales. In 1964 her family moved to Junee and then back to Sydney in 1968 for four years before moving once again to Melbourne in 1972. In 1976 Grant moved to Perth where she graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Design (Textile major) from the West Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT – later Curtin University). In the 1980s Grant set up her own textile business, Naomi Mills Textile Designs, which she ran successfully until 1989 – the same year she won 'Best Watercolour Painting’ at the City of Bayswater Art Awards.
In 1990 Grant made the decision to concentrate more heavily on fine art as a career and in 1991 she was successful in receiving an Australia Council for the Arts grant that enabled her to travel to the Kimberly region of Western Australia on a painting expedition. She also began to submit her work into national art awards and in 1993 was a finalist in the 'Heritage Art Award’ exhibition held at Old Parliament House, Canberra. In 1993 Grant enrolled in an architecture course at Curtin University but only completed the first year. Grant states that she “decided to withdraw at the time because I was a single mum and the pressure to study and look after my daughter was too great.” (Pers. Comm., April 2009). Instead she returned to full-time work, securing a job as a design coordinator at the Caning Vale Weaving Mills. She held this job for six years. In 2000 she freelanced as designer for Glen Holst Furniture and in 2001 worked as a development manager for Sonshine FM Christian Radio. In 2000 Grant began exhibiting her acrylic paintings, collages and prints at various galleries around Perth. She developed a technique of layering coloured tissue paper under and over the painted surface, giving the surface a textured three-dimensional appearance. Grant’s paintings are inspired by dreams, visions and memories and her Indigenous heritage “adds another layer of design and inspiration” (Pers. Comm., April 2009).In addition to winning the 1989 watercolour prize, Grant won the 1981 'Craftsman of the Year’ at the York Fair, was awarded 2nd prize for 'Best Oil Painting’ in the 2001 City of Belmont Art Awards, gained 'Most Popular Painting’ award and the 'Maali Indigenous Award’ at the 2007 Midland Gate Art Awards. Searching for a change, in 2003 Grant undertook a TEFL course in Thailand and became an English and Art teacher in Bangkok in 2004. She returned to Australia in 2005 and worked for two years as a promotions, recruitment and student support coordinator at the Kurongkurl Katitjin School of Indigenous Studies at Edith Cowan University. In 2007 Grant began painting full-time and in the same year her painting Shadow of Dreams was selected to be featured in the June edition of Australian Artist magazine. This was the third time Australian Artist had featured her work: the January and November 2002 editions that featured her paintings Evolution and Peace respectively.In 2008 Australian Artist magazine published a feature article on Grant in their December issue and Oxfam Australia commissioned the painting Wiradjuri/Murray Darling climate change disaster which was displayed at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Poland, 2008. In 2009 Grant was living and working in Perth, Western Australia.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Perth based painter whose painting technique involves layering coloured tissue paper under and over the painted surface.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b59
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TLCMap IDtb9b5a
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/roger-barrett
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Australian architect Roger Barrett was born in Sydney in 1959. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Sydney after which he worked locally with architects Harry Seidler and Glenn Murcutt. He then worked in Japan with Furmihko Maki and in 1988 completed his Masters degree at Harvard University. Barrett then worked on the LA Getty Museum with Richard Meier and Michael Palladino as the only Australian on the team. On returning to Australia he set up Barrett Pinet Architecture with Danielle Pinet.
Barrett is also an artist and the influence of Richard Meier can be seen in the use of “geometric shapes, minimal decoration and simple, functional forms” in his paintings (Barrett 2008 pers.comm). Barrett’s drawings and paintings were exhibited in the Mary Place Gallery exhibition 'In the soul of the architect’ in 2005.
Writers:
Qiao, Liming
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Australian architect born in Sydney in 1959. Barrett studied at the University of Sydney and Harvard University and has worked abroad in Japan, the USA and South America. In 1998, he established Barrett Pinet Architecture in Bondi Junction, Sydney.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b5b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kerry-giles
- Birth Place
- Waikerie, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- artist and activist, known to her people, the Ngarrindjeri, as “Kurwingie”, was born at Waikerie, South Australia. Her father, Stan, was an outstanding indigenous footballer, her mother apparently an Irish Australian. After attending Mitcham Girls High School in Adelaide, Kerry, aged 16, travelled to Darwin and worked at Glen Helen near Hermannsburg as a chamber-maid. There she began drawing images of Namatjira country, which she sold to guests at the hotel. She then did basketwork and associated craftwork in Darwin, until motherhood and a desire to continue her studies led her back to Adelaide in 1984. An arsonist destroyed most of her art and led her to abandon her third and final year of study for a TAFE Associate Diploma in Fabric Design. By 1986, however, she was fully engaged in art again, and in that year won the South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year award.
In 1988 Giles spent some time as a trainee graphic artist with Co-Media and was invited (with Mitch Dunnett junior) to be Aboriginal Artist in Residence at Flinders University, where she produced her first limited editions of works on paper and curated her first exhibition, The Cutting Edge: new art from the Third and Fourth Worlds . In 1989 she worked on a major mural project at the Port Lincoln Aboriginal Organisation. Her art incorporated material about the Aboriginal struggle for land rights, deaths in custody, exploitation of the environment, and indigenous rights. These themes were developed at Tandanya in 1989-92 when she was a trainee exhibitions’ officer. She was particularly involved in East to West: Land in Papunya Tula painting (the 1990 Adelaide Festival exhibition), and in 1991 curated Two countries, one weave , an exhibition on the work of Maningrida and Ngarrindjeri weavers. A second residency at Flinders saw Giles develop a technique of marbling on fabric. She held her first solo show at Flinders Art Gallery, ooooh! I feel Good… .
1992 saw the production of a great range of silk paintings, linocuts, screenprints and etchings. She was one of three contributors to a Contemporary Art Centre of SA exhibition, Murrundi: three River Murray stories . In 1993 she held another solo exhibition, fab ART [et al. see Megaws]
Giles died suddenly on 21 July 1997. A retrospective was held at Flinders University Art Museum in August.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Giles worked as an artist, activist and curator. She has many accolades to her name, including the South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 1986 and two Artist in Residencies at Flinder's University. A retrospective of her work was held in 1997, the year of her sudden death.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 21-Jul-97
- Age at death
- 38
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b5c
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jenny-bell
- Birth Place
- Goulburn, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b5d
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/danielle-pinet
- Birth Place
- Montevideo, Uruguay
- Biography
- Danielle Pinet, architect and painter, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1959.
Writers:
Ansart, JulienDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Danielle Pinet, architect and painter, was born in Uruguay and currently resides and practises in Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b5e
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1959-01-01 End Date1959-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bronwyn-platten
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Bronwyn Platten has received numerous Professional Development and Special Project Grants awarded by various funding bodies including Arts South Australia and the Australia Council. As well as residencies in Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen and Greene Street Studio, New York, Platten has educated and collaborated within the arts. She is represented in several collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b5f
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-higgins
- Birth Place
- Deniliquin, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1959
- Summary
- Higgins was an ornithologist and photographer who, after an assistantship, became a managing editor over five volumes of the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds (HANZAB).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-Jan-22
- Age at death
- 63
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b60
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Details
Latitude-36.0984156 Longitude140.3530166 Start Date1959-01-01 End Date1959-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ken-orchard
- Birth Place
- Keith, SA, Australia
- Biography
- sculptor, printmaker, painter and curator, born Keith, SA; does surrealistic woodcuts influenced by Max Ernst and James Gleeson. Works in many media.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor, printmaker, painter and curator. Orchard does surrealistic woodcuts influenced by Max Ernst and James Gleeson.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b61
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1959-01-01 End Date1959-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christine-johnson
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Christine Johnson was born in 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria. She comes from a family of artists, including her paternal grandfather who was a photographer. Johnson graduated from Caulfield Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Victoria in 1979 with a Diploma of Fine Art. She went on to study at RMIT, also in Melbourne, receiving her Graduate Diploma in 1980. Directly after Johnson’s time at RMIT she graduated with her Diploma of Education from Melbourne State College.
In addition to her fire art career, in the early 1980s Johnson worked as an art director on independent films and music videos. She worked with artists like Nick Cave, The Models and video makers the Rich Kids. She returned to art by taking art classes with Howard Arkley. She and Howard were married for about three years until 1989. Howard encouraged her to paint. It was during this time that she found her inspiration. It came from a combination of light, the natural elements of gardens and beauty. She would continue to harvest these elements in her paintings and drawings.
Since her first solo show in 1989, Johnson has had over 15 solo shows of her work and been included in numerous group shows. During her career, she has shown her work at Legge Gallery in Sydney and at Australian Galleries in Melbourne among others. Johnson currently shows her art at Martin Browne Fine Art in Sydney. Frequently Johnson has been interviewed about her artwork. The art press and major national newspapers and magazines have reviewed her shows.
Johnson has won awards and grants including the 9th RM Ansett Art Award at the Howard Gallery in 1992. Additionally, in 1990 she won a project grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.
She has taught art at various times during her art career. From 1986 to 1993 she taught General Drawing, Life Drawing and Arts Business Practice at Prahran TAFE while during similar years (1987 to 1991) she taught Advance Certificate of Art & Design at Dandenong TAFE. More recently from 1995 to 2001 she taught painting at Sophie Mundi Steiner School. Today she focuses on her art practice and raising her two children.
Writers:
Jim Sheehan
cjart
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Since her graduation from Caulfield Institute of Technology's Fine Arts program in 1979, Christine Johnson's primary focus is on painting. Additionally, at various times in her career she has taught art. Johnson has won numerous prizes, grants and commissions.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b62
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1959-01-01 End Date1959-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-doolan
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Michael Doolan was born in Melbourne in 1959 where he was still living and working in 2008.
Doolan completed a Bachelor of Arts (Ceramic Design) at Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne (1981), and graduated with a Master of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne (2001) where he is currently a lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Fine Art.
He has held various solo exhibitions throughout Australia, most notably for now and for ever , Karen Woodbury Gallery (2007); Never EverLand , Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston (2005); Boo Who?, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Good as Gold , Brisbane City Gallery, Queensland (2003); and The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly , Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (2000).
Doolan has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award , McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria (2007-08); the prestigious by invitation only Trans Ceramic Art , Third World International Ceramics Biennale, Korea (2005); Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter , Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, which then toured Australia’s regional galleries (2006/2008); Snap Freeze: Still Life Now , TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2007); You’re so Vain: 5 Contemporary Sculptors , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); Boogie Jive and Bop , Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston (2004); and the Gold Coast International Ceramics Award , Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland (2003).
Among his various achievements, Doolan has been the recipient of the Out of Time Grant , Australia Council for the Arts (2005); a London Studio Residency , Australia Council for the Arts (2002); the Sidney Myer International Ceramics Award (2002); and in 1995, was awarded a gold medal at the 14th International Biennale, Ceramique d’Art , Vallauris, France.
Doolan’s work features in many private and public collections, both in Australia and abroad, including the Shepparton Art Gallery in Victoria; Newcastle Regional Art Gallery in NSW; Gold Coast City Gallery and Ipswich Art Gallery, both in Queensland; and the Chateau Museum, Vallauris, France.
Doolan was a finalist in the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2007, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria and is due to show in Sydney in 2008 with Karen Woodbury Gallery.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Melbourne-based ceramic sculptor, Michael Doolan's work is inspired by the world of toys and popular culture. Employing traditional modelling techniques, Doolan's work has been exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas and in 2005 he participated in the prestigious, invitation only Trans Ceramic Art, Third World International Ceramics Biennale in Korea.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b63
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/polly-borland
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- photographer, born in Australia but relocated to England in 1989, took a portrait of Michael Hutchence in 1997 (National Portrait Gallery [NPG]). Along with her photographs of other expatriate Australian celebrities, her photograph of Hutchence was included in Borland’s federation exhibition at the NPG (Canberra, 2001) as well as in Helen Ennis’s Mirror with a Memory (Canberra: NPG, 2000).
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- England-based, Australian-born photographer Polly Borland is well-known for her portraiture of famous Australians. The National Portrait Galleries of Canberra and London hold examples of her work.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b64
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-wynne
- Birth Place
- Yarram, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b65
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b66
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/denise-robinson
- Birth Place
- Launceston, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, Denise Ava Robinson, was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1959. Robinson’s art practice, which encompasses fibre work, installation and sculpture made from natural found materials began in 1997, when she enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania’s Launceston (Newnham) campus. Between 1998 and 1999, Robinson was able to undertake one year of study at the University of Hawaii School of Art, in Manoa, Honolulu, where she worked under the guidance of the fibre artist Patricia Hickman, an artist who remained an important mentor for Robinson. One of the first group exhibitions in which Robinson’s work was included was “Surface, Structure, Space”, at the University of Hawaii Art Gallery in 1999, and she has participated in a number of Hawaiian based exhibitions and art events in subsequent years. In 1999 Robinson completed her degree, and in 2000 she completed a further year of study at the University of Tasmania, achieving a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours. Robinson’s work reflects her sensitive and tactile engagement with the landscape. In 2001 she was awarded a Tasmanian Wilderness Residency, which allowed her to spend several months at Eddystone Point, the most easterly point on Tasmania’s north-east coast, in the Mount William National Park. The resulting work was included in the exhibition “Isolation Solitude” at Salamanca Arts Centre (2005), an exhibition which showcased the work of 18 artists who had undertaken Tasmanian Wilderness Residencies in different parts of Tasmania. In his catalogue essay for the exhibition, Peter Timms writes that upon the completion of her residency in 2003, 'Denise Robinson threw in her day-job and went to live on the remote north coast. The residency, she says “reminded me of what’s real and what matters”’ (p. 7). Between 2003 and 2008, Robinson lived in Tam O’Shanter Bay, near Lulworth, during which her creative practice became focused upon the natural refuse that she collected on the beaches near her home. She also participated in a number of community arts projects during these years, including the “Highway 1 Project” at the Old Supreme Court House in Oatlands, for Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island Festival in 2003. This installation, entitled Many hands make light(n) work: that which makes things visible, or affords illumination involved a celebratory engagement with Indigenous Tasmanian traditions: hundreds of volunteers assisted in the creation of large, mat-like woven spirals made from wool, flax and grasses native to Tasmania. In 2007 Robinson held her first solo exhibition, titled “Part & Particle” at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. As Jane Stewart points out in her Artlink review of the show, the 'exhibition title is a quote from American philosopher and naturalist Ralph Waldo Emerson’s collection of essays, Nature (1836), writings which encourage the reader to abandon egotism and become one with the natural and elemental forces’. This philosophy has been foundational to Robinson’s practice. Her work seeks to portray the natural cycles and patterns that she observes in the landscape on an intimate scale by using a mixture of organic and non-organic mediums. The work that culminated in Robinson’s 2007 solo exhibition was informed by her exploration of coastal areas of Tasmania, and is founded upon a patient, contemplative receptiveness to environmental processes. Corraline algae, which Robinson spends many hours collecting, cleaning and drying, has become an important motif in her work. She has created fine, spare, monochrome constructions by inlaying delicate trails of the calcified algae into a surface of white oil paint on hand-made paper. Robinson has strong familial and collegial relationships with fellow Tasmanian Aboriginal artists Lola Greeno, Vicki West and Julie Gough. Her connection with these women, as well as other Indigenous women artists such as Treanha Hamm and Lorraine Connelly-Northy, with whom she has exhibited, have informed her exploration of the nature of contemporary Indigenous identity. Her Indigenous heritage is the subtext to her attentiveness to the spirit of particular places, and the meaningful relationships that form between people and place. In correspondence with the author, Robinson writes that her intent as an artist “is to take what appears as an incidental and insignificant material to create work in a manner, and within a context, that charges a space with not only an aesthetic transformation but an ethical, cultural or social comment.”In 2008, Robinson was undertaking a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, for which she was producing work that responded to the urban environment. Robinson was also preparing an installation to be included, alongside work produced by Lola Greeno and Lorna Riley, in a 2009 exhibition titled 'Re-earthing’ curated by Vicki West. 'Re-earthing’ was commissioned by the Devonport Regional Gallery to be part of the 2009 Ten Days On The Island Festival.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Note: In correspondence with the artist
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1959
- Summary
- Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who creates delicate sculptural and painted works using the coralline algae found on the beaches of the northern Tasmanian coast.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b67
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b68
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/suzanne-treister
- Birth Place
- Great Britain
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Suzanne Treister arrived in Australia in 1992. She has exhibited internationally in Luxembourg, Germany, Spain and the USA. She is the recipient of various grants from funding bodies including the Australia Council and the British Council and is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b69
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Latitude53.449444 Longitude-7.503056 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sean-leahy
- Birth Place
- Ireland
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in Ireland in 1958; he came to Australia in 1960. He signs his cartoons 'Leahy’, e.g. 'Fraser’s Unemployment’, West Australian 16 October 1980 (included by Christine Dixon, not ill.). After working as editorial cartoonist for the West Australian (from 1975) and for the Sunday Independent in Perth and contributing to the Bulletin , he was appointed political cartoonist for the Courier-Mail in the 1980s, where he remains (2005).
Two Leahy cartoons are included in Kaz Cooke (ed.), Beyond a Joke: The Anti-Bicentenary Cartoon Book (Penguin Books, 1988): one, reprinted from the Bulletin , shows white men raising the British flag in 1788 and saying: “Well, that’s the land rights and national flag debate started – how about culling some kangaroos?” (p.5) and the other a black death in custody gag reprinted from the Courier Mail (p.99). He drew a cartoon for the 1991 'Quit’ [smoking] campaign (original ML PxD 672/17). Since 1998 he has been drawing the 'Beyond the Black Stump’ strip in Canberra’s Sunday Times , presumably syndicated from the Courier Mail .
Howard’s republic stand (Queen asking Howard – on all fours holding up a tea-tray – where he stands on the Republic) and Legislate for Certainty (on Aboriginal/white relations), published Courier Mail 21 June 1997 and 27 January 1997, were exhibited in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House exhibition, 1997), cats 41, 85. He had 2 cartoons in Bringing the House Down 2001 et al.
Under a good self-portrait in the Australian (1-7 April 1999) 'Sean Leahey’ [sic] stated:
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen threatened to sue me during the Fitzgerald inquiry in the late 1980s, but eventually thought better of the idea and backed off. Some of my readers thanked me for saying in my cartoons the sort of things they had been too intimidated to utter for years. Of course, being from Western Australia I didn’t know any better…
The panel says:
The artist: “A brush worker in the Frank Benier/ Bill Mitchell vein. Consistently funny.”
The politician: “The Courier-Mail wouldn’t be the same without this bloke. Often cruel, always funny.”
His work has also appeared in Time Magazine (Australia) .
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Late 20th century Perth and Brisbane newspaper cartoonist. He signs his cartoons 'Leahy'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6a
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Details
Latitude48.2 Longitude16.366667 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/elisabeth-weissensteiner
- Birth Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Elisabeth Weissensteiner works in sculpture, mixed media including photo-based work, art-science collaborations, and installations. Characteristic for her approach to art is a subtle investigation of the space 'in-between', driven by an intellectual curiosity, by a desire to explore, and by being suspicious towards default paths. Her art is often leaving us uncomfortable, being ourselves questioned in our certainties.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6b
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Details
Latitude38.8950368 Longitude-77.0365427 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6c
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Details
Latitude31.2323437 Longitude121.4691024 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dongwang-fan
- Birth Place
- Shanghai, China
- Biography
- Dongwang Fan, a carver, draughtsman, sculptor and painter born in Shanghai, China, 1958.
Fan studied traditional Chinese arts and Western oil painting at Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts between 1977 and 1980. The artist’s first major exhibition was at Shanghai Art Gallery in 1982 and this was followed by his inclusion in the Shanghai Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition in 1986 and the Shanghai International Art Festival in 1987. Fan lectured in Visual Arts at Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts from 1988/89.
Fan immigrated to Australia in 1990 via the Distinguished Talent Scheme. In Sydney he undertook his Masters of Arts at the University of New South Wales’s College of Fine Arts in 1995. Unable to enroll in his desired sculpting course, Fan majored in painting.
A trip to Shanghai in 1998 emphasised a sense of cultural ambiguity for Fan – modernization and globalisation had changed Shanghai so dramatically that the city he left in 1990 was virtually unrecognisable.
In 1999 Fan completed his Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong, titling his thesis Shifting Perspectives and the Body. Here Fan investigated European and Chinese artistic spatial theories, promoting a new model from the comparison of the two. His accompanying work comprises of 5 panels combining iconography, composition and perspective from both Western and Chinese Art History. Fan utilized techniques such as vibrant colour and shadow to imitate the low relief carving aesthetic he studied in Shanghai to create works with multiple viewing points. Highlighting issues of globalization, diaspora and shifting identity and culture Fan relates the ambiguity of perspective with the ambiguity of culture and identity he experienced in Shanghai in 1998.
In 2001 Fan, along with key Chinese political pop figures Li Shan and Yu Youhan, participated in Shanghai Star at Casula Powerhouse, a six-week residency that culminated in an exhibition of works created in that period. Fan, who was a key element in the project development and execution, had studied under Yu in Shanghai and admired Li for some time. Fan’s painted acrylic on canvas works in this exhibition included magnified Chinese dragons and motifs. Russell Storer cites this collaborative exhibition as a turning point in Fan’s career stating it’s “reengagement with the Shanghai of his youth, and with his mentors, has shifted the emphasis in his new work from complex bicultural collision to simpler bolder statements.” (Storer, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 34, 2002, p.23)
Fan followed this exhibition with his Dragon in Water series in pencil on paper and acrylic on canvas and most recently his acrylic on canvas Gum Tree series.
Fan was commissioned in 2000 by the Australian National Gallery for his installation Descendant and has been the recipient of four Australia Council Visual Art New Work Grants and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant in 2003. He was a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s 2013 Blake Prize.
Fan is currently based in Sydney.
Writers:
Weiner, SarahDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Rebecca Craig
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Painter, born in 1958 in Shanghai, China. Since his arrival in Australia in January 1990, Fan has held numerous exhibitions that wittily explore ideas of cross cultural exchange.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6d
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Details
Latitude25.0782266 Longitude-77.3383438 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anne-kay
- Birth Place
- Nassau, Bahamas
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6e
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Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tjapaltjarri-warlimpirrnga
- Birth Place
- near Kiwirrkura, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Born on a hillside east of Kiwirrkura in the mid to late ’50s, Warlimpirrnga was one of the small party of Pintupi whose arrival in Kiwirrkura in 1984 made national headlines. Until this point, Warlimpirrnga had never encountered Europeans. The group had been following their traditional lifestyle in the country west of Lake Mackay. After three years at the settlement, Warlimpirrnga approached Daphne Williams of Papunya Tula Artists with the request that he be allowed to paint. The other artists instructed him in the use of paint and canvas, and he completed his first painting for the company in April 1987. His first 11 paintings were exhibited in Melbourne at the Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery in 1988, the entire group being purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria. Warlimpirrnga paints Tingari stories for his country, around the sites of Marawa and Kanapilya.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1958
- Summary
- Tjapaltjarri was based in country west of Lake Mackay before arriving at Kiwirrkura (WA) in 1984. He began painting for Papunya Tula Artists a few years later with great success, having his first ever 11 paintings acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria. His work is represented in major collections in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b6f
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Details
Latitude-22.043 Longitude132.491 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brenda-nungurrayi-lynch
- Birth Place
- Coniston, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Coniston Station in 1958, Brenda is the wife of Michael Ross . Her father-in-law, Teddy Briscoe Tjampitjinpa , is one of the senior men at Mt Allan. An Anmatyerre speaker, Brenda’s country is around Coniston Station and Supplejack on Napperby station. She began painting in 1986, and paints Rain Water, Water Snake, Witchetty Grub, Corkwood and Yam Dreamings from this region. Her work has been exhibited in national capitals and the UK. She has also sold her work through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs. She currently resides at Pulardi (Desert Bore) outstation. Probably the most accomplished of Napperby’s 'school of Clifford Possum’ painters, she has now absorbed this and other influences in the development of her own personal style.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Anmatyerre artist influenced by the work of Napperby artist, Clifford Possum. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b70
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Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/delphine-giggoru-kendrick
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Painter, Delphine Giggoru Kendrick of the Dyurbak (Jirrbul) people of Innisfail and Ingham, North Queensland was born in 1958. According to the catalogue for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”, her work depicts “nature and her people in contemporary imagery.”
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Painter, Delphine Giggoru Kendrick of the Dyurbak (Jirrbul) people of Innisfail and Ingham, North Queensland was born in 1958. According to the 2001 'Gatherings' catalogue her work depicts "nature and her people in contemporary imagery."
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b71
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Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yvonne-anderson
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Yvonne Anderson of the Gungarri people of Central Queensland was born in 1958 and works in the media of synthetic polymer and mixed media on canvas board. Her work was included in the exhibition, “Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” in Brisbane in 2001.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Yvonne Anderson is a Queensland based Indigenous artist whose work was included in the 2001 exhibition "Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia".
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b72
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Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nola-wilson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1958, Nola is a Warlpiri speaker and the sister of Eunice Napangardi . She started painting in 1987 while she was still living at Yuendumu and sold her work through Warlukurlangu Artists. She paints Bush Banana, Snake and Honey Ant Dreamings. Nola moved to Nyirrpi in 1989 and sold her paintings mainly through the local community store. She has since returned to Yuendumu and sells her work through Warlukurlangu Artists.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: based on information from an interview with the artist conducted by Gabrielle Weichart
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist with connections to Nyirrpi (NT). She has been a member of Warlukurlangu Artists since 1987 and currently lives in Yuendumu.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b73
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Details
Latitude-23.4378387 Longitude144.2586898 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pamela-tjanara-williams
- Birth Place
- Longreach, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Goreng Goreng/Waka Waka photographer, Pamela Williams was born in 1958 in Longreach, western Queensland. During her school days Williams took up trampolining and became the Women’s Queensland Open Champion in 1972 and 1973. After leaving school Williams enrolled in Teachers College where her interest in drama, music and visual art developed. It was also during this time that Williams became politically active in the Land Rights movement and in protesting against what she describes in the “Narragunnawali” catalogue, the “oppressive policies of the Queensland government toward my people.”
After college Williams travelled Australia and began taking photographs, learning the technical aspects of photographic processing and printing from a school friend. In 1985 Williams was present at the Uluru hand-back to the Katajuti Mutitujula people and photographed this historical event. It was this that lead Williams to look at photography as a career. In 1986-1987 Williams was a board member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Steering Committee for the publication, “After 200 Years Photo-essays of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People”.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Photographer of the Goreng Goreng/Waka Waka peoples of Queensland. Pamela Williams became politically active in the Land Rights movement during the 1980s and in 1985 she photographed the Uluru hand-back of land to the Katajuti/Mutitujula people.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b74
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Details
Latitude-23.7 Longitude133.87 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mervyn-rubuntja
- Birth Place
- Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b75
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Details
Latitude-27.1822593 Longitude151.2634168 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-knox
- Birth Place
- Dalby, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Deborah Knox, of the Kamilaroi people was born in Dalby, Queensland in 1958. In 2005, after moving to Boggabilla, NSW Knox began working as a paper maker at the Euraba Paper Company, where she soon learnt that her skills lay in pulp painting. Knox sold her first painting at the Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Art Sydney in 2006. Knox also works as a bookbinder at the paper mill and in 2005 Knox enrolled in the Certificate II Pulp and Paper Manufacturing course at Boggabilla TAFE, graduating in 2006. Apart from the Art Sydney 2006 exhibition Knox has shown her work in Euraba Paper at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW and Double Bushbinding at The Depot Gallery, Danks Street Depot, Sydney, both in 2006.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Bookbinder, papermaker and painter, Deborah Knox began working with handmade paper in 2005 and has exhibited her pulp paintings at the 2006 Sydney Affordable Art Fair, at the Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery and at the Depot Gallery in Danks Street Depot, Sydney.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b76
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/avril-quaill
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Avril Quaill is an Indigenous artist and curator. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She is a Noonuccal woman with clan associations to the Goenpul and Nuigi people of Moreton Bay (Quandamooka) in south-east Queensland. Quaill began practising as an artist in the 1980s. In 1987 she took part in workshops at the Raminginning Arts Crafts centre (later called Bula’bula Arts) in Arnhem Land as a result of a Visual Arts Fellowship awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts.Quaill’s early work is distinctly political. Her 1982 screen-print titled Trespassers Keep Out! uses the motif of the Aboriginal flag and speaks of “the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from Australian political and social life” (Matthews, 2000, p. 681). The work is now held in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.In 1987 Quaill was directly involved with the establishment of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative in Sydney, becoming its chairperson in 1989. Her entre into curatorship came at about this time with her participation in the 1989 Australian Perspecta in Sydney; her major curated exhibition for the perspecta was titled 'A Koori Perspective’ and “aimed to bring public attention to the art of urban Aboriginal artists” (Matthews, 2000, p. 681). In 1995 she joined the curatorial team in the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and in 1995/96 she curated the gallery’s focus exhibition 'Papunya Pictures: The First 10 years’. She was part of the curatorium that produced the exhibitions 'The Eye of the Storm: Eight Australian Indigenous Artists’, which was shown in India in 1996 at the Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, and later at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, 'The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937-1997’ and 'Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds’ (1999) the National Gallery Australia’s major touring exhibition, which travelled to Switzerland, Germany and the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.Quaill is author of Marking Our Times: Selected works of art from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection at the National Gallery of Australia (1996).In 2002 Quaill was appointed Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art with the Queensland Art Gallery. She assisted with the Indigenous arts component of the 'Asia Pacific Triennial’, and also with the major exhibition 'Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest’ in 2003. In July 2004 she assisted Djon Mundine in developing the exhibition and conference 'Blak Insights: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection’.In October 2004 Quaill was seconded to the position of Principal Project Officer at the Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA) in the Department of State Development and Trade for the Queensland Government. QIAMEA promotes Queensland’s Indigenous arts industry through marketing and export activity at the state, national and international level. Her appointment was made permanent in 2006.She was a member of the Indigenous Reference Committee for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2003-06) and a member of the Selection Committee for the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award (2005-06) at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.Quaill was re-appointed to the National Cultural Heritage Committee, Environment Australia in September 2006.Recent authorship includes contributions to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Interesting Times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005.
Writers:
Quaill, Avril
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Printmaker, painter and founding co-member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. Quaill has worked as a curator and arts worker at National Gallery of Australia and Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b77
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Latitude-28.5471732 Longitude150.3073801 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/debbie-hemstead-callaghan
- Birth Place
- Goondiwindi, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Debbie Hempstead-Callaghan, painter, ceramicist, weaver, screenprinter and muralist was born on the 11th December 1958 in Goondiwindi, Queensland. She left Queensland in 1974 and lived in Sydney until 1986, when she moved to Wollongong. Debbie did not take up art until 1997 when she was encouraged by her friend, Mark Timbery, to enrol in the Aboriginal Art and Culture course at West Wollongong TAFE. It is through this course, Hemstead-Callaghan states, that she has been “brought closer to my culture and spirituality”. Hempstead-Callaghan paints in a landscape style on both canvas and wood and was a semi-finalist in TAFE’s annual Art and Design Award in 2003. She regularly participates in the annual NAIDOC exhibition at Wollongong Courthouse and in 2004 she exhibited her prints in the “Red Hand in Wollongong” exhibition at the Long Gallery, University of Wollongong. This exhibition was in association with Franck Gohier of Redhand Graphics. Hempstead-Callaghan graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts from West Wollongong TAFE in August 2006. That same year Hemstead-Callaghan took part in “Looking Through European Eyes”, an exhibition curated by and shown at the Wollongong City Gallery. She was also a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize in 2006 and has worked on a number of murals in her local area including one about drug and alcohol at the Bellambi Community Centre, another for the Department of Housing in Bellambi and another at Bellambi Public School. Of her work, Hemstead-Callaghan says that she likes to “paint on a spiritual level about the land and our ancestors who walked it” and that she hopes to instill in her children the “spiritual connection of the land, the blood and the journey” that her art portrays.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Debbie Hempstead-Callaghan is a self-described environmental and spiritual artist whose work represents birth, spirituality, animals and the environment. She works in the mediums of painting, printmaking, ceramics and weaving.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b78
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Details
Latitude-28.816667 Longitude153.283333 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/diane-fogwell
- Birth Place
- Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- A printmaker, painter and creator of artist's books with a career spanning over 30 years. Fogwell has made a major contribution to the arts community in Canberra through her art practice, teaching at the ANU School of Art, curating and establishing press and print studios.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b79
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Details
Latitude-29.0483333 Longitude152.0177778 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bronwyn-bancroft
- Birth Place
- Tenterfield, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Bronwyn Bancroft is a Bandjalang artist of the Djanbun clan, born in Tenterfield, NSW in 1958. In 1980 she completed a three year Diploma of Visual Arts at the Canberra School of Arts, and then moved to Sydney where she continues to live with her three children. Subsequent periods of study have included a Masters of Studio Practice and a Masters of Arts in Painting at the University of Sydney in 2003 and 2006 respectively. Bancroft’s creative practice traverses textile design, illustration and now predominantly painting. In 1985 Bancroft established her own company: Designer Aboriginals P/L, through which she produced and sold limited edition hand printed fabrics and garments, and represented the work of other Koori artists. In 1987 her textiles, along with those of Euphemia Bostock and Mini Heath, were showcased by Aboriginal models in a Fashion Parade at the Au Primtemps Department Store in Paris. In 1989 her work was displayed in another European exhibition: 'Australian Fashion: Contemporary Art Exhibition’ in London. Items from these exhibitions are now in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Bancroft was a prominent figure within the community of urban-based Indigenous artists who gained a profile within the Australian art world in the 1980s. She was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987, and was included in the seminal exhibition 'A Koori Perspective’ which was part of the 1989 Australian Perspecta in Sydney. Bancroft’s work has consistently sought to affirm the diversity and distinctiveness of Indigenous Australian identity, often through overlapping renderings of the topics of family, community solidarity, memory, heritage and country. In the video A Matter of Identity produced in 1994, Bancroft makes a clear statement about the way she approaches her creative practice: 'I felt that I was an innovative and experimental enough artist to pursue and define my own Aboriginal imagery from within myself and my experience as an Aboriginal artist and person as opposed to just copying traditional imagery.’ This approach is reflected in the combination of photomontage and painting in the work You don’t even look Aboriginal (1991), in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. More recently her work has explored 'her family’s history and a sense of place through the prism of modern science’ and the way social narratives 'are spread through the forces of history and its collision with the natural world.’ (Vivien Anderson gallery website). Bancroft’s work is usually vibrantly coloured, reflecting her intuitive approach to colour. Sinuous figurative and plant forms, or more abstract curvilinear organic shapes and geometric structures are interspersed with intricate patterning. A common theme is the sacredness of nature , often evoked through an imaginative penetration of natural forms such that they are transparent to the viewer, layered and magnified in scale, or rendered so that we can see the continuity of plant forms above and below the ground.
Bancroft held her first solo exhibition at Boomalli in Sydney in 1989, and has held a number of solo exhibitions throughout her career, most recently at Vivien Anderson Gallery (2006) and the Koori Heritage Trust (2005), both in Melbourne. In 1991 a painting by Bancroft was appropriated for clothing produced by the fabric company Dolina. The case was settled out of court, however Bancroft’s struggle to hold the company to account for the forgery was part of a body of artistic copyright cases in the 1980s and 1990s that increased the public recognition of Indigenous cultural property rights, and was commemorated in the 1996 national touring exhibition 'Copyrites: Aboriginal Art in the Age of Reproductive Technologies’. Other significant group exhibitions in which Bancroft has participated include 'Six Contemporary Australian Artists’, Galerie Zuiger, Santa Fe, USA, in 2006; 'Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now’ at the Benaki Museum, Athens 2004; 'Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art’, toured by the Regional Galleries of Queensland, 2002; 'Urban Focus’, at the National Gallery of Australia, 1994; 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 from Australia’, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1990. Her work is in a range of state, corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Bancroft has illustrated numerous children’s books, including Fat and Juicy Place , authored by Dianna Kidd, which was awarded the Australian Multicultural Children’s Book Award in 1993. Also in that year she provided the illustrations for Stradbroke Dreamtime , by Indigenous poet and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker). In 1994 she was selected to be the Australian candidate for the Jack Keats International Award for Excellence in Children’s Book Illustration, and in 2000 was the recipient of the third May Gibbs’ Residential Fellowship at Dromkeen, Victoria. Sun Mother Wakes the World: An Australian Creation Story , authored by Diane Wolkstein and illustrated by Bancroft was included in the New York Public Library’s Top 100 Children’s Books in 2004. Bancroft has also collaborated with Indigenous author and artist Sally Morgan, providing illustrations for the children’s books Just a Little Brown Dog , Dan’s Granpa and In Your Dreams , written by Morgan and published in 1997. The two artists exhibited together in 1991 with a prints show at Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria, and most recently at Hogarth Galleries, Sydney with the exhibition 'Honouring Life’. (2007).
Over the period of her career, Bancroft has received numerous commissions from the public and private sector, as well as for non-government organisations such as Amnesty International, to design murals and contribute to other public art enterprises, and provide illustrations for books, brochures, posters and logos. Among her commissions was a theme designing role for the opening of the 'Journey of a nation – Federation parade’ in Sydney in January 2001. Bancroft has been a passionate advocate for Indigenous people and the arts, with sustained periods of association with organisations such as Viscopy, the Council of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Indigenous Advocacy association, and the advisory board to the Museum of Contemporary Art. She also maintains a strong commitment to education, working as a tutor, lecturer and workshop convenor at a number of institutions, and participating as a speaker across a range of academic and community forums. In 1999 she was recognised as an Australian living treasure and in 2003 she was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
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Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Known for her colourful paintings, prints and textile designs, Bronwyn Bancroft is also an advocate of arts and education for Indigenous Australians.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sophie-munns
- Birth Place
- Grafton, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
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- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Sophie Munns is a Brisbane based artist who works in the area of biodiversity.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/eleanor-coleman
- Birth Place
- South Australia, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Eleanor Coleman is of the Yara Lena community of Ceduna, South Australia. Her paintings of synthetic polymer on canvas are inspired by the plant and animal life of the waters of Murat Bay where Ceduna is located. As a child she would beach-comb, collecting some of the ocean’s harvest that found itself washed up onto the shores of the bay, in particular the starfish. In her artist’s statement for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre, Coleman states that she still has a “passion for painting starfish”.
Coleman is a member of the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Ceduna-based painter, Coleman associated with the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vickie-anderson
- Birth Place
- York, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Vicki Anderson was born in York, a town in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia, in 1958. An Indigenous artist, she spent her early years in Perth before moving to Waroona, a small town south of Perth, at the age of 29. After working in the public service for a number of years she undertook art studies at the Balga Technical College. Anderson has created distinctive mixed media works in which layers of tree bark form the ground for landscape scenes dotted with kangaroos. The painted scenes gain their structure and depth from the grain of the bark that is arranged so that evokes the contours of tussocks, hills and plains. In the 1990s, Anderson established a business with her husband in Waroona called 'Avargo Design Studios’, and in 1991 she was included in the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation’s publication Nyungar Art from the South-West Region of Western Australia . Stylistically, the painting illustrated in this publication bears a strong resemblance to the work Untitled (circa 1940), by Unknown Artist, that is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and was included in the Gallery’s 2001 exhibition South West Central: Indigenous Art from south Western Australia 1833-2002.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Western Australian Indigenous artist who has created mixed media works on a ground consisting of collaged strips of bark.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pungkai
- Birth Place
- Boddington, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Pungkai was born around 1958 in Boddington, Western Australia. In 1980 he moved to live in 'wiltjas’ – traditional shelters – in the community of Nyapari in the north west of South Australia, close to the borders of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Pungkai has worked and travelled throughout South Australia and for a time was working in Adelaide in the arts industry.
His work of synthetic polymer on canvas is of landscapes from an aerial perspective. He says in his artist statement that he loves “to paint aerial scenes of the country not only of my ancestral travel but also my own personal and professional travels throughout Australia.”Pungkai is a member of the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre and it was through this organisation that he was able to participate in Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2008 'Our Mob’ exhibition. In 2007 he exhibited his work at the Burswood Casino in Western Australia. At the time of writing, Pungkai was also represented in Adelaide by the Marshall Art Gallery.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1958
- Summary
- Painter of acrylic on canvas associated with the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/h-j-wedge
- Birth Place
- Cowra, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Wiradjuri artist Harry Wedge was born in Cowra, NSW in 1958. Illiterate and largely self-taught, Wedge’s only period of formal training was at Eora College in Sydney between 1989 and 1993. Wedge’s 'outsider’ status has proven to be a creative asset, as he has developed a unique, surreal painterly aesthetic. Working with acrylic paints, he employs garish colours and presents his memories and social commentary in dreamlike, narrative form.
His memories of growing up on Erambie mission are a dominant theme in his work, however he also consistently engages with a wide range of current social and political issues. Wedge has had a long association with Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Cooperative, holding his first exhibition there (with Ian Abdulla) in 1991 and participating in many group and solo shows there during the 1990s. His first solo exhibition 'Wiradjuri Spirit Man’ was held at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Culture Centre in Adelaide in 1992. Wedge’s artistic career gained impetus in 1993 when he was artist in residence at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and his work was included in the Australian Perspecta and the 25th Budapest Autumn Festival. In that year he was also awarded the NSW Ministry for the Arts Indigenous Arts Fellowshi
Significant group exhibitions have included Urban Focus in 1994 (National Gallery of Australia), 'True Colours’ in 1994 (Boomalli and touring internationally), the 2002 Sydney Biennale and the Inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial 'Culture Warriors’ in 2007 (NGA).
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Harry Wedge is a Wiradjuri artist whose work has been exhibited widely within Australia and internationally. His painterly, garishly coloured figurative paintings express the artist's childhood memories of mission life and provide commentary on a range of social and political issues, often presented in dream-like narrative form.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sally-swain
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- painter and cartoonist, was born in Sydney, daughter of the cartoonist and cartoon historian David Swain . She studied psychology and held various jobs, but always drew. In 1988 she published the bestselling Great Housewives of Art (London/ Sydney, Grafton Books) and a sequel, Great Housewives of Art Revisited . Oh My Goddess! was published by Bantam in Sydney, and Penguin in New York, in 1994. She was then running 'art experience workshops’.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Contemporary Sydney painter, cartoonist and art teacher.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-solness
- Birth Place
- Waverley, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Photographer Peter Solness established his career as a photojournalist and later developed a reputation as a landscape photographer specialising in night time photography. Born in the eastern Sydney suburb of Waverley in 1958, the young Solness bore the surname of his grandfather who had emigrated from Finland in 1925. Solness spent his early childhood in nearby Bondi then Blakehurst in southern Sydney. After leaving high school, he enrolled in four-year Photography Certificate IV at Sydney TAFE. He subsequently worked in editorial and corporate photography, on freelance assignments for leading magazines and newspapers both in Australia and overseas, the latter including the London Independent, Conde Naste Traveller, German GEO, Forbes and the Hong Kong Post. He also worked on photographic assignment for many corporate clients such as Qantas Airlines, the National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA), the Commonwealth Bank, Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) and Channel 7. Solness’ interest in photography began in 1974 at the age of sixteen. His first subjects were of friends and surfing. Bruce Channon, Surfing World editor, was the first to publish Solness’s photographic work, in March 1975. Over the next four years Solness’s pictures were regularly featured in Surfing World and Tracks, the major surfing titles in Australia. The photographer focused on the form of the wave and used black and white film because he was more interested in aesthetics than competitions or personalities. During this time he 'discovered’ Ansel Adams and the Zone System, a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development. He also experimented with exotic darkroom techniques for black and white film, whereas most surfing photographers chose to work in colour. Between 1980 and 1982 Solness travelled by motorcycle in order to document the interior of his country. The two sojourns marked a watershed in his creative development, and he kept an extensive visual diary of the terrain. His resulting photographic essay published in Australian GEO became a stepping stone to his gaining employment at the Fairfax Press. Between 1983 and 1988 his work was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald and the National Times newspapers. Solness published photo essays on the aftermath of atomic bomb tests at Maralinga (South Australia) in National Times in 1984, and on the Philippines revolution in Sydney Morning Herald and National Times in 1986. In 1988, Solness quit the newspaper to pursue a mix of corporate and editorial assignments. From 1994 he began to regularly exhibit his work, some of which was collected by the National Library in Canberra, the State Library of New South Wales, the Museum of Sydney and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery. In late 1999 his most ambitious project, Tree Stories, was completed after a four-year period. His project was published by Australian Geographic and he held an exhibition of key images at Stills Galley, Paddington, Sydney. The book is about the relationship between the environment and humans: in addition to the portraits, it includes interviews with and insights from people (poets, farmers, scientists, schoolchildren and Aboriginal elders) all over Australia. In this project, Solness tried to explore the underlying sentiments Australians have about their trees, and to relate these stories to environmental and human rights issues. In early 2000, Solness published in the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend Magazine a four page photo essay, Songs in the Key of Life, on the advantages of singing. He also worked as principal photographer for the book Slow Food (2002) by David and Gerda Foster. Between 2001 and 2003, Solness completed long term assignments for the Murray Darling Basin Commission, researching and documenting problems associated with Australia’s inland river system and dwindling freshwater supplies. Over the following three years (2004-07) he freelanced in Darwin, where he also conducted workshops on Photojournalism at the Charles Darwin University. Whilst there he held a solo exhibition titled 'Shadowplay’, at the University’s gallery. He also undertook assignments for The Bulletin, TIME Magazine, Lonely Planet Publications, various news and photo agencies as well as Fairfax Publications. Solness returned to Sydney in 2007 and embarked on an ambitious and large project to express the beauty of landscape. Illuminated Landscape captures the Australian environment at night through the use of selective lighting, such as a small torch. An ongoing project since 2008, Illuminated Landscape illustrates his connection to the unique landscape of the Australian bush. Over the past decade, Solness has been a finalist in several photojournalism awards including The Eureka Award (Australian Science’s most prestigious photojournalism award) in both 2005 and 2007, Head On Portrait Awards (April 2007), Moran Contemporary Photography Awards (March 13, 2007), and Olive Cotton Award (August 15, 2009). In addition, he received the inaugural New South Wales Parliamentary Plein Air Photographic Prize in September 9, 2010. Solness has one son, born in 2007.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, CatherineNote: Lee, Al-chamNote:
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2010
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Photographer Peter Solness established his career as a photojournalist and subsequently developed a reputation as a landscape photographer specialising in night time photography.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/christine-aerfeldt
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- In 2001 Christine Aerfeldt was a joint winner in the 'Best New Talents' category of The Advertiser's Oscarts Awards, which she followed up in 2002 as joint winner in the 'Rising Stars' category. Christine was also a recipient of the 2006 Anne and Gordon Samstag Visual Arts Scholarship. She has exhibited her contemporary art in Australia and overseas and is represented in the collectin of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9b83
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/curtis-hore
- Birth Place
- Cohuna, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- As well as working as a sculptor, Curtis Hore operates a foundry for casting artist’s sculptures in bronze. Based in Kingston, Tasmania.
Writers:
7write6
Date written:
2021
Last updated:
2021
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9b85
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-laity
- Birth Place
- Benalla, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in Benalla (Vic), educated at Benalla Technical School (1970-75) and spent five years as an apprentice motor mechanic with Walker and McQualter at Benalla (to 1980). In 1983 he moved to Perth on an extended holiday and decided to turn his hobby of drawing cartoons into a paid job. His Rat Race comic strip was first published in the Perth Western Mail in October 1983 and it continued throughout 1984. He then lived in Shepparton for 2 years; his Rat Race appeared in the Shepparton News in 1984-87. In 1986 he studied drawing at Shepparton TAFE then settled in Melbourne, where he was working as a freelance in 1987. Benalla and Shepparton Art Galleries gave him a solo show of some 60 originals drawn in 1984-87, Out on a limb: an exhibition of cartoons by David Laity (Benalla, 5-31 May 1987), when he stated: 'I have deliberately stayed away from political cartoons as I don’t like the idea of my work being topical one day and old hat the next’. His cartoon anthology, It’s a Rat Race , was published at Benalla in 1989 (Rat Race Publishing, PO Box 690, Benalla 3672) with a foreword by Les Tanner .
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Late 20th century Victorian and Perth cartoonist. He said, "I have deliberately stayed away from political cartoons as I don't like the idea of my work being topical one day and old hat the next".
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9b86
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-odoherty
- Birth Place
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Biography
- Peter O’Doherty was born in 1958 in Auckland, New Zealand, immigrating to Sydney with his family in 1968. While attending Barrenjoey High School on the northern beaches of Sydney he took classical guitar lessons for eight months, these classes were supplemented by some pointers from his older brother, Chris. In August 1977, as a bass guitarist, he joined his brother in the musical band Mental As Anything , which he left in 1999, bar one final gig in 2000. In 1991 the brothers formed the on-going band Dog Trumpet .
As a self-taught artist O’Doherty began to draw and paint in 1988, initially composing still lifes in pencil and crayon before using acrylics on paper. Watching his carpenter father construct houses, O’Doherty developed an acute awareness of the built environment, which has led to his using buildings as the primary subject matter for his paintings. His repertoire includes free standing houses and apartment blocks, often seen from across the street as if through a telescopic lens. The eye is invited to note the rhythm of elements such as windows and railings, the bold shadows they cast in full sunlight, and the play of verticals, horizontals and diagonals, establishing a strong sense of space. O’Doherty’s still lifes are of the domestic interior: a shaving brush and bar of soap on the vanity unit or bath rim; an empty armchair framed by skirting boards from behind and sunlight emanating from an unseen window. A distinctive feature of these works is the assertive use of colour – often a base palette of greys or beiges offset by strong colours such as red, orange or aqua – applied in a painterly manner so as to softly delineate the edges of the buildings.
As a practicing artist and musician O’Doherty sees little separation between music and art. In a 2002 interview with Bernard Zuel, O’Doherty said that art is: “like music. They are sort of useless in any practical sense but they’re the things that make culture” ( SMH).
Since 1991 O’Doherty’s paintings have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. On occasion he has exhibited with his wife, fellow artist Susan O’Doherty. In 2005 O’Doherty won the Paddington Art Prize and in 2007 the Allan Gamble Memorial Prize of the Mosman Art Prize. His Archibald entries have been shown in the Salon des Réfusés at the S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery.
O’Doherty’s work is held in private collections, including those of fellow musicians.
Writers:
Lai, Hoi YingDe Lorenzo, Dr Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- A musician and artist who specialises in paintings of the Australian suburban landscape as well as still life. O'Doherty played bass guitar in the band 'Mental as Anything' and formed 'Dog Trumpet' with his brother Chris (AKA Reg Mombassa) in 1991.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9b87
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/philip-hunter
- Birth Place
- Victoria
- Biography
- Philip Hunter, best known for his work as a painter while also a printmaker, was born in the Wimmera in 1958. His father worked in the family automotive business and his mother was a schoolteacher in Donald. The family relocated to Melbourne in the late 1960s. An easel given to Hunter as a gift from his grandfather had sparked his interest in art and Hunter later joined the drawing department at the (then) Prahan College of Advanced Education in 1977, where an artists-in-residency program enabled Hunter to meet international artists such as Kenneth Nolan, Carl Andre, Patrick Caulfield and John Walker. It was through the support of Walker that Hunter was introduced to the art dealer David Rosenthal, who was a partner in Axiom Galleries (later Christine Abrahams Gallery) in Richmond. Hunter’s first exhibition was to be held at Axiom in 1982 alongside Walker as well as the artist Phillip Guston. In the same year, Hunter was included in a major survey of young Melbourne painters at the Monash University Gallery that was curated by Memory Holloway. Due to his work in this exhibition, Hunter received the Ansett Art Award and he was selected for the Australian Perspecta early the following year.
Ever since Hunter first exhibited in 1982, he has participated in a long list of solo and group exhibitions. Notably in 1984, Memory Holloway selected Hunter for inclusion in ‘The Australians’ exhibition at C.D.S. Gallery in New York City, where his work appeared alongside that of artists such as Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Peter Booth and Stieg Persson. Later, in 1986, Hunter and other noted artists including Howard Arkley, Rossylnd Piggott and Gareth Sansom were represented in the exhibition ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem,’ curated by the artist Geoff Lowe and held at the Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy. Further exhibitions that have highlighted Hunter’s work have included ‘The Plains: Wimmera and the Imaging of Australian Landscape, Philip Hunter and Sir Sidney Nolan’ (2001) at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, ‘Imaging the Apple’ (2005) which travelled to sites in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania and ‘Between the Lines (Philip Hunter Drawings)’ (2010) at Latrobe University.
As a modernist landscape painter, the Wimmera has been a key source of inspiration for Hunter’s work and a region to which the artist returns each year. While Hunter’s work has focussed on the depiction of landscapes, rather than imitating a geographical location, the impression of a landscape is conveyed through the artist’s use of line, forms, texture and a restricted colour palette of earth colours and white.
Throughout his career, Philip Hunter has been presented with multiple awards and commissions, including a Visual Arts Board Grant from the Australia Council in 1984 and from the Print Council of Australia in 1992.
Hunter’s work is widely represented in prominent public and private collections across Australia. This list includes the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Baillieu Myer Collection of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria, the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, RACV Collection, Melbourne, Macquarie Bank, Sydney and the Shell Australia Collection.
Writers:
ecwubben
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- A modernist landscape painter born in the Wimmera in 1958.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/debra-phillips
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- photomedia artist born in Melbourne in 1958. Phillips is a lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Jaiswal, RachitDe Lorenzo,Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Debra Phillips is a Sydney-based artist specialising in photomedia. Her works have been presented in a number of solo and group exhibitions since the early 1980s across Australia. She is a lecturer at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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TLCMap IDtb9b8a
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Latitude-38.1929415 Longitude146.3420295 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/skye-crowe
- Birth Place
- Yallourn, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Skye Crowe now dabbles in Oil Painting as well as Acrylic Art and now resides in Nathalia, Victoria
Writers:
crowes
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Skye Crowe is a Shepparton based painter, woodburner and emu egg carver who is descended from the Parperloihener people of Tasmania. Her work is informed by her Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b8b
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Latitude-38.3399766 Longitude143.5858537 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stephen-bush
- Birth Place
- Colac, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- painter, was born in Colac, Victoria and lives in Melbourne. He completed his BA Fine Art at RMIT in 1976-79. In 1984 he travelled throughout USA then paid another short visit there in 1990. Since 1992 he has exhibited regularly at Powell Street Gallery. His historicist paintings include Babar the elephant in a von Guerard landscape and a self-portrait as Bungaree in a von Guerard landscape.
Bush’s exhibition Claiming (1991) was partly inspired by 19th century USA travelling 'one picture’ exhibitions, especially Frederick Church’s Twilight in the wilderness (1860) one-picture exhibition – hence some spaces at ACCA had only one painting. (1) Lure of Van Diemen’s Land (1989) shows him as eighteenth-century settler in front of a Salvator Rosa landscape; (2) Return (1989) shows him in the same outfit (different hat) in front of a Greek temple/ folly. (3) Plains of Promise (1990) is exploration picture with 4 self-portrait men on foot and one dressed as a woman riding side-saddle on a horse, all with same features. (4) Claiming (1989) has two self-portrait men in front of a gigantic half-buried sculpted head of George Washington {Naomi Cass says it’s Albert Namatjira}. (5) This big in the afterlife (1990) has 2 soldier suppliants outside a cave, one clinging to the leg of a Napoleonic style of figure (all with same face as the explorers – again self-portraits). (6) The promise – the inevitable disappointment (1989) shows a modern man photographing a blackface Bush as Bungaree bowing and sweeping off his hat beside a river.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Painter, was born in Colac, Victoria and lives in Melbourne.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b8c
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Latitude-42 Longitude173 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rod-holdaway
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Born in 1958 in New Zealand, Rod Holdaway settled in Sydney in 1975. Holdaway studied an Art Certificate majoring in printmaking and photography at Meadowbank TAFE in 1977. He then studied painting and sculpture in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Adelaide College of Advanced Education and in 1989 Holdaway studied philosophy and linear perspective in Italian Renaissance in the Bachelor of Arts Programs at Deakin University. In 1995 he graduated with a Bachelor of Education from the Australian Catholic University and in the same year he was awarded a Certificate of Learning Difficulties from the University of New South Wales. Holdaway’s paintings are poetically expressionistic. He captures the mood of the urban environment, in particular the inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Holdaway’s paintings combine a fast, yet gentle, vision of urban life to encapsulate the ambiance of city living through an applied jungle of pigment. Holdaway has exhibited in several group exhibitions in Sydney and Adelaide and is represented in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Ireland.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Contemporary painter, Holdaway was born in 1958 in New Zealand, and settled in Sydney in 1975.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b8d
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Latitude-42.880556 Longitude147.325 Start Date1958-01-01 End Date1958-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/leigh-oates
- Birth Place
- Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Leigh Oates, Trawlwoolway painter, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1958. Apart from two years living in Hobart as a teenager, Oates has lived in the Huon Valley, southern Tasmania, for all of his life. Oates has had a varied career, working as a fitter and turner at the University of Tasmania, a Senior Technical Officer at the Tasmanian Department of Sea Fisheries, and a Land Management Project Officer for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land and Sea Council. In 2008 he was employed as a Youth and Community Support Worker for the South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation.
A self-taught artist, Oates began painting in 2001 while he was employed as an Aboriginal Education Worker for the Department of Education. As Oates writes (in correspondence with the author) 'I first started painting after I worked with school groups; it was a way of telling and sharing stories on canvas about my life and my family’s life.’ Since then Oates has participated in a number of art projects in educational contexts. In 2004, he worked with Aboriginal students and their parents at Huonville Primary School to create two murals for the school entrance. In 2008 Oates completed a similar collaborative project with students, involving five art panels for five different schools in the Huon Valley region. These panels will be permanently displayed at the South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation Health and Well-being Centre.
Oates paints predominantly with acrylic and gouache, though in recent years he has also made use of ochres in his paintings. His finely worked images are inspired by his Indigenous ancestry, the stories and memories shared amongst his family, and the plant and animal life of Tasmania and the mainland. His paintings usually combine abstract and pictorial elements to portray his knowledge of the environment in symbolic ways, and he often illustrates life-cycles in the animal world in order to articulate themes of community togetherness, cooperation and growth. This approach reflects the artist’s concern with affirming the continuity and resilience of the Indigenous presence in Tasmania.
Oates has been represented by Art Mob in Hobart since 2003, and exhibitions there have have included 'Leigh and Reuben Oates Father and Son Exhibition’ (2006) and 'Bush Tucker’ (2006). Oates has also participated in the Menzies Research Institute 'Art of Christmas’ exhibition and card projects (2003 & 2007), and the 'Flavours of Australia’ exhibition at the Australian Embassy, Dubai (2003).
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: in consultation with the artist
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1958
- Summary
- Trawlwoolway artist based at Mountain River in the Huon Valley. Oates has been involved in a number of mural projects at Tasmanian schools and whose paintings share his sense of pride in his Tasmanian Aboriginal ancestry.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b8e
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Latitude52.2928116 Longitude-3.73893 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tim-gruchy
- Birth Place
- Wales, UK
- Biography
- Tim Gruchy (Visual Musician, Multi-Media Artist)Born : Wales / Resident : New Zealandwww.grup.tv
Tim’s extensive career spans the exploration and composition of immersive and interactive multimedia through installation, music and performance while redefining it’s role, challenging the delineations between cultural sectors. He has exhibited multimedia works, photography, video, music and performance since the 1980s as well as his larger expressions in the public art arenas. His works are held in private, corporate and museum collections.
His installations and performances feature in many international and Australasian institutions, festivals and public spaces including Auckland Arts Festival (2015 & 2009), New Zealand Arts Festival (2014), SCOUT Auckland (2012), Biennale of Sydney (2012) (collaboration), Beijing 798 (2011), Shanghai Expo (2010), 2nd Asian Art BIennial Taiwan (2009), Melbourne International Arts Festival (2009), Adelaide Festival (1986-2008), and Sydney Festival (2004). Theatre and opera credits include 'AIDA’ Sydney Opera House and touring Australia (2009-2013), ‘Ainadamar’, Adelaide Festival (2008), 'The Leningrad Symphony’ (2006) and 'HAIR’ (2003). His visual designs have featured in works by Opera Australia, OzOpera, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Dance Theatre and Mau. His work has been exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Holland, Belgium, UK, USA, Japan, France and Thailand Tim has lectured and facilitated workshops in video art and interactive digital design at creative institutions around the world including Shanghai; Future University of Hakodate (Japan); National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney); University of Technology Sydney; Te Papa (New Zealand) and Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane). He has also been extensively involved in museum design and various projects at the intersection of architecture and multimedia.
Writers:
timeg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Tim was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b8f
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Latitude51.8145103 Longitude-0.3549311 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robert-barron-1
- Birth Place
- Harpenden, United Kingdom
- Biography
- Robert Barron (1957- ) was born in Harpenden, UK, but grew up in Croydon, Victoria, where his mother had a pottery. In 1976, he began working full-time in the family pottery. In 1979, he went overseas for five years to New Zealand, North America, England, Europe, and South Korea to work with wood-firing potters. During this time, he visited Michael Cardew at Wenford Bridge Pottery, Cornwall, UK, and studied with several of his trainees. He was also engaged as an apprentice at Cornwall Bridge Pottery, Connecticut, USA. In 1984, he established the Gooseneck Pottery at Kardella, Victoria, where he is still based today. Twice a year, he fires a 1000 cubic foot, five-chambered. Nabori-Gama style kiln which he built himself with the assistance of a Crafts Board grant. He also spends about three months of the year travelling as a guest lecturer, pottery judge and exhibitor. He marks his works variously with a painted 'RB’ or 'Barron’ or 'Robert Barron’ or 'GNP’ for Gooseneck Pottery.
Writers:
Judith Pearce
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 26 February 1957
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b90
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-sayers
- Birth Place
- London, England, UK
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 29 June 1957
- Summary
- Andrew Sayers was one of the great curatorial communicators and enthusiasts for Australian art. His time at the National Gallery of Australia led to significant redefinitions of Australian art. As well as his own painting, which he kept private for many years, he is also remembered as inaugural Director of National Portrait Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 11-Nov-15
- Age at death
- 58
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b91
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Latitude50.8588648 Longitude17.46412449 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jolanta-nejman
- Birth Place
- Brzeg, Poland
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Polish born multi-media and mixed media artist, who focuses on the linear connections in nature and human existence. She explores media, texture and technique to produce her work and uses wet and/or digital media to represent the links, networks and connections within and without.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b92
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/victoria-roberts
- Birth Place
- New York, NY, USA
- Biography
- cartoonist and painter, was born in New York and grew up in Mexico and Australia. She says she started doodling at the age of four; she also trained at the National Art School, East Sydney Technical College in 1974-76. She published her first book of cartoons, My Sunday , when aged twenty. She held several exhibitions of her drawings in Sydney, where she contributed to Nation Review , Cleo , the National Times , the Age , the Sydney Morning Herald etc. In 1983 she illustrated Oz shrink Lit: Australia’s classic literature cut down to size , edited by Michele Field (Penguin, 1984) and The Penguin Victoria Roberts calendar, 1984: Leap year with Nona in which our heroine leaps through 366 days, mostly with aplomb (Penguin 1983).
By 1985 Roberts had published The Book of Meaningful Relationships (Penguin Australia, 1984) – a general collection of her drawings and cartoons – and My Day (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984), cartoon biographies of 50 famous people including Ronald Reagan, Princess Di, Beatrix Potter and Sigmund Freud. She had also illustrated two calendars, Phillip Adams’s Uncensored Adams (Melbourne: Nelson, 1981), Robyn Archer’s Mrs Bottle Burps (Melbourne, Nelson, 1983), Nicholas Enright’s The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet (David Ell Press, 1980), Town Tales: poems by Tony Lintermans (Melbourne: OUP, 1981: ABC videorecording 1990), and Nancy Keesing’s Lily on the Dustbin (Penguin, 1982) and Just Look Out the Window (Penguin, 1985) on children’s rhymes. Her drawing 'Waltzing Matilda’ from the last was included in the 1999 SH Ervin art exhibition Australian Artists in Black and White .
Roberts also drew for film and TV. She designed the poster, printed by Art Unit, for 'Characters II: Women comics from across Australia’, sponsored by the Australia Council (Theatre Board), produced by the GAP (Larry Buttrose, Judy Barnsley and Mandy Salomon) and staged at the Wharf Theatre, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay in 1985, compered by Wendy Salomon and Julie McCrossin in which, wearing a Victorian nightgown, she performed 'a strange piece about telephones and Catholicism’ on stage in the 3-5 January session compered by Salomon, and also including Wendy Harmer, 'Sax au Violins’, Gretel Killeen and Melanie Salomon. Other performers were Sue Ingleton, Maggie Lynch, Angela Moore, Jan Cornall, Lana Caruso (Harmer, 147, and program).
In 1986 she illustrated A Life Album (ABC Books) with text by Elizabeth Butel and contributed to the calendar: Australia , I love it! The Penguin 1986 calendar/ our style and strange habits through the year as drawn by Petty, Leunig, Roberts … [et al.] (Ringwood Vic: Penguin Books Australia, 1986). In 1988 her comic bicentennial history, Australia Felix , was published in London by Chatto & Windus.
Other Australian cartoons include: 'Mrs Cristo [ sic ] wraps up her husband’, National Times 23-29 November 1980 (ill. Richardson 114); Gearing Up For The Bicentennial (two women on couch): '“I thought I’d go as Caroline Chisholm”/ “I think I’ll just wear my Jenny Kee sweater with the koalas”’, Matilda June 1985 (ill. Christine Dixon).
Roberts returned to New York in the late 1980s where she contributed to the New Yorker , Cleo et al. She revisited Sydney as guest speaker for the 1990 Stanley Awards (compere Jane Singleton) in “ladies’ year”, when two women – Suzanne White and Donna Short – won Stanleys for the first time. Paul Keating presented them (see Lindesay 1994, 58). In 1999, 67 of her original New Yorker cartoons were at www.cartoonbank.com (run by the New Yorker magazine), e.g. 7 May 1993, “If I ever make a phone call from a bus, do something about me”, on sale for $1,000 in March 1999. 327 of her cartoons were illustrated on the site in August 2001 (see page in file including middle-aged suburban couple in bed with wife saying, 'I dreamed Lucien Freud was coming to paint us’). Since being in the US she has published Cattitudes (hardcover, advertised Barnes and Noble 1997, $US15.00 RRP) and exhibited her work, now mostly colourful watercolour, collage and line combinations, in art galleries.
In August 2001, while still in New York working chiefly for the New Yorker , Roberts was employed to provide cartoons for the 'new look’ Weekend Australian Magazine on a regular rotating basis, initially to appear two weeks out of three with previous weekly staff artist Judy Dunn and a new casual employee Fiona Katauskas (who replaced Judy Horacek who had provided regular cartoons in the late 1990s). Roberts’s first cartoon, dated 2001 and published in colour on 11-12 August, 60, showed her bespectacled, red-haired, plump, middle-aged wife saying to her balding, newspaper-reading husband, “I need a hug, but straight sex will do”. The same gag was apparently published in the New Yorker 3 years earlier. By 2002 Roberts was appearing almost weekly in colour on the horoscope page of the Weekend Australian Magazine .
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Contemporary American-born-and-based, Australian-trained cartoonist and illustrator.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b93
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/guan-wei
- Birth Place
- China
- Biography
- In 1989, three years after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University, Guan Wei came to Australia to take up an artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art. He was invited to undertake two further residencies: one at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1992), the other at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University (1993). In 2003, he was artist in residence at the Greene Street Studio, New York, and Visiting Fellow at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra.
Guan Wei’s work has a profoundly felt, if implicitly ironic, moral dimension. In their complex symbolic form, his subjects potently embody our era’s social and environmental dilemmas. They are equally the product of his rich cultural repertory of symbols and his informed socio-political awareness, born of his experience of the contrasting realities of his former home, China and, since 1989, his new home, Australia.
Guan Wei has held over 40 solo exhibitions, including 'A Mysterious Land’, ARC One, Melbourne (2007), 'Unfamiliar Land’, CACSA (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia) and 'Echo’, Sherman Galleries (both 2006). He has been included in numerous important contemporary exhibitions in Australia and internationally, such as the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (1999); 'Man and Space’, Kwangju Biennale (2000); 'Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia’, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2003-04); and solo survey exhibitions, such as 'Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2006) and 'Nesting, or the Art of Idleness 1989-1999’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1999).
Guan Wei has won several awards, including the 2002 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2006 Craftsman House published a monograph on Guan Wei’s work, with essays by Dinah Dysart, Natalie King and Hou Hanru. His work is held in major public collections and numerous university and corporate collections in Australia, as well as international collections.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Guan Wei's paintings draws on his rich cultural repertory of symbols and his informed socio-political awareness, born of his experience of the contrasting realities of his former home, China and of Australia, where he has lived since 1989.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b94
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TLCMap IDtb9b95
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maria-cruz
- Birth Place
- Manilla, The Philippines
- Biography
- Painter, videographer and installation artist Maria Cruz was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1957.
In 1976 she began her formal education in fine arts at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, though did not complete her studies. In 1980 Cruz relocated to Sydney to attend Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) in Roselle, where she completed her Bachelor of Visual Art in 1983 and immediately began her Post Graduate Studies in Visual Arts at the same institution. In 1985, Cruz moved temporarily to the Art Academy of Dusseldorf in Germany where she was influenced by the work of her professor, Klaus Rinke. Cruz resumed her studies at SCA in 1998 to complete her Master of Visual Arts.
Cruz makes use of various media, including installation and video, to explore physical and conceptual themes such as colour, language and globalisation.
Cruz has founded or co-founded several artist collectives including Shangri-La Collective, a group of female artists, and The Believers, formed with fellow artists Mikala Dwyer and Anne Ooms. Cruz was the curator of Shangri-La Collective’s self-titled video performance which was shown in 2003 at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney before touring to galleries in Australia and the Philippines.
In 1997 Cruz won the Portia Geach Portrait prize with a self-portrait, Maria . Other awards include the PS1 International Studio Program, New York (2000-01), Australia Council Artist Development and Project Grants (2000-01 and 1999) and the City of Hobart Contemporary Art Prize (2004). Cruz has been awarded several residencies including the Karl Hofer Gesselschaft Residency, Berlin, Germany (2005) and Artist-in-Residence at Canberra Institute of the Arts (1989).
Cruz has lectured in various Australian universities including Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, and SCA. She served as a senior lecturer at the University of Western Sydney’s School of Contemporary Arts, from 2000 to 2008.
Cruz shares her time between Berlin and Sydney. Her work is represented by Kaliman Gallery in Sydney and Galleria Duemila in Manila.
Writers:
Quiros, Ana MariaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Maria Cruz is a Philippine-born Australian painter, videographer and installation artist who lives in Sydney and Berlin.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b96
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dadang-christanto
- Birth Place
- Java, Indonesia
- Biography
- Dadang Christanto is a leading Indonesian artist who was living in Darwin in 2006. He was a lecturer at the School of Art and Design, Northern Territory University (1999-2003), completing a residency at the Canberra School of Art before moving to Sydney to lecture at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales (2004).
Dadang has shown widely in major international biennales and exhibitions, including the Biennale of Venice (2003); Yogyakarta Biennial and CP Open Biennial, Jakarta, Indonesia (both 2003); Kwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000); The First and Third Asia-Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (1993, 1999); Kanazu Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan (1999); and the Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (1998). In 1997, he was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Dadang’s professional creative life remains firmly rooted in – and yet resolutely transcends – his home experience and locality, to encompass the deepest levels of human experience. The series of heads exhibited in 'austral-asia zero three’ (Sherman Galleries, 2003) and shown previously at the Alliance Française Gallery in Yogyakarta, refer to the relentless cruelty of humankind among those of different faiths or political systems. The disappearance of multitudes of Indonesian political dissidents during the mid-1960s purges, when Dadang’s father was lost without trace, is a recurring theme in the artist’s oeuvre.
Performance, installation, sculpture, video, painting and works on paper cover the range of Dadang’s art. His installations include They Give Evidence (1996-97); Cannibalism: The Memory of Jakarta – Solo 13, 14, 15 May 1998 (1998); and Red Rain (2000), all highly poeticised reminders of past horrors and present dangers. In 2004, his permanent artwork, Heads from the North , was installed in Marsh Pond, Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. They Give Evidence , the 2003 inaugural exhibition at the contemporary Asian Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, was re-presented for exhibition there in February 2005.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Contemporary Indonesian-born artist, Christanto works across the media of performance, installation, sculpture, video, painting and works on paper. He has exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas and a recurring theme throughout his work is the disappearance of multitudes of Indonesian political dissidents during the mid-1960s purges, when his own father was lost and never seen again.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b97
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Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/martin-japanangka-johnson
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu c.1955-60 of the Warlpiri tribe and language, his country is Lajamanu and he can paint Yarla, Nganja Warli, Watiya Warnu and Karntajarra (Two Women) Dreamings. One of the better known artists at Lajamanu, he works with his wife, Kay McDonald and began painting in 1986 on canvas board. Very conscious of the economics of the painting enterprise, he is a strong and intelligent advocate of improved financial returns for artists.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1957
- Summary
- Well-known Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT) who publicly advocates improved financial rewards for Aboriginal artists.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b98
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/eileen-napanangka
- Birth Place
- Umbungurru, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Umbungurru near Papunya in 1957, Eileen is a Luritja speaker, whose traditional country is Jay Creek, near Hermannsburg. She paints Emu, Bush Onion and Rainbow Dreamings and has been painting since 1986 under the watchful eye of her mother-in-law Kitty Pultara at Napperby, where she now lives.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Luritja artist born at Umbungurru, near Papunya, now living at Napperby with her in-laws.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kay-nungarrayi-mcdonald
- Birth Place
- Ali Curang, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Place of birth Ali Curang c.1955-60. She was of the Warlpiri language and tribe, and lived at Lajamanu. No details of country or Dreamings. She started painting in 1987, a bit later than many others in Lajamanu, and worked with her husband, Martin Johnson .
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1957
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lived in Lajamanu (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9a
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kurt-japanangka-granites
- Birth Place
- Yurnturnu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born c.1957 Yurnturnu (Yuendumu) and a Warlpiri person whose country is Janyingki and his Dreamings are Mardukuja- mardukuja (Women’s Dreaming), Yurrampi (Honey Ant), Yana (Star Dreaming). He works with his wife, Peggy Napurrurla Rockman , and started painting in 1985. His paintings reflect an exceptional intelligence. He worked in close association with writer/anthropologist Eric Michaels, and his bi-cultural facility has helped many other researchers to negotiate between Warlpiri and western culture. Lives at Lajamanu with his wife’s family, but usually paints for Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu because of the better quality materials available from the well-established Yuendumu painting company. His work has been included in numerous Warlukurlangu Artists exhibitions since 1990 and was reproduced in the catalogue of Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn , which toured America in 1991-2 and has since been shown in several European cities and Israel.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1957
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and resident of Lajamanu (NT), Granites has worked in close association with researchers of Warlpiri culture. His own work has been included in numerous Warlukurlangu Artists exhibitions in Australia and overseas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9b
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marlene-nampijinpa-johnson
- Birth Place
- Mt Doreen, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Mt Doreen in 1957 and lives at Lajamanu. A Warlpiri person, her traditional country is Kamira. She made a video, in conjunction with Penny McDonald, called 'We are going back to Kamira’. Her Dreamings are Ngapa (Water), Warnayarra (Rainbow Snake) and Malikijarra (Two Dogs). She sometimes works with her husband Cecil Johnson , and started painting in 1987.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Warlpiri painter and documentary artist who lives at Lajamanu (NT). She made a documentary with Penny McDonald about her country, Kamira, in 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9c
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ronald-nyngee-eatts
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1957 of the Karuwali Maiawali Pita Pita people of Central Western Queensland, painter Ronald Nyngee Eatts grew up travelling the state of Queensland with his family, following his father who worked as a fencer. He works are informed by these childhood experiences. Eatts’ artist statement in the catalogue for the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” states, “My paintings don’t tell traditional stories … they tell the story of itinerant Aboriginal families; things we saw; things that happened.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Painter Ronald Nyngee Eatts grew up travelling the state of Queensland with his family, following his father who worked as a fencer. He works are informed by these childhood experiences.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9d
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Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/clarise-nampijinpa-poulson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born 1957 in Yuendumu and a Warlpiri speaker, her country is Wantungurru and her Dreamings are Yankirri (Emu), Ngapa (Water), Pamapardu (Flying Ant). She lives at Yuendumu and though she began painting only at the end of the ’80s, and was one of the youngest artists with Warlukurlangu Artists, Clarise quickly emerged as one of the leading painters at Yuendumu. She developed to a high degree the strong design sense discernible in her earlier work and perfected a distinctive style of highly ornate and detailed background dotting. She sometimes paints with her husband, Michael Japangardi Poulson . She colloborated with others in the SA Museum’s Yuendumu – Paintings out of the Desert and her first solo work was shown in the ANCAA exhibition in Darwin in September 1988. Since then, she has been represented in many exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists. In 1989 her work was seen in Mythscapes at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1990, in Balance 1990 at the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Aboriginal Art Award at the Darwin Performing Arts Centre, and L 'é té Australien at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, and in 1991 in the Crossroads exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. In 1992 she had her first solo exhibition at Hogarth Gallery in Sydney. She exhibited in Australian Perspecta 1993 , at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who emerged as a leading painter in Yuendumu in the early 1990s. Her work, strong in detail and design, has been represented in many exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists. She had her first solo show in 1992.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9e
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Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/charlotte-phillipus
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula is the eldest daughter of Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, one of the founders of the desert art movement. Her mother was Long Jack’s first wife Suzette Napaltjarri, who was the daughter of important Pintupi elder Kamutu, one of the earliest Pintupi arrivals in Hermannsburg from the west.
Charlotte said she has worked since she was sixteen years old. She already had her daughter, Lyn Ward, when she first started to work. Charlotte is married to Huey Ward, with whom she also had two boys. She was for a long time active in various teaching roles in Papunya School, especially the preschool. A highly intelligent and articulate woman, she has in recent years withdrawn from these involvements because of her health, but continues her commitment to education and cultural maintenance through her involvement as a language consultant on the 4th Edition of Ken Hansen’s Pintupi/Luritja Dictionary . Huey continues to work as a grader driver. She is a grandmother of two and lives in Papunya where her father, sisters, aunty and other members of her extended family also reside.
Charlotte learnt to paint by assisting her father Long Jack on his canvases, but was busy with her teaching commitments and did not paint herself for Warumpi Arts in the 1990s and early 2000s. She has been a member of Papunya Tjupi Arts since its inception and is currently part of the corporation’s executive and a talented artist when her health and other commitments permit.
Writers:
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula is painter and executive member of Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya, NT. Her father Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was one of the founders of the desert art movement and one time Chairman of Papunya Tula Artists.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9b9f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nora-napaljarri-andy
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in the late ’50s at Haasts Bluff just before the establishment of Papunya settlement, where the family then settled. Nora Andy is the daughter of Entalura Nangala , who has painted for Papunya Tula Artists since the early ’80s, and a Warlpiri speaker. She began painting in the late ’80s while living in Alice Springs and still paints occasionally, usually selling her work through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists. She has also lived in Mt Allan and Mt Liebig and currently resides in Papunya. She usually paints the Bush Onion Dreaming around Haasts Bluff which was her father’s story. She exhibited at the Gauguin Museum, Tahiti in February 1988. Her younger sister Charlene Andy Napaljarri also paints, and her older sisters Emily and Ada Andy Napaljarri have been producing for over a decade.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1957
- Summary
- Born at Haasts Bluff, daughter of Entalura Nangala, Nora Andy has been painting since the late 1980s. Her work has been exhibited at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba0
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/destiny-deacon
- Birth Place
- Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Destiny Deacon was born in 1957 in Maryborough, Queensland. Her heritage is of the K’ua K’ua and Erub/Mer people of the Torres Strait Islands. She was raised in Melbourne and today lives and works out of her lounge room/studio in Brunswick, Victoria. In 1979 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in politics at the University of Melbourne, and in 1981 she received a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University, after which she worked as a history teacher in Victoria’s secondary and community schools, and as a tutor and lecturer in Australian Writing and Culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Production at Melbourne University. Inspired by her mother, Deacon eventually followed her passion for politics and became one of ‘Charlie’s Angels’, working for Aboriginal activist Dr. Charles Perkins as a staff trainer in Canberra, before beginning her professional photography career in 1990.
Destiny Deacon’s family ancestry can be traced back over one hundred and fifty years to William Pitt, Prime Minister of England from 1783 to 1804, who fathered children by one of his slaves in Kingston, Jamaica. Deacon’s parents were Eleanor Harding, a Torres Strait Island woman from Darnley Island, far north Queensland, and Jack Harding, a white wharf labourer from Maroubra, in Sydney’s south. In 1956, they settled with their children in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, amongst a community of Aboriginal people that had been established in the period between the two world wars. Many Indigenous people, and merchant seamen from around the world were drawn to the area because of work opportunities and Fitzroy became an important social and cultural hub. Soon after arriving there, however, the Harding couple separated and Destiny and her siblings were raised by their mother. Despite living in poverty the family survived with the support of the tight-knit community.
Eleanor first became politically involved in Aboriginal community affairs in the 1960s, through the Aborigines Advancement League with which she campaigned for citizenship during the 1967 referendum. She eventually became involved in Indigenous Women’s issues through the United Council of Aboriginal Women. Diagnosed with cancer in 1996, Eleanor died that same year leaving behind seven children, seven grandchildren, and a much-celebrated life dedicated to the fight for Aboriginal rights. Deacon’s siblings include Clinton Nain, a renowned visual artist, dancer, performer and storyteller, and writer, performer and broadcaster Johnny Harding.
Deacon became interested in photography at an early age, snapping pictures of family and friends with a Kodak Instamatic camera. It was not until she was in her 30s, however, that she began her professional photographic career, seeing it as a way to express herself and her political beliefs. A self-taught artist known primarily for her photographs and videos, she also works in the mediums of installation and performance, as well as in writing and broadcasting. Considered one of Australia’s leading Indigenous artists, Deacon’s work subverts the kitsch knickknacks of her own domestic life to expose the racial politics of post colonialism still at work within contemporary Australian society. Much of her work aims to ‘rescue’ and elevate collectible objects of ‘Aboriginalia’ that she finds derogatory. Employing what she describes as low-budget techniques, Deacon uses her own brand of complex humour and scathing wit to play on common Indigenous clichés. She says about her work: “I like to think there’s a laugh and a tear in every picture.” Her photographs often place a black dolly in the role of protagonist, acting out narratives that explore notions of gender and sexuality. Deacon embraces the immediacy of Polaroid photography and other low-tech methods, which imbue her images with a strong visual aesthetic. Her constructed photographs create imaginary worlds, and operate as stage sets upon which her characters reenact scenes of oppression. The work addresses issues of poverty, racial discrimination and alienation, and exposes the lingering effects of Australia’s violent colonial history.
Tired of white photographers’ limited depictions of Aborigines, and eager to express her own views visually, Deacon launched her exhibition career in 1990, and it quickly gained momentum. She held her first show, ‘Pitcha Mi Koori’, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 1991, her work was included in ‘Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition’, curated by Hetti Perkins, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Her work Tax free kangaroos, included in the 1991 exhibiton ‘Kudjeris’ at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, saw the beginning of her use of dolls and souvenir toys as subject matter. Throughout her work, Deacon focuses primarily on people, interchanging portraits of friends and relatives with inanimate dolls, using both to invert the colonial gaze and overturn the use of the Aboriginal figure as object of curiosity. Deacon describes her work as being ”about (re)creating a world of my own outside my own world.”
Her first solo exhibition, ‘Caste Offs’, was held in 1993 at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, concurrent with a show by artist and curator Brenda Croft. In 1994, her work was included in several group exhibitions in Australia, including ‘Blakness: Blak City Culture!’ at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Also that year, her video Welcome to My Koori World was included in the show ‘An Eccentric Orbit: Video Art in Australia’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The piece was part of a sequence of videos created with fellow artist Michael Riley, in which they play zany characters in an absurdist melodrama, filmed almost entirely in a kitchen setting. Screened by ABC TV as part of the 'Blackout’ series, the videos were amongst the early mini-television soap operas popular with Indigenous viewers.
1994 was also the year that Deacon participated in the fifth Havana Biennial in Cuba, in an exhibition entitled 'Tyerabarrbowaryaou II : I shall never become a white man’. The show was curated specifically for the Biennial by Fiona Foley and Djon Mundine and included other prominent Aboriginal artists such as Ron Hurley and Robert Campbell Jnr. Following the hugely successful show of the same name, originally exhibited at the MCA in 1992, it was the first exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal Art to be commissioned by the MCA and it eventually toured throughout eastern Australia. Deacon’s 1997 solo exhibition, ‘No Fixed Dress’ at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne was held in conjunction with the Melbourne Fashion Festival. The title of the show refers to the Aboriginal reggae rock band, No Fixed Address, whose song lyrics romanticise the ‘Aboriginal Woman’, but whom Deacon strips of any nostalgic notions. The 1998 show ‘Postcards from Mummy’, held at the Australian Centre for Photography, documented Deacon’s voyage to her mother’s homeland in the Torres Strait Islands, a poignant retracing of her mother’s life two years after her death.
In 2001, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney featured her photographic work for the first time, in the exhibition ‘Forced into Images’. The photographs follow the life of an Aboriginal girl, from childhood to adulthood, through a dark landscape fraught with domestic violence. The semi-autobiographical series draws its title from a quote by Alice Walker, the African American author and poet: 'I see our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, captured and forced into images, doing hard time for all of us’.
Deacon’s work was featured in a solo exhibition, ‘Walk & don’t look blak’ curated by Natalie King, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2004. The first major retrospective of her work, the show displayed the breadth of her practice, including works of photography, video, installation and performance. The exhibition subsequently toured to the Ian Potter Museum of Art at Melbourne University, the Adam Art Gallery and the Wellington City Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand, the Tjibao Cultural Centre in Noumea, New Caledonia and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan. Deacon’s work was included in the survey ‘2004: Australian Culture Now’ at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, for which she was commissioned to create a film for the programme 'Neighbours (the remix)’. With the help of her frequent collaborator, Virginia Fraser, she produced the absurdist Aboriginal comedy Over d-fence, a series of hilarious sketches performed by friends and family members. Situated in a suburban backyard, the work’s subtle details evoke the ‘horror signifiers’ of Australia’s colonial past. A looped cord hanging next to a black doll, for example, creates a haunting juxtaposition - the simple detritus of mass culture rearranged into a nightmarish scene.
In 2008, Deacon participated in the 16th Biennale of Sydney, entitled ‘Revolutions – Forms That Turn’. Again working with Fraser, she created an installation specifically for the Biennale, the provocative piece Occupied, which was situated in the Botanical Gardens. A long-time friend of Deacon, Fraser is a Melbourne-‐based artist,curator, and writer, and since first joining Roslyn Oxley9 in 2001, the pair has shown work there nearly every year. Together they have created works such as Fence Sitters, a series of photographs and woven works, including cushion covers and carpets, shown at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2008. Destiny Deacon’s work is held in most major Australian museums, as well as in international collections, and she is represented in Europe by Galleria Raffaella Cortese in Milan, Italy.
Writers:
Anne-Marie Hurtgen
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Destiny Deacon is a Melbourne based photographer, printmaker, mixed media artist, installation artist, broadcaster, writer and performer. She has shown her work in over 120 exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba1
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/leah-king-smith
- Birth Place
- Gympie, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Leah King-Smith, Indigenous visual artist, was born in Gympie, Queensland in 1957. King-Smith completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in photography, at Victoria College in Melbourne in 1986. Two years later, her work was exhibited in ‘The Thousand Mile Stare: a Photographic Exhibition’ at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Her early photographic work was largely concerned with how identity can shift across time.
Being the daughter of an Indigenous mother and a white father whose families protested their union led King-Smith to develop an interest in exploring issues of cultural discord in her art practice.
In 1991, King-Smith’s series Patterns of Connection was met with critical acclaim. The series came about when King-Smith was given two grants by the Stegley Foundation through the Koori Oral History Program to create a picture book of a hundred nineteenth-century photographs of Aboriginal people by European photographers. However, she found these portraits so moving she felt she had to change the direction of her project to something more personally engaging. To do so, she created what she terms “photo-compositions”: artworks that combine re-photographs of the nineteenth-century photographs, her own colour photographs of the Victorian landscape and paint. King-Smith’s innovative formal treatment recovered Aboriginal people from the archives to re-position them in a positive, living, spiritual realm. King-Smith reunited figure and landscape to convey the importance of landscape to Aboriginal people and to remove the negative connotations of control and confinement that the mission, reserve, and studio backdrops evoked in the original photographs. Her partner, Duncan King-Smith, who is a sound designer, made an accompanying soundscape recording of the bush to create an immersive viewing experience. Patterns of Connection was exhibited widely, touring with different exhibitions to the United Kingdom, North America, Japan, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines, as well as around Australia.
After completing a Master of Arts by research at the Queensland University of Technology in 2001, King-Smith graduated from the same university with a PhD in visual arts in 2006.
Leading up to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, King-Smith was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to create four portraits of indigenous athletes using her photo-composition technique combining figure and landscape.
King-Smith’s work is held in many Australian collections: National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Victoria, Waverly City Gallery, Horsham Art Gallery. Her art is also held in numerous private collections, as well as in the following international collections: Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida; Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany.
In 2012 King-Smith was lecturing at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology and was represented by Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne.
Writers:
Amy Jackett
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- King-Smith, Indigenous photographic and e-media artist, is known for photo-compositions. Her 1991 series ‘Patterns of Connection’ was critically acclaimed and has been exhibited across Australia as well as overseas. In 2006 King-Smith was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, to create four portraits of indigenous athletes. Her work is held in many Australian collections.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba2
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/billy-gruner
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Dr Billy Gruner is a contemporary artist who specialises in non-objective and concrete art. He established the VCM (very central management) system within the ARI model and has held numerous international exhibitions.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba3
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-warner-1
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Gary Warner is an artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer who was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1957. His work across various visual media demonstrates Warner’s continuing fascinations with natural and man-made phenomena ranging from nature, cities, human interactions and Eastern and Western philosophies.Warner showed a precocious talent for media when aged 13 he appeared on a children’s television program on TVQ-O Brisbane (1971-73). From 1975 to 1977 he went on to work at the station as a camera operator, floor manager and then as a producer. Warner was intimately involved with the art and music scene in Brisbane in the late 1970s and early 1980s producing music, film, expanded cinema events, curating exhibitions for artist-run galleries and, for a short time, he was the proprietor of The Aleph, a specialist bookshop. He produced a number of Super 8 film works during this period including Dada-HaHa (1980) and Shorts Colour (1982).Moving to Sydney, Warner joined the Sydney Super 8 Film Group helping to organise screenings, annual festivals, and contributing to the group’s publications. In the latter part of the 1980s he was one of the filmmakers whose work was included in Mark Titmarsh’s Metaphysical TV film programs for screenings and travelling program tours of North and South America. Warner made two films And It’s A Beautiful Day Today in Berlin (1985) and Resistance Today (1987) notable for their combination of appropriated and original materials. Collaborating with the filmmaker Richard de Souza, Warner created the dual-projector single-screen film Translation (of a ghost story told me by Wassily shortly before his demise…) (1986) one of a number of expanded cinema projects from the period.In 1985 Warner established and co-ordinated the Australian Film Commission’s No Frills Fund – a specialist fund designed to accommodate the then-burgeoning low budget Super 8 filmmaking scene. In 1988 he created the AFC’s New Image Research fund for computer animation and interactive projects and assisted Australian new media artists to attend international conferences such as SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica and the ISEA series. Warner worked as a project officer for the AFC’s experimental film, features and documentaries, video art and digital media funding programs until 1993.From 1993 Warner developed all multimedia for the 1995 opening of the innovaive Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, then worked as a Creative Producer on the Melbourne Museum project [1995-96]. In 1997 Warner moved back to Sydney from Melbourne and established CDP Media to specialise in new media production for exhibitions in Australian cultural institutions and artist projects.Warner’s long-held fascination with the possibilities of new media, and the combination of these technologies with analogue media, resulted in an ongoing sequence of works that began in 1989 with the work Confabulator a piece exhibited at the Fourth Sydney Video Festival that included a looped video projection, 35mm slide projection and a soundscape. Recent works such as Perpetual Motion of Ideological Affray (2009) exhibited at Peloton gallery comprised of 40 QuickTime movies, a custom software controller, a 27” iMac computer. Utilising online media platforms such as Fickr, Vimeo and YouTube, Warner continues to produce numerous short video works and photography.Warner’s work as a curator includes From the Sky (Super 8 films, IMA Brisbane, 1985); Gulfstream (Super 8 films) for the 34th Sydney Film Festival and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1987; an Australian Video Art program for SCAN Gallery, Tokyo and the Aarhus Video Art Festival, Denmark, 1988; Curator, Film and Video Art Program, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1989 and 1991, and a program of Japanese film accompanying the exhibition Zones of Love at the Museum of Contemporary Art 1992. In 1992 Warner was Curator/Coordinating Chair of the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney.Warner has collaborated with and assisted numerous artists in the production of film, video and digital media projects including production of John Nixon’s 16mm film Work (1990) and Lyndal Jones’ project Aqua Profunda at the Venice Biennale (2001). More recently he has worked with Fiona Hall for her projects at the MCA, GOMA, Roslyn Oxley9, the Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide and Documenta 2012; Janet Laurence at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation; and Maria Fernanda Cardoso for the 18th Biennale of Sydney.
Writers:
Andrew Frostd/Archive
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Brisbane-born artist, photographer, writer, curator, musician and media producer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba4
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gregory-rogers
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 19 June 1957
- Summary
- Rogers was an illustrator, the founder of the Brisbane Book Illustrators Group, a lecturer at the Queensland College of Art as well as a painter. His illustrations and design appeared for the Univ of Queensland press, childrens' books and other publications. He helped establish the genre of illustrated books for older readers.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-May-13
- Age at death
- 56
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba5
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/j-hurst
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Artist Jeanelle Hurst has been an active participant in the Qld ARIs sector since 1981.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba6
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Latitude-28.77035 Longitude114.6147159 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brian-mckinnon
- Birth Place
- Geraldton, WA, Australia
- Biography
- A descendant of the Amungu and Wongai peoples, Brian McKinnon was born in Geraldton, Western Australia in 1957. His mother, one of the Stolen Generations, comes from the Amungu people of the mid-west coast, and his father, from whom he takes his beliefs and customs, comes from the Wongai people of the Western Desert. Using a range of diverse materials, McKinnon’s art practice is informed and inspired by his memories of childhood, as well as historical and contemporary politics and events. McKinnon signs his paintings ‘Tabulk’, a name adopted out of respect for his great-great-great grandmother, Tulbak, who was one of the very last of the Swan River clan in Perth, Western Australia.
McKinnon and his family felt the full effect of several generations of assimilationist government policies on Indigenous people. His family was dispersed after the passing of his grandfather, as the authorities considered his part Aboriginal grandmother unfit to look after her family. The majority stayed in New Norcia, Western Australia, but others were taken as far as Adelaide, South Australia. This displacement and profound social disruption continues to be a powerful motivation for McKinnon’s work.
Born Brian Charles Dodd (his name later changed at the age of eighteen without his knowledge or consent); McKinnon spent his early infancy ‘out bush’ with his Grandmother and her husband, as they worked on the rabbit-proof fence. Their diet was unsuitable for him, causing quite severe reactions, and consequently at age five he was brought back to his mother, who resided in a fringe camp called Blood Alley, located at the foot of Mount Misery, Western Australia. Built from scraps of wood and corrugated iron discarded at a rubbish tip nearby, the makeshift shanties had dirt floors and no power or running water. As the eldest of four children, it was his responsibility to collect water from a stand pipe on the side of the road where farmers obtained water for their stock. His family’s furniture was meagre, with a cable drum and banana boxes acting as table and chairs, and an open fire for cooking and heating. It was here, however, that McKinnon first took an interest in art, watching the elders carve emu eggs, which were later sold to tourists in town.
At the age of twelve he left home and lived a nomadic life, travelling up and down the west coast of Australia, working and labouring wherever he could. Reflecting on this period, McKinnon asserts that he was an angry young man, not knowing how to respond to the world, often reacting in violence. He spent several years in juvenile detention centres as a result, and at times felt that there was no way to escape his turbulent circumstances, always being sent back to the very place that he was running from. The work In Australia Being Aboriginal is a Prison, 2010, addresses this time in his life, a work which was shortlisted for the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Arts Awards.
At the age of eighteen, McKinnon hitchhiked with his half-brother to Victoria, convinced that he would not survive beyond age twenty if he continued on his current path. He eventually settled in Geelong, Victoria and later married and had three children. Although he started his life anew, his separation from family and country created long-lasting feelings of betrayal, guilt and isolation. The Last Supper, 1997 is an exploration of these issues, where McKinnon identifies with Judas Iscariot as an outsider and betrayer of his family and people. The painting also acknowledges the Christian beliefs held by many of McKinnon’s relatives, particularly his cousin Roy Nai-Smith, who passed away from Asbestosis in the same year, and to whom McKinnon dedicated the work.
Since 1996, McKinnon has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including group and solo hangings in Italy. In 1997 the artist travelled to Italy in an arts exchange project titled Sogno Indigeno (Indigenous Dream), which toured various locations in northern Italy, before travelling to Victoria, Australia in 1998 for NAIDOC Week. Along with carved emu eggs, McKinnon exhibited paintings that addressed a reclamation of country and culture, and works that mirrored his own intermittent journeys back to his ancestral lands.
Another notable aspect of McKinnon’s oeuvre is his exploration and use of found materials and objects in a process of bricolage. An expression of identity as well as cultural conflict in process, materials such as barbed wire and corrugated iron reference his childhood experiences in Blood Alley. Brass breastplates (or Kingplates or gorgets) represent his ancestors, and were worn by Aboriginal people in the nineteenth and twentieth century as a colonial strategy of reward for those who distinguished themselves in the eyes of their non-Aboriginal perceived masters. By reversing the original concept, McKinnon reveals the violence in the original act. This bricolage can be seen in Bush Rugby Can Be Painful, 2008, which references an incident that took place when McKinnon was playing bush rugby as a child. Wire was lodged above his left eye after a strong tackle and he was refused treatment by the doctor due to his Aboriginality. He was instead taken to the vet to have the wire removed. Similarly, the work Sorry (King Little Johnny), 2008, also applies bricolage to summon the artist’s childhood memories of living at Blood Alley whilst simultaneously addressing the refusal of then Prime Minister John Howard to apologise to Australia’s Stolen Generations. This work made headlines after being removed from an exhibition of Indigenous art, held to celebrate NAIDOC week at Parliament House, Melbourne, in July 2006. Ironically censored from the centre of Victorian democracy, it was deemed ‘too political’ for parliament. The use of waste materials and creative process of bricolage also offers a metaphor for the plight of his people, constrained to live on the outskirts of western society.
In 2008-9 the artist moved toward a more aesthetic bricolage in his artistic practice, appropriating a diverse range of imagery and styles, including Indigenous and ancient Sumerian designs, as well as imagery from Ellsworth Kelly and Emory Douglas. Beyond the uncompromising political messages, each painting quietly married symbols and imagery to create a subtle dialogue on the nature of self-representation.
In 2011, McKinnon’s work has focused on the theme of burial sites, particularly their desecration, in part inspired by his examination of hollow-log coffins and Pukumani poles at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Using images of European burial sites found on the internet and printed onto sticky labels, the copies are placed onto a large, gridded canvas to highlight the conscious desecration of burial sites on the Tiwi, Melville and Bathurst Islands during colonisation and as recently as 1974. His process is a reversal of the concept of desecration that also deliberately cheapens what is considered sacred to any people and country.
McKinnon has exhibited throughout Australia and Europe and his work has been collected by numerous institutions including the Societá Degli Operai, Italy, the Giuseppe Viola Collection, Italy, the Western Australian Museum, the Parliament of Victoria, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology (The University of Western Australia).
McKinnon has been a finalist in the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011) and the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards (2009). In 2006 he was awarded the Gumbri White Dove Acquisitive Award for Victorian Indigenous artists.
Writers:
Monique Farchione
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Brian McKinnon is a Geelong-based artist who explores issues from his childhood as well as the ongoing fight for the recognition of Indigenous rights. He is a descendant of the Amungu and Wongai people of Western Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sharyn-egan
- Birth Place
- Subiaco, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Sharyn Egan is a Nyoonar woman who was born in Subiaco (Western Australia) in 1957. At the age of three Egan was taken from her family and placed in the New Norcia Mission until she was thirteen years old. She never again saw her parents. Her work of oils, natural ochres, resins and acrylics on canvas as well as natural fibre woven sculptures is informed by this experience and comments upon the associated trauma, emotions and a deep sense of loss and displacement amongst Aboriginal people.
In 1994, at the age of thirty-seven, she began creating art, which led to her enrolling in a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art in Perth. She completed this course in 1998 and immediately enrolled in the Associate Degree in Contemporary Aboriginal Art offered by Curtin University of Technology – she completed this in 2000. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Arts) from CUT. She was awarded a Certificate VI in Cultural Tourism in 2003 and a Certificate VI in Training and Assessment in 2008. In 2009 Egan enrolled in the Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Craft run by art teacher Joanna Robertson at the Kidogo Institute in Fremantle.
Egan has participated in many exhibitions throughout her educational career including 'Expression through Diversity’, 2000 (Graduation show, CUT); 'On Track: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Western Australia’ – a touring show of works from the collection of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology in 2004; 'Noongar Country’ in 2008 and 2009 at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries; 'Show Off’ (2, 4 & 5) at the City of Cockburn in 2005, 2008 and 2009 respectively; and 'Moorditj Mob’ in 2009 at Kidogo Arthouse in Fremantle.
In 2000 Egan assisted Sandra Hill with the exhibition 'Walking Together’ at the Moores Building in Fremantle, after which she has co-curated and curated exhibitions including the 2001 and 2002 student art exhibition for the Mundjah Festival, as well as 'Walyalup Dreaming’ in 2004 at the Moores Building.
In 2000 she began working as a public artist when the City of Cockburn commissioned her to create a sculptural work at Little Rush Lake in Yangebup. In 2004 the City of Subiaco commissioned her to work on a collaborative mural for the Nash Street pedestrian and vehicle underpass. The other artists were Francis Italiano, Michelle Hovane and Melanie Evans, an Indigenous artist from Wagga Wagga, NSW. In 2006 Egan was engaged to work on a 10×8m canvas collaboration, Ngullak Koort Boodja (Our Heartland), with Shane Pickett , Lance Chad , Troy Bennell , Alice Warrell and Yvonne Kickett. The images these artists designed represented all the different Aboriginal groups that are located in the south-west of Western Australia. The canvas became the centrepiece of the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival. Egan was once again commission by the City of Cockburn, this time to create a mural at the Bibra Lake Recreational Centre. Then in 2008 she assisted in a mosaic work for the City of Kwinana.
Egan has worked as a lecturer of art and in training and assessment for Swan and Challenger TAFE Colleges. In 2008 she was appointed a Peer Panelist for the Indigenous Arts Assessment Panel for the Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts, and in 2009 the same department appointed her as a panelist for their Disability in the Arts Assessment Panel.
In 1999 Egan shared first prize with Peter Farmer in the 'Town of Vincent Bibbulmen Traditional Art Award’ and in 2007 and 2008 she won first prize in the 'Wolsely Art Award’ (City of Bunbury). Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Australia, the Berndt Museum of Anthropology (University of Western Australia), the City of Bunbury, the Town of Vincent, the City of Cockburn and the City of Fremantle.
In 2009 Egan was living and working in Yangebup near Fremantle.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Nyoongar painter and natural fibre weaver and sculptor, lives in Fremantle, Western Australia. Egan's work is held in the collections of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and the National Museum of Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba8
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Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/belinda-philp
- Birth Place
- Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Belinda Philp, Indigenous installation artist, was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1957 and later moved to Mildura, Victoria. She is a descendent of the Nyampa, Barkindji and Wiradjuri peoples. Philp studied visual arts at Sunraysia Institute of TAFE before transferring her studies to La Trobe University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2008. In 2007 she was awarded the Deadly Art Award of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Exhibitions include '5’(2003) at the Bolte Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre.
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Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Nyampa/Barkindji/Wiradjuri artist based in Mildura who won the Deadly Art Award of the 2007 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ba9
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shane-pickett
- Birth Place
- Quairading, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Meeykba Shane Pickett (b.1957) spent much of his youth at Quairading, a wheatbelt town in Western Australia. From a family of Nyoongar artists he describes his work as the beneficiary of the legacy from both his father’s Jdewat traditions and his mother’s Balladong ancestry. He graduated from the Claremont Art School in 1983, though he had begun exhibiting in 1976 when only nineteen. His national recognition came early with his selection for the finals of NATSIAA in 1984 and in 1986 receiving the award for Best Painting in a European Medium.
Pickett has exhibited in every Australian state and territory throughout his career. His work has been recognised in numerous art awards and exhibitions. He won the inaugural 2007 'Drawing Together Art Award’, has been chosen as a finalist in the 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award’ numerous times, including winning the People’s Choice award in 2009. He was selected by Brenda L. Croft for the 'National Indigenous Art Triennial ’07: Culture Warriors’ at the National Gallery of Australia (touring nationally and shown in Washington D.C. in 2009).
In 2003 Pickett’s works featured in the first comprehensive survey to trace the rich multiplicity of Nyoongar visual culture, 'South West Central: Indigenous Art from South Western Australia 1833-2002’, also curated by Brenda L. Croft. In 2008 he was a finalist in the 'Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards’ at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the recipient of the People’s Choice award. In 2009 he was again selected to participate in the 'Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards’, the only artist selected to participate in both exhibitions.
Pickett began his career with high-keyed colour depictions of Nyoongar stories of Country in a figurative style. In the early 2000s he abandoned figuration in favour of gestural abstraction, while still remaining focused on land and a responsibility to teach successive generations the necessity of knowing and caring for Country. In later work he charts the seasons, light and the lay of the Nyoongar landscape and the weather patterns and stories. He produces highly personal, ethereal landscapes that reveal an intimate relationship to and understanding of land, law and Country. Through his work he emphasizes the need for knowledge of weather patterns and shares his respect for the six Nyoongar seasons. His works often tell a previously untold or concealed history of Nyoongar lands, underscoring the deep connections, pride and confidence that come from identity, family and knowledge.
Inhabiting the spiritual space between what is concealed and revealed, his paintings explore the Nyoongar season cycle and in so doing create complex visual analogues for the persistence and renaissance of Nyoongar cultural awareness throughout the south-west. As he has said, his works “bring a respect and awareness of Aboriginal culture imbued with the spirituality present in Nyoongar values.” (artist’s statement, Mossenson Gallery). Pickett describes his art as simultaneously portraying an inner peace and the harshness of an everyday Indigenous journey through a modern world. McLean (in Croft 2007, p150) acknowledges Pickett’s painting as a legacy of the “vibrant postcolonial Nyoongar school of landscape art” initiated in Western Australia in the 1950s and now known as the Carrolup tradition.
Pickett’s stature in the community was recognised in 2006 when the united Nyoongar elders selected him to contribute to the monumental group painting Ngallak Kaart Boadja for the Perth International Arts Festival 2007. His work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Australia, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Writers:
Gary Dufour
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Nyoongar artist Meeykba Shane Picket (b.1957) has exhibited in every Australian state and territory. He won the inaugural 2007 'Drawing Together Art Award', has been chosen as a finalist in the 'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award' numerous times, including winning the People's Choice award in 2009. He was selected by Brenda L. Croft for the 'National Indigenous Art Triennial '07: Culture Warriors' at the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 15-Jan-10
- Age at death
- 53
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9baa
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/graham-jago
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1957 and residing in Sydney, architect Graham Jago began his professional career in 1982 immediately after graduating from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Architecture with honours. His architectural work has been supplemented by a continuing practice of sculpture, drawing and especially painting. While studying at the University of New South Wales Jago attended the painting classes of Francis Giacco, a mentor he cites as a continuing influence on his painting. During his university studies Jago also took summer courses at the Julian Ashton Art School and private lessons with Peter Dorahey. At this time he was also tutored by David Wilson in Bathurst. After a ten-year break to set up his own architectural firm, Nordon Jago Architects, Jago returned to the Julian Ashton School before reconnecting with Peter Dorahey and subsequently, in 2002, began taking classes with him at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.Jago’s paintings usually depict figures in Australian landscapes and cityscapes. His compositions are underpinned with a strong narrative sensibility and a desire to have a direct and immediate connection with his viewers. Influenced by his career in Architecture Jago’s paintings have a strong spatial character with subject circumscribed by the landscape. Jago first exhibited at a City of Sydney art show in 1979 and continued with such exhibitions into the early 1980s. He did not exhibit again until 2003 when he returned to council art shows. In 2005 Jago participated in a group exhibition titled 'In the Soul of The Architect’ at the Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, a show which featured the works of several artist/architects including Julius Bokor, Steffen Lehmann and Dale Jones-Evans.Jago’s architectural practice covers a diverse range of private residences, apartment precincts, retail developments, educational facilities and factory developments, sometimes finely balancing modern and heritage elements.
Writers:
Broadhurst, DominicDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Sydney based architect and artist born in 1957. In 2005 Jago exhibited in the Mary Place Gallery exhibition 'In the Sole of the Architect'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bab
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-skennar
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Sydney in 1957, artist and designer John Skennar recalls painting from the age of twelve. Upon leaving school, he studied architecture at the University of Sydney while continuing his interests in painting both at the University of Sydney’s Tinsheds art workshop and at the John Ogburn Art Studio in The Rocks, Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1984 and developed an expertise in community-informed architectural and urban design, working closely with community members, local council representatives and often public artists in the development of collaborative and integrated designs for public spaces. Linking his diverse design and creative skills is Skennar’s commitment to community-informed cultural research in order to realise successful placemaking – the creation of public spaces that engage and attract a community. In 1989 Skennar became a committee member of the NSW Community Arts Association at a time when leaders of international community-based public art movements, such as Common Ground (UK), began visiting Australia and broadened an understanding of placemaking and community. In the same year, the Australia Council initiated a program called Community Environment, Art and Design (CEAD) through which they funded community-based art and design projects. A similar policy encouraging the interdisciplinary (artists, designers and the local community) praxis of place-making was established by the NSW Ministry for the Arts. Through the combined influences from international exemplars and national and state policy incentives, Skennar was able to harness his design skills and visual art sensibilities to advance community-informed public art projects. By having the community share historical and contemporary stories, Skennar was better able to propose appropriate sites for art works in a manner consistent with contemporary theories of placemaking. One of his early projects, Stanmore Common Ground (1992-95), exemplified his emerging approach to interdisciplinary art and design. Due to urban densification, the grounds of the Stanmore Public School became a shared facility for both the school and the community. Both Marrickville Council and the Department of Education entered into a deed of agreement in order to open the school grounds into community use. It was a collaborative project whereby Skennar worked with artists and local residents in design development and implementation. The resulting artworks, which included a mosaic pathway by Cynthia Turner, and murals by artists and students around the school, won the Down to Earth Foundation Award in 1996. Skennar continued practising architectural and urban design but during a number of periods he also focused solely on public art and place-making, similar to the Stanmore Common Ground project. His roles in place-making/public art projects include community consultation, cultural research, public domain design and arts planning. This has led to his establishing a conceptual public art framework, which identifies the principle themes to be interpreted by artists using their own methods and media. Skennar believes this community informed art and design process that delivers a framework for the creation of new art brings meaning to a site and its surroundings. In 2002 Skennar took up a three year appointment with WSROC (Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils) as the Regional Coordinator, Public Places. This position made full use of his multiple art and design skills. A highlight of this appointment was the successful development and establishment of Carrington Place, Katoomba (2004), an integrated public art and landscape design for which Skennar was able to harness the skills of Eco Design Consultants (community consultation), Integrated Design (heritage consultants and landscape architects), Nabis Architecture, Milne and Stonehouse (artist planners), Nerrine Martini (visual artist), Jacinta Tobin (writer) and Richard Stutchbury (sculptor). These participants, many from the local area, collaborated to revitalise the garden in front of the historic Carrington Hotel, win over the support of the heritage lobby, and provide a transformative cultural amenity to the street. The Greenacre Town Centre Improvement Project won a 2008 Local Government and Shires Association Cultural Award for Cultural Infrastructure. This project had begun with workshops conducted in primary and secondary schools and a residents’ committee to follow through on art and design development, all under the direction of Skennar and Bankstown City Council. Skennar was the principle project artist who provided the twin themes of 'Sharing the Knowledge’ and 'Telling Your Story’. These themes formed the basis of five public artworks – on walls, objects, a light box – designed by Skennar and interpreted by artists such as Peter Day, Joanne Saad, Noelene Holten, Jamie Eastwood and Murmur Sayed Ahmed in consultation with the community. Due to this collaborative process during the design development phase, the public space created connected to local interests and needs. Through the public art, stories were able to be communicated about the place’s origins from an Aboriginal meeting place and early white settlement, to post-war migration and the diversity of the Greenacre community today. Skennar believes that it is through this form of public art, drawing on knowledges gained from his years of work as a community-based architectural and urban designer attuned to valuable insights on a neighbourhood by its residents, that people of different cultures begin to understand each other and develop a sense of belonging to the local area.
Writers:
Dr Catherine De Lorenzo
Note: Jacqueline Yip
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Architectural and urban designer John Skennar works collaboratively with other designers and artists on public art and placemaking projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/steven-russell
- Birth Place
- La Perouse, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Steven Russell, a Bidjigal drawer, painter and weaver, was born at La Perouse Mission on the shores of Botany Bay, Sydney, on the 17th May, 1957. Russell’s mother, Esme Timbery is an award-winning shellworker who was still residing at La Perouse in 2007. Russell’s maternal side has long been associated with visual arts in the Sydney region – his great great grandmother, “Queen” Emma Timbery had her shellworks displayed in London in 1910, his cousin, Laddie Timbery, is a boomerang and shield maker who sells the family’s arts and crafts at Timbery’s Arts 'n’ Crafts in Huskisson on the NSW South Coast and at The Loop at La Perouse every weekend. His uncle, Joe Timbery, was a champion boomerang thrower who once threw boomerangs as a display for the young Queen Elizabeth during the Royal Tour of 1954 and his grandfather, Hubert Timbery, was born at the “Yaromah” figtree at Figtree (a suburb of Wollongong), NSW. This particular tree is a Timbery family birthing tree and is the subject of a public art mosaic depicting the Yaromah dreaming story at the site of the original tree. Russell is an artist member of Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Arts and Culture Studio in Gerringong, NSW and it is through this organisation that he completed Certificates I – IV of Aboriginal Art and Cultural Practices, a Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts and a Statement of Attainment in Workplace Training and Assessment at the Wollongong West College of TAFE from 2000 to 2006. Boolarng-Nangamai has provided the space Russell has required to extend his arts practice from painting and drawing to weaving and in 2002 Wollongong City Art Gallery purchased two of his weavings, Hip Bag and Bait Trap, for their permanent collection. His drawings are intricately rendered memories of La Perouse in the 1960s and 1970s and he describes his paintings in a conversation with the author in 2007 as “landscape and abstract paintings that depict my country of Botany Bay.” Russell has participated in “South Coast Weavers” at the Long Gallery of the University of Wollongong in 2003, “Pallingjang II” and III in 2000 and 2002 at the Wollongong City Art Gallery and in 2006 and 2007 he was a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize at NSW Parliament House in Sydney.
Writers:
Allas, TessNote:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Steven Russell, a Bidjigal weaver, drawer and painter is the son and great great grandson of La Perouse shellworkers Esme and Queen Emma Timbery. His works depict his country of Botany Bay.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bae
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-platten
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Anna Platten has been involved in many public and community arts projects since the 1980s including 'Museum Views' - murals for the South Australian Museum. She was a finalist in the 1998 Doug Moran Portait Prize and is represented in several public collections including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9baf
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-truman
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Catherine Truman co-founded the renowned Gray Street Workshop in Adelaide in 1985. She has undertaken various public art commissions and is the recipient of several artist grants and awards. Her work is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-biggs
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Simon Biggs was born in Adelaide in 1957 and has lived in the UK since 1986. He has exhibited within the field of computer based art since the early 1980s, and his practice has encompassed large scale installations, performance, books, online interactive text works, screen based art, video and painting. His academic positions have included Research Professor in Digital Arts, Art & Design Research Centre, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield-Hallam University and (at the time of writing) Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at the Edinburgh College of Art.
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Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Australian-born digital media artist, researcher and curator who has been based in the UK since 1986.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-35.115 Longitude147.3677778 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wendy-teakel
- Birth Place
- Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Wagga Wagga in 1957, Teakel studied a Diploma of Art (Applied) at the Riverina College of Advanced Education between 1976-79. In 1985 she studied a Postgraduate Diploma of Art majoring in sculpture at the Canberra School of Art. In 2004 Teakel received her Master of Arts (Fine Art) by Research from RMIT University.
In 2008 Teakel became the Head of Workshop for Sculpture at the School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra. Since 1980 Teakel has exhibited in over ninety-five group exhibitions and has had over twenty-six solo exhibitions. She regularly exhibits with Stella Downer Fine Art in Sydney, Beaver Galleries in Canberra and Catherine Asquith Gallery in Melbourne. In 2002 Teakel received the Canberra Critics Circle Award for visual Arts and in 2001 she was awarded a residency at the Chaing Mai University by Asialink. This residency also resulted in an exhibition in Chaing Mai and in the same year Teakel received a Professional Development Grant from Arts ACT to produce an exhibition catalogue. In 2000 Teakel was awarded a PEP Research Grant from the Canberra School of Art and in 1999 she received the Outback Art Prize and Residency funded by the Broken Hill City Art Gallery.
Teakel has travelled extensively, particularly throughout Thailand. She has also travelled throughout Central Australia, the United States of America, Japan and Europe. Teakel’s two and three dimensional works are deeply informed by her travels. She often uses the ancient technique of pokerwork to imbue her work with the literal and symbolic fire of the land.
Teakel’s work is represented is many collections, including Araluen Arts Centre, Artbank, Australian Embassy in Bangkok, The Australian National University, Bathurst Regional Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra School of Art, Chiang Mai University in Thailand, D.B.D. Australia, The Hyatt Hotel in Canberra, Khon Kaen University in Thailand, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, The National Gallery of Australia, New South Wales Treasury Corporation, Prince of Songkla University in Thailand, as well as private collections in Australia, India and Thailand.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Contemporary painter and sculpture awarded a residency at the Chaing Mai University by Asialink in 2001. Lives and works in Wagga Wagga, NSW.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-35.2172617 Longitude138.5416998 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gerry-wedd
- Birth Place
- McLaren Vale, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Gerry Wedd is renowned for his contribution as a designer for Mambo Graphics as well as his professional practice as a ceramist. He has won several awards including the Hobart Art Prize in 2010 and the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award in 1998. In 1991 he co-founded the Jamboree Clay Workshop in Adelaide. He is represented in public collections around the country including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bb3
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Latitude-35.308056 Longitude149.124444 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robyn-backen
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary and installation artist who works with ideas from science, communications technology and philosophy to make art installations. Her works focus as much on formal and poetic elements as they do on the way the objects make use of the space in which they are placed. Born in 1957, Backen studied for a Diploma of Visual Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (awarded 1979 and 1983 respectively, from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and in 2003 she was awarded a Master of Art History & Theory from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. While still an undergraduate student, Backen attended several summer schools in sculpture in Salzburg, Austria, as well as receiving a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Early exhibitions reveal her former interests centred on jewellery and sculpture. Subsequently, she attended Summer School at the Australian Network for Art and Technology in Perth in 1997 and a course in 'planning skills for interactive media projects’ at Metro Screen in 2004, for Backen’s art training and practice in the early 1990s revealed a keen expertise in communication technologies. Backen’s work is held in the collections of several Australian institutions including the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney) and the Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth). She uses diverse materials in her sound, light or projected installations where minimalist forms belie complex technological systems. Relatively conventional materials such as wood, aluminium, stainless steel, glass, water, and mirrors, are applied in works such as Azolla (1991), Verge in Rain (1994), Bifocal (1998), Blindfold (1998), Scales of the Sole (1997) and Purdah in the Kitchen (1999). But Backen’s fascination with Morse code and her pioneering experiments with fibre optics mark her practice as one that is comfortable with new technologies in often understated ways. Backen believes that communication is fundamental; it is how individuals connect with the world. For this reason Backen utilizes Morse code generators in her works as a “symbol of the world’s dying languages” to demonstrate that communication is elemental in society and how methods and devices used for communication evolve with time. In works such as Sprung (1990), Dots to Data (1997), Littoral (1998), Weeping Walls (2000) SSO (2001), Rice Talk (2003), Eternal Silence (2003) and Droplet (2004) she wears hers techno-poetic sensibilities lightly. These interests are also evident in her public artworks. Backen’s first public commission was to work on the huge windows at the Casula Powerhouse in south-western Sydney, she not only computer generated a detail from an intriguing Renaissance print, but her Christ Knows (1994) used a shatterproof lexan and adhesive foil technology that both carried the image and reinforced windows to successfully withstand attacks by bored, stone-throwing teenagers. The artwork creatively preserves the history of the site and deals with 'public’ issues (vandalism and destruction of buildings) through the use of contemporary technologies. A high profile piece in Sydney using communication technologies was the two-part Weeping Walls (2000) at the north and south departure gates of Sydney International Airport. In this instance, to counter the dread of non-place suggested by airports, each curtain of flickering fibre optic lights and Morse code generators installed within a metal halide light box was designed to invoke calm at these sometimes stressful places of separation. Following the events in New York on 11 September 2001, however, the artwork was removed to allow better surveillance inside the airport. Being an installation artist has meant that Backen works carefully with the spatial setting. Having produced over 25 artworks, Backen believes it is important to encourage her audience to interact with the art and its surrounding spaces. Whispering Trees (2007, The Hague) is an example of an interactive piece that allows the audience to walk amongst the trees and be led by voices and sounds. As the audience is led through the trees, they hear only one side of the conversation, challenging the audience to consider what is real and unreal. Backen uses codes, light and sound (different languages) to bridge between the old and new communication systems in this installation work. Because Backen draws on the philosophies of art and science in the creation of her works, they are always more than the sum of their technological and formal parts. In her 2006 work Vinculum, developed in collaboration with John Tonkin, for example, she created a darkened space into which the viewer was drawn by both sounds and projected time-based images. The randomised fragments of sounds and images, however, like “raw phonemes of an abstracted linguistic process”, make no sense other than to remind the viewer of sound overload in today’s society, a phenomenon which Backen believes is caused by an increase in sound technologies and communication devices (e.g. mobile phones, mp3s, and iPods). Since 1979, Backen has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, and has won many grants and awards, including a NAWIC (National Association for Women in Construction) award for Art and the Built Environment (2001). She has been awarded residencies in Cologne, Brisbane, New Delhi, Sydney and Wollongong, and since 1994 has won many public commissions to develop installations and public art. Backen’s work has featured in numerous articles for publications including Art and Australia, Eyeline and Architecture Australia. At the time of writing, Backen was working on a public art project at the Sydney Harbour site; a lecturer at the Sydney College of the Arts and coordinator of the Masters program in Studio Art at the University of Sydney.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr Catherine Note: Chan, Kitty Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist who works with ideas from science, communications technology and philosophy to make art installations that focus as much on formal and poetic elements as they do on the way the objects make use of space in which they are placed.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marilyne-nicholls
- Birth Place
- Swan Hill, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Marilyne Elizabeth Nicholls is an Indigenous weaver and painter based in Wood Wood, Victoria. The fourth of Letty and Bevan Nicholls’ eight children, she was born in Swan Hill, a Victorian town on the Murray River close to the NSW border, in 1957. Nicholls has Watti Watti (Victorian, also spelt Wadi Wadi), Yorta Yorta, Barrapa Barrapa (also spelt Baraba Baraba and Barababaraba) and Dja Dja Wurrung heritage on her father’s side, and Ngarrindjeri heritage on her mother’s side. Her father’s father was Sir Douglas Nicholls (1906-1988) – the renowned and much loved sportsman, pastor and campaigner for Indigenous rights, and the first Indigenous Australian to receive a knighthood (in 1972). Nicholls’ ancestry connects her with both the fresh water people of the Victorian Murray River and the saltwater people of the Coorong coastline in South Australia. Nicholls’ maternal great-grandparents were forced to leave the Coorong in the early 1930s when they heard that the state nurses were coming to take the grandchildren and grand nephews and nieces away: the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was common practice at the time as governments across Australia sought to assimilate the Aboriginal population into white society. The family travelled north via Donald to the Murray River in a horse and cart with Letty and her siblings, navigating carefully so as not to trespass on the territory of other Aboriginal clan groups. A sense of being displaced has always been a burden for Nicholls’ mother and grandmother, and the Nicholls family have only recently started discovering and building connections with their Ngarrindjeri relatives in South Australia. Nicholls’ early childhood was spent with her family in a tin house on the northern (NSW) banks of the Murray River, while her father worked on a country homestead in the region. The families who lived on that part of the Murray netted crayfish, caught rabbits, kept chooks and grew vegetables, but to get other supplies they would have to walk across the bridge to Swan Hill. In 1964, when Nicholls was eight years old, her family moved into one of seven houses that had been especially built for Aboriginal families in Swan Hill as part of a government trial that sought to compel Aboriginal people to assimilate into white society. These houses were in the outskirts of the town, and Nicholls recalls that the Aboriginal families who were brought together under these circumstances supported each other and shared a great deal. At this time Nicholls began attending school in Swan Hill. In 1968 her family’s life again changed direction as a result of government policy: as part of a trial by the federal government that sought to encourage Aboriginal people to develop farming skills, the Nicholls family was encouraged to move onto farm land on Watti Watti territory. They went on to run a mixed farming business for six or seven years, a period of time which Nicholls recalls as being extremely tough, partly due to the devastating effects of a locust plague. However Nicholls has fond memories of the farm, and feels that she and her siblings benefited greatly from learning how to manage the land, grow crops and take care of sheep and cattle. Nicholls attended senior school in Tooleybuc, a town on the NSW side of the Murray River. After she finished school she moved to Melbourne and began a career as a nurse. She remained in Melbourne for sixteen years before returning to Swan Hill with her husband and two children. Since 1991 she has worked at the Swan Hill District Hospital as an Aboriginal Hospital Liaison Officer. Nicholls’ artistic training took place in the home: from the late 1960s, when she was around eleven or twelve years of age, she remembers watching her grandmother Emily Karpany (nee Pinkie) weaving mats and baskets and making feather flowers. Emily would make baskets and demonstrate weaving at town events to supplement the family’s income. Nicholls’ mother Letty also took up the practice and eventually Nicholls herself began to explore weaving. Emily and other women weavers of her generation from the region, such as Emily’s friend Lucy Williams Connelly, traditionally wove with leaves from the Cumbungi plant. These leaves are three to four feet long, very thin and tapered at the end. Once they have been collected, they are dried off and then wrapped in a damp cloth so that they become soft for weaving. Cumbungi is an important food source for Aboriginal people. The roots provide a natural staple starch food and are prepared for eating by being roasted on the coals of a fire. Their fibrous quality means that they can also be rolled into a kind of twine or rope, out of which Nicholls’ father and brother have made duck nets. In later years the women of Emily’s generation also began to weave with pine needles, using the long needles that fall from old pine trees. Besides pine needles and Cumbungi, Nicholls has learnt to weave with basket grass, which is a long, thin, strong grass that can be found in wetland areas. The grass, which is collected from the flood plains and banks of rivers and creeks, needs to be picked firmly from its base, as the base is stronger than the tapered end, and thus serves well as the part that enters the weave. Once picked, the grass is left to cure for a few days so that it is tighter and less likely to shred. Basket grass has a very important place in Nicholls’ art making because the same grasses grow in the Coorong and are used by Ngarrindjeri weavers to make open coil weavings. This means that Nicholls is able to forge a connection to her maternal ancestral country by way of technique and fibre choice. The Dreaming story for the creation of the Murray River, which revolves around the Murray Cod, links communities from all the way along the river including fresh water people in Queensland and river clans in NSW, Victoria and the Coorong in South Australia. These connections are at the forefront of Nicholls’ mind as she weaves. Nicholls used basket grass for the work 'Perception of Spirit From the Land’, a large mat which received the Deadly Art Award at the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. For this work she explored the open coil weave, which involves periodically deviating from the conventional concentric coil so that gaps form as the thread is looped away from the inner circle. She also began to split the strands of the weave and braid in new 'stakes’ (the new grasses that are regularly introduced to ensure that the thickness of thread remains consistent) at these points so that multiple threads emerged, following different contours which created a second layer. This approach brought a fine lacework appearance to the mat and the result opens up possibilities for future experiments with marrying different weaving techniques in her art. The judges described it as “a dramatic and many-layered work, utilising the traditional technique of coiling to weave a contemporary description of connections to the land.” (Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2008 Catalogue, 10) The work grew to over one metre in diameter before Nicholls felt it was resolved. Nicholls’ explorations of different weaving styles has also led her to learn to make a rustic variation of the ancient walnut basket (the vessel which Moses was placed in as a baby on the river Nile in the bible) under the tutelage of her friend and mentor, non-indigenous fibre artist Gita Amor. Weaving with grape vine while it is still green, the walnut basket is made by creating two half spheres which are then joined at one point with the diamond shaped god’s eye weave – so-called because it resembles the shape of the eyes of the Pharaoh as depicted in ancient Egyptian art – so that when closed, the lids meet like a walnut. Nicholls has also painted for a number of years, working with acrylics, inks and ochres which are collected from a riverbed in Watti Watti country close to her home. Her paintings reflect on the knowledge and skills she has accumulated over the many years she has lived by the Murray River, and also sometimes represent the totems of her ancestors: the brown snake of her father’s people, and the willy wagtail and black crow of her mother’s people. A collection of Nicholls’ paintings has been acquired by The Koorie Heritage Trust and published as postcards and posters. Exhibitions have included 'Monash NAIDOC Week’ (2005) and 'MARA MARA’ (1998), both at the Highway Gallery in Mount Waverley. Marjorie Walker, the director of Highway Gallery, has been another important mentor for Nicholls. Nicholls has also regularly conducted workshops: during the 2008 Swan Hill Go North Arts Festival she, along with her mother and older sister, provided a feather flower workshop, and during the Rare Trades and Skills Festival at the Pioneer Settlement in the same year she provided a basket weaving workshop. In 2010 she attended the Indigenous Weavers Invitational Weaving Symposium in Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand as part of a delegation of Victorian weavers. While there, she observed that Maori weavers were carrying on the tradition of creating twine from plant fibres, which can then be used to make dilly bags for instance, in a manner that had much in common with Indigenous Australian weaving methods. Though Nicholls is aware of twined dilly bags made in her region historically and familiar with those produced currently elsewhere in Australia, there is a great sense of loss associated with the fact that she has not been the recipient of this kind of intergenerational transfer of knowledge about plant fibres, preparation and weaving techniques, due to the dispossession and social fragmentation her family and community experienced in Victoria as a result of colonisation (pers. corres. 2010).
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Victorian Indigenous weaver and painter whose work reflects her sense of connection with the Murray River and Coorong regions. Won the Deadly Art Award at the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Taught weaving by mother and grandmother
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jane-cafarella
- Birth Place
- Victoria
- Biography
- journalist and cartoonist, was born in Victoria on 17 September 1957. She had epilepsy as a child and spent much time in hospital. After gaining her HSC from Mentone Girls’ Secondary School in 1975, she began a cadetship as a journalist on Standard Newspapers, Cheltenham in 1976 (completed in two and half years instead of the usual four). Her first drawings were done for the Standard News ; after it was taken over by the Herald and Weekly Times , she was paid $10 per cartoon (to a ceiling of $50). In 1980 she became a general and local government reporter on the Herald for two and a half years and did no cartoons until 1982, when she joined the Western Times , a local paper, as a journalist and cartoonist. Work as a publicist and translator at the Ministry of Consumer Affairs followed, where she produced 60 cartoons about credit for the training manual of the Financial Councillors Association of Victoria and 50 cartoons about credit for the Consumer Affairs’ training manual. Then she briefly returned 'to the joys of motherhood and breastfeeding’.
She had a stint in the Premier’s Department before becoming a reporter for the Sunday Press then sub-editor on the Age . 18 months later, she was invited to take up a day job as a full-time reporter and cartoonist on the Age’s 'Accent’ pages. After two and a half years, she took over the editorship of “Accent” for another two years. Cartoons published in the Age include 'Boring Nightly News: “Speaking of pulling strings, what’s the latest from you, Jen” [male to smiling female presenter on a string]’ (ill. WAR, 14).
Caf took maternity leave in 1992, then wrote and illustrated a weekly column about the joys of new motherhood and was a family reporter on the Age until 1996. She resigned to set up her own consultancy, conducted from her home-office at Boronia, at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria. She writes and draws for a wide range of government, private and community organisations in Melbourne and Sydney. Among her 30 or so regular clients are Kangan Batman TAFE, Quality Time magazine, Playgrouper Magazine , the Alternative Law Journal , the Victorian Association of Secondary School Principals Newsletter , New Scientist (Australian edn) and the Age in Victoria, and Hale & Ironmonger and Redfern Legal Publishing in Sydney.
She edited Breastfeeding Naturally for the Nursing Mothers of Australia (now in its third printing) and illustrated two books co-authored with Hazel Edwards. She also writes a weekly column on new appointments in the health sector for the Saturday employment section of the Age . Her two children were aged five and 13 (son) in 1998.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- A contemporary Melburnian journalist and cartoonist, Cafarella has written for and contributed illustrations to a wide variety of publications including the Standard News, the Age, the Alternative Law Journal, New Scientist and Breastfeeding Naturally.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/julie-blyfield-1
- Birth Place
- Melbourne , Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Julie Blyfield, silversmith and jeweller, was born in Melbourne in 1957. Her English-born parents had arrived in Adelaide in 1965, after migrating to Australia from England early in the 1950s. Blyfield began her career as an art teacher, graduating from Torrens College of Advanced Education with a Diploma in Teaching (Secondary Fine Art) in 1978. For 13 years following her graduation, Blyfield taught primary and secondary school art through the Education Department of South Australia. From 1984-87, she undertook an Associate Diploma of Jewellery Making and Silversmithing at the South Australian College of the Arts and Education, joining Gray Street Workshop as an access member in her final year of study. Following night classes, studio practice and workshops at various times throughout this teaching period, Blyfield made the switch to pursuing her art practice in 1994, ceasing her career as a school teacher.
Some of Blyfield’s early tuition in jewellery making at the South Australian College of the Arts and Education was under lecturer Carole-Anne Fooks. During her time studying jewellery making and silversmithing she was directed by Bob King. Since 1990, Blyfield has attended numerous conferences and workshops and in 2002, she received an Arts SA funded mentorship with master metal-worker Frank Bauer, a German trained expert in metalraising.
There are several areas that inform Blyfield’s work, at times overlapping or running concurrently through a project. These include but are not limited to: language, texture, emotion, memory, organic matter, man-made objects, relics and fragments, Indigenous appreciation and botanicals. Broader areas contribute also, such as archaeology, collecting practices and museums exhibits.
Blyfield’s series Mementos, 1989-90, incorporates objects collected during her travels through remote northern South Australia. Natural and man-made objects such as rock and mineral, wire and shaped metal, were found, kept and transformed into ‘hand objects’; jewellery items that are held rather than worn. Stratigraphy of Chance, 1992, illustrates Blyfield’s continuing interest in found items. This series comprises three neckpieces, each containing tiny replicas of the artist’s discoveries whilst volunteering at an archaeological dig in Adelaide’s East End earlier in the same year. The collecting and cataloguing of fragments once belonging to a time, place and person is as much the impetus behind this body of work as the fragments themselves.
Combining her awareness of the performative aspects of jewellery with an interest in Victorian aesthetics, Blyfield produced Mourn, 1993, a development of her hand objects, conceived of as symbols or material representations of sentimentality. Her interest in aspects of emotion continued, when in 1997 Blyfield embarked on a study tour to London, where she visited various museums in order to investigate ‘mourning’ jewellery further.Personal aspects engendered in Blyfield’s work are that of memory and relationships. In the exhibition ‘Traces of a Shared Memory’, 2001, the artist employs patterns reminiscent of her grandmother’s embroidery to create 24 highly textured brooches that are intrically punched from the reverse in order to present raised motifs on the surface of 18 carat gold and sterling silver.
Another major subject Blyfield deals with in her jewellery is organic matter, namely flora, botanicals and seeds. The series Florescence, 2002, considers Australian and introduced specimens, where she has worked silver into an assortment of leaves and seeds and then transformed these into neckpieces. She continued in this interest area with the series Pressed Desert Plant,2005, creating replica brooches of pressed botanical specimens.
In addition to the multitude of commissions, lecturing, mentoring, workshops and residencies Blyfield has undertaken, she has been recognised for her contribution to jewellery, winning: the ‘Open Inquiry Award’, City of Perth Craft Award, Craftwest Western Australia, 2002; the ‘Non Precious Award’, Third National Contemporary Jewellery Award, Griffith, New South Wales, 1996; and First Prize for ‘Neckworks’, Fremantle Art Centre, Perth, 1992. Since her switch to full-time art, Blyfield has exhibited prolifically. In 2006 her work was exhibited with galerie ra at ‘Kunst Rai’, an international art fair in Amsterdam. In 2005, she participated in ‘Transformations: The Language of Craft’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and in 2002 she exhibited ‘Traces’ at The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh, UK.
Julie Blyfield’s work is represented in numerous Australian public collections including: Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Art Gallery of South Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Griffith Regional Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; National Gallery of Australia; Queensland Art Gallery; and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. International collections include: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; Musee Des Arts Decoratifs, France; National Museum of Scotland; Turnov Collection, Czech Republic; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Writers:
Nerina_Dunt
staffcontributor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Julie Blyfield is a jewellery, object and vessel maker based in South Australia. She has presented at numerous jewellers' conferences, led workshops and mentored to jewellery graduates. Julie has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas and is represented in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kate-durham
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Cartoonist, painter, sculptor and jewellery designer, trained in Melbourne. In the 1980s she made popular 'wild and witty’ costume jewellery that was exhibited in Europe and the USA. She was also a founding member of the Fashion Design Council of Australia. She exhibits her sculpture, furniture, jewellery and paintings at Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, and at Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
In the 1990s Durham’s comical stationery designs and illustrations were a hit in Japan, and since then she has primarily focused on cartooning and 2-D illustrations. Her anthology Trust, Lust, Chaos and Cruelty (Hardie Grant Books, South Yarra Vic, 2001), a book of pictures about courtship ('couchplay’) is like a kinky, sick, 21st century version of Betty Paterson’s cupie-doll lovers (with the same rather saccharine, single-joke superficiality).
Married to Julian Burnside and heavily involved in helping refugees, including doing posters, e.g. wide-eyed Muslim girl (see Weekend Australian: Weekend Magazine November 2002).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Contemporary cartoonist, painter, sculptor and jewellery designer.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/katie-reeves
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-webb
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- Mark Webb’s practice explored the pedagogical and critical value of play across a wide range of mediums. In his work of the 1980s, his paintings explored combinatory play with found images in ways that aligned with postmodern appropriation. Later works maintained a relationship to painting, while also extending this approach into text, installation, video and performance. Throughout his practice, his works employed strategies of humour, parody and satire to reimagine the relationship between art and politics. Most recently, these investigations explored a fictocritical approach to making and exhibiting, which involved the use of several pseudonyms, including Eve Roleston, Ernesto Love, and Ernest Olove. In 2010 Pestorius Projects, Brisbane, presented an exhibition surveying 25 years of practice.
Webb studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1980, before completing a Diploma of Art at the Queensland College of Art in 1984 and a Master of Arts (Research) at Queensland University of Technology in 1996. In 1985 he was an artist-in-residence at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, where he also presented his first solo exhibition. Webb was a participant of the 1980’s Qld ARIs sector and was included in “The Demolition Show” held at The Observatory Gallery, Brisbane from March 10-March 31, 1986. In 1986 he also was a Director of two ARIs, This Space and Type Space.
In 1988 he began teaching at the Queensland College of Art, where he redesigned the Intermedia Program in ways modelled on Black Mountain College and CALARTS. In 1991 he began teaching at QUT, where he continued to develop his post-medium pedagogical approach. This became an integral part of QUT’s pioneering Open Studio Program, which was established in 1999. Webb taught at QUT until 2016. In addition to teaching a generation of Brisbane’s contemporary artists, Webb also mentored a generation of artist-run initiatives, including The Farm, Boxcopy, No Frills ARI, inbetweenspaces, Accidentally Annie Street, Current Projects and Fake Estate.
His works are featured in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia along with Artbank, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith University.
Writers:
Chris Handran
Date written:
2022
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Mark was a participant of the 1980's Qld ARIs sector and was included in "The Demolition Show" held at The Observatory Gallery, Brisbane from March 10-March 31, 1986.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-pickering
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist (“absolutely no relation”), was born in Melbourne on 22 June 1957; attended La Trobe University in 1975-79 and received BA (Hons) in Prehistory, then worked as an archaeologist for the WA Aboriginal Sites Dept, MOV (1980-82). In 1983-85 he was at Australian National University doing a B. Letters in Anthropology, then worked as an anthropologist for the Northern Land Council (1985-88), when he began drawing cartoons. Most were for Land Rights News [LRN] (contributed 1985-92), published by the Northern Teritory Land Council. 8 cartoons from LRN were included in Kaz Cooke (ed.), Beyond a Joke: The Anti-Bicentenary Cartoon Book (Penguin, 1988) pp.1, 6 (First Fleet Landing: “Oh no… International Terrorists!”), 20, 69, 77, 89, 132, 141. He also worked as a cartoonist on Australasian Biotechnology (1993-95) and Antiquity (1993-97).
Three original cartoons on Aboriginal topics, evidently from LRN – ’1799: “Look it’s not working, they’ve had Land Rights for over ten years now, but they’re drunk on rum, they fight, they still can’t support themselves without massive injections of our aid … no … we’ll have to take the land back, c.1988, 'New Parliament House’ c.1988, and 'You’ve stolen our art, you’ve stolen our music, you’ve stolen our land … BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! [whitefella painting himself black], c.1996 – were included in Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1999 via Jo Holder (courtesy artist).
Michael Pickering signs his (post-Leunig style) cartoons with illegible initials. In 1989 he won second prize in a cartoon competition conducted by Search (the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Assoc. for the Advancement of Science). His cartoons illustrate D. Smith & B. Halstead’s Looking for your Mob: A guide to tracing Aboriginal Family Trees (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1990). In 1995 he was awarded third prize in the Black 'n’ White 'n’ Green cartoon competition at the Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs (entries also produced as a book).
After doing a PhD in Archaeology at La Trobe in 1989-97, Pickering worked as a Regional Officer for the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority in the Northern Territory, then Senior Research Officer Native Title, for Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. In 1998 he was appointed Head Curator in the Indigenous Cultures Program, Museum Victoria and later appointed Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at the National Museum of Australia.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Contemporary Melbourne and Northern Territory based archaeologist, anthropologist and curator who also works as a cartoonist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bbb
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-simcoe
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Simcoe trained at RMIT Melbourne and began as a designer at GM Holden in 1983. In 1995, he was a design director, later GMH's director of design. In 2004, he moved to the USA to develop a range of GM vehicles and after 2014, he was made a vice president of GM.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bbc
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/allan-mansell
- Birth Place
- Tasmania
- Biography
- Allan Mansell (b. 1957) is a Tasmanian Aboriginal visual artist who works across print, painting and drawing. He has had his work published as the front cover of the Indigenous Law Bulletin (volume 6, Issue 8) and was described on the Bulletin 's website as having “developed his artistic skills as a means of expressing his Aboriginality and love of the natural world.” On the same site Mansell says of his work that “the images that I create are my own. Because the culture which we had was stolen and discarded, I have to create my own symbols. I use my art to tell stories from my family and Elders.”
Mansell’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Queensland Art Gallery.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Allan Mansell is a Tasmanian Aboriginal visual artist whose work has featured on the cover of the Indigenous Law Bulletin. His work is in the collection of the Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bbd
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Latitude-42.7801998 Longitude147.0615332 Start Date1957-01-01 End Date1957-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-scott
- Birth Place
- New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- Mary Scott is an avid collector of objects and images. She is also a maker of drawings, paintings and other stuff. She travels habitually; for her, travel provides a framework for unsystematic learning. In 2011 she returned to Italy after an absence of 20 years, well-versed in accounts of the eighteenth-century English gentleman’s fascination with the Grand Tour, to undertake her own tour. Her task was to study the remnants of pre-Enlightenment object collections, the ordering of which, preceded taxonomic systems around which museums, today, are arranged. Founded in the traditions of curiosity, these early object collections promoted non-linear, syncretic and analogous forms of knowledge.
Scott is Senior Lecturer and Head of Drawing at the Tasmanian School of Art. Recent exhibitions include 'Keepers and Kind’ (2011), Criterion Gallery, Hobart; 'Wilderness: Balnaves Contemporary Painting’ (2010), Art Gallery of New South Wales; 'Look Out’ (2010), Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST) in collaboration with the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG); 'The Keeping Room’ (2009), Criterion Gallery, Hobart; and 'Every Minute of Every Day’ (2009), in ‘Trust’, Ten Days on The Island Festival, Tasmania.
In 2009 Scott won the Hobart City Invitation Art Prize for drawing at TMAG. Her artwork is referenced in numerous professional texts and catalogues and is included in significant public and private collections. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Rising Stars Research Grant, University of Tasmania, and her commitment to teaching and learning has been recognised through seven teaching certificates and two teaching awards, including a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning (2008), and a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (2008).
Writers:
Nancy Mauro-Flude
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1957
- Summary
- Mary Scott, Tasmanian-based artist specializing in painting and drawing, is the Senior Lecturer and Head of Drawing at the Tasmanian School of Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bbe
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Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bbf
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Latitude59.3251172 Longitude18.0710935 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ola-hoglund
- Birth Place
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help by adding more detail.
Writers:
fishel
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Glass artist and co-founder of Höglund Art Glass, which has a studio in the Whyanbeel Valley in North Queensland.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc0
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Latitude52.408056 Longitude-1.510556 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/belinda-ann-allen
- Birth Place
- Coventry, England, UK
- Biography
- Belinda Allen is a digital photomedia artist based in Sydney, Australia. She also works in elearning for higher education at the University of New South Wales. Her educational and working background is in printmaking, photography and graphic design.
Since graduating with the prize in Printmaking at the South Australian School of Art, she has worked for many years in a variety of photographic and digital media, sometimes incorporating painting, drawing and sculptural assemblage.
She is a long-time resident of Bundeena in the Royal National Park south of Sydney, and regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Sutherland Shire, particularly at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre in Gymea.
She has been a finalist in recent years in many selective exhibitions, including the Hazelhurst Biennial Art on Paper award, The Blake Prize for Religious Art, and the ‘Sydney Life’ Photographic exhibition in Hyde Park, Sydney.
Writers:
Belinda
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Belinda Allen is a digital photomedia artist based in Sydney. She graduated in Printmaking from the SA School of Art in 1977, and has worked in a variety of photographic and digital media, sometimes incorporating painting, drawing and assemblage. A resident of Bundeena, south of Sydney, she regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney, and has also shown in other Australian cities, and in London and Tokyo.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc1
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Latitude52.24764975 Longitude5.541246849 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/theo-strasser
- Birth Place
- The Netherlands
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Melbourne based painter and creator of artists' books, including collaborative projects with Peter Lyssiotis. His work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions in Melbourne and group exhibitions across Australia and is represented in Australian and international private and public collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc2
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc3
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicholas-harding
- Birth Place
- London, Shooter's Hill, SE London, England
- Biography
- painter, sketcher, printmaker, illustrator and animator. After studying art in the mid 1970s, Harding travelled through Europe, then returned to Australia, where he developed a reputation for his painterly images while also working in illustration and animation.
Brett Ballard, reviewing an exhibition in 2005, commented that “We can not think of Nicholas Harding without thinking of paint. Luscious, buttery paint. What Harding does with paint is important but of equal importance is what he paints. Harding is after all a painter of subjects…”
Among many awards and honours, Harding won both the Archibald and Dobell Prizes in 2001. He was a finalist in the Archibald 19 times. He undertook four residencies at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts’ Cicada Press since 2001.
David Marr remembered that he “worked and worked and worked all the time.”In 2022 he was awarded the Wynne Prize for his painting Eora, a painting that evoked the surviving beauty of the landscape around Sydney which Marr called “Nicholas at the peak of his powers”
Writers:
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- painter, sketcher, printmaker, illustrator and animator. After studying art in the mid 1970s, Harding travelled through Europe, then returned to Australia, where he developed a reputation for his painterly images while also working in illustration and animation.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2-Nov-22
- Age at death
- 66
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc4
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Latitude47.6856552 Longitude9.8342247 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/magda-matwiejew
- Birth Place
- Wangen, Germany
- Biography
- Born in Wangen, Germany in 1956, digital media and film artist Magda Matwiejew arrived in Australia in 1958. From 1969-73, she undertook studies in Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and in 2008 was still living and working in Melbourne.
Since her first solo show at Pinacotheca, Melbourne in 1979, Madga has exhibited at Realities Gallery, Melbourne; Luba Bilu, Gallery, Melbourne; and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne. Notable among the solo exhibitions showcasing her more recent digital art practice are Arabesque (2006) and Vavara: Beyond Memory (2004), both held at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.
Her current work has also featured in many prominent digital art festivals and awards, both locally and abroad, including After Urban , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2007); Melbourne Underground Film Festival , Melbourne (2006); New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia , Today Art Museum, Beijing (2006); Indiana International Video Art and Architecture Festival , Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana (2006) and Temporary Identities, The Third Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging , Animation and Video Art , Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia (2006).
Magda is represented in several major public and corporate collections.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- A digital media and film artist, Magda Matwiejew studied Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Represented in a number of major collections, Matwiejew's work has been exhibited around the world at exhibitions and festivals including Her current work has also featured in many prominent digital art festivals and awards, both locally and abroad, including New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia at the Today Art Museum, Beijing in 2006.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc5
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Latitude32.6475314 Longitude54.5643516 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monir-rowshan
- Birth Place
- Iran
- Biography
- Monir Rowshan was born in 1956 in Iran. Her oeuvre includes mosaics and ceramic artworks. She also organises and co-ordinates various community art projects.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Snewin, Mary AnneDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Monir Rowshan was born in 1956 in Iran. Her oeuvre includes mosaics and ceramic artworks. She also organises and co-ordinates various community art projects.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc6
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Latitude23.0131338 Longitude-80.8328748 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jose-garcia-negrette
- Birth Place
- Cuba
- Biography
- Architect and artist José Garcia Negrette was born of a French mother and Spanish father in Cuba in 1956 before settling in Sydney in 1969. He attended South Sydney Boys’ High School under Colleen Quinn, who was his art teacher before he studied architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), graduating with Honours Class I in 1983. After a few months travelling around Japan, Europe and the United States of America, he returned to work as an architect, eventually forming his own company, Garcia Negrette Architecture & Design Pty Ltd, whose designs include museums, residential and commercial projects. Garcia Negrette is also a freelance lecturer in the Raffles College of Design and Commerce (also known as the KVB Institute of Technology) and the Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW. While studying architecture, Garcia Negrette enjoyed drawing, painting, and graphic design, the latter leading to a series of interpretive drawings of the Sydney Opera House. By the mid-1980s he was successfully publishing cartoons in the Sydney Morning Herald, with one of them eventually being published in the book Arrest that cartoonist! (Considine, Mary-Lou, 1986). Garcia Negrette regards his cartooning, painting and drawing as energising activities that complement the running of an architectural practice. Garcia Negrette’s paintings on paper, often a combination of abstracted figures and landscapes, typically investigate the layering of pencil or sometimes pastel drawings with bands of saturated pigments in acrylic, to capture his emotional response to the subject. In so doing, he invites the viewer to look attentively at the surface qualities. His art has been exhibited in various group exhibitions in Sydney, including exhibitions at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery and the S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery. Having contributed as one of over twenty artists to “The Soul of the Architect” exhibition at Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, in 2005, he returned in 2008 for a two-person show, “1 + 1 = DOS”, with fellow architect-painter, Danielle Pinet. Garcia Negrette has designed furniture both for his own use and for clients, with some images of his work published in Belle Corporate Design and Vogue Living. In 2008 Garcia Negrette was living with his wife and daughter in Sydney.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr CatherineNote: Chow, Yee LingNote:
Date written:
Last updated:
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- A Cuban-born Australian architect, painter, black and white cartoonist and freelance lecturer. His art works combine abstracted figures and landscapes.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc7
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Latitude22.2793278 Longitude114.1628131 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-young-1
- Birth Place
- Hong Kong, China
- Biography
- John Alexander Young Zerunge is a Hong Kong-born Australian artist. During the time of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, he was sent to Australia to complete his education. In the 1970s, he read philosophy at The University of Sydney, later attending and lecturing at Sydney College of the Arts.
John Young began his exhibiting career with a solo exhibition, 'The Second Mirage’, comprising a work shown for one minute on the door of a hut in the small fishing village of Rosroe, Connemara, Ireland (1982). On his return from Europe, he was a founding member of the artists’ group, Various Artists Ltd. Since that time, he has worked on many series of works, in particular, the 'Silhouette’ series (1985-89), the 'Polychrome’ series (1989-93) and, of late, the 'Double Ground’ (1992-present) and 'Square Painting’ series (1995-present). This later work revolves around such issues as frameworks of representation, mood states, certainty, the plight of Asians in the diaspora, and images in and memories of cultural tourism.
Important groups exhibitions include 'Antipodean Currents’, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995). His major survey exhibition, 'Orient/Occident: A Survey of Works by John Young, 1978-2005’, was held at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Melbourne, in 2005-06. John Young has completed work for numerous prestigious commissions including a large tapestry for the new Nanjing Library, gifted from the Victorian Government to the Chinese province of Jiangsu (2004-05); the Boardroom, AXA, Melbourne (2003); the foyer, AMP Building, Sydney (2000); and commissions in Hong Kong, including a permanent installation, over five levels, at North Point Interchange, Mass Transit Railway, and Credit Suisse, First Boston (both 2001). His work is held in international collections, including the United Nations Collection, New York, as well as all major public collections and many corporate and private collections in Australia.
Young presented at the Australian National University’s Centre for Cross-Cultural Research VSP students on 20 November 2000. His presentation included an explanation of source materials in three series of paintings. Imants Tillers was a mentor in early years, and Young painted the red cross on one of Tillers’ St Francis of Assisi misprinted postcard works.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
John_Young
nmian
fishel
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Painter, John Alexander Young Zerunge is a Hong Kong-born Australian artist. During the time of The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, he was sent to Australia to complete his education.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc8
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Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-ann-napaljarri-tasman
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu 1956, MaryAnn was a Warlpiri. Her country was Kunajarrayi and Dreamings, Warna, Laju and Ngalyipi. Her Laju – Witchetty Grub – Dreaming painting was put onto a T-shirt. She sometimes worked with her sister-in-law, Lynette Tasman . She started painting in 1987 and became one of the most successful Lajamanu artists, especially amongst the younger women. Very articulate, in Warlpiri and also in English – she negotiated the deal to have her painting on the T-shirt herself.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who was one of the most successful painters from Lajamanu (NT). She often worked with her sister, Lynette Tasman.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bc9
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-casey
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1956 in Queensland, Kooma painter Simon Casey has displayed his paintings in the 2001 “Gatherings, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia” exhibition in Brisbane. He works in the media of synthetic polymer on canvas, board, paper and circular saw blades.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Painter Simon Casey exhibited as part of the 2001 'Gatherings' exhibition in Brisbane. He works in the media of synthetic polymer on canvas, board, paper and circular saw blades.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bca
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/stanley-geebung
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1956, Stanley Geebung is from the Gungarri people of Augathella in South West Queensland. Geebung was taken from his family as a child and placed in an orphanage in Rockhampton. He works with synthetic polymer paint on canvas and was featured in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Stanley Geebung is from the Gungarri people of Augathella in South West Queensland. He works with synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bcb
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Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/monica-nakamarra-doolan
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu in 1956, Monica Nakamarra Doolan was a Warlpiri speaker. She did her first paintings while attending a teachers’ training course at Batchelor College in 1989. She painted Warna (Snake), Yawakyi (Bloodberry) and Ngurlu (edible seed used for damper) Dreamings from the country round Mission Creek. She occasionally helped her mother, Liddy Napanangka Walker, and her maternal aunties with their paintings. Most of her maternal relatives live at Lajamanu and Yuendumu, though Monica herself lived in Alice Springs. Bertha Nakamarra Dickson was one of her sisters.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lived in Alice Springs. She often painted in collaboration with relatives from Lajamanu and Yuendumu (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bcc
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Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sonder-nampitjinpa-turner
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1956, Sonder is the daughter of Paddy Tjangala. Taught to paint in the early ’80s by her father, Sonder was one of the first women painters in the Western Desert style to gain recognition for her work, winning the 1986 Canberra National Times Art Award. Her paintings usually depict the Two Women Dancing story for Mt Liebig. A Warlpiri speaker, she moved to Darwin in 1986 and thence to Katherine.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who has lived in Papunya, Mt Liebig, Darwin and Katherine. She was one of the first female Western Desert artists to gain national recognition, winning the Canberra National Times Art Award in 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/margaret-napangardi-lewis
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu in 1956, Margaret Lewis Nungurrayi has family at Yuendumu and Nyirrpi, where she often stays, but in the early 1990s was living in Alice Springs, where she sold her work to several local galleries. She began painting for Warlukurlangu Artists in the late ’80s and still paints for them when visiting the settlement. She paints Karnta (Women’s) Dreaming for her country Janyinki. Dorothy Napangardi Robinson is one of her sisters.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Born at Yuendumu, Lewis sold her work to several local galleries in Alice Springs where she lived in the `1990s. Her principal subject matter is Karnta (Women's) Dreaming.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bce
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Latitude-22.5216511 Longitude132.7344955 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/susan-napaltjarri-leo
- Birth Place
- Napperby, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born on Napperby station in July 1956, Susan Leo is an Amnatyerre speaker. She usually paints Fish and Sugar Ant Dreamings from her country, which lies around Tilmouth Well, Napperby and Central Mt Wedge. The daughter-in-law of Ronnie McNamara , she started painting in 1986 and lives at Napperby.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Amnatyerre artist from Napperby (NT) who often painted with her husband, Peter Leo Tjakamarra.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bcf
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Latitude-23.3782137 Longitude150.5134227 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judy-dunn
- Birth Place
- Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and caricaturist, was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, but has long worked in Melbourne. She was included in the SLV cartoon exhibition, The Heidelberg School Picnic , in 1985. Her joke cartoons – as much verbal as visual, says Richardson (p.114) – appeared weekly in the Weekend Australian during the 1990s, e.g. Magazine Cartoonist Looks Into the Future : (child to mother) “Mummy, what was a magazine? What was a cartoonist?” Australian Magazine 30-31 May 1998, 12. She remained a staff artist on the 'new look’ Australian Magazine of 11-12 August 2001, with At Neurotics Anonymous – a room full of empty chairs and a distant voice saying, 'Well, the hypochondriacs have gone home sick… the claustrophobics couldn’t bear to stay… and the obsessive-compulsives went to wash their hands!’ – but the editor announced that henceforth she would rotate with Victoria Roberts and Fiona Katauskas on a roughly 2 out of 3 week basis. She was not there for the following two weeks – the first time in years – and appears have disappeared altogether by the end of 2002 – evidently once her contract expired.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Prolific late 20th century cartoonist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd0
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Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/daisy-napaltjarri-jugadai
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1956 at Haasts Bluff and a Pintupi/Luritja speaker, Daisy paints Honey Ant, Spinifex and Emu Dreamings for her country, which lies around Papunya and Haasts Bluff. Daisy comes from a family of artists which goes back to the beginning of Western Desert painting: her uncles include painters Uta Uta Tjangala and Riley Major Tjangala – as well as Dapper Dapper Tjangala, one of the senior men at Haasts Bluff. Daisy’s mother, Narputta Nangala Jugudai , has recently begun painting on canvas for the Ikuntji Women’s Centre in Haasts Bluff, but she learned to paint working on the backgrounds of Daisy’s father Timmy Jugudai’s paintings. In 1993 a painting of Daisy’s was exhibited and purchased from the Araluen Annual Art Award. Her work has also been shown in the 1993 National Aboriginal Art Award and been purchased by the National Gallery of Australia.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Pintupi/Luritja artist from a family connected to the origins of the painting movement in Papunya. She paints for Ikuntji Women's Centre (Ikuntji Art Centre), Haasts Bluff, and her work has been exhibited in major national art awards.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd1
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Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/norah-napaljarri-nelson
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born 26 October 1956 Haasts Bluff, NT, Norah Nelson is a Warlpiri speaker who lives at Yuendumu. Her main country is the Ngarlkirdu Dreaming at Naru. She began assisting her husband Bronson (Frank) Jakamarra Nelson on his paintings in about 1986, emerging within a year as an artist in her own right. She first exhibited in September 1987 at the Karnta (Women) exhibition at the Esplanade Gallery in Darwin, and has since shown her work widely, in exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Alice Springs. She has also shown at Galeria Alfredo Melgar in Madrid and, independently of Warlukurlangu Artists, at the Dreamtime Gallery in Perth, where her first two person show with Bronson Nelson in February 1990 was a featured event at the Perth Festival. She paints Ngaru (Bush Plum), Ngarlkirdi (Witchetty Grubs), Ngarlikirdi/Warna (Witchetty Grub/Snake), Karntajarra (Two Women), and Pangkurlangu (Giant) Dreamings and recently her very successful series of Yiwarra (Milky Way) Dreamings, which are painted with the permission of Paddy Sims , a senior custodian of that Dreaming in the Yuendumu community. All of this series of works have gone into major public and private collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Holmes à Court Collection and the Darwin Supreme Court, which also selected the painting to be made into a mosaic for the central courtyard of the new court complex.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who was living at Yuendumu when she began painting in about 1987. She is renowned for her Milky Way paintings, produced with the permission of the Dreaming's custodian Paddy Sims, one of which was made into a mosaic in the new court complex in Darwin.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd2
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Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/punata-stockman
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1956 at Haasts Bluff, Punata Stockman Nungarrayi is the eldest child of Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, one of the founders and one-time Chairman of Papunya Tula Artists. Her mother, Yintinaka Nampitjinpa (b. 1940) was the daughter of Ilyuna Nungarrayi and Yalitijayi, an older brother of the renowned Pintupi artist and fellow Papunya Tula founder Uta Uta Tjangala. Punata’s grandparents on her father’s side were Amnatyerre, but they were killed in the 1928 Coniston Massacre when her father was just a baby in a coolamon. Punata has two younger brothers who also live in Papunya: Adrian (b. 1959 Papunya) and Abraham (b. 1966 Papunya). With her husband Peter Major Tjangala, Punata had three daughters, twins Maggie and Sheila (b. 1977 Alice Springs Hospital) and Isobel (b. 1975) and two sons Farren (b. 1980) and Abrahem (b. 1983).
Punata spent her early childhood in Haasts Bluff and then went to school in Papunya. Her memory of her schooldays is that the teachers were “very strict” and they had to speak English in the classroom. Having trained for six months as a nurse’s aid in Darwin after leaving school, Punata was employed as a health worker in Papunya for twenty-one years. She finally left this job to assist with the care of her grandchildren.
In 1980, at a time when no women painted in their own right for the Papunya Tula company, Billy Stockman began teaching his daughters to paint. Punata remembers being told to “watch and learn”. Her mother was already helping her father with the background dotting of his paintings and there was discussion among the male painters about letting the women share the resources of the painting company “so they can teach our grandchildren with the paintings”. These days Punata looks upon her early efforts as “just practising”. It was much later that she began doing “private canvases”, which she sold to people working locally in Papunya “to help support all my grandchildren”. When Papunya Tjupi Art Centre opened its doors in 2007 Punata began painting regularly and is one of its most consistent and dedicated artists. In 2008 she was elected Chairperson of the organisation. Punata’s work has been acquired by the Janet Holmes à Court collection and her reputation grows both in Australia and overseas.
Writers:
Papunya Tjupi Arts
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Punata Stockman Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of founding Papunya Tula Artist Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri and in 2009 was Chairperson of Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd3
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Latitude-26 Longitude121 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9bd4
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Latitude-26.6257326 Longitude152.959953 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jann-dark
- Birth Place
- Nambour, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd5
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Latitude-27.1170905 Longitude150.8946408 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kieran-knox
- Birth Place
- Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. September 1956
- Summary
- Kieran was an active participant of the 1980s Qld ARI sector and in community based media including 4ZZZ public radio.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- c.2012
- Age at death
- 56
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd6
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeff-gibson-1
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1956
- Summary
- Artist, Print maker actively involved in artist-run spaces in Brisbane and Sydney including Art Empire Industry and Union Street Gallery. Art Critic and Arts Writer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd7
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/noel-vincent-joseph-mckenna
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- painter and printmaker, was born in Brisbane on 5 August 1956. Studied Architecture QU 1974 75, Brisbane College of Art 1976 78; CAI 1981. Gently ironic small scale prints and paintings re domestic life, etc. Fremantle Print Award Exhibition 1986; Moet et Chandon Exhibition 1991.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- painter and printmaker, was born in Brisbane in 1956. Studied at three different institutes, studying art and architecture, and was exhibited in the Fremantle Print Award Exhibition, 1986, and the Moet et Chandon Exhibition, 1991.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd8
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Latitude-30.0914494 Longitude145.9429902 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jeffrey-samuels
- Birth Place
- Bourke, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Jeffrey Samuels, Ngemba painter, illustrator, designer, mixed media artist and printmaker, was born in Bourke in northwest New South Wales in 1956 and spent his early childhood years on sheep properties at Carinda. Samuels was creative from an early age, and used to make copies of comic book illustrations, landscape images and pictures from newspapers, and create Christmas cards for the family.
In 1978, Samuels completed a Diploma in Fine Art and the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education (now the National Art School) in Sydney. While studying, he found he was not so inspired by European art genres and theories, but more by “traditional and contemporary Aboriginal dancing, language, music, theatre, literature and visual artist along with Aboriginal and Australian social political issues” (2005 biography, Boomalli archive). The Arrernte watercolourist Albert Namatjira was also an inspirational reference point for the artist.
In 1983, Samuels received an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Arts Board fellowship, which allowed him to undertake a residency with Lyndsey Roughsey, a Lardil elder from Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. In that year he was able to convert his Diploma of Fine Art to a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at the then City Art Institute (now the site of the College of Fine Arts), Sydney. The following year Samuels participated in “Koori Art ’84” at Artspace, Sydney, one of the seminal exhibitions that marked the emergence of the urban Aboriginal artists’ movement in Australia, and in 1987 he cofounded the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, which fostered the careers of many of these artists. He has participated in a number of Boomalli exhibitions over the years including “Boomalli Breaking Boundaries” (1989), “Blackroots: Koori Indigenous Gay and Lesbian Art” (1997), “A Little Bit’a Paint” – a two-person show with Tracey Bostock (1997), and the solo exhibition “Stylin-Up” (2000), and has also contributed to the administration of the cooperative with stints as chairman and secretary.
In his art practice Samuels has always sought to affirm his “Aboriginal identity and cultural heritage and its artistic expressions” and his dedication to community well-being is further reflected in his practice as an arts professional, teacher and advocate (Boomalli archive). Over the years he has donated paintings to charities and fundraising events in support of a range of causes, has facilitated mural projects at schools, TAFE’s, Universities and within Australian gaols, and has taught art and conducted workshops in schools, tertiary institutions, gaols, museums and art centres. He has been commissioned to create poster designs for a number of Indigenous community events, logos for Indigenous organisations, and in 2000 he was commissioned to recreate a painting for the Nature Segment of the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games.
Samuels’ exhibitions have included “The Blake Prize for Religious Art”, Commonwealth Bank, Sydney (1983-4), :Aratjara: Art of the First Australians”, which toured to European art museums in 1993 and 1994, “Urban Focus” at the National Gallery of Australia (1999), and “Bangu Yilbara: Works from the MCA Collection”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006). He is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Flinders University, the Australian Museum and the National Museum of Australia.
Writers:
Poll, Matt
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Ngemba artist from Bourke, New South Wales, who was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bd9
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Latitude-30.748889 Longitude121.465833 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phillip-doughty
- Birth Place
- Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Fremantle based artist Phillip Peter Doughty is a Wongi man who was born in Kalgoorlie in 1956. His early influences came from his mother who was also a painter. Doughty has painted all his life, excelling in art at school. During the 1990s Doughty put down the paintbrush and did not return to painting until 2000. His works are mainly landscape images of the rural regions of his youth.
In 2009 he and his son Jonathon Doughty enrolled in a Certificate III course in Visual Art and Contemporary Crafts at the Kidogo Art Institute in Fremantle. This course is aimed at teaching the technical skill necessary to further the careers of its students. He participated in the exhibition 'Moorditj Mob’ at Kidogo Arthouse in 2009 along with fellow students plus invited guest artists.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Phillip Doughty is a painter of rural Western Australian landscapes. He is associated with Kidogo Arthouse in Fremantle.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bda
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Latitude-31.9283087 Longitude133.011075 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mima-smart
- Birth Place
- Penong, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Mima Smart (also known as Maureen Smart) is an Anangu woman who was born in 1956 in Penong, SA. She was raised and still lives in Yalata, SA where she works at the Yalata Anangu School as an Aboriginal Education worker. Smart is a respected member of the Yalata community and the broader South Australian community. She sits on the Mangement Board of the Government of South Australia’s, Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resources group. She is also a member of the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre and it is through this group that she had the opportunity to exhibit her work at the Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2008 Our Mob exhibition.Smart lives and works in Yalata.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Respected member of the Yalata community, Mima Smart exhibited her work at the Adelaide Festival Centre's 2008 'Our Mob' exhibition.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bdb
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Latitude-32.256944 Longitude148.601111 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lynette-riley
- Birth Place
- Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bdc
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Latitude-32.916667 Longitude151.75 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catriona-moore
- Birth Place
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Catriona’s career as a critic, theorist and art historian historian is dedicated to women modernist artists and contemporary feminist, environmental and comparative post-colonial visual art and culture (especially former British Dominions and new Republics). She has published widely on feminist aesthetics and women in art. Her feminist art histories include Indecent Exposures: Twenty years of Australian Feminist Photography (Allen & Unwin) and
Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts 1970 -90
(ed, Allen & Unwin with Artspace
, Sydney). She was a member of the Artworkers Union Affirmative Action for Women in the Visual Arts committee in the mid-1980s. She is senior lecturer in Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney and is co-convenor of the research cluster Contemporary Art and Feminism.
Writers:
Olivia Bolton
Date written:
2016
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bdd
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Latitude-32.936 Longitude117.178 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robyne-latham
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Robyne Latham, Yamatji woman, was born in 1956 in the town of Narrogin in rural Western Australia. Her art practice spans sculptural works in ceramics and bronze, set designs for theatre and ephemeral installation works. Latham spent her childhood in the West Australian wheatbelt and moved to Perth as a teenager when she was awarded a five year music scholarship to attend the Perth Modern School. There she was trained in classical music and achieved the entrance requirements to the University of Western Australia for a performance degree in her instrument of choice, the cello. She decided against this option (although the cello remained her favorite instrument) and chose to study ceramics.In 1974 Latham began a three year Diploma in Advanced Ceramics at the Perth Technical College. In the college studio she discovered pot-shards which intrigued her and engaged her imagination. She learnt that these shards were remnants of works created by Petrus Spronk, a former lecturer at the college. Spronk’s work came to have a major influence upon her early art practice. She particularly remembers his 'performance’ (some ten years later) at the Fourth National Ceramics Conference, held in Melbourne in 1985. Spronk came on stage in a suit and tie, and proceeded to strip to his blue singlet and shorts. He then sat at his pottery wheel and threw a pot. For Latham, this act brought an end to the deferential habit of 'placing one’s hero potter on a pedestal’, and made real the fact that once in the studio – faced with just themselves – all artists become equal. This truth has remained a constant throughout her art practice. Latham’s Diploma culminated in her first solo exhibition, 'New Works’, at the Undercroft Gallery at the University of Western Australia, in 1978.Latham’s art practice was further shaped by the experience of living, travelling and studying in Japan and India from 1981 to 1983. While living in Tokyo for eighteen months, Latham fell in love with the Japanese ideal of Wabi Sabi, an aesthetic founded in the beauty of the imperfect, the impermanent, and the incomplete. The significance of impermanence has been an enduring concern in her artwork. From Tokyo, Latham spent six months travelling throughout India. This was a life changing experience for her: even though she anticipated a culture shock upon arriving in India, she was stunned at the social and economic inequalities of daily life. The mass acceptance of the forces of karma in one’s life permitted crushing poverty and extreme opulence to coexist. The fact that these realities lived side by side, and were accompanied by an omnipresent sense of the sacred, forced Latham to reassess much of what made meaning in her life. After returning to Perth, Latham undertook a Bachelor of Fine Art at Curtin University, graduating with a ceramics major in 1986. During her undergraduate degree the works of Joseph Beuys and his notion of the 'urban shaman’ became enormously influential. In 1987 she completed a Diploma of Education at Edith Cowan University.Latham moved to Melbourne in 1989 and in 1994 she established a studio. At this time, in addition to the work of Petrus Spronk, Latham’s ceramic forms came to be directly influenced by the Pueblo potter, Maria Martinez. Through researching Martinez’s terra sigillata techniques, Latham began a long series of experiments in form, surface mark-making and firing. After throwing, carving and burnishing her ceramic forms, Latham employs terra sigillata, in a saggar firing. This involves placing the artwork into a saggar – a box-like container, into which pigments and organic materials are carefully and strategically placed. When fired, the vaporized pigments and the organic materials create a blush or patternation on the object. Latham sustains a high loss rate with this type of firing but is reconciled with this as the distinctiveness of the works that do survive and the sense of gratification at having achieved the aesthetic she desires justify the losses.In 1995 Latham’s sculptural ceramics were exhibited alongside the canvas works of her sister Christine Latham in 'White Out’ at the Yume-Ya Gallery, for the Melbourne Fringe Festival. The following year Latham returned to live in Perth, where she relocated her studio art practice. In 1998 the Latham sisters were awarded a Professional Development Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts, supporting the research and development of the exhibition 'Sisters’, which was held at Indigenart, Mossenson Galleries in Perth. In 1999 they again exhibited together in 'Latham and Latham’ at Indigenart, Mossenson Galleries in Fremantle. In that year Latham also staged an exhibition with Jody Broun at Mary Place Gallery in Sydney. Latham has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions throughout her career, including the Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards of 1999 and 2000 and 'Envisaging the Sacred’ at the Maroondah Art Gallery in 2007.In 2004 Latham began a Masters of Fine Arts by research at Monash University. This gave her the opportunity to further pursue the conceptual and aesthetic preoccupations that emerged during her undergraduate years, including the Wabi Sabi aesthetic, and the notion of the urban shaman. Latham’s second solo exhibition 'Metal Blue Dreaming’ took place at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne in 2007. This exhibition displayed her more recent sculptural works which explored the psychology of one’s internal landscape and the paradox of the human condition. In particular, they are reflections upon the tensions that exist between the sacred and the secular, where greed and violence co-habit with beauty and harmony. These themes are addressed through figurative bronze sculptures, abstract ceramic forms and, later, ephemeral installations dedicated to the Stolen Generations of Australia.Latham’s set design practice began in 1996, when she accepted an invitation from the Indigenous playwright Jane Harrison to create the original set for her play Stolen which – in response to the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from their Families – narrated the experiences of members of the Stolen Generations. In 2000, after spending three years in Perth, Latham returned to Melbourne and designed and constructed the set for John Harding’s play Don’t Knock the Block (2000). This led to further set design work in Indigenous theatre, including for Richard Franklin’s Magpie at the Melbourne Workers Theatre (2001) and a suite of plays for the 'Blak Inside Season’ at the Playbox Theatre Company in Melbourne (2002). In 2006, she designed and constructed the gallery-set for Tribal Expressions at the Arts Centre’s Black Box Theatre. This set served as an exhibition space by day, and was converted to a cabaret space by night, and showcased Indigenous artists and performers throughout the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. In 2007 Latham designed and constructed the set for La Mama Poetica at the Melbourne International Arts Festival. This set was dedicated to Lisa Bellair, the Indigenous activist, poet, broadcaster and dramatist who had passed away in 2006.Latham’s sculptural art works have been acquired by a number of institutions, including the Curtin University Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, the Western Australian Museum, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, the University of Western Australia and the Koorie Heritage Trust.Latham has also had an academic career, having worked as a lecturer in Behavioral Health Sciences at La Trobe University and in the Bachelor of Arts degree program in Visual Communication at the Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University; and as a researcher at ARCSHS (The Australian Centre for Sex Health and Society) and The Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University.
Writers:
Latham, RobyneNote: Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Melbourne based Indigenous artist who works predominantly with sculptural ceramics and bronzes to address the tensions between the secular and the sacred and the paradox of the human condition.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/greg-cliffe
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Education:1999-2001 University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
Master of Arts (Honours)-Contemporary Arts.
Painting research and exegesis.1976-78 Alexander Mackie C.A.E., Diploma of Art
Design, Electromedia, Performance Art,
Sculpture and Installations).1974-5 The National Art School. Art Diploma
Qualifying (Sculpture, Painting, Objective
Drawing, Photography, Graphic Design, Silk-
Screen and Block Printing, Design, Media
Studies, Weaving).
Solo Exhibitions:2016 Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba: “Groupthink”.2001 Tin Sheds Art Gallery, University of Sydney:
“Fragmented Values: Compulsive Lives”.1994 Wentworth Falls School of Arts. “Wild &
Domesticated”. 1984 Cite Internationale de Paris: two
performances:” The Medium is the Massage” and
“A European Perspective”.1981 Street performance Sydney Town Hall, “Come on
Aussie, Come On”.1980 Three Performances at Leichhardt Performance
Festival including “The Bomb”. 1980 Performance at ACT 2 Performance Festival
Canberra: “Come On Aussie Come On.”1978 The Students’ Gallery, Leichhardt. “Ideas
Objects & Installations”.
Selected Group Exhibitions, competition finalist and set designs:2017: Selected Bald Archy Travelling Prize.2014: Shortlisted Finalist,Scope Galleries Art Award.2013: Finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize2012: Finalist, Gallipoli Art Prize.2010-11 Set Designs for Springwood Theatre Company:
“Embers” and “The Wedding Singer”.2004 Group Show at Alleway Art, Springwood, NSW:
“Connections”.2001 Finalist: Festival of Fisher’s Ghost Art Award,
Open Section.2000 Set Design for Springwood Theatre Company:
“Lockie Leonard: Human Torpedo” and “Living
Books”.1994 Group Exhibition at The Queen of Arts Gallery,
Katoomba. 1979 Group Show: “6 × 4” at Students’ Gallery,
Leichhardt, Sydney.1977 Contemporary Art Society Group Show, Paddington
Town Hall, Sydney.1977 Society of Sculptors Annual Art Show at the
Sculpture Centre, Sydney.
Publications and Media:2016 Discover the Blue Mountains Magazine September.2001 Exegesis for Masters Exhibition at The
University of Western Sydney: “Can an
illusionary object express the essence of
change in values of the artist and society? 2001: University of Sydney News: “Compelling Show at
Tin Sheds” by Louise Maral. 3/10/01.2001: Sydney Morning Herald: Brigid Delaney’s
“Spotlight” 26/9/01.1994: Blue Mountains Gazette: March publicity article
for “Wild and Domesticated”.1984: “Artists and Galleries of Australia” by Max
Germain. Boolarong Books.1979 Start Art Magazine documentation of “The New
Art” I performed at the Biennale March.1978: Mention by Arthur McIntyre: Art In Australia.
Spring edition, Vol 16 No 3. 1977: Article in The Sydney Morning Herald: Bill
Pidgeon.
Seminars and Lectures:2000 Seminars at University of Western Sydney
Conferences, “Diversity in Contemporary Arts
Practice and Theory”.1999 Seminars at University of Western Sydney
Conferences: “Issues in Art Criticism”.
Honors and Awards:2012 Highly Commended in the New South Wales
Department of Education Excellence in Education
Awards.2002 Highly Commended, Daffodil Day Arts Awards (The
Victoria Cancer Council).2000 Painting Section Prize, Blue Mountains
Community Arts Council Annual Awards.1995 Highly Commended, Blue Mountains Community Arts
Council Annual Art Prize.1983 Granted residency at The New South Wales Art
Gallery Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale
de Paris for 1984.1982 Australia Council Visual Arts Board Travel
Grant1979 Winner Royal Agricultural Society Sculpture
Prize.1979 Sydney Teacher’s College, Diploma in Education.1978 Highly Commended, Royal Agricultural Society
Sculpture Prize.
Member of the Following Organizations and Committees:2016-2017 Member of The NSW Art Gallery Insiders
group.2000-2016 Member of The National Association of Visual
Artists.2011-12 Committee Member of the Blue Mountains
Municipal Council Cultural Program1994-2001 Member of The Blue Mountains Community Arts
Council, New South Wales.1979-83 Member Artworkers Union, Sydney.1977-79 Committee Member The Society of Sculptors,
Sydney.1974-5 Member of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Society.
Writers:
Greg Cliffe
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2017
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janet-patterson
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1956
- Summary
- Patterson trained at Sydney Technical College & Sydney College of the Arts. She began costume work in TV, later moving into film. She frequently collaborated with directors Jane Campion and Gilliam Armstrong. Her earliest work was contemporary costume design (Sweet and Sour, Dancing Days) and as her career expanded, she moved into period costume & production design. (The Piano, Portrait of a Lady, Far From the Madding Crowd).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 1-Jan-16
- Age at death
- 60
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jude-rae
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/leonie-robison
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter and printmaker born in Sydney in 1956.
This entry is a stub.
Writers:
Gordon, MarnieDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- painter and printmaker born in Sydney in 1956. In 2004 Robison's work was included in the Willoughby City Art Prize.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-william-ellis
- Birth Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- painter, was born in Sydney on 27 June 1956. After graduating BA from RMIT in 1978, he travelled to the UK, USA and Europe in 1979. His work is influenced by Dada and Surrealism and, locally, by his teacher Andrew Sibley . Collage and laser copy works were shown in his 1990 solo exhibition at Powell Street – his regular exhibiting gallery in Melbourne. McCulloch (p.236) illustrates Eye 1989, charcoal on paper, p.c., showing a Renaissance female face looking at a cow in an eye.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Contemporary Australian painter influenced by Dada and Surrealism, and by his teacher Andrew Sibley, who also produces collage and laser copy works..
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-fieldhouse
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Artist, was born in Sydney and educated at the University of Sydney. A friend of Elizabeth Evatt’s, he was taught Fine Arts by Joan Kerr who encouraged him to specialise in painting large watercolours of historic Australian buildings, meticulously delineated and usually containing a small joke about the subject, e.g. ambulances outside Sydney University Medical School. Since 1990 he has exhibited at the Robin Gibson Gallery and held solo exhibitions at the Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Kensington Gallery, Adelaide, Philip Bacon in Brisbane and Freeman in Hobart. The National Trust (NSW) Desk Diary for 2002 depicts 'Historic Architecture of Australia’ by Simon Fieldhouse, drawings done over the past ten years that include the Melbourne GPO, the Elephant House at Taronga Park Zoo, the Perth Titles Office, Brisbane’s Parliament House, Hobart’s Theatre Royal and the Edmund Wright House, Adelaide.
Judge Roddy Meagher opened an exhibition of Fieldhouse’s work in 2001 (discussed Sydney Morning Herald back page c.May) and purchased a view of Sydney University Great Hall with a procession in front featuring Chancellor Leonie Kramer and Meagher himself (about to be awarded an honorary doctorate). In May 2001 Josef Lebovic’s website catalogue included two of Fieldhouse’s series of jokes about judges and the law (illustrated): The bottom of the Harbour (a large judge and a tiny barrister contemplating a tray-top of water containing a tiny Harbour Bridge and a smiling convict) and WHO DID IT (a cheerful little barrister pushing over the letters forming the three words while the same large judge muses). Fieldhouse has also done a series on the lighthouses of Australia. In February-March 2002 he and Margaret Early were in a sesquicentenary exhibition at the Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney University. (Nick Vickers, director).
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Fieldhouse produced a series of large and meticulously detailed watercolours of historic Australian buildings - among them the Melbourne GPO and the Elephant House at Taronga Park Zoo. His pictures usually contained a small joke about the subject. He also produced a series of jokes about judges and the law.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/annabelle-collett
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Summary from Linkedin 25 April 2020.
Company Name Ya Ya design studioDates Employed 1978 – Present (d.2019)Employment Duration 42 yrsAnnabelle Collett has worked full time for over 30 years as a artist/designer/craftsperson. The main concepts that inform her art are contained within the historic/symbolic significance of motif, the social/political meaning of pattern on textiles and the abstract overlaying relationships between fashion, visual art and design.Annabelle Collett makes sculptural elements with the principal medium being fabric, but sometimes plastics, metal, tiles and found objects. She applies many techniques to construct her work and utilises methods and skills from both art and craft arenas. She explores the abstract coverings of and about the body through explorations of the outer semblances. By questioning appearance and values, and by defying a sense of practicality, regular items take on new forms and meanings. Through her idiosyncratic fascinations with debris, leftovers and vintage remnants she challenges the preconceptions of materials and objects by incorporating the past into new imagery reflecting current concerns.
Writers:
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Collett was a mixed media artist who designed costume, furniture, textiles, painted, designed interiors and assembled work from her "Museum of 20th Century Fabric", a lifelong collection of textiles. While she was self-taught, her career was enhanced by international and local artist's residencies.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bill-leak
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- caricaturist, cartoonist, illustrator and painter, was born in Adelaide, but the family moved to Goroke in Western Victoria when he was nine months old then onto Condobolin. He moved to Sydney and studied at Beacon High School in 1967 then transferred to Newington College. A brilliant caricaturist, he began drawing cartoons professionally in 1983. He first drew for the Bulletin and for the Sydney Morning Herald , resigning from the latter in 1994 and moving to the Daily Telegraph-Mirror (swapping places with Suzanne White) . Now he is at the Australian .
By 1998 Leak had won 8 Gold Stanley Awards from the Australian Black and White Artists’ Club as Artist of the Year, including 1987-89, 1991-92, 1994 (Suzanne White won in 1990 and Eric Löbbecke in 1993) and 1996 [presumably also 1995 and 1997]. He was voted best caricaturist in 1989, 1991, 1994, best humorous illustrator in 1988-89, 1991, 1994, best general illustrator in 1987, 1989, and best cartoon done on the night in 1987 (awards listed only to 1993 in Lindesay: see also Inkspot ) He has also won 7 Walkley Awards for cartoon of the year, including 1996 (see Inkspot 28, Spring 1997). His paintings had been hung in the Archibald Prize 8 times by 1998 (more since) and he had both a portrait of Robert Hughes and a cartoon of cricketer Mark Taylor in the National Portrait Gallery.
Just quietly , Nurse and The man of action , published in the Australian on 21, 29 and 30 July 1997, were exhibited in Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra: National Museum of Australia/ Old Parliament House [OPH] exhibition, 1997), cats 57, 9, 91. In 1998 he showed more cartoons and spoke about his work at the OPH cartooning seminar. He was also in Bringing the House Down 2001 (4 works) and doubtless in between. Included in State Library of New South Wales [SLNSW] exhibition Australians in black & white : (the most public art) in 1999, he gave a lecture at the library on 1 March 1999. He lectures and talks regularly, e.g. on radio, as well as publishing anthologies of his cartoons and occasionally writing on the subject. A selection of his cartoons, Drawing Blood , was published by Allan and Unwin in 1998.
He drew a version of 'for gorsake stop laughing’ for the Stanleys (Black and White Artists Club Awards) 1989 (SLNSW) – an acknowledged tribute to Stan Cross .
In 2002 Leak was hosting Radio National’s weekly arts’ program, 'Nighclub’.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Leak began his career with art lessons, briefly attending the Julian Ashton School, Sydney. In 1982, he began cartooning, working for the Bulletin, then the Sydney Morning Herald and News Ltd. He was a multiple entrant to the Archibald Portrait Prize and won multiple awards (Walkley, Stanley Award) for his illustrations and cartoons. He also published a novel and books of his cartoons.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-Jan-17
- Age at death
- 61
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gray-hawk
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Throughout the 1970s Gray Hawk trained as a wheelwright, wainwright, blacksmith and cabinetmaker. After a role during the mid 1990s as Associate Designer at the JamFactory in the furniture department, Hawk established his own Gray Hawk Design Studio. He has an extensive commissions list including furniture for the Australian Embassy in Mexico City and is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jonathan-nichols
- Birth Place
- Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Biography
- Jonathan Nichols was born in 1956 in Canberra, ACT and was living and working in Melbourne in 2008. Nichols completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at the National Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, Canberra (1988), where he was awarded the Lyle Cullen Memorial Prize. From 1989 to 1993 he lived in Sydney, completing a Graduate Diploma of Professional Art at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales (1989).
Notable among his solo exhibitions are Jonathan Nichols (2005), new painting (2003), and paintings (2002), all of which were held at Kaliman Gallery, Sydney; as well as Paradise , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2007); forgetting pictures , at 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne (2001); and anonymous pictures , at 1st Floor Artists’ and Writers’ Space, Melbourne (2000).
Nichols has also participated in many group exhibitions including New Objectivity , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2006); Reflections in a Golden Eye , Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2006); Tales of the City , Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2005); Into the Quadrangle , RMIT Project Space and Spare Room, Melbourne; The Decadence of the Nude , Ocular Lab, Melbourne (2004); Scratch the Surface , Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2003); ATM: Intersections of Technology, Art and Life , Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne (2002); and Abstraction Now , Geelong Art Gallery (1996).
Among his numerous grants and residencies, Nichols has been awarded a New Work Grant by the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts (1998); Los Angeles Studio Residency, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council (1997); Project Grant, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1994); and Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council (1991). Nichols is represented in several prominent public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; BHP Billiton, Melbourne; Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney; Lend Lease, Sydney; Esk Collection, Tasmania; and the RACV Art Collection, Melbourne.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Contemporary figurative painter whose work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Jonathan Nichols was living and working in Melbourne in 2008.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-37.560833 Longitude143.8475 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-larwill
- Birth Place
- Ballarat, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 19-Jun-11
- Age at death
- 55
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-watson
- Birth Place
- Ivanhoe, Victoria, , Australia
- Biography
- Mark Watson MDIA – M Des. (Industrial) RMIT – Design Providence
Founded in 1990, Design Providence is a multi disciplinary practice in the field of Interior Architecture and Product Design. Mark held office as Vice President with the Victorian Chapter of the Design Institute of Australia, also as Director with Arts & Recreation Training Victoria, and Artists & Industry. More recently he was Chair of the Victorian based Design Collective with the FIAA and a member of the FIAA National Design & Innovation Committee.
Highly regarded for expertise in furniture design, the practice has work represented in the National Gallery of Victoria, exhibiting both local and international, recently (2002) winning the ISSI – DIA Design Innovation Award presented by the Victorian Government Lead Minister for Design, the Honourable Lynne Kosky.
Mark completed a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at RMIT, the research topic entitled 'Belonging’ investigated the role the physical environment plays in the form of artefacts.
Mark received an honorarium to present his findings at the International Interior Architect & Designer (IFI) Conference in Ireland in September 1997, and a paper titled “Sedition of the Gift’ at the ‘Design Sutra’ conference in Mumbai, India in December 2003, and numerous papers with CII NID Design Summit on Design Thinking.
Working in Service Design and Design Thinking since 2010 becoming a Partner with Amsterdam based DesignThinkers Group & Academy in 2013.
Mark is currently in India to participate in the International Council of Societies of Industrial (ICSID) Interdesign Workshop “Humanising the Metropolis” and has presented at IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, and DY DPC Center for Automotive Research & Studies, Pune as well as the NatCon InDesia for the Institute of Indian Interior Designers at Kolhapur.
Writers:
Mark Watson
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Watson is the Director, Design Providence, specialising in interior architecture and industrial design. He trained at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, awarded a Master of Design, 1999. He is a former officer, Design Institute of Australia, Victoria chapter.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jenny-murray-jones
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Jenny Murray-Jones was born in 1956 in Melbourne, Victoria. Her father was from the Wiradjuri people of New South Wales and the neighbouring Yorta Yorta people of Victoria. In 2001 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Institute of Koorie Education, Deakin University.
Murray-Jones works in oil on linen. In her artist statement for the 2003 exhibition 'CON-SENT-TRICK SIR-KILLS’ at Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in St Kilda, Jones says that her work is “about images, the images which are part of my identity. I want to recreate the many images which have been taken from us. In many cases, these images have been used against us. I am responding to the many ethnographic images which found their way onto postcards and into the archives of government departments. These are to a great extent, still locked away. These images are our faces and the faces of our ancestors, yet we have had no access to them.” (www.lindenarts.org/show/2003/0705/gallery3.html accessed April, 2009).
Murray-Jones is part of a Gippsland based arts group known as The Wild Dogs from Down Under, a group of visual artists who are united by their connection to the Gippsland region of Victoria. She has exhibited with fellow Wild Dog artist Eileen Harrison at the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne in their exhibition 'Our Home Our Place’ _. _
Murray-Jones works as a teacher at the Drouin Secondary College and has works in the collection of the Baw Baw Shire Council.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Gippsland based painter. Murray-Jones has exhibited at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, St Kilda, Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jon-cattapan
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- artist who works with painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, collage, printmaking and digital media. Cattapan was born in 1956.
His works demonstrate his interest with the city and urban environments, contemporary culture and political issues. Overseas residencies include New York (USA), Seoul (Korea), and Castelfranco Veneto (Italy).
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Kite, JessicaDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- artist who works with painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, collage, printmaking and digital media. Cattapan was born in 1956. His works demonstrate his interest with the city and urban environments, contemporary culture and political issues. Overseas residencies include New York (USA), Seoul (Korea), and Castelfranco Veneto (Italy).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brent-harris
- Birth Place
- Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
akirpalani
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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Latitude-41.441944 Longitude147.145 Start Date1956-01-01 End Date1956-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/andrew-irvine
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 2 November 1956
- Summary
- Irvine was an architect, based in Denver, Colorado since 2001. He worked on the Buri Khalifa, Dubai, did residential work in Kigali, Rwanda and was engaged in preservation work at the San Miguel Mission, San Miguel, California. His last position was with Stantec Urban Places, Planning and Urban Design Lead, Denver.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 17-Jul-21
- Age at death
- 65
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/karen-casey
- Birth Place
- Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Karen Casey, Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, was born in 1956 in Hobart. She spent most of her childhood years in Dover in south-east Tasmania, and spent her teenage and early adult years in Hobart. In 1977 she trained at the School of Art, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in Hobart, and went on to work as a silversmith, jewellery designer and graphic artist. Casey established her artistic career following her move to Melbourne in 1986. 'Aboriginal Australian Views in Print and Poster’, which was toured by the Print Council of Australia between 1987-1988, and 'A Koori Perspective’, which was hosted by Artspace during the 1989 'Australian Perspecta’ in Sydney, were among her first exhibitions, and in 1989 she received a Professional Development Grant from the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
Over the course of her career Casey’s art practice has traversed a range of media. Her paintings from the 1990s were expressive figurative works which emerged from an emotive and intuitive approach to the form. These early works often employed symbolism and contained an overt political critique, addressing racial and sexual politics and the tensions that exist between the urban and natural environment. Later works were inspired by childhood memories of Tasmania and a spiritual sense of attachment to certain places. Her ideas began to find more metaphorical and conceptual manifestations in mixed media works; installations that encompassed sculptural, aural and lighting elements; and video, new media and digital photographic works.
Casey only discovered that she had Aboriginal heritage on her father’s side when she was thirteen, and on her mother’s side when she was an adult. Her experience of becoming conscious of this heritage when the prevailing view was that Tasmanian Aboriginal communities were extinct was highly formative of her art practice, both with respect to her emotive and subjective artistic preoccupations and her interest in more cerebral matters of perception and belief. Her works of the 2000s explore scientific and psychological themes relating to DNA, the mind and consciousness.
Casey has exhibited widely throughout Australia and overseas, participated in many community arts projects, and completed a number of public art commissions. Her work is held in the collections of all Australian state galleries, as well as a number of regional and university collections. Her work is also held in collections outside Australia. In 2005 she completed a Master of Fine Art (Public Art) at RMIT University in Melbourne.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
fulleg
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Interdisciplinary Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who began exhibiting in 1987. Her work addresses personal, environmental, political and scientific themes.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/euan-macleod
- Birth Place
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Biography
- painter born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1956. He arrived in Sydney in 1981, and had his first exhibition the following year at Watters Gallery, East Sydney, where he has exhibited regularly ever since. He has gone on to exhibit his work across Australia – at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne; Victor Mace Fine Art, Brisbane and is included in many group exhibitions in public and private galleries every year. Macleod also shows regularly in New Zealand, at Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch and Bowen Galleries, Wellington.
Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting , is a major study of Macleod’s work. The publication of this book which traces three decades of Macleod’s career, coincided with an important retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work that started in Sydney at the S. H. Ervin Gallery, and traveled to Tweed River Art Gallery, Orange Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and the University of Queensland Art Museum.
In his foreword to Euan Macleod: The Painter in the Painting John McDonald writes:
The drama of Macleod’s life is all in his work – in the increasingly complex play of symbols that simultaneously conceals and reveals his thoughts and feelings, and in the energetic application of paint to a flat surface … He is a painter who finds his fulfilment in action rather than reflection. The imagery comes first; the meaning emerges gradually, almost reluctantly (2010).
From 1991 on, Macleod has painted haunting images of a single male figure in the Australian/New Zealand sea, sky and landscape. These figures are very often huge in relation to their surroundings – sitting inside burnt-out craters, or striding, arms extended out beyond their bodies to blend into mountains.
Macleod has won a number of awards, including, the Archibald Prize (1999), the Sulman Prize (2001), the Blake Prize of Religious Art (2006) and the Gallipoli Art Prize in 2009 (O’Brien, 2010).
His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA), the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, NZ), the Christchurch Art Gallery (Christchurch, NZ), the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, ACT), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, VIC), and the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, WA (O’Brien, 2010).
In 2011 the artist was living in Sydney, NSW.
Writers:
Legge, Geoffrey
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1956
- Summary
- Euan Macleod is a painter who has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand since 1980 and who is in many private and important public collections in both countries.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-garbutt
- Birth Place
- Salford, UK
- Biography
- Michael Garbutt is an artist, designer, lecturer, television director and presenter, whose practice ranges from small paintings to larger urban and landscape projects, as well as time based artworks in sound and video.
He was born in Salford, United Kingdom, in 1955. After leaving school, Garbutt studied English literature at the University of Durham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), in 1976. In 1988 he came to Australia to study linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Linguistics in 1990. In 1997, Garbutt received his Ph.D. He undertook yet more study, completing a Bachelor in Science Architecture at the University of Sydney in 2001. In 2002, Garbutt took up a lecturing position in the School of Design Studies, College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales. He also developed a series of programs on art and architectural history, entitled 'Garbutt’s Way’, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as produced multi-platform interactive programs for teaching and learning in the health sector.
Garbutt’s research in environmental psychology has examined spatial relationships between people and their surroundings. He describes himself as a “creative”, who makes use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques whether employing documentary or abstract approaches to his work (pers. comm.).
Descended from Lithuanian Jews who migrated to England in the late nineteenth century, a seminal influence on his work has been the cultural traditions of East European Jewry and the shadow of the Holocaust. Garbutt is interested in world cultures, speaks Italian and French, and understands Hebrew and Spanish. Whilst at university he was inspired by the ideas of French philosophers, especially Maurice Merleau-Ponty and his ideas on perception through the senses in understanding and engaging with the world. Furthermore, Garbutt was also inspired by Jane Jacob’s work The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1972), which critiqued modernist planning policies that destroyed many existing inner-city communities.
Much of Garbutt’s art is conceptual in the sense that his paintings and drawings are exploratory of ideas and not made for public exhibition. He regards his work as operating within a liminal space between the physical and the psychological worlds that he explores with body, mind, and eye (pers. comm.). For instance, 'Rubbing America’ , (1996-99), was a series of rubbings of historic building surfaces, such as Emily Dickinson’s House in Amherst and the Custom House in Salem, both in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. These rubbings are then left in situ to degrade. They are not photographed because the act of rubbing is itself the point of the work. Garbutt believes this is probably his most radical contribution to contemporary drawing and mark making. In order to focus on the psychological space between people and their surroundings, he makes use of various fields including painting, drawing, urban design, documentation and architecture. Keen to use his diverse skills, Garbutt has collaborated with other artists and organisations. He has made documentaries with film director Judy Menczel, and worked on urban design projects with Choi Ropiha and McGregor Coxall. The master plan with Choi Ropiha for Parramatta Road in Sydney won First Prize in the 2001 Parramatta Road International Urban Design Competition.
In addition to his studio and conceptual projects, Garbutt has presented and co-directed approximately thirty documentaries. Some have an art historical focus on architecture and art, such as House of the Finnish Gods , In Search of Sacred Spaces and The Temples of Korea , which have been shown on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Others have a more ergonomic design theme and stem from his work as a program developer, writer and presenter for The Aged Care Channel, a satellite television channel providing training and education for staff in aged care facilities. A documentary in this context, for example, may address best practice design of gardens for dementia patients. Whereas his drawings and two-dimensional projects are often conceptual, his film work, according to the artist designer, “exists in a different space where I do allow myself to be commodified” (pers. comm.). Garbutt has also written a number of books, the most significant of which are documentary based, Hear My Story!: What Jews Really Think And Feel (2000, published by Jonathan David Publishers, New York, United States), and SydneyCENTRAL: [can Sydney be more than the Harbour? ] (published in 2001 by SydneyCENTRAL Team, Manly, New South Wales).
Garbutt had a number of solo exhibitions including 'Super Tourettism: a study of postmodern shape shifting in urban spaces’ (1984) at the British Institute Library, Florence, Italy and 'White Stripe, Yellow Stripe’ (November 1999-January 2000) at Jeongshil Galleries, Busan, South Korea comprised of paintings, road markings, natural etchings and scrapings. In September 2010 Garbutt was a Finalist in the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney. His work is also held in private collections, both in Italy and Australia.
In 2010 Garbutt was living in Marrickville in the inner west of Sydney. He is married to violinist, Jooyeon Park.
Writers:
Zhe, Cao MingDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Michael Garbutt is an artist, designer and scholar who works in two and three dimensional art as well as time-based projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jacky-redgate
- Birth Place
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Biography
- Jacky Redgate immigrated with her family to Adelaide in 1967. She studied at the South Australian School of Art (1976-80), completing postgraduate studies at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, in 1998. In 2006 she was living and working in Sydney and lecturing at the University of Wollongong.
Redgate’s work operates on a number of different registers and between different fields. Her longstanding interest in geometric systems, logic, spatial relationships, optics and codes of representation is explored through a rich interdisciplinary practice, preoccupied with themes of memory and recollection.
Redgate has a 25-year exhibition history, with representation in numerous prestigious national and international exhibitions, including Australian Perspecta (1985, 1987-89) and the Biennale of Sydney (1986, 1988, 1990). During the 1990s, Redgate also exhibited in two major Australian photographic exhibitions in Sydney: 'Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996, and 'What is this thing called photography?’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1999). In 1993-94, she participated in 'Looking at Seeing and Reading’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and in 1996-97, 'a la vez Narelle Jubelin at the same time’, Art Gallery of Ontario, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University, Canada.
The major exhibition, 'Jacky Redgate: Survey 1980-2003’, was exhibited in Adelaide at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) in 2004; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2005; and (together with new work) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005-06.
Jacky Redgate’s many awards include a 12-month Overseas Fellowship Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1987), where she lived and worked for two years, and a six-month residency at the Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1996-97). She is represented in Australia’s major public galleries, as well as private and corporate collections nationally and internationally. A monograph on her work was published by CACSA in 2005.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Sculptor, photographer and installation artist, Jacky Redgate has been exhibiting for over 25 years. Throughout her career she has received a number of grants and residencies including one at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and another at the Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lesley-redgate
- Birth Place
- Hammersmith, London, England, UK
- Biography
- Born in London in 1955, Lesley Redgate migrated to South Australia in 1967. Lesley attended the South Australian School of Art, Stanley Street, from 1972 to 1976 after which she began her career as artist and educator. Winning the Thomas Laird Memorial Traveling Art Study award led her to overseas travel in 1994 and 1997.
Preferring to paint en plein-air to experience the rapidly changing landscape, Lesley captures the seasons and light of day. Admiring the work of the Post-Impressionists and Australian Modernists, her palette consists mainly of primary and secondary colours, using simultaneous contrast to create subtleties of light as it falls on the form of objects such as hills, rocks, trees and animals. An important part of completing her work is the framing. Lesley carefully selects the picture moulding, paints the frame and completes the assembly.
Lesley’s work draws inspiration from the changing rural and urban landscape, reflecting a vibrancy and visual harmony often found in the harsh Australian environment. Preoccupied with describing structure and geometry within the landscape, she captures the unusual from ordinary scenes recording the history of the area where she lives. Her subjects consist of scenes from the coastal areas of Port Willunga to the Willunga Hills. The vineyards and wheatfields provide a contrast to the quarries, expressways and fallen sheds.
In later years Lesley has tackled portraiture. She was a finalist of the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2010. She has also been a two-time finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize and Heysen Art Prize, and a five-time finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize. Lesley’s sense of community is evident in the significant number of exhibitions that she has been involved in on the Fleurieu Peninsula. She has been an invited artist to Fleurieu Peninsula Art Prize Special exhibitions in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2008 as well as a Double Vision artist exchange to Bendigo 2006.
She is represented in the Victorian National Gallery as recipient of the Michelle Endowment Award. Lesley continues her practice as a visual artist and is a Senior Lecturer of Graphic Design at TAFE South Australia.
Writers:
Lesley Redgate
duggim
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Lesley Redgate, painter, emigrated to South Australia in 1967 where she attended the South Australian School of Art, Stanley Street, from 1972 to 1976 after which she began her career as artist and educator.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/aida-tomescu
- Birth Place
- Bucharest, Romania
- Biography
- Aida Tomescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1955. Tomescu studied at the Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest. After completing her studies she began exhibiting in group exhibitions at the public gallery spaces in Bucharest. Tomescu held her first solo exhibition in 1979 at Cenaclu Gallery, Bucharest, before moving to Sydney, Australia, in 1980. In 1983 Tomescu completed a postgraduate degree at the City Art Institute, Sydney.
She began exhibiting with Gallery A in 1981, following which she has held regular solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney at galleries including: Coventry Gallery, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Martin Browne Fine Art, Niagara Galleries and Liverpool Street Gallery. In 1996 Tomescu was the inaugural winner of the LSFA Arts 21 Fellowship and in 1997 she held a solo exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria. Tomescu has won a number of arts prizes including the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1996, the Wynne Prize in 2001 and the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2003.
Tomescu’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions in public museums in Australia, including: 'Abstraction’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1990), 'Articulate Surfaces’ at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (1994), 'Review’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1995), 'Look Again’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1998), 'Uncommon Worlds: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art’ at the National Gallery of Australia (2000), 'Asia in Australia: Beyond Orientalism’, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Queensland (2001), 'Depth of Field’, Shepparton Art Gallery and Monash University Museum of Art (2003), 'Place Made’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2004), 'Sixth Drawing Biennale’, The Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (2006), 'Masters of Emotion’, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (2007), 'Time and Place’ at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2007) and 'New’ at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
As Terence Maloon writes in a 2006 exhibition catalogue: “Her paintings are almost always the result of repeated painting-over, scraping out and eliminating whatever is unwanted and unnecessary. The right of every ingredient to survive and prevail is relentlessly questioned and tested. For Tomescu, as for Matisse, painting out and scraping off involve the workings of a ferocious critical intelligence. The image that survives is an outcome of repeated demolitions and countless modifications. However, if all goes well, the painting benefits tremendously from all this investment of psychic energy.”
Tomescu’s work is represented in numerous public collections, including: The National Gallery of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art, The British Museum, London, The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, and Artbank, Sydney. Tomescu’s work has been acquired by corporate collections, including: The Macquarie Group Collection, Allens Arthur Robinson and IBM Australia as well as important private collections, including: The Laverty Collection and The Holmes a Court Collection. Her paintings and drawings are also represented in regional gallery and university collections throughout Australia.
Aida Tomescu lives and works in Sydney.
Writers:
Liverpool Street Gallery
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Aida Tomescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, in 1955 and moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1980. Tomescu was the inaugural winner of the LSFA Arts 21 Fellowship (1996), and winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1996, the Wynne Prize in 2001, and the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 2003.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rae-bolotin
- Birth Place
- Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Biography
- Sculptor Rae Bolotin was born in 1955 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and came to Australia in 1979.
Bolotin’s sculptures focus on the apple, which for her reflects childhood memories of apples piled high at market stalls. The apple is a familiar yet ambiguous emblem of 'forbidden fruit’ imbued with both powerful and personal meanings.
For many years Bolotin worked with concrete, however in 2005 she began to work with stainless steel and brass. In that year she began spending time in Beijing in the Dashanzi artist region where she developed the traditional technique of hand-beaten metal work into her well-known 'apple peel’ sculptures. Bolotin coats the stainless steel and brass with green and red automotive paint, which conjures images of the Republic of China as well as the apple’s natural succulence.
Bolotin has exhibited in China and extensively in Australia, including Sculpture by the Sea, the Wynne Prize, the University of Western Sydney Sculpture Award, Eden Gardens Sydney, Sculpture in the City (2002) and Sculpture in the Vines (2003 & 2004). In 2006 Bolotin won the Willoughby Art Prize and in 2007 she exhibited in the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in Victoria. Bolotin’s work is held in public and private collections, including Macquarie University and Artbank.
Writers:
Stella Downer
downes
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor born in Uzbekistan in 1955. Bolotin is well known for her 'apple' sculptures. She won the 2006 Willoughby Art Prize.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rod-emmerson
- Birth Place
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- painter and cartoonist, lives in Queensland and worked as a freelance regional cartoonist until the late 1990s. He drew sketch portraits of the three Johnnys, evidently after photographs, in Mabel Edmund’s Hello, Johnny!: Stories of my Aboriginal & South Sea Islander Family (Central Queensland University Press, 1996). Then he became editorial cartoonist for Australian Provincial Newspapers, which syndicates his cartoons daily through NSW and central Queensland in newspapers, including the Morning Bulletin , the Gladstone Observer , the Queensland Times , the Toowoomba Chronicle and the Northern Star .
In 1996 Emmerson won first prize for best 'Political Theme’ (Martin Bryant as a recreational shooter writing to Graeme Campbell) in the Rotary National and International Cartoon Awards at Coffs Harbour (ill. Inkspot 28, Spring 1997, 46). 10 Watts (on Pauline Hanson), published by Australian Provincial Newspapers on 22 April 1997, was exhibited in the National Museum of Australia’s Old Parliament House exhibition Bringing the House Down: 12 Months of Australian Political Humour (Canberra, 1997), cat. 47. In the 1999 Bringing the House Down exhibition he won the Best Political Satire award for his cartoon Keating , who is shown spruiking from the roof of a nursing home for geriatric ex-PMs ( Canberra Times 4 December 1999, 6). He regularly participates in the annual Bringing the House Down exhibitions, e.g. 'Global response’ in 2001. He has produced two anthologies of his cartoons, the former (at least) apparently from newspapers in Rockhampton.
Working on the New Zealand Herald , Auckland, NZ, in the mid 2000s.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Contemporary regional Queensland painter and cartoonist, has also worked in New Zealand.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janice-peacock
- Birth Place
- Mareeba, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Brisbane-based Torres Strait Islander artist of the Meriam Mir language group, Janice Peacock was born in Mareeba, Queensland in December, 1955. Peacock has always enjoyed making art and learning about art history, something she began while attending Redcliffe State High School from 1969 to 1971. After gaining her Junior High School Certificate in 1971 Peacock worked as a tracer for consulting engineering firms until 1974 and from 1974 until 1978 she worked as an artist for advertising firms in Brisbane. In 1983 Peacock was awarded an Associate Diploma in Creative Arts from the North Brisbane College of Advanced Education (now known as Queensland University of Technology). Peacock continued her arts education when she was awarded a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art in 2000, a Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours in Fine Art in 2001 and a Doctor of Visual Arts in 2006 from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University where she gained a postgraduate scholarship award in 2001-2004. Peacock joined The Campfire Group of artists in Brisbane in 1997 and in 1998 she showed her work in the exhibition 'Ilan Pasin – this is our way Torres Strait Art’, which was the first major Torres Strait Islander exhibition staged at the Cairns Regional Gallery. In 1999 she exhibited as part of a group show, 'Respect: our Grandmothers & Grandfathers’ at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art. She has continued to exhibit across the country at venues including the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Dell Gallery at the Queensland College of Art and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2003 Peacock received a scholarship to attend the Banff Centre in Canada to participate in an international arts residency – Communion and Other Conversations: A Thematic Residency of Indigenous Artists on Christianity and Colonialism. Her paintings and three dimensional installations are inspired by Torres Strait Islander traditional artefacts, family history, performance art, global Indigenous cultures, politics, history and resistance to Eurocentricity. Peacock has been a finalist in the 2003 'Kate Challis RAKA National Indigenous Art Award: Places that Name Us’, staged at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne and she was also a finalist in the 'Theiss Art Prize 2004: Exploring the life, Culture & Landscape of Queensland’ at the Dell Gallery, Griffith University. Peacock, whose work Crates and Traits in the Straits was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, has supplemented her artistic income by working in the education system and in 2007 was employed as the Cultural Services Coordinator for the GEO Group Australia Pty Ltd at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Wacol, Brisbane.
Writers:
Allas, Tess Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Janece Peacock is a mixed media 2 & 3 dimensional artist of Torres Strait Islander descent who was awarded a Doctor of Visual Arts from Griffith University in 2006.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9bff
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-17.5241721 Longitude146.0311418 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sebastian-di-mauro
- Birth Place
- Innisfail, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Sebastian was an active participant of the 1980's QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c00
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jennie-napurrurla-scobie
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Lajamanu c.1955. She was a Warlpiri person, and the sister of Mabel Tilawu James . Miya-miya was her country and Ngurlu her Dreaming. She started painting in 1987.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Started painting in 1987. She was the sister of Mabel Tilawu James.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c01
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/valda-napurrurla-nangala-dixon
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Lajamanu in the mid ’50s, she is about thirty-five years of age (in 1991). For reasons too complex to explain here, Valda (pronounced 'Velda’) has two skin names. She is of the Warlpiri tribe/language, and her country Waylilinpa. Her Dreamings are Watiyuwarnu (Trees), and Warlukurlangu (Fire). She started painting in 1987, and lives at Lajamanu.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c02
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-18.3357828 Longitude130.6359219 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/valerie-napanangka-patterson
- Birth Place
- Lajamanu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Lajamanu in c. 1955. Language/tribe Warlpiri. Lives at Lajamanu. Country Janyinki. Dreamings Mardukuja-mardukuja (karna) – Women Dreaming, Ngalyipi, Warna. Valerie gathered most of the material for the Stories from Lajamanu publication. Though she did not go to school until she was 12 and has no formal training as a linguist, she recently translated Stormboy into Warlpiri so the teachers could have a novel for the children to study in Warlpiri – one of the longest vernacular English novel translations ever.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Despite having no formal training as a linguist, Valerie translated 'Stormboy' into Warlpiri and gathered most of the material for the 'Stories from Lajamanu' publication. The stories depicted in her paintings include Women Dreaming, Ngalyipi and Warna.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c03
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-18.6476374 Longitude146.1603448 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-titmarsh-1
- Birth Place
- Ingham, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Mark Titmarsh was born in 1955, Ingham, Queensland, Australia. In addition to a PhD awarded by the University of Technology, Sydney in 2009 Titmarsh holds a number of graduate and undergraduate degrees including a BA in Law [Queensland University], a BA in Visual Arts [College of Fine Arts, University of NSW] and Master of Visual Arts Painting [Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney].
Since 1980 Titmarsh has worked extensively as an artist, filmmaker, visual artist, writer, lecturer and curator. He was a founding member of the Sydney Super 8 Collective [later the Sydney Super 8 Film Group] in 1983 and was instrumental in the organisation of the group’s annual festivals and publications. Titmarsh wrote extensively on the emerging 1980s Australian film scene for various magazines, journals and other publications, promoting and proselytising Super 8 filmmaking. In 1983 Titmarsh co-founded and edited On the Beach, a key journal in the emergence of critical theory in Australia. Titmarsh also curated and toured programs of Australian Super 8 filmmaking to Europe and the United States during the 1980s.
Titmarsh’s work across all his chosen mediums, from film and painting, to sculpture and performance, has been concerned at some level with the potential of those mediums to be expanded and hybridised into new conceptual configurations. Early work in Super 8 such as Forbidden Planet [1981], City of Women [1982] and Night of the Living Dead [1983] involved re-enactments of portions of the plots of the films from which their titles had been lifted. Titmarsh’s emphasis in these films was to recontextualise purloined plot elements into loose, collage-like narratives that featured performances by non-actors [friends, colleagues, other filmmakers] and visual and audio elements taken directly from the mainstream art house and Hollywood films by means of refilming these elements from a television screen. Titmarsh experimented with this mixture of original and appropriated material throughout the following decade with such films such as Imitation of Life [1984], Shock Corridor [1985], Legion [1985], 35 Summers [1988] and the video work Viva [1989].
Titmarsh also experimented with films consisting entirely of appropriated material. This Is The Way That Jack Dies [1985] was made from scenes in films in which the actor Jack Palance “dies” – a taxonomic study of film performance and technique. In 1987 Titmarsh coined the term “Metaphysical TV” to describe the work of five filmmakers – Titmarsh, Andrew Frost, Michael Hutak, Gary Warner and Stephen Harrop – whose work investigated a relationship with the televisual image via film. Titmarsh curated a film program of 'MTV’ films, wrote the group’s manifesto, and toured the program internationally in 1988-89.Towards the end of the 1980s Titmarsh began to exhibit his paintings and sculptures in commercial and artist-run galleries and, from 1989 until 1998, concentrated solely on these studio practices. In 1998 Titmarsh returned to film with a series of short, looped Super 8 works such as Nietzsche Loop and Pyramid Loop, developing and extending interests in colour and composition arising from his painting practice. In the last decade Titmarsh has explored these ideas further with a series of video works including RNR [2004], and RXP [2005]. In 2007 Titmarsh exhibited five video works – Flowerpower, Wetpaint, Waterworld, I Am and Resonance [all 2005] under the collective title Deep Wallpaper at the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Titmarsh’s most recent screen works include (Silly) String Theory [2008] and Chromophiliac [2011].
Writers:
d/Archive
Date written:
2013
Last updated:
2013
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Artist, curator, filmaker and writer who was a founding member of the Sydney Super 8 Collective in 1983.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c04
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/beryl-nakamarra-gibson
- Birth Place
- Yartula-yartula, the Granites, NT, Yarturlu-yarturlu (Yartalu Yartalu) (the Granites), Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yarturlu-yarturlu c.1955, her tribe/language is Warlpiri and her country Yarturlu-yarturlu (the Granites). Her Dreamings are Yawakiyi, Ngurlu, and Janganpa. She started painting in 1986 and lives at Lajamanu, having worked as an assistant teacher at Lajamanu school in the late ’80s.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist and previously an assistant teacher at Lajamanu school (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c05
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/betty-nungarrayi-watson
- Birth Place
- Yurntumu, Yuendumu, NT, Yurntumu (Yuendumu), NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yurntumu c.1955, her tribe/language was Warlpiri and she lived at Lajamanu. Her country was Kunajarrayi and her Dreamings were Warna and Ngarlkirdi. She was the step-daughter of Junti Japaljarri, with whom she worked before he died, and daughter of Liddy Nelson Nakamarra . She started painting in 1986.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who lived at Lajamanu (NT). Daughter of well known Yuendumu artist, Liddy Nelson Nakamarra.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c06
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mabel-napurrurla-james
- Birth Place
- Yurntumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yurntumu c.1955, Mabel James is a Warlpiri person, whose country is Yurntumu and Miya-miya and Dreaming is Ngurlu (Seed). She started painting in 1987 and lives at Lajamanu.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- A Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT) who started painting in 1987.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c07
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/malcolm-jagamara
- Birth Place
- Aningie station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in the Willowra area at Aningie station near Central Mt Stuart in 1955, Malcolm Jagamara describes himself as a Lander River Warlpiri. He is the son of Minnie Napanangka . His traditional country is Wantapari, some 60 km west of Willowra in the Tanami Desert. He attended Adelaide Boys High School, launching a ten year career as a footballer which earned him a place in a publication 200 Unsung Heroes and Heroines of Australian History . In 1976 he returned from Adelaide to Willowra and began his Aboriginal education, including instruction in how to paint for ceremony. His principal Dreamings are Wana (Snake), Walu (Fire) and Ngapa (Water). He has also painted Budgerigar, Seven Sisters and Goanna stories with which he has family connections. He began painting in 1985, after observing the development of the art movement for a decade. His first two boards were done in Darwin in what he described as a moment of 'desperation’. Later his uncle, Willie Reilly Japanangka , one of the first people to start painting in Willowra, helped to get him started properly. Malcolm also has family ties with the communities of Yuendumu (where he is the nephew of the Community Council’s President), and Mt Allan. A very articulate man with a strong consciousness of cultural and political issues, the artist was the first of his people to become actively involved in commerce in Western Desert art: ' OK, they had their role model for an artist – and that was Namatjira, but up to this stage they had no role model for the dealer of their own art. Im talking about Yapa here – an Aboriginal person. There’s been none of that. To be able to sit down and deal with Yapa levels. ' This sensibility and intelligence appears also in the variety of influences and the exploration of new directions in his art (e.g. use of oils). One of his works features on a Telecom phonecard, and in 1992 he was artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and in 1993 at Macquarie University, where he painted a large mural with the assistance of student helpers. He has also recently travelled to North America.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: Primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- A Warlpiri artist, Jagamarra was first a successful footballer in Adelaide before returning to Willowra (NT) in 1976 and embarking on his Aboriginal education, which included instruction in painting. He has also spent periods of time in Sydney, where he was artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of NSW and at Macquarie University.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c08
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-20.7289898 Longitude139.4931522 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deb-pirard
- Birth Place
- Mt Isa, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Deb Pirard was born in Mt Isa, Queensland in 1955. She creates jewellery and body adornments made from sterling silver, bone, buffalo horn and wood. Her interest in her chosen media began as a child when she accompanied her family on weekends copper gouging around Mt Isa. Some of her pieces were featured in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. Her catalogue entry for this exhibition says, “I am interested in the social aspects of wearing jewellery; how it may reflect the status of the wearer; the crossover of body ornamentation and tribal identification and its symbolism when borrowed by other cultures. I enjoy making story pieces as I feel they create special meaning for the wearer.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Deb Pirard was born in Mt Isa, Queensland in 1955. She creates jewellery and body adornments made from sterling silver, bone, buffalo horn and wood. Pirard's interest in jewellery as an art form began as a child after weekends spent accompanying her family copper gouging around Mt Isa.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c09
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bertha-nakamarra-dickson
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu in the 1950s, Bertha Nakamarra Dickson later lived in the Hidden Valley town camp of Alice Springs. When she was living at Yuendumu, her aunt, Ruby Napurrurla, taught her painting. Bertha’s country was situated near Mission Creek and she painted Warna (Snake) and Yawakyi (Bloodberry) Dreamings, which belong to the Jupurrurla/Napurrurla and Jakamarra/Nakamarra skin groups. Together with her husband, Andrew Japaljarri Spencer , Bertha worked for HALT (Healthy Aboriginal Lifestyle Team) in 1989/90. HALT’s aims were to educate Aboriginal people about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse, diseases related to unhealthy nutrition, lack of hygiene etc. During that time, they produced a series of paintings in the traditional Western Desert style but dealing with these contemporary issues. Bertha had close connections with the Warlpiri communities of Yuendumu, Lajamanu and Willowra. She started with the IAD Literacy Course in 1992, and sold her paintings through the Jukurrpa artists’ co-operative. Monica Nakamarra Doolan was her sister.
Bertha Nakamarra Dickson passed away in Alice Springs on 31st May 2010.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- A Warlpiri artist and a former member of HALT (Healthy Aboriginal Lifestyle Team), Dickson's work has explored contemporary social and health issues. She was a member of the Jukurrpa group in Alice Spring (NT).
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 31-May-10
- Age at death
- 55
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2527454 Longitude131.7978253 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-tjapangati-lewis
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu c.1955, he is a Warlpiri speaker, and now lives in Billiluna. A quiet man, he began painting in 1985 and is one of the younger men of the Balgo group of artists associated with Warlayirti Artists. His work often depicts Emu and Crow Dreamings from his traditional country, on the east side of Lake White and Lake Wills. His paintings show a strong sense of design and employ a lot of figurative elements, which are crafted with meticulous technique. His wife, Jane Gordon, is also a talented artist.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist, living in Billiluna (WA), who paints for Warlayirti Artists. His paintings, strong in design, are held in major public and private collections.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/isabel-napaljarri-spencer
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Yuendumu c.1955. Isabel is Andrew and Garth Japaljarri and April Napaljarri Spencer’s sister. She has spent most of her life in Yuendumu, moving into Alice Springs only in 1991. In Alice Springs, she was taught the techniques of acrylic painting by Rachel Napaljarri Jurra . Isabel paints Wardapi (Goanna) Dreaming, which she inherited from her father. She has strong connections to Willowra, Kiwirrkura and Yuendumu communities and is a Warlpiri speaker. In 1992/3 she attended the Literacy Course at IAD.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who was a resident of Yuendumu (NT) before moving to Alice Springs in 1991. She has studied at the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD) in Alice Springs.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janie-nakamarra-peters
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Place of birth Yuendumu c.1955, her language/tribe was Warlpiri and her country was Yarturlu-yarturlu and her Dreamings, Yawakiyi, Ngurlu, Janganjpa (Possum), Lakijirri (Sticky Grass) and Wampana. She started painting in 1987 and sometimes painted with her husband, Joe Marshall . She lived at Lajamanu, where she worked as an assistant teacher at Lajamanu school.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Started painting in 1987 and worked as an assistant teacher at the Lajamanu school.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/barney-tjungurrayi-daniels
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Haasts Bluff in the mid ’50s ('ration time’), Barney Daniels received some European schooling at Mungana, a settlement about five miles (8 km) out of Alice Springs. He spent five years in Western Australia working as a stockman at Halls Creek station, then returned to his traditional country at Haasts Bluff and continued droving work on the government cattle station which had been established there, before starting to paint in the mid ’80s. He began on small boards, which he sold to the Centre for Aboriginal Artists. He paints Rainbow Snake, Blue Tongue Lizard, Bush Fire, Centipede, Witchetty Grub/Snake and Bush Tucker Dreamings. He describes himself as self-taught. He was one of the pioneers of the style of stippled brushwork backgrounds which is still distinctive of his canvases. He describes his language/tribe as Luritja/Pintupi, though his mother was an Anmatyerre woman from Napperby and his father Warlpiri. He was commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to paint furniture, including a desk and a TV set, for the touring 1988 Bicentennial exhibition, which also included a life-size sculpture of the artist, one of 20 Australians so represented. In recent years, he has sold mainly through the Gondwana Gallery and other Alice Springs outlets. When interviewed for this dictionary, he was living at Morris Soak in Alice Springs. Collections: Flinders University Art Museum, Langbeach Museum, California. Exhibitions: Gauguin Museum, Tahiti, Feb ’88, Tin Sheds, Oct ’88. Reference: Aboriginality , J. Isaacs (UQP, 1992)
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Commenced painting in the mid 1980s for the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs. His work was included in the Australian Bicentennial Exhibition (1988) and is held in major public and private collections. His backgrounds are recognised, in particular, for their stippled brushwork.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-24.7531753 Longitude129.0254501 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/evonne-stacia-lewis
- Birth Place
- Docker River, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Evonne Stacia Lewis was born around 1955 in the bush near Docker River, Northern Territory. She belongs to the Pitjantjatjara language and cultural group. Her parents were married in the church at Warburton and as a child she spent some time there learning English, hymns and Bible stories. Lewis is a painter, punu carver and tjanpi basket weaver. Her interest in colours, pattern and textiles is evident in her art practice and her management of the second-hand clothing shop at Irrunytju.
Lewis regularly goes on bush-trips into the country with the minyma pampa (senior women) to hunt tinka (lizard) and perentie (goanna); gather bush foods and minkulpa (native tobacco); collect tjanpi (spinifex), punu (wood) and materials to make resins, linaments and organic dyes.
In 1995 the tjanpi project, an initiative of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council, first taught coil basket weaving techniques to anangu in the Western Desert region at workshops run at Papulangkutja (Blackstone) and Manatmaru (Jamieson). Women were introduced to raffia in an array of bright colours and encouraged to experiment with locally sourced organic dyes. Tjanpi weaving was enthusiastically adopted across the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands by women who already had a strong textiles tradition which included spinning twine from hair and fur to make head and waist bands; weaving manguri from spinifex, hair and emu feathers; as well as skills in crochet, knitting, sewing and rug making introduced into the area by the Warburton and Ernabella missions.
Baskets woven at Irrunytju are often shaped like coolamon or round bottomed bowls; include raffia dyed a pale golden-yellow using the resinous trunk of the Xanthorrhoea grass-tree; and incorporate emu feathers for decoration. Lewis’s baskets are distinctive for their craftsmanship, form and sensitive combination of colours.
Writers:
Knights, Mary
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Based in Irrunytju, Pitjantjatjara painter, weaver and wood carver Evonne Stacia Lewis was born near Docker River around 1955.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c0f
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Latitude-24.838632 Longitude151.1093424 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gordon-bennett
- Birth Place
- Monto, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Gordon Bennett came to art as a mature adult, graduating in Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, in 1988. He quickly established himself as an artist equipped both intellectually and aesthetically to address issues relating to the role of language and systems of thought in forging identity.
Much of Bennett’s work is concerned with mapping alternative histories and ideas in post-colonial Australia. He rejects racial labels and stereotypes. In 1995, as an act of personal liberation from preconceptions about his Indigenous heritage, Bennett created an ongoing, pop-art inspired alter ego, John Citizen, whom he says is 'an abstraction of the Australian Mr Average, the Australian Everyman’.
In the late 1990s, Bennett began a 'dialogue’ with the work of the late Jean-Michel Basquiat, a New York artist seen by Bennett as someone outside Australia who shared both a similar western cultural tradition and an obsession with drawing, semiotics and visual language. Bennett’s 'Notes to Basquiat’ culminated in a series of works produced in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York in 2001. Bennett’s subsequent 'Camouflage’ series (2003) references the war in Iraq and issues of secrecy. His most recent abstract works extend the notion of camouflage, dissolving the appearance of difference.
Since 1989, Bennett has held over 50 solo exhibitions and achieved national and international recognition for his work, with representation in biennales in Sydney, Venice, Kwangju, Shanghai and Cuba, and in major exhibitions of contemporary art in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Prague (Czech Republic), Italy, Denmark, Canada, South Africa and Japan.
The Art of Gordon Bennett by Ian McLean (including an essay by Gordon Bennett), was published by Craftsman House in 1996. Bennett has received several major awards, including the Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship (1991) and the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria (1997). His work is held in all major public art collections in Australia.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 9 October 1955
- Summary
- Acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artist, Gordon Bennett's work explores the role of language and systems of thought in forging identity. Much of his work is concerned with mapping alternative histories and ideas in post-colonial Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 3-Jun-14
- Age at death
- 59
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c10
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Latitude-25.2446655 Longitude151.1731591 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michael-anning
- Birth Place
- North Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Ydinji carver and painter Michael Anning, also known as Boiyool, was born in North Queensland in 1955. His work, shields, swords and sculptural carvings are greatly influenced by the traditional styles and media of his people. Carvings and the use of natural pigments and charcoal have been a fascination for him since the age of 13.
Anning’s carvings and sculptures were featured in the “Gatherings and Gatherings II, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art of Queensland Australia” in 2001 and 2006 respectively. In 1998 Anning won the the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3 Dimensional Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) with his sculptural piece “Dulgubarra, Rainforest Dwellers”. This work was selected for MAGNT’s 20th anniversary national touring exhibition, “Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: Celebrating 20 Years” in 2004 – 2005.
In the catalogue of the first “Gatherings” exhibition Annings states that he hopes to “create a broader view of all rainforest tribal culture to remember my grandparents and other elders who, as children, once lived and roamed beneath the dark green canopy known today as the Wet Tropics.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Indigenous carver and painter, Michael Anning's work was awarded the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3 Dimensional Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 1998.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c11
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Details
Latitude-25.9846442 Longitude128.2867165 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rene-nelson
- Birth Place
- Papulankutja Blackstone, WA, Papulankutja (Blackstone), WA, Australia
- Biography
- Rene Nelson was born around 1955 at Warlu, a rockhole west of Irrunytju, near Papulankutja (Blackstone). “There are a lot of rockholes in my country. When I was little I walked in the bush with my mother and father from rockhole to rockhole. If a little rockhole got dry we would travel to one of the two main rockholes which always had water in them.”
Rene belongs to the Pitjantjatjara language and cultural group. As a young child Rene lived a traditional lifestyle in the desert. She walked with her family to the mission at Warburton where they camped for a while before continuing to Areyonga where she went to school. They camped for a while at Papulankutja, then Irrunytju. Rene settled at Irrunytju, where she raised many children and grandchildren, and is an active member of the community.In her paintings Rene often draws on her knowledge of country, the location of important rockholes around the place of her birth. She uses layers of vibrant colours intensified by precise uniform dotting. Rene works at Irrunytju Arts where, as well as pursuing her own art practice, she assists with tjanpi projects, art markets to sell work of emerging artists and bush-trips.The minyma pampa (old women) and minyma regularly travel into the bush in the art centre Toyota to visit tjukurpa sites to sing inma, collect punu and spinifex, gather minkulpa (native tobacco) and bushfood. Rene is skilled at hunting and cooking using traditional methods. Following fresh lizard tracks between the clumps of spinifex to the burrow Rene can tell from the tracks whether they were made by tinka (lizard) or perentie (goanna), if it is a male or female, its size, if the tracks are fresh, how fast it was going, if it is carrying eggs, the number of lizards in the burrow and if there are snakes nearby.
Writers:
Knights, Mary
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara artist and member of the Irrunytju community whose paintings often depict the rockholes to be found around her birthplace.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c12
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Details
Latitude-26.286773 Longitude132.13302 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/josephine-mick
- Birth Place
- Ernabella, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Ernabella in 1955, Josephine moved to Alice Springs in 1983. A Pitjantjatjara speaker, she started painting her father’s Dreamings Kungka Kutjara (Two Women) and Water Snake in 1986. She has sold her work to Alice Springs galleries and, with the help of her husband Ushma Sales, to galleries overseas too. Josephine’s sister Tjulkiwa Atira-Atira is also a painter.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- A Pitjantjatjara speaker, Mick paints Kungka Kutjara and Water Snake dreamings.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c13
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-26.29031 Longitude151.9540222 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vivienne-roma
- Birth Place
- Cherbourg, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Ceramicist Vivienne Roma was born in Cherbourg in 1955. Her pots are informed by her memories of growing up an Aboriginal woman in Queensland. Roma is a member of the Murri Potters’ Group and first showed with them in 2002 at Fusions Art Gallery. Roma has also shown her work in the 'Gatherings II’ exhibition in Brisbane in 2006.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Ceramicist Vivienne Roma was born in Cherbourg in 1955. Her pots are informed by her memories of growing up an Aboriginal woman in Queensland.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c14
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/claudje-lecompte
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Claudje was an active participant of the 1980s Qld ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c15
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rick-roser
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1955 of the Picambul people of Southern Queensland, Rick Roser’s contemporary representations of traditional Aboriginal weaponry are crafted from stone, resin, fibre, lawyer cane and ochres. His stone axes and knives were featured in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”. He is represented in the collections of the Queensland Museum, the National Gallery of Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Rick Roser of the Picambul people of Southern Queensland creates contemporary representations of traditional Aboriginal weaponry that are crafted from stone, resin, fibre, lawyer cane and ochres.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c16
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-31.4813329 Longitude118.2779117 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/swag-graham-taylor
- Birth Place
- Merredin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Noongar artist Graham (Swag) Taylor was born in 1955 in Merredin, which is in the wheatbelt region of south Western Australia. He signs his paintings with the name Swag, and this is the name used by those who own or are familiar with his work. Swag is a member of the Baladong people of the southwest, and also has family connections with the Pilbara region. As a child he lived on the Jureen Rock Reserve (just to the northeast of the town of Kellerberrin), which at that time consisted simply of humpies and an ablution block. When he was thirteen years old, Swag was taken away from the reserve and placed in Roelands Mission, where he remained for two years. His early teenage years were spent in the region around Kellerberrin. In a conversation with the author (2009), Swag spoke of being an enthusiastic drawer at school and of being inspired by the Western Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira while he was at high school. He sold his first oil painting in his teens when he was living with his auntie in Merredin. They had no money for food, and having found some oil paint in a rubbish tip, Swag made a painting which he sold to a local publican for $30 – a large amount of money in those days. At the age of seventeen, Swag spent four and a half months in Fremantle Prison for having committed a minor theft to get food. Amongst the older generation of inmates at that time were Revel Cooper, Goldie Kelly and Lewis Jetta, all of whom were accomplished Noongar artists who painted regularly during their time in prison, and often taught painting techniques to younger inmates. Cooper and Kelly were among the renowned Carrolup children artists who, under the guidance of teachers Noel and Lily White, created landscapes of the country around the settlement that were widely exhibited in Australia and overseas during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Swag recalls watching and learning from the older painters during his brief time at Fremantle Prison, and they and the Carrolup 'school’ style have been an ongoing source of inspiration for him.Other artists who have influenced Swag are Lance Chadd and Shane Pickett. It was Geoffrey Narkle (half-brother of Goldie Kelly) who encouraged him to pursue art seriously in 1984, after visiting Swag’s home in Katanning and seeing the murals he had painted on his walls. Narkle and Swag would go on to become very close friends. Swag’s art practice was nurtured further when he and his wife worked at the Marribank Family Centre (the site of the old Carrolup mission), which in the late 1980s housed a thriving art cooperative. Swag created paintings and ceramics while at Marribank, and continued to exhibit and sell work when he moved to Perth in 1987. Swag paints portraits, landscapes, native animals, and scenes that recollect his childhood experiences, both those from his happy days as a child in the bush and those associated with his harrowing time in the mission. He works with a range of media, including acrylic, oil and enamel paints. He has also created paintings on paperbark. In 2008 Swag’s mother discovered a paperbark work from 1987 in a secondhand shop in Bunbury. She bought it because it was similar in style to her son’s work, but only realised later when she showed it to Swag’s brother that it had in fact been painted by Swag. With respect to the depiction of Noongar country, Swag related to the author that it is important to “paint it as you see it”. This aesthetic philosophy reflects both the legacy of the Carrolup school and the influence of Albert Namatjira’s watercolour works. A defining moment in Swag’s life came in 1983 when he toured Australia with a gospel group for three and a half months. The tour involved visiting regional Aboriginal communities across the nation and Swag was inspired by the diversity of landscapes and the richness of the colours he saw on his travels. He was exposed to a variety of Aboriginal art forms during the tour, but was most strongly attracted to the Namatjira school paintings he saw in an Alice Springs gallery. He identified with their naturalistic style because it is a form of painting founded in “visualising where we want to be in country” (Taylor Pers. Comm. 2009). In 2007 Swag participated in the exhibition 'saltwaterfreshwater’ at the Central TAFE Art Gallery in Perth. One of his works included in the show was Tijnang Koomba Kep (Look Big Water), which imagines how Bunbury may have looked prior to settlement. In an artist’s statement for the exhibition, Swag writes: “I was sent to Roelands Mission, as a child I used to walk to the top of the hills and look towards Bunbury, the place where my Great Grandmother was born.” In his Artlink review of the show, McLean writes of the work: “Painted in the magic realist style of Nyoongar [Noongar] landscape painting, it has a melancholy mood as if the artist’s memories of good times are soured by the crushing loss of what has happened since” (2007). The painting Mission Boy (2008), in which a small boy stands in a bare room looking up to a window high above his head, is a memorial to the trauma and longing Swag experienced at Roelands Mission. In conversation with the author (2009), Swag described the moment that is being recalled in this work: he and two other children had run away from the mission, walking approximately 80 kilometres northeast to Darkan, and then hitchhiking on the road to Williams before being picked up and taken to a police station. Upon being returned to Roelands Mission, Swag was given a hiding and left for many hours alone in a large gymnasium with bare walls and high windows. Swag recalls the sense of desolation he felt in that room, and his painting shows the dirty marks left on the wall by his bare feet as he tried to climb up to look out the window at the other children playing in the yard. He has a strong memory of fearing further trouble when his dirty feet marks were discovered. This work was shortlisted for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (2008) and included in the exhibition 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah’ (2009) at the Brisbane Powerhouse, an exhibition that juxtaposed historical works made by the Carrolup artists from the collection of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology with the works of contemporary Noongar artists who are affiliated with Mungart Boodja Art Centre and feel strongly connected with the Carrolup legacy. After creating Mission Boy, Swag produced several paintings based around the story Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington Garimara (1996) and subsequently made into a film. The story narrates the escape by three Noongar girls from Moore River Native Settlement. Swag identifies strongly with the girls’ experiences. In 2008 these paintings were exhibited at the Aboriginal art exhibition which is staged annually during the Tom Hoad Cup (an international water polo competition) at the Melville Water Polo Club in Bicton, Western Australia. This exhibition series was initiated by Larry Foley, a dedicted supporter and collector of Noongar art who owns a number of Swag’s works.Other exhibitions in which Swag has participated include 'Noongar Boodja: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Ecology and Culture’ (2008), in which he exhibited alongside Athol Farmer and Troy Bennell at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New York, and 'Noongar Koort Boodja – Noongar Heart Land’ (2009) at the University Club of Western Australia. In 2008 he won the Worsley Alumina Indigenous Art Acquisition Award, which saw his work enter the City of Bunbury Art Collection. Alongside his art practice, Swag has worked for many years in the mining and civil works sector as a machine operator. He has been heavily involved in AFL football, coaching football clubs and supporting younger generations of his family in establishing their sporting careers. In 2009 he was living in Perth with his family.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Perth-based Noongar artist often known as 'Swag'. His paintings recall childhood experiences and depict landscapes from the southwest of Western Australia, a region with which he feels connected. He was a finalist in the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards in 2008. Largely self-taught. Some guidance from fellow Noongar artists.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c17
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Details
Latitude-31.95 Longitude141.466667 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/victor-wayne-baldwin
- Birth Place
- Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist and cartoon enthusiast, was born at Broken Hill on 22 September 1955. He moved to Adelaide and studied Town Planning at the SA Institute of Technology (now SAU). In 1985, with cartoonist Michael Atchison of the Adelaide Advertiser , Baldwin organised a convention of 40 Australian cartoonists in Adelaide (sponsored by the Advertiser ) accompanied by an exhibition of contemporary cartoons in Old Parliament House. This led to a revitalised Black and White Artists’ Club, which had collapsed in the 1960s to just a few Sydney members (mainly Fairfax employees). The Club set up annual awards, judged by all its members from a large format voting book with printed examples of members work as reminders (votes are for the artist, not the work in the book), soon known as the Stanleys. From 1985 to 1992 the awards were sponsored by ACP via the Bulletin , to which Baldwin contributed cartoons. A collection of original cartoons drawn mainly for the Bulletin (ML PXD 739) contains one cartoon by Baldwin, dated 4 February 1986. In 1986 Baldwin edited and produced the first issue of Inkspot , the quarterly magazine of the Black and White Artists’ Club. Its cover has his drawing of two cavemen inspecting the Stanley Award statuette (reproduced Lindesay 1994, 64). In the late 1990s he was living in North Haven, South Australia.
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Contemporary Adelaide cartoonist and cartoon enthusiast. Spearheaded the revitalised Australian Black and White Artists' Club in the 1980s.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c18
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fernanda-martins
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Fern Martins, Indigenous artist, was born in Sydney in 1955. Martins spent her childhood travelling around northern New South Wales with her grandmother. In 1971 she began tertiary studies in fine arts at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) in Darlinghurst. In 1974 she moved to Adelaide and transferred her studies to the South Australian School of Art, and in 1979 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Torrens College of Advanced Education in Adelaide. During her years of study she became involved in the Women’s Art Movement (W.A.M.) in Adelaide, and was a founding member of the South Australian Sculpture Workshop. Exhibitions included “Sleep Has Its House” (with Jacky Redgate) at the Women’s Art Movement (1979), and “17 Viewpoints” at the Flight Gallery in Adelaide (1980).
In 1981 she returned to Sydney and began working as a picture framer while continuing her art practice. At this time she also became a member of the APMIRA (Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights) committee and coordinated the 1981 and 1982 “Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights” exhibitions at Paddington Town Hall and the “After the Tent Embassy” exhibition (1982) at the Bondi Pavilion. In 1983 she returned to study at East Sydney Technical College and worked as a studio assistant for the sculptor Bert Flugelman. In 1984 she participated in the landmark “Koori Art ’84” exhibition at Artspace in Sydney, and in 1987 she was one of the founding members of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
fishel
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Indigenous artist and descendent of the Meriam Mer people who was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative in 1987.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c19
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Details
Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruth-waller
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- painter and illustrator, was born in Sydney on 15 November 1955. She did her Diploma of Art at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney, 1974-78, and at one stage she designed graphics for the Artworkers Union. House About Wollongong 1985, done as artist-in-residence at Wollongong in 1984-85, is a series of colour photographs of cheap but odd suburban houses and gardens in the district. Her series of paintings of paw prints of the extinct Tasmanian tiger is believed to have been exhibited at the Tin Sheds in the 1980s. From the 1990s to c.2001 Waller lived in Canberra teaching part-time at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, and also researching Renaissance predella painting in Europe with the help of small Australian Research Council grants. She showed a series of paintings related to Italian predella paintings at Watters Gallery in Sydney c.1999, to be followed by German predalla-inspired works in c.2001.
Waller quoted Tommy McRae (and B.O. Holtermann and the works of the Port Jackson Painter , George Raper and James Taylor ) in White Panorama – select views of Sydney real estate 1788-1989 1989, charcoal and pastel on paper, 3 sections each 38 × 111.8 cm, illustrated in Irony, Humour & Dissent: Recent Australian Drawings 1 curated by Alison Carroll for Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 1989, p.25. Her charcoal drawing Ornithrhynchus anatinus 1990 was included in Earthly Delights: a group exhibition about the environment shown at Australian Girls Own Gallery (aGOG), Canberra, ACT, from 18 August to 6 September 1990.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Ruth Waller is a painter and illustrator. She received a Diploma of Art from Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, Sydney in 1978, and lectured at the Canberra School of Art from 1990s to 2001. Waller has received Australian Research Council grants in relation to her research on Renaissance predella painting in Europe.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1a
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Details
Latitude-34.1803736 Longitude139.9863923 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marie-thorn
- Birth Place
- Waikerie, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1b
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Details
Latitude-34.9275 Longitude138.6 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/michal-dutkiewicz
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Biography
- painter, illustrator and comic strip artist, was born and works in Adelaide, son of Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz , an abstract painter who gave him art lessons as a child. Much later he decided to draw comics. In 1974 he withdrew from tertiary studies and spent a year with the SA Theatre youth workshops before becoming involved with the Royal South Australian Society of Arts, with which he regularly exhibited 1976-90. At the same time he was working as a freelance illustrator and designer. His involvement in Australian comics is both as a maker and collector. He has also worked on US comics including Superman – Man of Steel (DC Comics #42) and Batman Forever . He won the 1991 Stanley for 'Best Adventure Strip Artist’. SLNSW ML has his 1984 original title page for The Dragon’s Lair.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Contemporary South Australian cartoonist and illustrator. Has worked on US comics such as 'Superman - Man of Steel' and 'Batman Forever'.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1c
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Details
Latitude-35.115 Longitude147.3677778 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1d
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Details
Latitude-35.2529033 Longitude139.4534385 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ellen-trevorrow
- Birth Place
- Tailem Bend, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Ellen Trevorrow, Ngarrindjeri weaver, was born at Point McLeay ( Raukkan ) in 1955 and raised near Tailem Bend. Tailem Bend is a small town in the Murraylands region of South Australia, and Trevorrow spent her childhood in fringe dwellers camps just outside of the town with her grandmother, Ellen Brown, from whom she gets her name. She attended primary school in Tailem Bend, and moved South to Bonney Reserve near Meningie when she was 11 and went on to complete high school. She met her husband to be, Tom Trevorrow, when she was fourteen. They were married in 1976 and went on to have seven children. They have remained in or near Meningie ever since.
Trevorrow had watched her grandmother weave when she was a child, however her own weaving practice only began in 1982 when she attended a workshop which was facilitated by Steve Hemming of the South Australian Museum, with Aunty Dorrie Kartinyeri, an elder from Point McLeay. Kartinyeri showed the workshop participants how to weave, where to find the rushes, and how to prepare them properly for weaving. Prior to colonisation, weaving had an important practical purpose in Ngarrindjeri culture. During the days of the Point McLeay Mission, Aboriginal women were encouraged to treat their weavings as a source of income and Allen writes that 'During the mid-1800s and the early twentieth century, the women at Point McLeay were famous for the baskets they made to sell’ (Allen, L. in B. Parkes (ed) 2005, p. 95). Kartinyeri initiated the workshop as one of the few Ngarrindjeri women who knew the craft. As Trevorrow writes in correspondence with the author: 'Auntie Dorrie must have felt that she had to pass on the knowledge of Ngarrindjeri weaving while she still could’ (pers. comm. 2009). The workshop was also attended by Yvonne Koolmatrie who, like Trevorrow, went on to devote her life to weaving as both a practitioner and teacher.
Trevorrow regards herself as a 'cultural weaver’ to emphasise that her practice is about cultural regeneration and affirmation, as opposed to being a purely artistic preoccupation (Conroy, D. in in S. Kleinert & M. Neale (eds) 2000, p. 722). She and her husband have been foundation members of Camp Coorong Race Relations Cultural Education Centre since 1985. Camp Cooring is located close to Meningie, adjacent to the site of Bonney Reserve. It is situated within the Coorong, a coastal ecosystem of estuaries, lakes and lagoons where the Murray River meets the sea. Trevorrow has a deep sense of attachment to the Murray River, which constitutes part of her Ngarrindjeri Clan Group’s Traditional Country. Through guided field trips, talks and cultural workshops, visitors to Camp Coorong are educated about the complex nature of the Coorong and its wildlife, and on the importance of the Coorong in Ngarrindjeri Culture. Trevorrow regularly teaches weaving workshops at the camp, and also holds workshops at schools, festivals and institutions. She finds great pleasure in teaching both adults and children and regards the intimate, sharing social environment that is brought into being as one of the most valuable aspects of the weaving: “It’s extremely satisfying to sit and yarn while you weave together. I like weaving with old people because they yarn about things, the past which is the future for their children. Sometimes special stories are revealed, it’s good to share and exchange” (personal communication 2009).
Trevorrow began exhibiting her weavings in the late 1980s. Among her first group exhibitions were 'Ngarrindjeri Art and Craft’ at the South Australian Museum (1987) and 'River’ at Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre (1989). Other exhibitions have included 'Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition’ at the Art Gallery of NSW (1991), 'talking. listening’ at Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre (1994) and 'Tactility’ at the National Gallery of Australia (2003).Trevorrow is well known for her 'Sister’ baskets. A Sister basket is so-called because it comprises two identical baskets joined together around the edges with sedge twine, with an opening left at the top. Historically, the Sister basket or Nakal as it is known in the Ngarrindjeri language is used to collect herbs and carry small personal objects. Trevorrow and her husband worked out the technique for creating a Sister basket after they examined an historical example in the collection of the Camp Coorong Museum which was made by Ethel Whympie, Tom Trevorrow’s great-grandmother. Sister baskets made by Trevorrow are in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Migration museum in Adelaide. For the 1997 exhibition 'The Somatic Object’ at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in Sydney, Trevorrow’s work was an interpretation of the Seven Sisters Dreaming Story, a story that the Ngarrindjeri share with Indigenous groups of the Western Desert. With the encouragement of Canberra artist Wendy Dodd, Trevorrow made seven Sister baskets that formed an installation for the exhibition.Trevorrow’s baskets, as well as her other woven forms such as fish scoops and mats, are made from thin bundles of sedge grasses, which are freshwater rushes that grow in sandy soil in the Coorong, surrounding Lakes and River Murray waterways. The bundles are held together with a single reed which is wrapped around them as they are coiled into shape, and which stitches the coils to each other as the weave progresses. Sedge grasses used to grow prolifically along the Murray River and in the Coorong, however due to prolonged drought and intensive irrigation upstream, the flow of water to the mouth of the river and into the Coorong has declined dramatically. As a result, the freshwater rushes grow far more sparsely, their growth stunted by the rising salt water table. Trevorrow collects the rushes from Lake Alexandria, near Poltalloch Station, but always leaves clumps to ensure regrowth, and in some areas plants the seeds of the rushes to ensure a continuous supply. Both Trevorrow and her husband have sought to publicise the environmental damage that is being done to the Coorong, Lakes and River Murray, and Camp Coorong and Trevorrow’s weaving workshops are an integral part of this effort.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: In consultation with the artist, 2009
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Ngarrindjeri weaver and educator who has exhibited widely throughout Australia. She regards herself as a 'cultural weaver' and is dedicated to sharing her knowledge of the practice, and Ngarrindjeri culture and ecology.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pamela-joy-croft
- Birth Place
- Cooma, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Kooma woman of the Uralarai people of South West Queensland, Pamela Joy Croft was born in Cooma, NSW in 1955. Croft’s work is held in a number of permanent collections including the National Museum of Australia. She was a featured artist in the 2001 “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” exhibition in Brisbane and her artist statement for that show reads: “I portray the importance of tradition, recognition of ancestors, respect for uniqueness in spiritual expression, facilitation of an understanding with the context of history and culture, a sense of place. I hope my work recognises and empowers the inherent strength of Aboriginal peoples and challenges non-Aboriginal people to truly listen and absorb in order to move to a place of understanding of our world.” Croft was awarded a PhD from Griffith University in 2003.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Pamela Croft's works portray the importance of tradition, the recognition of ancestors, respect for uniqueness in spiritual expression, the facilitation of an understanding with the context of history and culture and a sense of place.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c1f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kurt-brereton
- Birth Place
- St. Arnaud, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Brereton is a visual and digital media artist, writer and creative arts & design academic.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c20
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruth-johnstone
- Birth Place
- Hamilton, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- printmaker and installation artist, was born in Hamilton and grew up in the Western District, Victoria. She first became aware of art through her grandmother, a self-taught artist 'who was a painter of sorts … part of that Edwardian, genteel arts tradition’ (she painted reproductions in oils). Johnstone’s work was included in Aspects of Australian Printmaking 1984-1994 , National Gallery of Victoria catalogue, Melbourne, 1995. She is also interested in cypress trees, which she identifies with the Western District landscape, and in the Tower of Babel (symbolic of the Bible of her childhood).
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. c.1955
- Summary
- Tower Hill and the cypress trees of the Western District where Johnstone grew up have profoundly influenced her work, as has Eugene Von Guerard's painting of the same area.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c21
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bill-henson
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c22
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dale-jones-evans
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- Biography
- Dale Jones-Evans, architect, artist, designer, art collector, publisher, director of Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd and adjunct professor of the School of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology in Sydney was born in 1955 in Melbourne, Victoria. It was in Melbourne where he spent most of his childhood. Jones-Evans was raised within an artistic environment with his mother greatly involved in crafts and his father in painting, albeit after retirement. His strong interest in art is later exemplified by both his architectural projects and art works. The disciplines of fine arts, urban geography and the political economy of world cities inform Jones-Evans’s approach to architecture. In 1977 Jones-Evans completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (later Monash University) in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1978, Jones-Evans began his study for the Bachelor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Victoria. He began working as an architect in 1983, establishing his first company, Biltmoderne, before completing his Bachelor of Architecture in 1987. Jones-Evans’s first architectural project, Inflation Nightclub, had received the Victorian Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) 1985 Merit Award, gaining significant recognition for him as an innovative contemporary architect in Australia. In 1988, he established his second office, Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture (DJE). In 1993 Jones-Evans re-located to Sydney and in 2005 made Zoe Jenkins and Maki Yamaji Associates. The practice has produced a diverse body of architectural, interior, residential and commercial projects including The Gallery House (1987-90), The M Central (2003-2005), Kemenys Liquor and Sydney Opera House Bennelong Restaurant (2001). DJE architectural practice has been highly awarded and received wide-spread recognition, including nine RAIA national and state awards, numerous industry awards and in 1988, an international award, 'International Record Houses Award’, from the United States of America. In 1991 and 2008, Jones-Evans also represented Australia at the 5th and 11th International Architecture Biennial in Venice, Italy, respectively. The correlation between his artistic and architectural practice is explicitly demonstrated through Jones-Evans’s architecture. The Art Wall (2002-03) in Kings Cross, Sydney, exemplifies the inextricability of art and architecture. It is both architecture and public art because while being a redeveloped commercial building consisting of offices and retail shops, it is also surmounted with a “mural”, a steel structure with backlit vinyl cloth with the digital print derived from a painting by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Jones-Evans frequently collaborates with artists in architectural projects. The Red Box (2003-04) is a collaborative work with the Spanish- Australian artist, Dani Marti. It is comprised of a pixilated glass tunnel, which acts as a pedestrian transit space to mediate high winds between the two Mirvac towers in Docklands, Melbourne. Other public art projects include the Metalika (2004), also in Docklands, and the Hawkesdale Community Public Art Project (2001) in Hawkesdale Victoria. Jones-Evans has become well-known for his public art, a practice that also allows him to reach a wide audience. Additionally, he collaborates with other artists in his artworks. In 2005, with Aspasia Sagiotis, Jones-Evans co-directed and designed the performance art piece 2050 Still Humans, which was performed by Ingrid Kleinig and Kirk Page, exploring the idea of the influence of technology on human beings via electronic sounds, dance and movement. Jones-Evans expresses his interest in the specific nature and history of Australia through his artworks. In 2001, for the refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House’s Bennelong restaurant, he incorporated large cylinder lamps painted with broad gestural brushstrokes by Indigenous artist Barbara Weir, and eight memorial totem poles, which give the dramatic effect of emerging from the ground. They act as a symbol of Aboriginal reclamation of the ground upon which the Opera House stands. In 2006, Jones-Evans collaborated with the Aboriginal artists Bronwyn Bancroft in the Eveleigh Public Artwork in Redfern, Sydney. Bancroft had responsibility for the painting whereas Jones-Evans designed the accompanying wall piece and sculpture for a project which aims to improve the Hugo Street Reserve, making it a safer and more inviting place for the local Indigenous residents. Jones-Evans has a diverse artwork portfolio, ranging from public, installation art to digital construction. Some of his artworks are provocative, for instance, 2050 Still Humans was staged at the Victoria Room, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, taking the diners/ audience by surprise. Even more so was his 2006 POL Oxygen Magazine Designex exhibition artwork which incorporated over 160 glass jars holding real sheep brains lining the walls, each of them labelled with the name of a creative 'mind’ featured in POL Oxygen magazine over the years. Jones-Evans is also a publisher who co-founded and edited the independent journal POLIS (1994-95), which examined the development of cities from an urban geographic, planning and design perspective. In addition, he wrote and independently published a photographic book called Sea Gods in 2000, which examined Australia’s seminal surfing figures – with photos taken by photographer Ashley Jones-Evans, his brother. Sea Gods won the 2001 National Print Awards Gold Medal. In 2008 Jones-Evans was still residing in Sydney and working mainly as an architect and artist.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Secondary biographyTse, Wing Nga (Bryoni)
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2008
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Architect, artist, designer, art collector, publisher, director of Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd and adjunct professor of the School of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology in Sydney. Jones-Evans has been committed to the disciplines of fine arts, urban geography and the political economy of world cities as the foundation for the making of architecture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c23
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nicholas-nedelkopoulos
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- painter, printmaker, photographer, film producer and song writer, was born in Melbourne on 29 March 1955. He studied art at Prahran College of Technology 1973-75, Preston Institute of Technology (Phillip Institute) 1975-76, Victorian College of the Arts 1977 and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 1979. Has exhibited prints since 1977; there is a strong graphic tradition in all his work (McCulloch).
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Contemporary artist with a strong graphic influence in his work. His diverse artistic production has a strong political content.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c24
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-38.22866145 Longitude175.4330683 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/catherine-phillips
- Birth Place
- Otorohanga, New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- New Zealand-born sculptor, whose work encountered censorship at the Tenth Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and former president of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras organisation
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c25
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Latitude-41.441944 Longitude147.145 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pamela-elizabeth-debenham
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- Painter and poster artist, was born in Launceston, Tasmania on 30 November 1955. She is said to have attended boarding school in NSW where she was taught art by Joyce Allen . Lived in Sydney for years and taught printmaking at Sydney University’s Art Workshop then moved to Canberra in c.1990 with her partner, the artist and teacher Nigel Lendon. They had a son Axel before splitting up in 2000. In Canberra she exhibits prints and paintings with Helen Maxwell; her 1990 monotypes, Erosion and Ladmarks , were included in Earthly Delights: a group exhibition about the environment at aGOG from 18 August to 6 September 1990.
The NGA has a large collection of Debenham’s screenprinted posters made at the Tin Sheds, SU in the 1980s (see printout www.australianprints.gov.au). JK has copy of her most famous print, No Nukes in the Pacific (1984) – a drawing of a Hawaiian T-shirt decorated with nuclear explosions, which Debenham made into an actual T-shirt in 1995.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Tasmanian-born printmaker and painter, taught and practiced printmaking at the Sydney University Art Workshop in the 1980s. Many of her works are now held in The National Gallery of Australia's print collection. Debenham's most famous print 'No Nukes in the Pacific' (1984) was made into a t-shirt.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c26
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Latitude-41.441944 Longitude147.145 Start Date1955-01-01 End Date1955-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vernon-graham
- Birth Place
- Launceston, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Vernon Graham (also known as Taraba), Palawa photographer, illustrator and craftsman, was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1955. Along with his sister and three brothers, he spent his early childhood in Finley, in the Riverina district of New South Wales. When he was seven years of age, his family moved to Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group of Islands off the north-east tip of Tasmania. As a teenager, Vernon embarked on a career as a fisherman and skipper that lasted for over 20 years. In 1994 he achieved an Associate Diploma of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of Tasmania in Launceston, and since that time he has been involved in a number of exhibitions. These have included “Trouwerner“ (the Palawa name for Tasmania) at the Long Boat Gallery in Hobart (1996); “Taking Our Place” curated by Vicki West at the University Gallery, Launceston (2001); and “Native Title Business”, which toured nationally between 2002 and 2005. Vernon’s photographs and drawings were used to illustrate two school curriculum texts: Jacaranda SOSE: Studies of Society and Environment (1996) and the Jacaranda Primary Atlas: Studies of Society and Environment (1997); as well as the book Taraba: Tasmanian Aboriginal Stories (1997).Besides his photographic work, Vernon has crafted a number of cultural objects that reflect, as Amanda Reynolds has written in the National Museum of Australia publication Keeping Culture, a “determination to re-empower masculine culture” in Aboriginal Tasmania (2006, p.40). These include traditional tools such as digging sticks, spears and shields, musical instruments, and a miniature canoe, all of which have been created from found materials. A number of such objects have been acquired, along with some of Vernon’s photographic works, by the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Vernon was inspired to become an artist by his love for his mother, Lois Farley (nee Green), who passed away in 1989. Lois was a poet who wrote about the lives of the Palawa people and the beauty of their island homes. Vernon’s creative practice is informed by his knowledge of, and sense of responsibility for the Aboriginal heritage of Flinders Island and other parts of Tasmania. In the 1990s he began working as an Aboriginal heritage officer and consultant and continued to do so for a range of government bodies and private sector development projects, which allowed him to explore and manage the welfare of important sites across Tasmania. He has therefore undertaken custodianship duties in Tasmania, both professionally and as an artist creatively reclaiming traditional, functional and cultural objects as a craftsman, and honouring the Aboriginal presence within the environment as a photographer. In a 2008 conversation with the author, Vernon spoke of the inspiration he drew from the remarkable historic art sites to be found in the Aboriginal heritage areas that he managed, and described his life as a cultural heritage officer and his life as an artist as deeply interconnected. His childhood memories of his grandfather teaching him about the food to be found in the bush and the sea, and his participation in the annual mutton-bird harvest (a long-standing tradition for Aboriginal families and communities in the Furneaux Islands), have also been formative of the artist’s sense of the continuity of Aboriginal belonging within Tasmania. In 2008 Vernon was living in Launceston with his wife Kaylene Graham. At the time of writing, Vernon and Kaylene had five children and four grandchildren.
Writers:
Fisher, LauraNote: in consultation with the artist
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1955
- Summary
- Palawa photographer and craftsman who grew up on Flinders Island, and now lives in Launceston.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c27
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TLCMap IDtb9c28
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TLCMap IDtb9c29
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/yvonne-boag
- Birth Place
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Biography
- Yvonne Boag, painter, printmaker, sculptor, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
She came to Australia in the early sixties and studied visual art at the South Australian School of Art under Franz Kemp (Dip FA – Printmaking 1977). After graduating, she moved to Melbourne, exhibiting with Niagara Galleries before relocating to Sydney and joining Australia Galleries. She also exhibits regularly in Korea and has had numerous one-person shows in Japan, Korea and France. Yvonne is represented in major collections in England, Scotland, France, Japan, Korea and Australia. She has been a resident in print workshops in Scotland and France as well as being Australia’s first artist-in-residence in Korea. Yvonne has taught art at the National Art School, Sydney University, University of New South Wales and the Australian National University and has been an invited Professor at Ewha Women’s University and Hong Ik University in Seoul, South Korea.
Yvonne’s career is driven by displacement, beginning with moving from Scotland to Australia and latter, moving between Europe, South Korea, Japan and the Lockhart River Aboriginal Community on Cape York. Displacement gives Yvonne a sharp eye for her surroundings and her interactions with those surroundings.
This displacement between disparate cultures drove Yvonne’s focus on interactions: interactions between people and places. Yvonne has developed a sophisticated language for representing conversations between groups of people, interactions between people and their places and her interactions with places, including the use of a mapping metaphor to represent place and time. She utilises shapes, colour, texture and composition, to represent aspects of the interactions.
“I make my work wondering what it will become. I am aware of a need I have to try to make sense of my existence and hold on to fragments of time. I am very aware of the fragility and endurance of life and of how everything is only for a moment then gone changed lost.
William Scott , Patrick Heron and Roger hilton have had a big effect on my work. I enjoy the way they use colour and shape to convey a place person or feeling. I like the simplicity of their work it does not include any non essential elements. Mary McQueen, the Melbourne printmaker and artist, had a great influence on me as a young artist. Mary McQeen taught me, by example, how to analyze and assess my own work.”
There is a disarming simplicity to Yvonne Boag’s paintings and prints ─ though certainly not her books and ‘therapeutic’ sculptures ─ which belies the complexity of the process which begets them.
And Yvonne is just as disarming when she talks about the work. “Mostly, I don’t know what I’m doing or why I’m doing it. I know what it is once I have done it.” This is evidence of just how instinctively she works. But it is an instinctual process which is again belied by the seemingly natural order of the finished work which suggests that it could not be anything other than what it is. This manifests itself in the rhythms across the surface of the painting where forms and colours engage in such an easy and rational conversation, and in the adroit tensions that Boag sets up between the formal character of the work and the imagery derived from the phenomenal world.
The phenomenal world ─ let’s call it the context ─ is the driver of Yvonne Boag’s work. The work is a response to the world about her, not a representation of it. In that sense, it does what art has always done ─ namely, to transform sight into insight, into a heightened awareness of what it is to be in this world.
Typically, we become intensely aware when there is some kind of disjunction or rendering of the familiar. This sense of disconnection, or ‘duality’ as she calls it, has become the recurrent trigger to Boag’s work. It probably began during her period in Paris (1991-94) when her work was a response to the city, or more accurately, a response to her response to the city. But if Paris was dislocating, her regular trips to the remote Aboriginal community at Lockhart River in far North Queensland (after 1997) were tectonic in their impact. The work produced from these trips pushed developments in Paris even further: flat, abstracted forms derived from the everyday world rendered without any tonal gradation and forming tightly coherent all-over rhythms of colour and form.
However, it has been South Korea which has been the dominant source of Boag’s vision since her first visit there in 1993. It was, she says, “so different, every day was like an adventure, it was like a reality check”. We need to remember that South Korea only opened up in 1988 and, although its development since then has been phenomenal, it remains culturally highly distinctive. It is this differentness which feeds Boag’s work now.
The work is a response to the everyday reality of South Korea, embodying a sense of ‘being there’. Hence, there is an emblematic quality to these prints and paintings where the colours express the emotions felt in response to the landscape, to the city. But they are also responses to other visual features, such as the orthography and sounds of the Korean language. In short, they are visual analogues to the experience of being in a strange place.
Sociology has term for the anonymous people we see every day, say commuting to work: familiar strangers. For Yvonne Boag familiar strangeness has become the crucible of her work, recalling those famous lines of A.E. Housman: “I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Paul McGillickNovember 2014
A detailed CV and her digital archive can be accessed at http://www.yvonneboag.com.au
Writers:
Staff Writer
bobjcultconv
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Scottish-born printmaker, painter and sculptor, Yvonne Boag, arrived in South Australia in 1964. In 1977 she graduated from the South Australian School of Art with a Diploma of Fine Art (Printmaking). Her detailed CV and a digital archive of her works can be accessed at http://www.yvonneboag.com.au
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c2a
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-dufour
- Birth Place
- Tisdale, Saskatchewan , Canada
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c2b
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Latitude52.2434979 Longitude5.6343227 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9c2c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude52.0799838 Longitude4.3113461 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-barbour
- Birth Place
- The Hague, Netherlands
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 18 August 1954
- Summary
- John Barbour was an Australian Experimental Art Foundation council member from 1996-98, its council chairman from 1997-98. He was a long-time lecturer at the South Australian School of Art. First exhibiting in the 1980s, John Barbour's contemporary art has since shown in Stockholm, London, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and Auckland. His work is represented in the Art Gallery of South Australia
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 17-Apr-11
- Age at death
- 57
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c2d
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude51.77046785 Longitude0.464669774 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9c2e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude48.856667 Longitude2.352222 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nathalie-hartog-gautier
- Birth Place
- Paris, France
- Biography
- printmaker and photographer Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, also known as Nathalie Hartog, was born in Paris in 1954.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Dr CatherineSin-Ang, (Deborah) Kim
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2009
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- French born Nathalie Hartog-Gautier is an Australian printmaker, painter and photographer with a particular interest in the natural world and memory. Hartog-Gautier arrived in Australia in 1981.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c2f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude48.2083537 Longitude16.3725042 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jillian-davey
- Birth Place
- Wina
- Biography
- Jillian Davey was born 'in the bush’ in 1954 at Wina, by a rockhole south-west of Kata Tjuta (the Olgas), near her father and grandfather’s country. Both parents were Pitjantjatjara speakers. Her mother’s country is closer to Ernabella, and the family moved to the mission, which had been established in 1936. Jillian grew up at the Ernabella mission and attended Ernabella school. It was at the school that Jillian first started drawing with crayons. Her designs were very much based on what by that time were already identifiable as 'Ernabella shapes’, 'doodlings’ which have their origin in the drawings of the older women. After school, Jillian began painting and weaving with Ernabella Arts Inc. and in 1975 went to Indonesia to study batik. However, her preferred medium continued to be watercolours, and later, acrylics. Jillian’s work has been exhibited widely and in 1985 she designed the South Australian Electoral Commission poster. In 1988 she began exploring the rich subject matter of Tjukurrpa (the Dreaming) with acrylics on canvas. Her painting of Kutungu – her father’s country – was selected for the Tandanya Calendar Collection of 1990. Jillian lives at Ernabella with her family. She has one daughter, Rita.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Pitjantjatjara artist whose early experiments at Ernabella school led her to explore a broad media of batik, watercolour and later acrylic on canvas. She designed a poster for the South Australian Electoral Commission and her work is widely exhibited.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c30
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude45.5031824 Longitude-73.5698065 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-leser-2
- Birth Place
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c31
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude42.3636331 Longitude-87.8447938 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c32
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude42.3554334 Longitude-71.060511 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c33
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude40 Longitude-100 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c34
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude30.8124247 Longitude34.8594762 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/avital-sheffer
- Birth Place
- Israel
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Avital Sheffer is a ceramic artist based at Mullumbimby on the North-Coast of NSW. She creates hand built vessel forms with calligraphic decoration informed by her Middle-Eastern and Jewish heritage.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c35
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude30.1957677 Longitude67.0172447 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gw-bot
- Birth Place
- Quetta, Pakistan
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Artist working primarily in printmaking. She studied art in London, Paris and Australia, has exhibited her work extensively since 1985 and is represented in numerous Australian and international collections, for example in Vienna and London.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c36
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-0.4192962 Longitude36.9517005 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c37
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-9.4743301 Longitude147.1599504 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gerrit-fokkema
- Birth Place
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- Biography
- Born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in 1954, photographer Gerrit Fokkema moved to Australia in 1958. His interest in photography developed whilst at school in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, where he played an active roll in producing the school magazine, contributing both photographs and writing.
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Writers:
Jamieson, CourtneyDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Born in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in 1954, photographer Gerrit Fokkema moved to Australia in 1958.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c38
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-12.2539194 Longitude136.8899744 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/banduk-marika
- Birth Place
- Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Banduk Marika is the youngest daughter of Mawalan Marika, and sister of Wandjuk. Banduk Marika and her sisters are among the first Yolngu women to be encouraged by their male relatives to paint ancestral creation stories.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Yirrkala traditional owner, printmaker and painter
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c39
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-15.4163395 Longitude28.2818414 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9c3a
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ada-napaljarri-andy
- Birth Place
- Narwietooma Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1954 at Narwietooma Station, Ada Napaljarri and her family soon afterwards moved to Haasts Bluff, where she grew up. She is a member of the Luritja/Warlpiri language group that emerged from the mix of dialects at that settlement. Later the family moved again, to the newly established settlement of Papunya. In the early ’80s, Ada started painting at the same time as the first women to be on Papunya Tula Artists’ books as artists in their own right: Daisy Leura , Natalie Corby , Gladys Warangkula , and Ada’s mother Entalura Nangala . Like them, Ada may have learnt to paint from watching or assisting male relatives. Entalura’s husband Don Tjungurrayi , or her father’s younger brother Two Bob Tjungurrayi were both part of the new generation of painters who emerged at Papunya at the start of the ’80s. However, it was perhaps Ada’s husband Alistair, a school teacher with a keen interest in the art movement and a conviction that women were being excluded from painting, who influenced her to paint independently of Papunya Tula Artists – one of the very first women in Papunya to do so. That was in about 1982, and since then the artist has spent time living in a number of the communities included in this study while her husband was headteacher there – at Mt Allan, Lajamanu, and Willowra. It is quite possible that Ada’s interest in painting has been a factor in helping to interest people in painting at those communities also. Her heritage country is Mt Wedge (Kerrinyarra) and Ilpilli, which links her to the Warumpi Mother and Daughter Dreaming, also the Water and Women’s Dancing Dreamings from Ilpilli. She also paints Yalka (Bush Onion) Dreaming. Her sisters Nora Andy Napaljarri , now living in Alice Springs, and Emily Andy Napaljarri , who still lives at Mt Allan, also paint.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Luritja/Warlpiri artist, daughter of Entalura Nangala, early woman painter in Papunya, although not for Papunya Tula Artists. She has resided and worked in a number of communities in the Western Desert. Her heritage country is Kerrinyarra (Mt Wedge) and Ilpilli.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c3b
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-22.089 Longitude131.422 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/colin-tjapanangka-dixon
- Birth Place
- Mt Doreen, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1954 in Walpiri country, Colin Dixon spent his early years both at Mt Doreen station and Yuendumu. He and his wife Mary Dixon began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the mid ’80s when the company’s field officers were making regular trips to Mt Liebig, where the couple had been living for many years. Colin’s principal stories are Women Dreaming, Man Dreaming, Honey Ant Dreaming and Two Young Men. Colin’s works were included in the Stockmen’s Hall of Fame, Longreach, Queensland and World Expo ’88 in Brisbane. In the 1990s, Colin and Mary Dixon moved into Alice Springs and sold their work through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs, and a variety of other outlets as far north as Katherine. Colin Dixon’s work was included by the Centre in an exhibition at the Gauguin Museum, Tahiti, in 1988. He also travelled to America in 1988 for the exhibition Central Desert Art which opened the Caz Gallery in Los Angeles.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist who with his wife Mary began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in Mt Liebig in the mid 1980s. They later moved to Alice Springs and sold their work through other outlets. His works were included in exhibitions around Australia and overseas, including the Papunya Tula display at World Expo '88 in Brisbane, and the Caz Gallery in Los Angeles through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists and Craftsmen in Alice Springs.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c3c
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nuuna
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Born in 1954 of the Noonuccal-Nughie clan of Strandbroke Island. Nuuna is a painter using oils and synthetic polymer on canvas. Her work was shown in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia”.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Born in 1954 of the Noonuccal-Nughie clan of Strandbroke Island, Nuuna is a painter using oils and synthetic polymer on canvas.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c3d
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vanessa-fisher
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Vanessa Fisher of the Dungibara, Ewamin, Garumngar Jiman people of Cherbourg, Southern Queensland was born in 1954 and works as a painter, printer and muralist. Her work is in the collections of the National Museum of Australia, Queensland Museum and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She participated in the 2001 exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” held in Brisbane.
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Vanessa Fisher of the Dungibara, Ewamin, Garumngar Jiman people of Cherbourg, Southern Queensland was born in 1954 and works as a painter, printer and muralist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c3e
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-22.2619822 Longitude131.8081527 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sandra-nampitjinpa
- Birth Place
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Yuendumu 2 November 1954, Sandra is the oldest daughter of Paddy Tjangala. She usually painted the Two Women Dancing story for Mt Leibig. When she began painting for Papunya Tula in the early 1980s, she was living at Mt Liebig with her father, her sister Petra, and her three children. Taught to paint on canvas by her father, she was one of the first women painters from Papunya Tula Artists to be purchased by the National Gallery of Australia.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Taught to paint on canvas in the early '80s by her father Paddy Tjangala, Sandra was the first woman painter from Papunya Tula Artists to be purchased by the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c3f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
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Latitude-23.4378387 Longitude144.2586898 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/david-grant
- Birth Place
- Longreach, Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born at Longreach when his parents were working on Bimerah Station, and he has spent most of his life in the Central West. He began working on Isis Downs at the age of 13 then was in the shearing industry for six and a half years. He now lives and works at Longreach. In 1999 he self-published Jake Outback Queensland , amateur, clichéd but endearingly naïve little strips about a station dog, Jake, and his take on life and tourists in the area. Most relevant is a six-part strip of Jake musing: '“1. More tourists heading somewhere. There’s so much to see out here… 2.Longreach has a Hall of Fame… Barcaldine with its Tree of Knowledge… Winton, the Matilda Museum… Blackall’s got a Wool Scour… 3. Aramac has a train museum… Ilfracombe has a line up of old machinery… Boulia has the Min Min Light… Hughenden with a Dinosaur Museum… 4. Isisford has the historical Clancy’s Hotel… They even have a Muttaburrasaurus, all from a bone they found… I wish we had something historical here… 5. That’s it… Bones!” 6. [master watching Jake digging frantically] “What’s that stupid dog up to now?” (see JK Boulia lecture and Art Monthly March 2001 article).
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Contemporary Central Western Queensland cartoonist.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c40
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-23.6983884 Longitude133.8812885 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/selma-nunay-coulthard
- Birth Place
- Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Selma Nunay Coulthard began painting after she was stolen from her family as a child, and taken to Ntaria (Hermannsburg Mission). Here she became aware of the work of the Namatjira family and came to love art. But she did not turn to watercolor until 2010.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c41
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-25 Longitude133 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c42
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-clark
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, lives in Brisbane where he draws the 'Swamp’ comic strip for the Sydney Daily Telegraph ; it won the 1985 Stanley Award for best comic strip. He has published several anthologies: Life goes on in the swamp (Broadway Qld, G. Clark, 1982), Up to the neck in the swamp: selected strips from the swamp (Broadway Qld, Swamp Productions, c.1984), and The official biography of the world’s worst flying student: Ding Duck (Paddington, Qld: Swamp Productions, 1991) – 'annuals’, according to Patrick. Several 'Swamp’ originals are in the SLQ (no.5107 uncat. and undated), including roughs with comments on Clark’s working method, e.g. all are worked out on an A4 pad.
Clark also wrote Yumurrkuwa garkman beyanina (Yirrkala Community School Literature Production Centre, 1985: ML Q499.15/311) and, with David A.M. Lea, Aurukun and community planning, 1991-1995, practice and policy: a report for the Manth Thayan Association, the Peninsula Regional Council of ATSIC, and ATSIC Region Office, Cairns (Brisbane, Qld State Office of ATSIC: Peninsula Regional Council, 1995, ML Q307.1209943/1) and Irrmarne community development planning project: preliminary report on first visit, July 1995 (Armidale NSW: David Lea, 1995).
Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Contemporary Brisbane newspaper cartoonist and author.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c43
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lindy-lee
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Lindy Lee was born in Brisbane, the daughter of refugees from Communist China. Her father had come to Australia before the Communist victory. Her mother remained in China with her first two sons, unable to come to Australia for some years because of the racist White Australia policy.After her parents were reunited again the family settled in Brisbane where Lindy Lee was born. For many years she internalized the situation where she was the only Asian child in an all-white neighbourhood. When she looked at art all the great works by men, so rather than aspiring to be an artist, she became a high school art teacher. In 1975 she graduated from Kelvin Grove CAE, and travelled to London. It was in the art museums of Europe that she saw the work of Artemisia Gentileschi, and realised that it was both possible and reasonable for a woman be an artist. She studied first at the Chelsea College of the Arts, before returning to Australia where she enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Art in the Sydney College of the Arts. Her works of this period drew heavily on photocopies of reproductions of Renaissance Art, especially Gentilieschi.Her interest in the nature of photocopies as objects in their own right led to further manipulation of the copied images. This evolved into covering photocopied images in black wax, then scraping them back to reveal the iconic work underneath. In 1985 James Mollison saw an exhibition that included her work and purchased White Sacrament for the National Gallery.For many years her art was focused exclusively on the European tradition, especially in critiquing Renaissance and Baroque Old Masters. At the same time she developed a close admiration of mid-20th century American painters, especially Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. Her first solo exhibition in 1985 was called Black is Not as Black as All That, a comment that Reinhardt had written in his notebook.In the early 1990s Lee started to come to terms with her dual heritage, the China of her ancestors and the Australia of her upbringing. Her visits to China led her to a greater understanding of her mother and grandmother and what they had endured in the years before she was born. These concerns began to influence her art.Examinations of cultural difference led her to the greater questions of the nature of existence and thence to Zen Buddhism. She has said that “My art practice is a function of the interrogation that Zen requires the curious mind to do.” In 1995 she created the installation No Up, No Down, I Am the Ten Thousand Things for the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a reflection of her understanding that we are all a part of the fragments in the universe. This understanding of self is reflected in her calligraphic work where working with ink evolved into working with paper and fire, and thence to flung fragments of molten bronze.In 1997 she became a founding member of 4A, the Asian Australian Artists Association and was chair of the Board of Directors from 2003 to 2005. She also served as a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales for nine years.After teaching at the Sydney College of the Arts for over twenty years Lee and her husband moved to the Byron Bay hinterland, where she works in her bush studio. In 2018 her sculpture, Life of Stars was installed at the forecourt of the Art Gallery of South Australia as a part of the Adelaide Biennial and in 2020 the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, honoured her with a retrospective exhibition Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop.
Writers:
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Lindy Lee is an Australian artist of Chinese heritage. Her art began with a critique of the reproductions of European art that give Australians a decidedly second hand understanding of their place in the world. This has evolved via a fresh appreciation of her Chinese heritage to a Buddhist understanding of the place of art and humanity in the universe.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c44
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/noela-hills
- Birth Place
- Brisbane Qld, Australia
- Biography
- painter and illustrator, mainly worked in coloured pencil. Did book covers and large pictures. Included in Balance , Queensland Art Gallery.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 16 September 1954
- Summary
- A painter and illustrator, who worked mainly in coloured pencil, painting book covers and large pictures. She was included in the 'Balance' exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- 19-Jul-87
- Age at death
- 33
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c45
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:37 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:05
Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/paula-dawson
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- Holographer, sculptor and performance artist, Paula Heatley Dawson was born in Brisbane in 1954. Her father, George, is an electrical engineer with a strong inventive streak; and her mother, Heatley, introduced Paula to the arts, especially opera. The diverse interests of both parents were a profound influence on their daughter, even before the family moved to Melbourne in 1966. Paula Dawson had studied ballet from an early age, and she now added Graham and Cunningham techniques to her repertory, and trained briefly with Ballet Victoria. Dance played a minor role in Dawson’s early career as an artist: influenced by Yves Klein, she danced on a roll of paper in paint-saturated shoes for her Painting Examination at the Melbourne State College, for which she was failed and had to repeat . Some years later, her first performance piece, Music and Lasers in Mazes (1977), united dance and light.
In Melbourne, where Dawson was awarded a Graduate Diploma in painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 1978, and a BA. in 1981 at Victoria College of the Arts, the 1970s were the hey-day of conceptual art, in which she was deeply interested at this time. Her first exhibited holograms, with an ironic use of the archetypal subject of scientific holograms, such as a toy train, shown at a student sculpture show in 1974, were intentionally installed so that the laser did not replay the image, but bore texts telling the viewer how they were made. Four years later she mounted a complex and essentially conceptual installation, The Difference between Tuesday and Thursday , also using texts, for a La Trobe University Sculpture Exhibition. Although the intellectual content of Dawson’s work became generally less obtrusive, the paradoxical relationship of real and virtual survived in her aesthetic for many years, emphasised in witty titles such as There’s No Place Like Home (1980), Are You There? (a portrait of Margaret Carnegie, OA, 1986), or To Absent Friends (1989).
At the same time as she was exploring these conceptual paradoxes, Dawson was growing more and more interested in wave-phenomena. She acquired an explosives license (still current), and made a number of sculptures by detonating charges under steel sheets on land or water ( Low Resistance , 1978), as well as a series of spectacular explosions in a quarry that were filmed by Scott Hicks for Women Artists of Australia , 1982. The fascination with waves derived from a fascination with the interference-effects of light-waves, which are the basis of holography. Dawson showed regularly at the Mildura Sculpture Triennials between 1975 and 1982, sculpture proving an appropriate complement to another medium which at least simulated three dimensions. The quarry pieces were made in conjunction with high-speed filming, which allowed the disintegration of the rock to be both viewed in slow motion and also re-integrated, like reconstructing a holographic image.
Although it was conceived in the 1940s, holography had only become viable with the development of a coherent light source, the laser, in the1960s; and it only became cheap enough and technically simple enough to attract artists during the second half of that decade. So when Dawson exhibited her inscrutable hologram in 1974 she was effectively announcing the arrival of a new art medium in Australia. As a result, she was invited to make a larger work for the National Gallery of Victoria show 'Document Performance Video’ in 1975 , and was able to do so through a generous informal collaboration with the CSIRO National Measurement Laboratory, Sydney. Her solo show, 'Transparent Things’, at the RMIT Gallery in 1977, set Dawson’s continuing agenda as a holographer: to engage with the viewer’s experience of being through anomalies in everyday appearances. She supplied viewers with copies of a chapter from Nabokov’s novel of the same name, which included the significant passage:
'When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of our attention may lead into the involuntary sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things through which the past shines!’ (V. Nabokov, Transparent Things , Penguin Books, 1972, p.7)
The exhibition shared the distinction with George Gittoes (who was exhibiting holograms in Sydney that year), of presenting the public with the first substantial display of art-holograms in this country. But early holograms were small; they typically showed small objects in a shallow space; and of course the holograms still most familiar to us, such as security devices on credit cards, etc., are very small indeed. But Dawson was determined to work large, and to find the technical facilities to do so she had to go to France, to the Laboratoire de Physique Generale et d’ Optique at Besancon, near the Swiss border. In the late 70s the Laboratoirehad made the then world’s largest hologram – of the Venus de Milo in the Louvre in Paris. In 1979 she secured a residency at this laboratory and made a number of large works, including the installation piece, Lavabo (Deux Mains Demain) , two pulse-laser master holograms, transferred to rainbow, white-light-viewable colour images, which was shown first at the Gryphon Gallery in 1980; then at the First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Melbourne, 1981, and is featured by Bainier and Tribillon in their review of art activity at Besancon in Leonardo ,1989.
Dawson returned to Besancon in 1980 to work on what was, at that time, the most significant hologram to be made by an Australian artist, There’s No Place Like Home (National Gallery of Australia), which, at 95cm x 150 cm, and representing many square metres of virtual space, was also technically more ambitious than any hologram produced anywhere before. It was an installation of part of a typical Australian suburban house, with a holographic window apparently looking into the lounge-room, where a television was broadcasting advertisements. After being exhibited at the Gryphon Gallery in Melbourne, the work (hologram only) was toured in 1982 around Australia, New Zealand and Europe in 'Space-Light’, and shown by the Japan-Australia Cultural and Art Exchange at the Surugadai Gallery in Tokyo the following year. It established Dawson’s reputation as a holographic artist; and both its extraordinary scale and its homely subject (later celebrated by Peter Conrad in At Home in Australia ) led the Federal Government to commission her to make a large work for the Australian Pavilion at the 1985 Science Expo in Tsukuba, Japan. Dawson produced an even more massive work, Eidola Suite , three 95 × 150 cm plates, again of a typical Australian house, but this time at three stages of its life: its bush site, under construction, and finally complete, its back-yard cluttered with domestic paraphernalia: a Holden car, a bicycle, a bird-cage, a Hills Hoist, and so on. The work is now displayed at Questacon, the National Science and Technology Centre in Canberra.
The laser-transmission holograms (where diffused laser-light shines onto the plate from the side opposite to the viewer), which are Dawson’s speciality, are made and replayed with monochromatic light;. For all their astonishing realism – since, unlike in a photograph, the whole of the visual field is in sharp focus, and can thus be scanned by the viewer like a real scene – this light, usually yellow, red or green, prevents holograms from being illusionistic, contrary to what influential critics such as Jean Baudrillard and Umberto Eco tended to imply. In these early works Dawson was happy to foster public curiosity about the apparently miraculous new medium by allowing the viewer access to the empty space behind the plate; but in her next major work, To Absent Friends (1988-9), although this strategy was extended to the whole fictitious, though operational, bar itself, the emphasis was on the poetics of time, space and memory.
For this work Dawson erected a full-size facsimile of a traditional Australian pub bar inside a shell, designed by her to isolate it within the quiet environment of the National Acoustics Laboratory in Sydney, where she also set up her own laboratory. The three conventional bar mirrors were to be replaced by three holograms revealing the state of the room at three moments during a long New Year’s party. The party was staged (although it was June) and filmed; at strategic moments the guests were asked to vacate the bar-room while its disheveled condition was thoroughly photographed by Fiona Hall, whose images were later used to reconstruct the various appearances of the room, in order for them to be recorded holographically.
To Absent Friends was a commission from Janet and Robert Holmes a Court, but the financial crash of 1987, when the work was being completed, led to the dismantled bar, Dawson’s laboratory and the final holograms being confiscated by her employers, and her contract terminated (see P. Edgar, 1999). The work has vanished, and it was a set of test-plates remaining in the artist’s hands that were exhibited at ARTEC ’89 in Japan, and won Dawson a Grand Prix and a gold medal, which was presented by the Crown Prince of Japan. These holograms are now in the collection of Macquarie University. Peter McLean and Ronnie Taylor’s film of the project, To Absent Friends , was released in 1990 by Film Australia, and screened on ABC television the following year.
Dawson’s work was shown in a number of exhibitions in Australia and overseas during the 1990s, and in 1996 she had a solo exhibition at the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. This included studies for a major commission, The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, for St Brigid’s Church, Coogee, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. The Shrine was highly original in that it allowed the viewer to experience a simulated vision by feeling suspended in space over the inverted dome of the church, and incorporated a mirage – like flame into which viewers could place their hands. Substantially funded by an Australian Artist Creative Fellowship from the Australia Council (1994-97), the project formed the practical basis for the artist’s thesis, 'The Concrete Holographic Image: an Examination of Spatial and Temporal Properties and their Application in a Religious Art Work’, which earned her a Doctorate from the University of New South Wales in 1999. The fraught history of this project, which ran from 1993 to 1997, and was originally designed to be housed in an installation by the architect Richard Johnson, is related in an Appendix to Dawson’s thesis.
Paula Dawson’s Creative Fellowship was partly spent at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge, Mass., and in the Spatial Imaging Group, Media Lab where she completed coursework in the MSc programme, and was co- supervised for her PhD by Stephen Benton, the inventor of the rainbow hologram. Unlike the laser-transmission hologram, the rainbow hologram is viewable in ordinary white light. Dawson later decided to make a continuing series of rainbow portrait holograms embossed into bronze in the form of Greek caryatid mirrors, the subject of the first of which, in 2005, was an old friend, the dancer and choreographer, Graeme Murphy, former director of the Sydney Dance Company. The work is now in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Another developing interest of the 1990s was in early Italian art, which first bore fruit in a trio of small laser-transmission holograms, Types of Darkness , based on a detail from a Magdalen figure by Piero della Francesca, and included in the exhibition, 'Light from Shadow’, arranged at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in Sydney in 2003. The centerpiece of this show was a large, white-light-viewable, full-colour hologram, Shadowy Figures , demonstrating the very various approaches to chiaroscuro in Giotto, Masaccio and Leonardo da Vinci. It, too, was innovative in having been produced from laser scans of a live model, processed with computer graphics. Much of the preparatory work was done while Dawson was Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and at Zebra Imaging, in Texas, where the hologram was finally made. The project was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.
Dawson’s most recent major work, Luminous Presence , also a white-light-viewable, full-colour hologram that explores the atmospherics of light in space in front of, as well as behind, the holographic plate, was exhibited at the SIGGRAPH art show, Global Eyes, in 2007 at San Diego, California.
Writers:
Gage, John
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Paula Dawson has pioneered the development of art-holography in Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/simon-kneebone
- Birth Place
- South Australia
- Biography
- cartoonist, was born in South Australia. In 1999 Richardson stated (p.113) that his cartoons often appear in social-service pamphlets and reproduced a cartoon of a radio announcing 'and now – the secret of life’ to an empty room from Look and Listen (April 1985). Early cartoons were published in the Bulletin ; five originals published 22 November 1983 and n.d. are at Mitchell Library PxD 739. He also draws for left publications, e.g. the quarterly Australian Options: Left discussions for social justice and political change (Autumn 2002) is illustrated throughout with his cartoons. He had cartoons in Kaz Cooke (ed.), Beyond a Joke: The Anti-Bicentenary Cartoon Book (Penguin Books, 1988), 4 (the First Fleet arriving and seeing the Aboriginal Flag), 43 and 44 (land rights) – no previous publication/s acknowledged.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Contemporary political cartoonist. His work has been published in the Bulletin and various 'Left' publications.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c47
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bonny-foley-brennan
- Birth Place
- Macksville, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Bonny Foley-Brennan, painter and weaver was born in Macksville, NSW in 1954. Her family moved to Sydney when she was an infant and she grew up in various suburbs of Sydney before settling in Wollongong in 1990. Foley-Brennan began creating art when she attended the New Opportunities for Aboriginal Women’s course at Illawarra Institute of TAFE but did not take it up with any seriousness until she enrolled in a TAFE course in 2000, again at Illawarra, specifically targeting Aboriginal artists. After completing various art courses Foley-Brennan enrolled in an Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts and graduated in August 2006. Her paintings are landscapes and what she describes as “memory paintings” of her family and childhood. Her weavings are small baskets created from coloured raffia and beads that Foley-Brennan considers interesting as “they leave a 'wave’ shape in the weaving”. Foley-Brennan is a member of the Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Art & Cultural Studio based in Gerringong on the NSW South Coast and it is through this organisation that she has been able to exhibit her paintings and woven dilly bags. Her weavings were included the 2003 University of Wollongong exhibition “South Coast Weavers” which toured to Geelong that same year. She has also participated in the annual NAIDOC exhibition at Wollongong Courthouse and exhibited her prints in 2004’s “Red Hand in Wollongong” exhibition at the Long Gallery, University of Wollongong in association with Franck Gohier of Redhand Graphics. A finalist in the 2004 TAFE NSW Art and Design Prize that toured to Regional Galleries throughout NSW in 2005, Foley-Brennan is represented in the permanent collections of the University of Wollongong and the Wollongong City Gallery. Friend and teacher Kelli Ryan who works with the Boolarng-Nangamai group, has guided her. Foley-Brennan also cites curator Glenn Barkley and artist/printmaker Franck Gohier as among her major supporters. Foley-Brennan is a first cousin to curator and arts writer, Djon Mundine and also actor, activist and historian Gary Foley. Foley-Brennan regularly participates in weaving workshops were she teaches weaving to the broader community at the Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Art & Cultural Studio.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Bonny Foley-Brennan is a painter, printmaker and dilly bag weaver. Her paintings of synthentic polymer and her prints talk of family and personal memories and landscapes. Foley-Brennan is a member of the Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture Studio in Gerringong on the NSW South Coast.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c48
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/trevor-richards
- Birth Place
- Merredin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Born in WA in 1954, Trevor Richards is a sculptor and painter who has been exhibiting since the late 1970s. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is collected in National Gallery of Australia.
Writers:
fulleg
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter and sculptor, active since 1978. Lives in WA
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c49
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/janine-gray
- Birth Place
- Koonibba, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Janine Gray was born at Koonibba, South Australia, in 1954. She began painting in high school and continued to paint afterwards through the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
Her paintings are informed by bush tucker and hunting stories. In her artist’s statement for the arts centre she says that her paintings “are about the way I see things in my beautiful country”, and that she “paints with natural colours that represent the earth.”
Through the centre Gray participated in a group show in 2007 at the Red Poles Gallery in McLaren Vale and in Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2008 'Our Mob’ exhibition.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter from the Scotdesco Aboriginal Homeland near Bookabie in South Australia. Paints for the Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c4a
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/annette-coulter
- Birth Place
- Broken Hill, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Artist and Art Therapist Annette was an active participant of the 1980s QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c4b
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lance-chadd
- Birth Place
- Bunbury, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Lance Chadd, also known as Tjyllyungoo, was born in Bunbury, a coastal city in southwestern Western Australia, in 1954. The child of Noongar and Yamatji parents, Chadd has six brothers and five sisters. He has spent most of his life in the southwest region of Western Australia. A self-taught artist, Chadd was recognised for his creative talents in his schooldays, winning prizes for his work. He creates atmospheric landscapes in a realistic style and has worked across a range of media including oils, watercolours, gouache, acrylics, charcoal and pencil. Chadd’s uncles Alan Kelly and Reynold Hart were among the most renowned of the 'Carrulop children’, a group of artists who produced work under the guidance of Noel and Lilly White, a humanitarian couple who managed the Carrolup Native Settlement (later known as Marribank) in the 1940s and encouraged the young inmates to draw and paint the bush around the settlement. Chadd’s work has been greatly influenced by the Carrolup tradition, and also by the styles of Albert Namatjira and Hans Heysen . He has states:
'Landscape is my main foundation. I move in different avenues as far as cultural heritage is concerned, and spirituality. It’s always based on landscape and I find myself going back to that.’ (quoted in Stanton & Hill 2000)
Chadd began exhibiting in the 1980s. Exhibitions have included 'Aboriginal Artists of the South-West: Past and Present’ at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (2000), 'South West Central: Indigenous art from south Western Australia 1833-2002’(2003) at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and 'The Legacy of Koorah Coolingah (The Legend of Children Long Ago)’ at the Brisbane Powerhouse (2009). Solo exhibitions have included 'Tjyllyungoo-recent works’ (2001) at Indigenart in Perth. Chadd has also participated in a number of public art projects. He was one of a group of six artists (others in the group were Shane Pickett, Troy Bennell, Yvonne Kickett, Alice Warrell and Sharyn Egan) that created the Ngallak Koort Boodja (Heartland) Canvas, which was unveiled as the centrepiece of the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival. The canvas measured eight by ten metres, and its design was formulated as a result of three years of community consultation with Noongar families and community groups so that it represented the fourteen clans of the Noongar nation. Chadd has also created public art for the footpaths around Woodbridge Lakes for the Midland Redevelopment Authority, and the Hillview Community Bushland in East Victoria Park.Chadd’s works have been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
staffcontributor
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Western Australian artist of Noongar and Yamatji descent whose landscape images have been influenced by the works of the Carrolup artists and Hans Heysen.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c4d
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ian-wilding
- Birth Place
- Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
- Biography
- Ian Kenneth Willding was born at Forbes, NSW in 1954, the son of Kenneth Willding and Beryl (née McCarney). After initially training as a chef and working in Sydney, he moved to Adelaide in 1989. For the next sixteen years he worked as an artist in residence at the Suneden Special School. He also forged close links Nunga and gay communities, supplementing his income by working as a carer. Although he had left Forbes his art continued to reference memories of his childhood. His synaesthesia meant that these paintings, especially Dust of My Fathers (2008, have an immediacy in their evocation of times past.In 1996 he became involved in the Red House Group of community artists, an association that would last the rest of his life. His involvement in community arts led to his 2009 venture of curating Kumqwot, an exhibition of work by gay and lesbian artists. He held a number of solo exhibitions of his own work, notably Ceaseless Patterns of Being, which indicated his growing interest in Asian spiritual values, and Native Tongue III of 2009, which recalled the only time he ever heard Wiradjuri being spoken.In 2011 Tandanya Cultural Centre honoured him with a solo exhibition, Family Matters: A Wiradjuri Story in which he drew on his own research and his mother’s knowledge of their family history. He had always wanted to travel, but for most of his life such adventures had appeared to be impossible. Shortly before he died, he is friend Samuel Schmid travelled with him to Europe, going by train through Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Poland, seeing so much of the art that he had long admired in reproduction.In January 2017, just after he died, Adelaide’s Gallery M honoured him by showing Ian Willding, Retrospective.
Writers:
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2018
Last updated:
2019
- Born
- b. 10 October 1954
- Summary
- Ian Willding, a Wiradjuri man, developed his art while working for many years at the Suneden Special School in Adelaide. His inspiration however came from his childhood in Forbes, in rural NSW. From 1996 onwards he was associated with the Red House Group of community artists, and also curated exhibitions of works by gay and lesbian artists.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 9-Aug-16
- Age at death
- 62
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c4e
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-vaughan
- Birth Place
- North Curl Curl, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1954 North Curl Curl, Sydney, Deborah Vaughan is a Sydney-based artist known for her three-dimensional and installation art practice, which has included sound, video and digital photography. Her recent interdisciplinary projects have focused on an exploration of the production of place through relational means and the resulting social and political issues.
“'Here Now: The Water Project: Shared Resources’ is a nuanced account of the artist’s sojourn documenting teams of bush regenerators working along the tributaries to the Upper Parramatta River catchment, a fragment of Sydney’s river and salt marsh waterways. The artist’s occupancy of a shop in a commercial arcade was a discrete appendix to 'Currents 08: Sculpture Projects in the River City’, an exhibition aiming to show the connections between a river and the people.“1
Other water projects are 'Undermining Rivers’, about the threat posed by long-wall coal mining to Sydney’s drinking water (The Cross Art Projects, Sydney, 2007) and the video work 'Train Schizzes’, highlighting a social ambivalence about our need for a cheap coal fix (Art Environment Activism, Campbelltown Art Gallery, 2007). The installations, 'Island’ (The Cross Art Projects, 2006) and 'eye full’ (Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, 2004) refer to refugee detention centres and question levels of surveillance and concomitant violence used to maintain ideals of national identity.
Vaughan began exhibiting in 1986 and has been included in national survey exhibitions such as 'Perspecta’ at the Art Gallery of NSW (1991) and 'Sound in Space’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1995). In 2000 she was awarded a commission for site specific art work by the South Sydney Council. In 2004 Vaughan began teaching Site Specific Art in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney.
Her work is included in public and private collections.
Writers:
Vaughan, Deborah
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2010
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Born in 1954 North Curl Curl, Sydney, Deborah Vaughan is a Sydney-based artist known for her three-dimensional and installation art practice, which has included sound, video and digital photography.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c4f
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/paul-hoban
- Birth Place
- Cowra, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Paul Hoban is an artist and filmmaker. In 1998 he received an Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, which took him to London to further his art practice. He has had a long affiliation with the South Australian School of Art, firstly as a lecturer and then as Head of Painting and Drawing. His work is represented in collections in Australia and overseas, including the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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TLCMap IDtb9c50
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lynne-roberts-goodwin
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Lynne Roberts-Goodwin’s work is grounded in a deep concern for nature and humanity. Her strategic partnerships with industrial and scientific communities underpin photographic artworks relating to endangered species and their environments that transcend geographical representation, creating 'a characteristic push-pull . between the aims of truth on the one hand and those of rhetoric and desire on the other … Roberts-Goodwin is constantly investigating the possibilities whereby images, even for an instant, can cross the borders of language.’ (Adam Geczy).In 1988, Roberts-Goodwin’s documentation of rare migratory birds and the illegal trade in live red deer from rural Australia resulted in 'Blindfold’, a Level 2 Contemporary Projects exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. During 2003-04, Roberts-Goodwin photographed the vultures of the Parsi community, the peregrine falcons of Himachal Pradesh and the raptors of the desert kingdoms of the United Arab Emirates, with subsequent exhibitions in Sydney and Abu Dhabi. 'Disappearing Act’, her first solo exhibition at Sherman Galleries in 2005, followed the Frankincense Trail, an ancient Middle Eastern trade route with a deeply conflicted history that runs through Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. The entrepreneurial Bedouin petrol boys along this route transgress the usual border and migration limitations imposed by western nation states. Their assurance in front of the camera is profoundly moving. Lynne Roberts-Goodwin is the recipient of major awards and research grants, including, most recently, a grant from the University of New South Wales to research ornithological sites in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. She enjoys a longstanding international reputation, with solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, the United Arab Emirates, Melbourne and Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and works regularly in the Asia Pacific and Central Asia.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Lynne Roberts-Goodwin's work is grounded in a deep concern for nature and humanity. Her strategic partnerships with industrial and scientific communities underpin photographic artworks relating to endangered species and their environments that transcend geographical representation.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c51
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rex-dupain
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Photographer born in Sydney in 1954. Dupain’s work depicts Australian culture.
Rex Dupain is the son of photographer Max Dupain.
This entry is a stub. A full bio is coming.
Writers:
Rikard-Bell, JamesDe Lorenzo, Catherine
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Photographer born in Sydney in 1954. Dupain's work depicts Australian culture. Rex Dupain is the son of photographer Max Dupain.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c52
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/roger-noakes
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Roger Noakes was born in Sydney, but travelled to Adelaide in 1974 to study art at the South Australian School of Art. He became involved with the experimental Art Foundation and first exhibited with them and with an exhibition of Some Recent art from Adelaide that toured Australia in 1977. On graduation he became a founding member of the South Australian Workshop (SAW) an artists’ cooperative at 7 Rutland Place, Adelaide. He stayed there, refining his practice, until 1988.In 1993 he was awarded a Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and used this to travel to Dundee in Scotland where he completed an MFA. On his return to Australia with his wife, the artist Alison Goodwin, he became an environmental art coordinator with Newcastle City Council’s Building Better Cities program. He has subsequently evolved this practice into an independent consultancy based in the Hunter Valley and New England region.
Writers:
Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Roger Noakes' career was nurtured in the atmosphere of Adelaide's Experimental Art Foundation in the 1970s. His experimental approach to form evolved into a practice as an environmental artist, with a major impact in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c53
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Latitude-33.867778 Longitude151.21 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/suzanne-shelley
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- EDUCATION and ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:2009-11 Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design. UNSW 2007-08 Bachelor of Arts (art) Curtin University of Technology2005-06 Bachelor of Visual Arts. Sydney College of the Arts. 2003-4 Advanced Diploma in Ceramics. Sydney Institute Tafe Tafe NSW Corporate Marketing Arts and Design Prize 2003-2004MEDIA PUBLICATIONS:2016 Roots exhibition book 2015 Kyoto International Woodprint Association Artist Book2014 Firestation Print Artists. A Survey2013 Marks of Identity: Diary of a Journey. Imprint Magazine. Vol: 482010 500 Raku. Lark Books. New York2008 500 Plates and Charges. Lark Books. New York2006 Curious Imitations. Jan Guy. Ceramics Journal In Search of a Perfect Ceramic. Damien Smith
Writers:
SUZANNE SHELLEY
Date written:
2016
Last updated:
2016
- Born
- b. c.1954
- Summary
- Shelley is a mixed-media artist who has worked as a print-maker and a ceramist.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c54
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/tom-carment
- Birth Place
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter of landscapes and portraits, exhibiting since 1974
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c55
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/vince-vozzo
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c56
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/phyllis-stewart
- Birth Place
- Berry, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Phyllis Stewart, painter, drawer, shellworker and weaver was born in Berry, NSW on the 29th October 1954. Stewart has lived her whole life on the south coast of NSW and was residing in Gerringong in 2007. As with many south coast Aboriginal women, Stewart was taught the art of shellworking objects as a child, in particular miniature shoes, slippers and thongs. Stewart is an artist member of the Boolarng-Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture Studio in Gerringong and it was here that Stewart learnt to paint and to weave. In an interview with the author Stewart said the main influences in her art practice are, “reflections on my life, my family, land and culture” and that she hopes her work will be a “legacy for my grandchildren and future generations to value Aboriginal culture.” In 2000 Stewart, along with the other artist members of Boolarng-Nangamai, enrolled in the Aboriginal Art and Cultural Practices course at the Wollongong West College of TAFE and she completed Certificate IV in 2003. Stewart went on to complete her Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Visual Art in 2004 and 2005 respectively. In 2004 Stewart was awarded the TAFE Illawarra Indigenous Student of the Year Prize and in 2005 she was awarded the TAFE NSW Award for Academic Excellence. Stewart has participated in many exhibitions since becoming a member of Boolarng-Nangamai including 'South Coast Weavers’ at the Long Gallery of the University of Wollongong and 'Pallingjang II’ at Wollongong City Art Gallery. In 2006 Stewart was a finalist in the 2006 Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize with a shellworked “painting”. Stewart has three shellworks and an octopus sculptured weaving in the permanent collection of the Wollongong City Art Gallery that were purchased in 2002.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Phyllis Stewart a painter, weaver, drawer and shellworker is part of the Boorlang Nangamai Aboriginal Artists Group based in Gerringong NSW. Her woven octopus and shellworked slippers, shoes and thongs are part of the Wollongong City Gallery collection.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c57
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-kimber
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Mark Kimber was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1954. He began his formal education in the visual arts at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, in 1981 and graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in photography. Kimber also undertook a Masters of Art in 2000 at the Chelsea School of Art at the London Institute.
Kimber first began exhibiting publicly in the 'Colour’ group exhibition in 1986 at the Australian Centre for Photography in New South Wales and had his first solo exhibition, entitled 'The Inventory of Memory’ in 1989 at the Christine Abrahams Gallery in Melbourne, Victoria. From that time on Kimber remained active in many group and solo exhibitions around Australia and also participated in several photography projects, committees and panels in his career. Internationally his work has been shown in Spain, the United Kingdom and South Africa.
Kimber was listed as a finalist in both the 2006 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and the 2006 City of Perth Photo Media Award, and his exhibition 'By the dawn’s early light’ received T he Advertiser newspaper’s OSCART award for the Best Photographic Exhibition of 2005.
At the time of writing, Kimber was the Studio Head of Photography and New Media at the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia. His teaching interests are in the areas of the history and cultural importance of photography, 19th century photographic processes, digital manipulation by the computer and plastic camera photography.
Writers:
Austvina PhanCatherine De Lorenzo
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Australian photographer based in South Australia. Kimber was a finalist in both the 2006 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award and the 2006 City of Perth Photo Media Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c58
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/rick-martin
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Following an artist residency in Paris at the Cite International des Arts, Rick Martin has been involved in various areas of community arts, notably in the role of Gallery Director at a Prospect community gallery in Adelaide, as a researcher of public arts in Ireland, and as an Arts Advisor in Hong Kong. He has exhibited in Australia and overseas and is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c59
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TLCMap IDtb9c5a
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lana-karpany-jackson
- Birth Place
- Victor Harbour, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Lana Karpany-Jackson was born in 1954 in Victor Harbour, South Australia. She claims decendency of the Ngarrindjer, the Ramindjeri, the Warki, the Janldikaldi, the Laitju and the Larkinyeri people.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter who has shown in the 2006 and 2008 'Our Mob' exhibitions at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c5b
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/marion-borgelt
- Birth Place
- Nhill, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Marion Borgelt draws inspiration from semiotics, language and phenomenology to create atavistic fantasies and mysteries in the forms of painting, sculpture and installation. Her work suggests connections between culture and nature, between the constructed world and the organic world, between microcosm and macrocosm, and the duality of light and dark. A lexicon of symbols and motifs, at once universal and personal, distinguishes the imagery of Borgelt’s work. Drawing on experience with a wide range of materials, including beeswax, canvas, felt, pigment, stainless steel, wood, stone and organic matter, she hones her ideas to the demands of a given site, mediating the creative intervention with originality and sensitivity. Marion Borgelt is the recipient of many significant art awards. In 1976, she received the Harry S. Gill Medal as most outstanding final year student, South Australian School of Art. A Peter Brown Memorial Travelling Art Scholarship allowed for study in New York (1979-80); and in 1989, she was awarded a fellowship from the French Government for living and working in Paris, where she spent eight years. In 1996, Borgelt became the first Australian artist awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Most recently, she received a two-year Australia Council Fellowship (2001-03).Borgelt has undertaken a number of large public and corporate commissions, including Liquid Light: Double Wave Trilogy and Lunar Warp, for Goldman Sachs Boardroom, Sydney, and the commemorative sculptural installation for the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, entitled Man’s Destiny Resides in the Soul (both 2005). She created Round Up Maze (2005), a site-specific, interactive maze for Shear Outback, Hay, in collaboration with Andrew Crick; Time and tide (wait for no man) (2004), for JP Morgan Chase, Sydney; Pulse (2001), commissioned by the Australian National University, Canberra, in collaboration with Catherine Donnelley; 55 Ring Maze (2000), at Arthur’s seat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria; and Primordial Alphabet and Rhythm (1998-99) – a monumental work for News Limited, Sydney. Marion Borgelt has exhibited extensively in major national and international survey exhibitions and is represented in important art collections in Australia and overseas.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter, mixed media and installation artist. In 1996 Marion Borgelt became the first Australian artist to be awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. In 2001-2003 she was awarded a highly significant two-year Australia Council Fellowship and since 2007 Borgelt has been a member of the board of the well-known Blake Prize for Religious Art.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c5c
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lorraine-austin
- Birth Place
- Euroa, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- Lorraine Austin is a Palawa (Tasmanian) women who was born in Euroa and grew up in Shepparton, Victoria. In 1999, at the age of 44, she began her art studies at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne; she completed her Bachelor, Honours and Masters of Fine Arts. Whilst at unversity, Austin was successful in gaining an exchange study year at Pratt University in Brooklyn, New York in the United States of America. Since graduating she has exhibited and travelled to India, Spain and Morocco. In the Wilin Centre’s (Aboriginal unit at the Victorian College of the Arts) 2007 publication, Illuminate, she states that she is inspired by Rebecca Horn, Kiki Smith, Bruce Nauman and Phillip Guston. This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1954
- Summary
- Lorraine Austin is a graduate (with a Masters in Fine Arts) from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has been painting and drawing for more than 35 years.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c5d
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-walker
- Birth Place
- Victoria
- Biography
- painter and printmaker, was born in Victoria on 15 March 1954. Dip Fine Art CIT 1974, Postgrad. diploma VCA 1980. Her monochromatic figure prints using strong black outlines have won several print prizes and grants (see McCulloch). TMAG has only single figure prints.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Painter and printmaker whose work is held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Walker is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and a lecturer at Deakin University.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c5e
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anton-hart
- Birth Place
- Melbourne
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- In the 1980s, after teaching art for several years, Anton Hart instead decided to pursue a career as a professional artist. He twice received a private studio grant for the Cite International des Arts in Paris during these formative years. He has received numerous design commissions and is actively involved in community and urban arts projects.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c5f
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fern-smith
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c60
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/john-waller
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- John Waller is an Australian artist working in new media installation and screen based culture. His current practice focuses on the production of computer animation, video and sound for projection and installation projects.
John’s art career began in the late 1970s, following his studies at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, where he majored in painting. By the early eighties his practice had moved to include other media, such as photocopy and video. By the end of the eighties, his practice was primarily focussed on computer based multi-media works and installations. In 2008 he completed a PhD by project in the School of Art at RMIT, Melbourne, developing entity, an artificial life inspired interactive computer animation.
Writers:
Paul William Andrew
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- John was an active participant of the 1980's QLD ARI sector.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c61
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Latitude-37.814167 Longitude144.963056 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9c62
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/penny-algar
- Birth Place
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Penny Algar was based in Brisbane and involved Brisbane ARIs during the 1980's and was included in the The Demolition Show at The Observatory Gallery, 10-31 March, 1986.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c63
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Latitude-38.2365734 Longitude146.3993983 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/chips-mackinolty
- Birth Place
- Morwell, VIC, Australia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
Last updated:
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c64
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Latitude-41.441944 Longitude147.145 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/melanie-nunn
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c65
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Latitude-42 Longitude173 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jennifer-phillips
- Birth Place
- New Zealand
- Biography
- Jennifer Phillips was born in New Zealand and as a child loved making art. She entered competitions and won prizes for her work that ranged from sand saucer designs to seed necklaces. At the age of six her teacher entered her plasticine model in the Hokitika District High School Centennial Flower Show where she competed in the Open section against High School children to win second place.
In 1969 Phillips moved to Australia where the landscape made a deep impression on her. While in Australia she was recognised and honoured as a youth leader, promising writer and a talented artist, achieving the highest possible marks for the state school art exams. She continued to win prizes including the “Conserve Water Art Poster” out of 800 students’ entries. She had her work published in newspapers and magazines, and was an energetic Girl Guide leader who was sponsored to attend an international guide camp. She started a junior art group and helped to arrange her first group exhibition where she sold her first acrylic piece. She spent much of her spare time making art, swimming and athletic training, becoming an Australian state champion athlete when she was fourteen. She was invited to join the Australian Olympic training squad but did not take up the offer. Instead at the age of seventeen she returned to New Zealand and six months later entered Teachers College. In 1973 she was sponsored to attend the Canterbury Arts Workshop for gifted secondary art students mostly as an observer to explore the potential of holding multi-arts workshops. In 1974 she held her first solo art exhibition in the Massey University Library and completed her three years at the Palmerston North Teachers College (now College of Education) majoring in art and maths. She also completed a third of a degree at the same time. She went on to teach in a number of Hawkes Bay Primary Schools for eight years, continued to train for athletics and squash and enjoyed hosting overseas visitors who belonged to Mensa or different Christian groups. In 1977 she married Peter and five years later their first child was born. She left teaching and worked from home on a range of projects while rearing three children and recovering from four miscarriages and a number of car accidents. These projects included completing a degree in Education and earning the award of Massey Scholar, which is given to the top five percent of students. She also completed a certificate course in Lay Preaching and spent fifteen years preaching and taking Church services. In the early 1980s she started supervising one of the first licensed preschools, but was involved in the first of five car accidents and had to close the preschool down. After recovering sufficiently, she did some relief teaching and continued to write songs and poems, make artworks and screen-printed items. Phillips also published four books, jointly owned and operated a printing business, bought and maintained rental properties and was on a number of voluntary committees. Phillips returned to part-time teaching in 1995 at a Napier secondary school, where she taught art, visual merchandising and retail as well as some adult classes in screen-printing and guitar. She was also involved in teaching and assessing classroom management as part of her role as a voluntary Christian Educator in Schools and committee member on the District Committee of the Churches Education Commission. In 2000 Phillips emigrated to Australia and because she had worked in a home-based printing business designing business cards, flyers and logos and had taught herself HTML, she was able to create websites that opened the door for teaching IT at secondary schools and developing digital art skills. In 2003 she was the guest poet at a New Zealand wine evening, where she shared from her book “© 2000 From New Zealand”, which contains some of her art and visual poetry. She also took on a two-year term in the position of president of the ACT branch of the Australian Federation of University Women and completed an IT Diploma in multimedia integration, which opened the door for her to use her computer art skills. In 2004 Phillips published her fifth book, “You Can Make A Web Site”, completed a certificate in Workplace Training and Assessment and began a certificate in Screen enabling her to make 3D animated movies. She also started creating and exhibiting her digital art.In 2006 she was awarded an honourable Diploma of Excellence in the “Realtime” Juried Online Global Art Annual Award and was given the “People’s Choice Award” for “loved – Never Forgotten” at the “Art Views in the Hills” exhibition in Wanniassa, ACT. She also received an award for her idea for the “Canberra 100” celebrations.In 2007 Phillips was awarded the honourable Diploma of Excellence again in the “Art Now 2” Juried Online Global Art Annual Award and was given the “People’s Choice Award” for “Hour glass view- we party on without much forethought” at the “Art Overboard awards” exhibition in Bungendore, NSW. In 2008 her artwork was published on the front of a car and in a number of Canberra papers and three of her artworks with commentaries were published in the art book “Being Human” curated by Stuart Davey.
Phillips has continued to exhibit and sell her art in a variety of galleries on and off line. In 2010 she was awarded the Victoria Gibbon Prize for academic excellence in Theology studies.
Writers:
Phillips, Jennifer
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- Phillips is a published author, teacher and artist who has been making and teaching art since the 1970s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c66
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Latitude-42.880556 Longitude147.325 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
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TLCMap IDtb9c67
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/milan-milojevic
- Birth Place
- Hobart, Tas, Australia
- Biography
- printmaker and teacher, was born in Hobart, son of a German refugee mother and Serbian refugee father. His father worked on the hydro-electricity scheme in Tasmania until he died when Milan was aged 9 or 10. Milan studied at the Tasmanian School of Art in 1972-75 (BA in printmaking) then was apprenticed as a master printer at Landfall Press, Chicago USA, with the support of a VACB grant 1977-79. In 1986 he was awarded a DAAD grant from Germany to document and research his family’s history. He was a tutor in printmaking at the Tasmanian School of Art (now TU) in 1986; head of printmaking in 1996.
Milojevic’s lithograph Red Dog/Waterhole won the Boyne Smelters Ltd Non Acquisitive Award for mixed media and printmaking in the 1993 Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum (Qld), judged by Ian Howard (then Griffith Uni); he donated it to Gladstone AG. In 1993 he was awarded an Australian Council Development Grant and used it to return to work at Peacock Studios, Aberdeen ( Imprint 28/4, summer 1993, 14-15). He had fourteen solo exhibitions in 1984-96 and also made artist books, e.g. Fragment 1995 (10 prints based on images of a long-demolished hydro hut at Bronte Park, Tasmania, also used in Bronte Park II 1993, a cruciform-shaped screenprint on wood, copper, stainless steel and corrugated iron, 200 × 300 cm).
Many of his works are on the theme of post-war migration to Australia. Some use photographic images that relate to his parents’ experiences as refugees from Yugoslavia and Germany (see Kirker), including his first print, where he and his mother wear Groucho noses and specs, Portrait with Mother (some people say we look alike) , his 'Absorption/ Assimilation’ series of photo-lithographs of 1986-87 and An Affair in the Balkans 1991, a series of etchings with a drawn rather than photographic base, which are very dark. “I wanted them to look as though they had just come out of a smouldering fire – it’s that charcoal rawness that’s important. Images of war as depicted by Goya, Dix, Beckman, Kollwitz, personally touch the emotional strings a lot more” (Kirker interview, 22). His solo exhibition 'Burning Issues’ was held at Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane, in November 1995.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1954
- Summary
- A printmaker primarily, Milojevic's work deals with issues of migration and assimilation. He has worked in Australian, the USA and Germany.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c68
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Latitude-45.874167 Longitude170.503611 Start Date1954-01-01 End Date1954-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alan-v-brown
- Birth Place
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 3 November 1954
- Summary
- Alan Brown was a New Zealand-born artist and designer who trained as an architect in Dunedin and Auckland. He worked in Auckland, Sydney, Amsterdam and Byron Bay.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2003
- Age at death
- 49
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c69
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/pat-hoffie
- Birth Place
- Scotland, UK
- Biography
- giant quotations of Vida Lahey 's Washing Day and a Hilda Rix Nicholas painting in Queensland Art Gallery circa 1995, also giant (c.20ft) blow-ups of J.M. Crossland 's Nannultera and Conwillan for the Adelaide Festival (1996?), the former erected at the Adelaide Cricket Ground with 'no such thing as a level playing field’ inscribed on it, the latter on an Adelaide church.
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- A contemporary artist, Hoffie uses historical text and imagery in a postmodern style.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6a
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Latitude52.561928 Longitude-1.464854 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/linda-hughes
- Birth Place
- England
- Biography
- This record is a stub. You can help out by adding more detail.
Writers:
staffcontributor
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6b
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Latitude51.7687323 Longitude19.4569911 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mark-arbuz
- Birth Place
- Lodz, Poland
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 24 August 1953
- Summary
- Polish-born, Sydney-trained poster and textile artist who used local iconography, notably kookaburras, in his artwork.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- Feb-23
- Age at death
- 70
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6c
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Latitude51.507222 Longitude-0.1275 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/adam-rish
- Birth Place
- London, England, UK
- Biography
- printmaker, sculptor and filmmaker, was born in UK. MBBS degree from the University of Tasmania 1978; Dip. Sculpture East Sydney Technical College 1992; BA (Hons) Fine Arts, Sydney University 1991. Rish has illustrated three books with Garry Shead , including Vence Upon A Time (RYZ Press, 1982).
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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Printmaker, sculptor and filmmaker. Rish has illustrated three books with Garry Shead including "Vence Upon A Time", published in 1982.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6d
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Latitude34.9823018 Longitude33.1451285 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
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Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6e
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Latitude-18.324439 Longitude127.55465 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ena-nungurrayai-gimme
- Birth Place
- Canning Stock Route, Western Australia, Australia
- Biography
- Born 'in the bush’ near the Canning Stock Route c.1953, Ena Gimme was a member of the Mulan community and a Kukatja speaker. She spent her early years in the area around Kinyu, north of the Canning Stock Route. Her traditional country was Kalliyangku, near the Canning Stock Route, and her main Dreamings are Tingari stories. The artist’s work shared more in common with that of older Warlayirti painters than it did with that of her peers. Perhaps this shows the influence of her mother, Eubena Nampitjin , on whose paintings she sometimes assisted. Ena Gimme began painting for Warlayirti Artists in 1989. She used layers of different coloured dotting to create 'rough’ but dramatic works, often with a 'floral’ look.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1953
- Summary
- Kukatja artist from the small community of Mulan (WA). Her painting style is influenced by senior Warlayirti artists including her mother, Eubena Nampitjin. Her work is held in major public collections, such as the National Gallery of Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- Mar-91
- Age at death
- 38
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c6f
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Latitude-19.8516101 Longitude133.2303375 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/emily-napaljarri-andy
- Birth Place
- Narwietooma Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in 1953, Narwietooma Station. Emily Andy , Ada Andy and Nora Andy are all the daughters of Entalura Nangala . Like her sister Ada, Emily’s traditional country is Mt Wedge (Kerrinyarra) and her language group is Luritja/Warlpiri. She paints Bush Onion, Yala (Bush Potato), Wallaby and Honey Ant Dreamings and has probably been acquainted with the medium for some time, through the other members of her family, most of whom paint themselves. She lives at Mt Allan.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Luritja/Warlpiri artist, daughter of Entalura Nangala, who resides at Mt Allan. Her traditional country is Kerrinyarra.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c70
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Latitude-20.051428 Longitude137.0182187 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/jacky-green
- Birth Place
- Soudan Station, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Jacky Green is a Garawa man. He was born in 1953 under a coolabah tree in one of the creek beds at Soudan Station in the Northern Territory. After his days as a stockman, Jacky worked for the Northern Land Council and is now a director of the Carpenteria Land Council. He started the Garawa rangers and Waanya/Garawa Rangers in 2005 and continues this work today. Jacky has spent over 30 years fighting for the protection of his country and its sacred sites. He began to paint in 2008 to get his voice heard, to show others what is happening to his country and people.
Writers:
Jo Holder
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Garawa artist and activist
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c71
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Latitude-22.089 Longitude131.422 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/iris-napanangka-dixon
- Birth Place
- Mt Doreen, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Mt Doreen c.1950-5, her tribe/language is Warlpiri, and her country Janyinki/ Mina-mina. Her Dreamings are Mardukuja-mardukuja (Kana), Warna and Ngalyipi (Bush Medicine Vine). She lives at Lajamanu, and works with her husband Tim Kennedy . Started painting in 1986.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1953
- Summary
- Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu (NT) who often paints in collaboration with her husband Tim Kennedy.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c72
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Latitude-22.1646782 Longitude144.5844903 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/margaret-chatfield-henry
- Birth Place
- Queensland
- Biography
- Margaret Chatfield Henry of the Kurtajar language group of the Gulf of Carpentaria was born in 1953. Henry is a painter who works with canvas, paper and emu eggs. Henry won art awards at the 1999 and 2001 Laura Cultural and Dance Festival in Laura, Queensland. She was represented in the 2001 Brisbane exhibition “Gatherings, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland, Australia” and says in the accompanying catalogue that her paintings and designs “reflect those stories of the land, our country, the animals and the environment that she (and her mother) grew up in.”
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Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Margaret Chatfield Henry is of the Kurtajar language group of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Henry is a painter who works with canvas, paper and emu eggs and in 1999 and again in 2001 she won art awards at the Laura Cultural and Dance Festival in Laura, Queensland.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c73
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Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kevin-wirri
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Haasts Bluff 1 April 1953, his language group is Luritja. His grandfather’s country is Kintore and Kunatjari. His father’s country is Lipa. The dreaming Kevin paints is Witchetty Grub turning into Serpent. His community now is Docker River, but he has connections with Papunya. Kevin started painting in 1964. He first learnt to paint landscapes from Albert Namatjira’s son. Other artists he has connections include Barney Daniels and Leslie Brogas (Tjapangati). He paints the same dreamings as Barney Daniels but they have different styles.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Tjapaltjarri first learnt to paint landscapes from Albert Namatjira's son. Other artists he has connections with include Barney Daniels and Leslie Brogas (Brokus).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c74
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Latitude-23.9427685 Longitude132.7794582 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gloria-pannka
- Birth Place
- Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c75
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Latitude-25.2446655 Longitude151.1731591 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anne-lord
- Birth Place
- North Queensland, Australia
- Biography
- Born in North Queensland in 1953, Anne Lord has been exhibiting art since the 1970s. Working across the media of painting, photography, installation, print and mixed media, Lord’s later work also incorporates new digital media.
Lord’s work is founded in concerns of place and environment, exploring the dramatic tropical seasons, growth and decay, monsoon, floods, grasslands, drought and bushfires of north Queensland.
Themes of erosion, drought and survival play out in the drawing and lithograph series Survivor Trees and the installation Absence (2004). Absence also draws on a number of personal experiences including Lord’s departure for China, the unexpected death of her father, returning to Australia and her subsequent return to China.
Lord also draws on archival photographs of the North Queensland region from a collection over two centuries old. These images document environmental changes over time and this concept of ongoing environmental change can be consistently traced through her body of work.
Impossible Bucket (2005) came out of her experience of an artists’ camp at Wallaman Falls National Park. This marked a turn in Lord’s work, using ephemeral materials in her installation practice, realising the idea that ephemeral, disintegrating works could be metaphors for environmental issues.
In 2008 Lord was completing her PhD study at James Cook University, where she has been investigating ephemeral art as the agency that challenges archived art.
Selected art exhibitions and installations since 1990 include: Dis/Place (1991- 1992), A Narrative of Ephemera (1993-1994), ROT (1995-6), Fold (1997), Plenty (1998), Exchange (2003), Absence (2004), Corresponding Latitudes (2004-5), Great Walks [Leave No Trace] Habitus Habitat (2005-6), Watersheds and Basins (2006), Inaugural Burnie Print Prize (2007), Tools of Change (2007), Lessons in History Vol 1 (2007) and Strand Ephemera (2007).
Lord’s work is held in a number of collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Warrnambool Regional Gallery and Queensland Art Gallery.
Writers:
Lord, Anne
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2008
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Contemporary photographer, printmaker, ephemeral, installation and digital media artist who lives and works in North Queensland. Lord's work is concerned with contemporary environmental issues and explores metaphors for environment and change.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c76
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/richard-bell
- Birth Place
- Charleville, QLD, Australia
- Biography
- Enfant terrible , bad boy of Aboriginal art , angry Aboriginal artist , these are some of the terms that have been used to describe Richard Bell. Bell, however, describes himself as a propagandist and his art as liberation art; propagandist because his highly coloured synthetic polymer on canvas works speak of Aboriginal oppression, government policies, anthropological research, art market feeding frenzies, Aboriginal art industries and non-Aboriginal Australia’s fascination with 'the exotic other’; liberation art because as Bell states in his artist statement in the 2007 “Culture Warriors” catalogue
“Our art (art of east coast Aboriginal artists from closely settled east coast cities and towns) has been, incorrectly I believe, called 'urban Aboriginal art’. It is work that often speaks of contemporary injustices against our people. Liberation art is a far more accurate term that may also help to discourage the perpetual attempts to ghettoise us” (pg 59).Through his work Bell addresses continuing injustices against Aboriginal people. Bell himself has experienced some of these injustices.
Born in Charleville, Queensland, in 1953 the eldest of two boys, the family moved frequently in search of work, living in Augathella, Morven, Mitchell, Rockhampton, Dalby and Darwin. His father was frequently absent, working as a drover and cane cutter. By the time Bell was 17 he was living in a flat with his brother, Marshall (then 14) when their mother died. The Queensland authorities deemed that the two boys were in danger and threatened to send them to state government homes until they were fostered by Nellie and Harold Leedie in Bowenville, 60 kilometres northwest of Toowoomba in southeast Queensland. Nellie Leedie is a cousin of “Sugar” Ray Robinson the renowned Aboriginal activist from Charleville.Bell dropped out of high school in year twelve and began a toolmaking apprenticeship with Napier Brothers in Dalby. This was organised through the Dalby Waratahs A-Grade Rugby League Football Team who also secured him a tradesman’s (rather than an apprentice’s) wage. He stayed with Napier Brothers for two years and then in 1974 left to go fruit picking in Tasmania and Victoria before finding himself in Redfern, Sydney, later that same year. There he associated with and became part of the political movement. Sport too, was part of his Redfern experience and he played for the Redfern All Blacks Rugby League Team. After ten years of living in Sydney, Bell relocated to Toowoomba and found employment as an Office Manager with the Aboriginal Legal Service for a brief time. He then moved on to live in Moree with his partner, Liz Duncan, and they subsequently had two children, Marshall and Sissy (with his youngest, Sarah to follow in Brisbane in 1996). He already had three other children, Adrian, Richard, and Deborah. In Moree, Bell gained employment at the Pius 10th Aboriginal Corporation, an organisation that ran a pre-school, an adult education centre and a medical clinic. Bell was responsible for expanding the service to include a dental clinic.
After Sissy was born, Bell moved the family to Brisbane where he began working with his brother crafting boomerangs and other artefacts for the Brisbane international tourist market. They sold their work, along with the work of other artists including Robin O’Chin, from their own shop, 'Wiumulli’, in Melbourne Street in Brisbane’s CBD. This shop remained open from 1987 to 1990 but Bell continued making work for the tourism sector in Brisbane until 1994. As well as crafting boomerangs he made postcard style prints that were mounted and shrink-wrapped and distributed throughout Queensland and New South Wales tourist information centres and other tourist retail outlets. Though he was working as a 'tourist artist’ he was also being exhibited in 'fine art’ exhibitions and in 1989 he and Mark Garlett created the work, Rock (art) of Ages , which was acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery and shown in their “Balance 1990” exhibition.From 1998 until 2000, Bell was living the life of an itinerant in Moree, Kempsey and Redfern. During the 2000 Sydney Olympics, whilst in Redfern, Tiriki Onus ( Lin Onus 's son) invited Bell to attend the opening of his late father’s exhibition, “Urban Dingo”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. This was to be the experience that changed the course of Bell’s artistic career. Before the opening, Bell, Onus and Michael Eather met for a discussion about art and politics which in turn led Bell to revisit his previous bodies of work, and in a 2008 interview with the author Bell stated that if he was “embarrassed in any way about his previous works he would return to Redfern and to drinking.” Bell re-read some of his earlier writings and interviews and decided that he wanted “to become as good as he was in the past.”Eather invited Bell back to Brisbane to work at Fireworks Gallery and for the following year Bell worked every day for at least twelve hours a day experimenting with different “looks” that could deliver the messages he wanted. The first series to emerge, Desperately Seeking Emily, was what Bell has described to the author as a “Pollock-like approach” to the work with text in relief underneath the painted surface that requires the audience to stand close to the work, forcing them to view it at all angles to read the “hidden” words. Artbank purchased one of these paintings in 2001. Mind Rover Matter (2001) was the next series but instead of synthetic polymer, ochre was employed as the medium. Here Bell was directly referencing the work of the celebrated Kimberly (WA) artist, Rover Thomas, and having a “dig” at the art world’s consumption of what Bell terms “Ooga Booga Art.”Other series that came out of this year of experimentation include The Rise and Rise of Aboriginal Art – a series of coloured bar graphs with geographic layers that had the appearance of cross-sectioned cities – and Shape Shifters, which showed black abstract shapes with the appearance of weird animals on white canvas.In 2002 Michael Eather offered Bell a place in the exhibition “Discomfort” alongside the works of Michael Nelson Jagamarra, Emily Kngwarreye and Imants Tillers at Fireworks Gallery. Bell was originally offered the space for a solo show but the premise of the show grew to include the other three artists. Bell’s work for this show was more of an installation piece where he pinned Bell’s Theorem (12 pages of text) to the gallery walls. Bell’s Theorem is Bell’s essay of his thoughts of the state of Australia’s marketing, consumption and exploitation of Aboriginal artists.At the same time Bell was reading anything and everything he could find on contemporary art. Reading some of Imants Tillers essays and other writings on Tillers he realised that he could “pull the black-fulla act on Tillers” and reproduced Tillers’ work Untitled (1978), in turn a reproduction of a Hans Heyson work, Summer (1909). Bell photocopied an image of Tillers’ version from a book, enlarged it and scanned it onto canvas – “just like Tillers’ original reproduction”.The next year (2003) with his confidence as painter re-claimed, Bell entered a major work, Scientia E Metaphysica , into the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, going on to win this prestigious prize. This national recognition presented Bell to the contemporary art world as an artist who clearly has something to say and says it loudly. The accompanying text for Scientia E Metaphysica was Bell’s Theorem.Bell has been curated into a number of key exhibitions since his 'Telstra’ win including his solo show, “Positivity”, at the Institute of Modern Art in 2006, the National Gallery of Australia’s first Indigenous Art Triennial, “Culture Warriors” in 2007, “Sunshine State – Smart State” at Campbelltown Arts Centre in Western Sydney in 2007, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ photographic exhibition, “Half Light: Portraits from Black Australia” in 2008 and the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, “Revolutions: Forms that Turn”, showing his work on Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbour. He has also presented a number of solo exhibitions at Milani Gallery in Brisbane where he is represented. He is a founding member of the ProppaNOW artist collective in Brisbane where he lives. Other members of this group include Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Hookey, Laurie Nilsen, Jennifer Herd, Bianca Beetson, Tony Albert and Andrea Fisher.
Bell’s works are held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Gold Coast Regional Gallery, Artbank, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Queensland.
Writers:
Allas, Tess
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Self-described 'propagandist', Richard Bell, was the 2003 winner of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c77
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/judith-duquemin
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Queensland born artist and academic
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c78
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/keryn-abbott-lock
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Kerryn was an active participant of the 1980s ARI sector.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c79
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Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c7a
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Details
Latitude-27.467778 Longitude153.028056 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/wayne-smith
- Birth Place
- Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Wayne Smith was an active participant on the 1980's Qld ARIs sector. Wayne was included in "The Demolition Show" held at The Observatory Gallery, Brisbane from March 10-31, 1986.Also active in That Contemporary Art Space, BUREAU.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c7b
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Latitude-30.7073143 Longitude152.9183972 Start Date1953-01-01 End Date1953-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/burri-jerome
- Birth Place
- Macksville, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Born in Macksville in 1953, Burri Jerome grew up along the coast from Brisbane to Wollongong. His father was from the Jarrawah Wakka Wakka people of South East Queensland, his mother was Birrbai Dunguti from Taree. He graduated from the National Art School, Sydney, and later moved to the Tweed Valley where he teaches life drawing classes in Nimbin. Jerome’s work has been exhibited in many group exhibitions, including 'Aquarius 08’ at Lismore Regional Gallery (2008) and exhibitions at Radio Redfern in Sydney, at the Grafton Regional Gallery, at the Sydney Opera House (1980), in Alice Springs, Byron Bay, Brisbane and in San Francisco (1991).
His murals can be found throughout Nimbin and his works have been sold in Australia and internationally. His work Morning Moon won the 'National Parks and Wildlife Service Bundjalung Art Prize’ in 2005 and he won the 'Kempsey Show Art Prize’ in 1982.
Writers:
Arts Northern Rivers
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Burri Jerome is an Indigenous artist living in the Tweed Valley. He paints portraits of the personalities of the landscapes.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c7c
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ruby-davies
- Birth Place
- Wilcannia, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c7d
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/dennis-kickett
- Birth Place
- York, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Dennis Kickett, also known as Noongali, was born in York, a Western Australian town 100km inland from Perth, in 1953. Noongali was the name of one of Kickett’s ancestors who worked as a guide for Sir John Forrest, who lead the first European expeditions into inland Western Australia in in the 1860s and 1870s and later became the first Premier of the state. A descendant of the Balardong clan, Kickett spent his childhood on York Reserve amongst his extended family, and moved into the town when he was fifteen years old. In the following years he worked as a farm labourer on a Pilbara sheep property, a shearer and a tracklayer on railway projects in Western Australia and South Australia. He also spent a number of years in Perth, studying and working in the area of Indigenous health.
Kickett began his art practice in 1987 when he and his partner at the time began facilitating art activities while running a community youth program in Narrogin, Western Australia. He went on to exhibit his paintings at the Narrogin Recreation Centre and the Strelfall Art Gallery in Mandurah. His work is in the collection of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University of Technology.This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Noongar painter and member of the Balardong clan who was born in York, WA.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c7f
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Description
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TLCMap IDtb9c80
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/robin-best
- Birth Place
- Perth, WA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Robin Best works in decorative ceramics. Her work is informed by her cross-cultural engagements with China and with indigenous Australians.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c81
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gordon-heath-fitchett
- Birth Place
- NSW
- Biography
- painter and illustrator, was born in NSW on 22 September 1953. He received his Diploma in Graphic Design from Swinburne College of Technology in Melbourne in 1973. McCulloch describes his drawings, apparently done mainly in watercolour and coloured pencil, as 'quirky realist’, 'their titles, often based on word play ( Salmon Chanted Evening ; Moo with a View ), adapt well to children’s book illustrations’. In 1985-92 he had one show at Barry Stern’s Gallery, Sydney but mostly exhibited at Dempsters, Melbourne.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Fitchett's realist drawings, done mainly in watercolour and pencil, are described by McCulloch as particularly appropriate for children's book illustrations.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c82
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TLCMap IDtb9c83
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TLCMap IDtb9c84
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/julie-lenora-parsons
- Birth Place
- Corrigin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Works in the creative arts with a former arts practice in visual arts and public art which has crossed into design for performance and writing. Applies knowledge and wealth of experience across all these disciplines. Currently, applying skills in research to creative non fiction writing with a focus on the arts. Former Art Lecturer at TAFE, University and WAAPA in Western Australia.
Writers:
parsoj
Date written:
2020
Last updated:
2020
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c85
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/brad-levido
- Birth Place
- Cessnock, NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Artist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, “Dead Gay Artists”, 1-23 February 2002.
This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Late 20th century artist
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- Feb-93
- Age at death
- 40
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c86
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fay-farmer
- Birth Place
- Narrogin, WA, Australia
- Biography
- Fay Farmer, Noongar artist and member of the Goreng people, was born in 1953 in Narrogin, Western Australia, and raised by her grandmother. She moved to Gnowangerup in 1969, the year she met her husband, and returned to Narrogin in 1973. Between 1978 and 1985 she and her family lived at Marribank, near Katanning, which was previously the Carrolup Native Settlement. While there she was a member of the Marribank Artists Cooperative, which established a thriving business selling a range of textile and ceramic work in the 1980s. This was a particularly exciting period in Farmer’s artistic career. Farmer is also a painter who draws her inspiration from the landscapes and colours of the south-west region of Western Australia, and creates works which depict native animals and food sources such as bobtail fish, goanna and emu. She is also a singer, and has undertaken studies at Abmusic in Waterford, Western Australia.
Farmer has five children, one of whom, Peter Farmer, is a successful Noongar artist who has exhibited widely in Western Australia. Her works have been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Berndt Museum of Anthropology, and one of Farmer’s vases, created while she was at Marribank, was included in the 'South West Central’ exhibition at the The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2003. In 2009 she was living in Perth and had enrolled in a Certificate III course in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft – a course coordinated by Joanna Robertson at the Kidogo Institute in Fremantle, Western Australia.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Noongar painter based in Perth who also created batik and ceramic work at the Marribank Artists Cooperative in the 1980s.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c87
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/angela-valamanesh
- Birth Place
- Port Pirie, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Potter, was born in Port Pirie, South Australia. She graduated from the SA School of Art and was awarded her MA (Visual Arts) from the University of South Australia in 1993. In 1996 she won an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, spent on a Postgraduate Program at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK. In 1997 she was awarded a Diploma in Design (Ceramics), South Australian School of Art, Adelaide. Angela is married to Hossein Valamenesh , with whom she has collaborated on several works.
“Angela Valamanesh has an established background as a ceramicist. Birds Have Fled is probably her first major showing as artist rather than craftsperson. Given this background the nature of her success was something of a surprise. The work consists of three or four focal points in an installation that has these spare elements totally dominate a gallery space that regularly defeats even group shows and which, while it permits success, could never be said to aid it.
“The gallery is lit to a softened gloom by the light of the spot-lit elements. These make a more or less cross-bow axis division of the space. To the right is a slightly ajar door, in the middle a large bluely glowing screen wall, a black light-box silhouetted in front of it throws the blue neon light. To the left are a pile of rubble casts and a few feet further to the left a pair of feet, soles outward, just out from the wall’s surface. The lightbox, when one moves to it, carries a Colette text, some lines describing a dream, in which the subject approaches a door that is opened by her identical, younger self. Hence the door some many metres away (right), coolly teasing or foreboding. And the pile in the corner at left turn out to be casts of feet – just the upper forefoot & shin: the part of our own feet we see & know. Once-possible selves, paths not taken. The two soles adjacent indicate a real subject (modelled in beeswax they are finely detailed, with signs of wear, age etcetera), but the surface we cannot so intimately know. We get to know it well in this instance: they’re head height &, in beeswax, intricately delicate. Also a little morgue-like. The gallery’s vast distances are effectively suborned to the interests of the installation, making each element 'far-away’ from the perspective of any other, diminished in scale – yet the lighting has these distances seem psychic, dream-like, not literal.
“The constellation of ideas the work seems to represent are not all that striking, have maybe the feel of rather nineteenth century symbolist clich?. But their expression here is impressively firm. While the themes are not new: Birds Have Fled is impressive in its achieved authority and resonance.”
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- South Australian born artist with a formal background in pottery and ceramics, Valamanesh won the 1996 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Married to artistic collaborator, Hossein Valamanesh; together they create evocative installations on memory and migration.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c88
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TLCMap IDtb9c89
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/peter-tonkin
- Birth Place
- Blayney, Central NSW, Australia
- Biography
- Architect and public artist collaborator, Peter Tonkin works through a variety of scales from large memorial and urban projects to smaller collaborative interior installations. Born in 1953 in Blayney central NSW, his father was a chamber magistrate and his mother an English teacher. It was in Katoomba that he did most of his schooling, before moving to Sydney to study architecture. In 2008 he was still residing in Sydney with his wife, architect Ellen Woolley, and two children. First and foremost Peter Tonkin is recognised as a multi-award winning architect. In 1987, exactly ten years after graduating from the University of Sydney, Tonkin and Brian Zulaikha established the architecture firm that was to become Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects (TZG). TZG has come to demonstrate a particular expertise in revitalising and developing heritage sites, often with the collaboration of artists. Tonkin combines a strong interest in heritage conservation with a commitment to public art, as evidenced by his work on the refurbishment of Hyde Park Barracks Museum (1991) with architects Clive Lucas Stapleton and Partners, and curators from the Historic Houses Trust of NSW including Peter Emmett, Ann Flanagan and Lyn Collins. Tonkin is also known for his work on a heritage-listed former power station, the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (1996, 2008), which incorporates into its built fabric major pieces by Robyn Backen (Christ Knows), Judy Watson (Koori Floor Piece ), and Nicole Ellis(Rollcall). Tonkin’s expertise in architectural history and heritage conservation has lead to his appointment as a trustee on the board of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. Tonkin’s collaboration with artists has allowed him to cross the blurred boundary between architecture and art, especially in the creation of symbolic spaces such as memorials. TZG, and Tonkin in particular, have worked on three memorials, beginning with the award-winning design for the National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces (1992), Canberra, with sculptor Ken Unsworth. This was followed in 1993 by the Tomb of an Unknown Australian Soldier, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, with artist Janet Laurence and, more recently and again in collaboration with Laurence the Australian War Memorial (2003) in Hyde Park, London. His most recent collaborative art and urban design project is the Craigieburn Bypass (2004), a bold cantilevered U-form comprising two kilometres of sound walls and a sweeping pedestrian bridge, on the freeway linking the Hume highway to the Melbourne Ring Road. Designed in close collaboration with landscape architects Taylor Cullity Leathlean, and artist Robert Owen, the project reads to the speeding motorist entering Melbourne as a gateway to the distant city, and to those leaving as a bold arabesque in the sky. The Craigieburn Bypass also features a 900 metre LED interactive wall that can receive visual input from artists and simultaneously respond to and monitor traffic levels. Peter Tonkin’s architectural practice seeks out opportunities to revive heritage buildings, often with the collaboration of artists, a commitment that he also addresses in lectures and papers, for which he is recognised by numerous major awards.
Writers:
De Lorenzo, Catherine
Note: Secondary biographerHall, Christiane
Note:
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Peter Tonkin's architectural practice seeks out opportunities to revive heritage buildings, often with the collaboration of artists, a commitment that he also addresses in lectures and papers, for which he is recognised by numerous major awards.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c8a
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TLCMap IDtb9c8b
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/shirley-a-peters
- Birth Place
- Sydney
- Biography
- Shirley Peters, figurative painter, was born in Sydney in 1953. Peters grew up in Parramatta where she attended Our Lady of Mercy College. In 1972-73 she attended the National Art School and Alexander Mackie Teachers College, studying graphic design at Randwick Tafe Art School in 1974. She has also undertaken part-time studies at the Julian Ashton Art School, the University of Sydney and the Computer Graphics College.
Peters’ artistic output, produced at a small studio in Putney, NSW, called Clickart, includes painting, printmaking, computer graphics, graphic design, multimedia, video editing, montage, time-lapse photography and illustration. Her work is largely inspired by annual trips to Europe, Asia or America as well as by Australian beach culture and the snow country in NSW and Victoria.
As of 2011, Peters was living in Putney with her husband, photographer Bob Peters, with whom she has two adult children.
Writers:
Peters, Shirley
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Shirley Peters, figurative painter, has produced a variety of work inspired by annual trips to Europe, Asia or America as well as by Australian beach culture and the snow country in NSW and Victoria.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c8c
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Description
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TLCMap IDtb9c8d
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/alan-cruickshank
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide; works SA and does digital cibachrome prints.
In 1997 he put 19th century European male heads on Lindt 's Aboriginal studio portraits in the exhibition “Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial”, having previously in his more light-hearted ARCANUM (1992) and THE ARCANUM MUSEUM (1995-96) changed historical European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces here and there, possibly to suggest an Aboriginal authority equal to a European one in the early years of European settlement.
This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography.
Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide, SA. Cruickshank's work has referenced early European photographers such as John William Lindt. His 1997 exhibition "Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial" involved superimposing European faces onto Lindt's historical photographs of Indigenous Tasmanians. He has also been known to alter early European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces, arguably in
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c8e
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/di-fenwick
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c8f
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/fiona-hall
- Birth Place
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Biography
- Teacher, painter, photographer, sculptor and installation artist born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, the second of two children born to Ruby Hall (nee Payne-Scott), a radio astronomer and physics graduate of Sydney University and William Hall, a telephone technician with the Post Master General’s Department.
Hall’s early years were spent in the outer Sydney suburb of Oatley where her love of nature was encouraged during family bushwalking and camping expeditions in the nearby Royal National Park. Her parents were supportive of her artistic abilities from the outset and her mother often took her to see exhibitions. Hall attended Oatley West Primary school from 1959 to 1965 and then went on to attend Penshurst High School from 1966 until 1971.
Hall began studying a Diploma of Painting at East Sydney Technical College in 1972 but was also interested in other mediums such as sculpture. It was during this time that she began to experiment with photography with the encouragement of her painting teacher, John Firth-Smith. Hall chose to study photography as a minor under the tutelage of George Schwarz along with screen-printing with David Rose.
Hall exhibited her work for the first time in 1974 at the Ewing and George Paton Galleries, and upon graduating in 1975 exhibited work as a part of 'Six Australian Women Photographers’ at the Australian Centre of Photography in Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria.
In 1976 Hall commenced two years as photographic assistant to Fay Godwin and during this time had her first solo exhibition at London’s Creative Camera Gallery in 1977. Hall was based in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1978 and travelled around Europe whilst also taking part in group exhibitions in Italy and London.
Hall’s first solo exhibition in Australia followed in 1978 at Church Street Photography Centre in Melbourne. Hall spent the next four years studying a Master of Fine Arts (Photography) at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, returning to Australia in 1981 to live in Tasmania, where she was artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart for nearly a year with the aid of funding from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
In 1981, five of Hall’s photographs were acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, this was the first time her work had become part of a public Australian collection. Hall moved to Adelaide in 1983 and worked as a lecturer in Photostudies at the South Australian School of Art, where she was to teach until 1997.
1985 saw Hall take part in the Australian Centre for Photography’s American Polaroid Corporation project for which she created her series The Seven Deadly Sins using a large format 20 × 24 inch Polaroid camera. The resulting exhibition, 'In Full View: An Exhibition of 20 × 24 Polaroid Photographs’ toured Australia in 1986 and 1987. Hall went on to use the large format camera again several times, creating the series Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy (1988), Historia Non-naturalis (1991) and The Price is Right (1995).
Hall spent fourth months at the Australia Council’s Greene Street Studio in Soho, New York, in 1989. Here she began work on one of her best-known artworks, Paradisus Terrestris (now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia). The artwork explores the interrelationships between the human body and the plant world and was shown for the first time at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1990 as a part of the Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art.
In 1991 Hall commenced her third artistic residency at the Philip Institute of Technology in Victoria resulting in the artwork Words , which is composed of unclothed metal figures contorted into the shape of letters, spelling out a poem inspired by T.S. Elliot.
In 1992 'The Garden of Earthly Delights: The Art of Fiona Hall’, an exhibition of Hall’s works curated by Kate Davidson, commenced at the National Gallery of Australia and went on to tour several major galleries throughout Australia.
In June of 1997 Hall received the prestigious Contempera5 Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria and later that year spent six months at the Canberra School of Art under an Australian National University Creative Arts Fellow.
During the 1980s and early 1990s Hall’s art practice moved further away from photography towards installation art and sculpture. In 1998 Hall’s keen interest in botany saw her travel back to London to spend time studying plants at Kew Gardens as a guest of the London Visual Arts/Crafts Board studio. Hall continued her botanical studies as artist-in-residence at Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in Brisbane; the residency formed the background to Cash Crop (1998/99), an extensive installation piece consisting of carved soaps and banknotes painted with botanical drawings of leaves. The piece explores issues of colonisation and economic activity with multiple layers of meaning.
During 1998 Hall was commissioned to create the Fern Garden at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. In 1999 she commenced an Asialink Lunugunga residency in Sri Lanka that continued until 2005. Leaf Litter (2000-02), a series of leaf images painted in gouache onto the banknotes of each leaf’s country of origin, was created during this time.
In 2000 Hall was commissioned by the City of Sydney to create the public artwork A Folly for Mrs Macquarie. Situated in the Royal Botanic Gardens, this piece explores concepts of the colonial desire to transform the exotic into the familiar. In 2005 Hall was commissioned to create a major public art work entitled Different Forms of Intelligence, located in the Samstag Museum at the University of South Australia.
In 2008 a retrospective of Hall’s work, 'Fiona Hall: Force Field’, was mounted in at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney before going on to tour New Zealand. In 2009 Hall was presented with the Premier’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Ruby Awards – South Australia’s Arts and Cultural Awards.
Fiona Hall has created artwork and exhibited prolifically throughout her career. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; Olympic Fine Art Collection, SOCOG, Sydney.
Writers:
Spruyt, Tai
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Born in 1953 in Sydney, New South Wales, Fiona Hall is an award winning photographer, sculptor and installation artist exploring themes of globalization, colonialism and the environment in her work.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c90
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Details
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/greg-johns
- Birth Place
- Adelaide
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Greg Johns is a prolific sculptor who has exhibited extensively since embarking on a career in the arts in 1977. He is a past member of the New York Sculptors' Guild and International Sculptors' Centre. In 2003 he established the 'Palmer Sculpture and Environmental Landscape' in South Australia's Murraylands region and in 2004 and 2005 was winner of the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize for sculpture.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c91
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Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lynne-boyd
- Birth Place
- Melbourne , Vic., Australia
- Biography
- Lynne Boyd, painter and university lecturer, was born at Melbourne in 1953. Boyd attended the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne, and in 1983 completed a Bachelor of Arts and continued with postgraduate studies in painting and printmaking until 1984. She attended Monash University, Melbourne, and completed a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 2004. Boyd was a lecturer at the VCA from 1985 to 1986, at RMIT University, Melbourne, from 1989 to 1991, at Monash from 1998 to 2002 in the Faculty of Art and Design and began lecturing at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 2009.
Boyd paints atmospheric landscapes. She plays on the inherent tension between liquidity and solidity in paint, layering watery veils of pigment in complex tones.
Lynne Boyd has had several solo shows in Melbourne as well as numerous group shows nationally, including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Parliament House, MOMA at Heide and the National Gallery of Victoria. She was a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize 2011 and the Fleurieu Water Prize 2011. Her work is represented in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Parliament House Art Collection.
Writers:
downes
Date written:
2011
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- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Landscape painter and university lecturer, born at Melbourne in 1953. Lynne Boyd was a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize 2011 and the Fleurieu Water Prize 2011.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kristin-headlam
- Birth Place
- Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
- Biography
- STUDIES1972-76 Bachelor of Arts, Departments of Fine Arts & English, University of Melbourne1980-81 Painting, Victorian College of the Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS1984 Nielson Hayes Library, Bangkok, Thailand1988 Cockatoo Gallery, Launceston1989 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1991 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1992 Julie Green Gallery, Sydney1994 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1996 Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne1998 Tony Palmer at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney1999 Charles Nodrum Gallery, MelbournePublic Park, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2001 As the Twig is Bent, (retrospective exhibition)Launceston Church Grammar School, LauncestonPrivate Garden, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2003 News, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne 2005 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane2005 Recent Works, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2006 Paper to Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery 2006 Recent Watercolours, Mansfield, Victoria2007 Recent Works, Heiser Gallery, BrisbaneThe Gesture, Chapman Gallery, Canberra2008 About the House, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2009 The Art of Politics, Cowwarr Art Space, GippslandInside Out, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Seasonal Adjustments, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
A Domestic Sublime, Chrysalis Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Home Theatre, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
The Blue Square, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS1982 Tricycle Theatre Arts Complex, London1988 Spirit of the Times, Bicentennial Touring Exhibition, Melbourne1989 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery1990 Scotchman’s Hill Invitation Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery1991 The Medium Pastel, David Jones Gallery, Sydney1992 Kristin Headlam & Noel McKenna, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney1995 City of Hobart Invitation Art Prize
Blundstone Contemporary Art Prize, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery1996 Brushing the Dark: Recent Art and Tasmania, CAST; toured nationally
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & touring1997 Deacons, Graham and James Art Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne1998 Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand1999 Visyboard Art Prize, Barossa Vallery
We are Australian, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne & traveling to 2002
Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Artful Cello, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, & traveling to 20002000 Exquisite Corps, Bendigo Art Gallery
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, traveling exhibition
An Affair to Remember, Artsauce Gallery, Singapore
Geelong Contermporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery Stand2001 Male Nude – A Private View, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Savage Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne
Portraits 2001, Tweed River Regional Gallery & touring Australia 2001-02
Selected Paintings, Kozminsky Galleries, Melbourne
Australian & International Works on Paper, Charles Nodrum Gallery
Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney2002 The Human Portrayed, Charles Nodrum Gallery
The Painted Fold: The Garment in Art, Charles Nodrum Gallery
Savill Contemporary, Savill Galleries, Melburne
Contemporary Art, Christie’s Australia, Melbourne & Sydney
Just Married, Monash Gallery of Art
Melbourne Artfair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne2003 X Melbourne, COFA Gallery, Sydney (Gary Willis curator)
The Arthur Guy Acquisitive Award, Bendigo Art Gallery (finalist)
*2004 Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening, State Library of Victoria2003-2004 , Hunter.1, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery
Modern Australian Painting, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne2006 A rose is a rose is a rose, Latrobe Regional Gallery
The Idea of the Animal, RMIT Gallery & Melbourne International Arts Festival2007 Snap Freeze: Still Life Now, Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Eye to ‘I’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
National Artists Invitation Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland2008 Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery
Muse, Mildura Arts Centre, Benalla City Gallery
Who let the dogs out, The dog in contemporary Australia, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre2011 Gaze, Redland Art Gallery, Queensland
Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize
Finalist, Stan & Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
Remarks on Colour, Australian Watercolours QUT Art Museum, Brisbane2012 Finalist, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Finalist, Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize, Monsalvat Gallery2013 Water Views – Paesaggisti all’acquerello dell XXI secolo, The ArtsBox, Vicenza, Italy
2014 Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
30th Birthday Show, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
Vista II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
2015 5, with Philip Faulks, Cathy Drummond, Bill Hay and Richard Stringer.
45 Downstairs, MelbourneArt & Furniture II, Charles Nodrum Gallery, MelbourneGarden, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
AWARDS1991 Conrad Jupiters Acquisitive Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery2000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Winner
COMMISSIONS1995 Crown Melbourne Hotel: designs for tapestries executed by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop2001 Painting Commission, Perth Mint, Perth, WAPortrait Commission, Queens College, University of Melbourne2005 Portrait Commission, Trinity College, University of Melbourne2007 Portrait Commission, Tasmanian Parliament, Tasmania2008 Dawn Service, Australian War Memorial2009 Portrait Commission, Centenary Institute, NSW2011 Portrait Commission, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 2013 Portrait Commission, Business and Economics, Melbourne University2014 Melbourne Festival, Art Trams
COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia British MuseumNational Portrait Gallery Art Gallery of New South WalesNational Gallery of Victoria Tasmanian Museum & Art GalleryArtBank Hamilton Regional Art GalleryGold Coast City Art Gallery (Western Mining Corporation)Tamworth Regional Gallery National Australia BankDeakin University (BHP)Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (Tamar Collection)State Library of Victoria (Derwent Collection)Queen’s College, University of Melbourne The Ian Potter Museum of ArtMoreland City Council, Melbourne Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery, NSWLa Trobe University Collection Perth Mint, WAUniversity of Tasmania Trinity CollegePrivate & Corporate Collections
PUBLICATIONSAitken, Richard, Gardenesque, A Celebration of Australian Gardening, The Miegunyah Press, 2004Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1999;Britain, Ian, Editor, Meanjin: Portraits of the Artist, Vol. 64, 1-2, 2005Cawthorne, Zelda (ed). The Artful Cello, MICMC, 1999.Stephen Coppel: Out of Australia – Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas, The British Museum Press 2011Cree, Laura Murray, Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, 2000Deeth, Jane. Kristin Headlam: As the Twig is Bent, exh catalogue, Launceston, 2001Drury, Neville. Images 2, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994;Drury, Neville. Images 3, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999;Falkiner, Suzanne. “Brushing the Dark”, Art Monthly, no 90, June 1996, pp. 22-24Jan Fook and Renate Klein (eds.): A Girl’s Best Friend – The Meaning of Dogs in Women’s Lives, Spinifex Press 2001Grishin, Sasha, Accounting for Taste, The Lowensteins Arts Management Collection Macmillan 2013Sasha Grishin: Australian Art: A History, The Miegunyah Press 2014; Hammond, Victoria. Catalogue Essay, Brushing the Dark (op cit);Hammond, V et al, The Derwent Collection, TMAG, 1995, p. 34Hart, Kevin. Catalogue Essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 1996;Kent, Rachel. Catalogue Essay, Deacons Graham & James Award, 1997;Marsh, Anne. “Public Park: A Gendered Performance”, Art & Australia, June 1999;Marsh, Anne, News, exhibition catalogue essay, Charles Nodrum Gallery, 2003Miller, Steven, Dogs in Australian Art, The Wakefield Press, 2012Patrick McCaughey: Strange Country, Why Australian Painting Matters, The Miegunyah Press 2014; McCulloch, A & S. Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 1994; pp. 330-31Smith, Smith & Heathcote, Australian Painting 1788-2000, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 585 State Library of Victoria: The Art of the Collection, The Miegunyah Press 2007; Webby, Elizabeth, Editor, Humanities Australia, Vol 4, 2013
ARTICLES & REVIEWSAlbert, Jane. “Artist Paints Herself into $100,000 Victory”, The Australian, 23.08.2000Backhouse, Megan. “Out of the Shadows”, Today, The Age, 20.09.2000; p. 7Brennan, Betsy, Vogue Living, Aug-Sept 2001Cawthorne, Zelda. “Here Comes the Bride in Oils”, Herald Sun, 2 March 1999, p 48;Cawthorne, Zelda. “Naked Men, for a Change”, Herald Sun, 28.01.2001Cawthorne, Zelda. “Exhibition Review”, Herald Sun, Nov. 2001Fortescue, Elizabeth. “In bed with Kristin”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 56Fyfe, Melissa,. “Waking Up a Winner”, The Age, 23.08.2000;Fiona Gruber. “Australian Portraits”, ABC Radio National and Arts Daily (Michael Cathcart); Hammond, V. “Contemporary Artists Gain International Appeal”, Masterpiece Australia, W, 1999Hart, Kevin. “Kristin Headlam”, Agenda, 39/40, Nov 1994, p. 44;Hedger, Michael. “Endless Exploration”, The Herald Weekender, 21.02.2004, p. 14Hurell, Brownyn. “Prize Painting A Pet Project”, Herald Sun, 23.08.2000; p. 12Jay, Sian E. “What Are These Australians up to?”, The Straits Times (Singapore), 16.02.2000Jones, Jacqui. “Exhibition has much to offer”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 11.02.2004; p. 7Keene, Neil. “Galleries combine in Art Tour”, Newcastle & Hunter Herald, 13.02.2004; p.5Lawson, Valerie. “Tails of a Prize-Winning Portrait”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28.08.00; pp1, 5;Lynn, Elwyn. “Sublimity to Ridicule”, The Australia Weekend Review, 13-14.11.1993; p. 13MacDonald, John. Sydney Morning Herald, 1996;Makin, Jeff. “Brave Artist Tackles Footy Heroes”, Herald Sun, 4 Aug 2003; pp. 91-92Marsh, Anne, A Photographic Ghost in Contemporary Painting: Recent Works by Kristin Headlam, Southern Review, Vol 37, No 1, 2004Mollison, James. “On Collecting”, Art & Australia, vol 34, no 1; 1997;Murray Cree, Laura. “Gardens”, Art & Australia, vol 35, no. 4, 1998;Porter, Liz. “How Brendan Fevola went from devil to Botticelli angel”, The Age, 31/07/03Schoenbaum, Sam. “Male Nude – A Private View” (exhibition review), Artlink, March 2001Spunner, Suzanne. “The Thrall of the dress: Blame it on Dior”, Art Monthly, April 99, p. 16-17.Stone, Deborah. “Rondo with an airy middle section”, The Age, 14 May 1999.Watson, Bronwyn. “Galleries”, Sydney Morning Herald, 30.10.1992
Writers:
ecwubben
CNG
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2015
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Melbourne based painter who uses photographic images in her artistic process.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/ricky-maynard
- Birth Place
- Launceston, TAS, Australia
- Biography
- Ricky Maynard, photographer, was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1953. A descendant of the Big River and Ben Lomond people, in 2007 the artist was based on Cape Barren Island, off the north east coast of Tasmania. Maynard developed a fascination for photography early in life when, at the age of 16, he was employed as a darkroom technician working with aerial photographs at a processing business in Melbourne. Starting with this formative experience, Maynard’s practice has been underpinned by a thorough technical knowledge of chemistry and photographic optics, honed through further periods of study and employment. These included a three year traineeship as a photographer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra from 1983, and a year’s study at the International Centre for Photography in New York in 1990, funded by a grant from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. Maynard has worked as a photographer’s assistant at the Antarctic Division in Kingston, Tasmania and as a part time photographic teacher at Hobart Technical College. He was also a founding member of M.33 Photoagency in Melbourne. Maynard’s career as a documentary photographer gained momentum in 1985 when he was commissioned, along with 19 other photographers, to contribute work to the After 200 years project. Established in the lead up to Australia’s bicentenary, the project’s aim was to make possible new approaches to representing Aboriginal people, who historically had so often been the subject of negative and parochial photographic portrayals. Maynard chose to document the lives of members of his community in Tasmania during the mutton birding season, and the result was the Moonbird People (1985-88) series. The spirit of this project, particularly its emphasis on empowering the subject to direct the photographic process, was highly formative of Maynard’s approach to the craft. Maynard remains committed to a humanist approach to documentary photography whereby the objective is not merely to record social life, but to bring compassion, dignity and honesty to the exchange between photographer and subject, and to treat photography as a means of communication that can potentially bring about social change. In Maynard’s words: 'Standard photographic technique is essentially an act of subjugation, in which people are invariably reduced to objects for the use of the photographer. To build an alternative practice, a convivial photography, we need to abolish this oppressive relationship. Co-authorship must be established beforehand. It is impossible to fight oppression by reproducing it’ (Museum of Contemporary Art media release, 2005). Maynard’s work to date has consistently affirmed this philosophy. For example, the No More Than What You See series (1993) resulted from a commission from the South Australian Department of Correctional Services to coincide with the Year of Indigenous Peoples and to engage with the concerns raised by the 1988 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Report. The series, which documented the lives of Aboriginal prisoners in South Australian gaols, was first exhibited at Stills Gallery in Sydney and established Maynard’s ongoing representation by the gallery. In 1994 it was awarded the Mother Jones International Documentary Award, and in 1997 it won the Australian Human Rights Award for Photography. In 2000 Maynard collaborated with writer Tony Birch to produce the publication Reversing the Negatives: a Portrait of Aboriginal Victoria, and this collection of work was exhibited at Gasworks, Melbourne in 2001. The series Returning to Places that Name Us (2000), which was awarded the 2003 Kate Challis RAKA Award, consists of five large scale, intimate portraits of Wik elders. As with all of Maynard’s work, the images resulted from a patient, respectful and collaborative period of association with the subjects, and sought to compel viewers to reflect upon the faces of those whose identity in the public eye had become somewhat reified by the politics surrounding the High Court 'Wik decision’ (1996), which recognised the survival of their native title rights over pastoral land in the Cape York Peninsular. His most recent series Portrait of a distant land (2005 – 2007) consists of photos taken in Tasmania compiled over the 20 years of his practice, and is partly concerned with undermining the robust myth that Tasmania’s Aboriginal population did not survive colonisation. The series presents an environment humanised by a resilient Aboriginal presence, depicting sites whose significance derives from a range of historical, ceremonial and cultural heritage narratives conveyed by his community’s oral history. In 2005 images from this series were enlarged to a grand scale for display on billboards around Sydney as part of the exhibition 'Interesting times: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art’ curated by the MCA in Sydney. The billboard series toured to the Ten Days on an Island Festival, Tasmania and the Busan Biennale in Korea in 2006. The Portrait of a distant land series was also included in the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial 'Culture Warriors’ at the National Gallery of Australia (2007/2008) and the inaugural Photoquai biennale in Paris (2007). Other significant national and international group exhibitions Maynard has participated in include: 'Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia’ at the NGA (1994); the 'World Retrospective on Documentary Photography’ at the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City (1995); the Festival of the Dreaming Olympic Arts Festival, Casula Powerhouse Sydney (1997); 'Re-take: Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Photography’ at the NGA (1999); and 'Our Place: Indigenous Australia Now’, at the Cultural Olympiad of the Athens Olympics Games, Benaki Museum, Athens (2004). Maynard has also had numerous solo exhibitions across Australia, and his work is included in most major state gallery collections.
Writers:
Fisher, Laura
Note:
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
Status:
peer-reviewed
- Born
- b. 1953
- Summary
- Tasmanian photographer whose large format black and white photographs of Aboriginal people and places reflect his commitment to a humanist approach to documentary photography, social change, and the accurate and dignified representation of Aboriginal people.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/hilarie-mais
- Birth Place
- Leeds, UK
- Biography
- Educated at Bradford School of Art, Winchester School of Art and The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Hilarie Mais held her first solo exhibition in 1977 at Cuningham Ward Gallery in SoHo, New York, followed by other exhibitions at Cuningham Ward and the Madeline Carter Gallery, Boston (both 1979).
During this early intensive period in her working development, when deconstructive and feminist discourses were at their dialectical apogee, Hilarie Mais’s largely constructive sculptural works became increasingly subjective and associative in character, culminating in her 1979-80 'Weapon Series’, shown at the Betty Cuningham Gallery (1981). Hilarie Mais also took part in various group exhibitions in the United States and Britain at this time.
In 1980, Hilarie Mais came to Sydney, where she was still living and working in 2006. Her first Australian works were exhibited in 1984 in the exhibition 'New Friends’ at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. She joined Sherman Galleries in 1994, where she has since held seven solo exhibitions.
At the time of writing, Hilarie Mais has held 24 solo exhibitions and been included in 90 group exhibitions in Australia, the United States, Asia and Europe, including the Australian Sculpture Triennials (1984, 1987), Australian Perspecta (1985), the Biennale of Sydney (1986, 1988), 'Dissonance, Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art’ (1991) and 'Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996’ (1996). Retrospective survey exhibitions of her works were held at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (1990) and the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery (2004).
Hilarie Mais has received numerous awards, including an Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, all state galleries and numerous regional gallery collections, as well as corporate and private collections in Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Writers:
Murray-Cree, Laura
Date written:
2006
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Born in England, contemporary abstract sculptor Hilarie Mais has been living and exhibiting in Australia since 1980. She has also shown her work internationally and has had her work shown several times in the Sydney Biennale, Perspecta and the Australian Sculpture Triennial.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kevin-norton
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- Sculptor, works with stainless-steel. Born in England in 1952, Kevin Norton moved to Sydney, NSW, in 1983. Norton has taught at the University of Sydney, Sculpture Society in Sydney, Cumbria College of Art in England, Canberra School of Art, Auckland University in New Zealand as well as other arts institutions in New Zealand. In 1986 Norton began teaching sculpture and drawing at the Wollongong College of Art, where in 2006 he became head of the sculpture department. Norton has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand. He has completed many private commissions and received several awards, including Young Contemporaries Sculpture Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1977), Barnett Newman Scholarship (1978), Hansells Sculpture Award, New Zealand (1982) and artist-in-residence, New Zealand Sculpture Project (1982). Norton’s work is represented in numerous collections, including Artbank, the National Gallery of New Zealand, Rotorua City Gallery, New Zealand, National Library of New Zealand, Macquarie University, Chas Property Estates, Merke, Sharp & Dome, as well as private collections in Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Writers:
Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor Kevin Norton was born in England and moved to Sydney in 1983. In 2006 he became Head of the sculpture department at the Wollongong College of Art.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/sally-robinson
- Birth Place
- England, UK
- Biography
- For the first 20 years of her artistic career, Sally Robinson produced screen prints of Australian life and landscapes using photostencils to create a mechanical texture that echoes the pixellated way we view the world through print and electronic media. These iconic images of Bondi Beach, Ayers Rock and Kakadu were followed by a series of prints depicting the Antarctic after Robinson received an Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Program Award in 1991/1992. In 1999 Robinson began painting portaits, using stencils to again create a mechanically regular texture to pixellate her image. Since that time her portraits have been regularly included in portrait competition exhibitions such as the Archibald Prize, the Salon des Refuses, the Portia Geach Portrait Award, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award. Concurrently, Sally Robinson has painted colour field abstract paintings – riots of colour in stencilled lines, dots or dashes that create a spacial illusion.
Since 1976 Robinson has held a number of solo exhibitions around Australia at venues including the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Penrith Regional Gallery in Emu Plains, NSW. She has also participated in many group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. These include: the 11th International Print Biennial, Tokyo, Japan (1979); 'Survey 12 – On Paper’ at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (1980); the14th International Biennial of Graphic Art in Yugoslavia (1981); 'Australian Art of the '70s’ at Queensland Art Gallery (1986); 'Prints and Australia: Pre-settlement to Present’ at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (1989); and 'Portrait Artists Australia Exhibition’, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA (2005).
Robinson’s work is held in most of the major state and national collections.
Writers:
Robinson, Sally
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Painter and printer, since 1999 Sally Robinson has been creating portraits and her work has been exhibited in all the major exhibitions including the Archibald Prize, the Portia Geach and The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. Robinson's work is held in a number of major national and state collections including the National Gallery of Australia.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/anna-eggert
- Birth Place
- Croatia
- Biography
- Born in Croatia in 1952, sculptor Anna Eggert emigrated to Australia in 1962 and in 2008 was living and working in Canberra. In 1973, Eggert graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, followed by a Diploma of Education in 1974, and in 1991 she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University.
Particularly notable among her solo exhibitions are Mesmerised , Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, Canberra (2007); Pure Fabrication , Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland (2007); Surface Tension, Beaver Galleries, Canberra (2006); Whispered Secrets , Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne (2005); and On Reflection , Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney (2002).
Eggert has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award (finalist) (2008); McClelland Contemporary Sculpture Survey Award (finalist) (2007); the Wynne Prize (finalist), Art Gallery of New South Wales (2007); Art and About, AMP Forecourt, Circular Quay (2005); Sculpture by the Sea , Sydney (2004); the National Sculpture Prize , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003); and Salon des Refusés , SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2002).
In 2008 Eggert was the recipient of an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship (2008). She has also received an Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grant (2007) and in 2004 was awarded the People’s Choice Award in the National Gallery of Australia’s prestigious McClelland Sculpture Award. T he previous year she was nominated the Staff Choice in the Macquarie Bank Award (2003). Eggert has also been a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2005 and 2004); the Alice Springs Art Prize (2002 and 2004); the National Sculpture Prize , National Gallery of Australia (2003); the Wynne Prize , Art Gallery of New South Wales (2001 & 2007); and in 2001, was announced winner in the Sculpture Division of the Waverley Art Prize , Victoria.
Her sculptures are held in major public collections including Artbank and the Alice Springs Art Foundation, Darwin. Other collections include the Patrick Corrigan Collection, Sydney, BHP Billiton, Melbourne and UBS Private Banking, Basel Switzerland. Her work also features in private collections across Australia, UK, Swizerland, Denmark and the USA.
Writers:
Woodbury, Karen
downes
Date written:
2011
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Contemporary sculptor, Croatian-born Anna Eggert works chiefly with mesh to create her figurative sculptures. Eggert was a finalist in the 2008 Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/theodore-paul-tremblay
- Birth Place
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Biography
- printmaker and painter, born Cambridge, Mass., 20 May 1952; studied Boston Museum School and Tufts Uni. USA 1970-74, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford UK 1976-77. Arrived Australia 1977. 'His etchings and lithographs often depict single or grouped figures symbolically integrated with their environment’ (McCulloch). Part-time teacher at Canberra School of Art since 1992.
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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2007
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Printmaker and painter, born Cambridge, Mass. in 1952.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bun-heang-ung
- Birth Place
- Cambodia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1 January 1952
- Summary
- Bun Heang was an artist and illustrator who immigrated to Australia in 1980. His later career developed in the field of political cartoons with a particular interest in Cambodian developments. His work appeared in films, magazines, books and on-line.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1-Jan-14
- Age at death
- 62
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c9e
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Latitude4.5693754 Longitude102.2656823 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/khai-liew
- Birth Place
- Malaysia
- Biography
- This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography.
Liew is an Adelaide furniture conservator, designer and maker.
Writers:
Nerina_Dunt
Michael Bogle
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Khai Liew is a contemporary furniture designer and a conservator with a special interest in early Australian furniture. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia. He has exhibited in London and Milan and he is represented in public collections in Australia including the National Gallery of Australia and Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9c9f
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
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Latitude-11.76157225 Longitude130.6137936 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/bede-tungutalum
- Birth Place
- Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, NT, Australia
- Biography
- None listed
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- None listed
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca0
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
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Latitude-12.438056 Longitude130.841111 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/gary-philip-lee
- Birth Place
- Darwin, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist, born and raised in Darwin, which is situated in Larrakia country. An anthropologist, artist, writer and curator, Lee has been an active participant in and promoter of Aboriginal arts since the early 1980s when he worked as a freelance fashion designer in Sydney. Having moved to Sydney to undertake studies at the Sydney College of the Arts, he arrived a year too early (his enrolment was for the following year) and so busied himself working alongside fellow ex-Darwinite Andrew Trewin to produce a line of clothes – strictly evening and cocktail wear. Some of these incorporated Lee’s Aboriginal designs and were initially sold through Paddington Markets and eventually a retail outlet under the label Trewin Lee in Centrepoint Tower and later, the Imperial Arcade. Lee eventually commenced studies at the Sydney College of the Arts, majoring in glass and painting, however he left after a year to devote himself to fashion design.After a few years in Sydney, Lee tired of the bright lights and returned to the Northern Territory where he began working as a trainee Aboriginal arts advisor with Chips Mackinolty at Mimi Arts and Crafts in Katherine. This brought Lee in contact with a wide range of Top End Aboriginal artists, and enabled him to indulge his love of the Top End bush. One of the more memorable Mimi Arts shows, which he co-curated with Mackinolty, was Fine Feathered Friends (in fact, Lee’s first as curator), an exhibition of around 200 pieces of Top End fibre and body adornment art which 'took Sydney by storm’, Lee recalls, when it was shown at Paddington’s Coo-ee Gallery in the mid-1980s. This was followed by a sequel exhibition (with around 400 works) the following year at the Aboriginal Arts and Crafts Company in The Rocks, Sydney (then managed by Gabriella Roy and Ace Bourke, with Hetti Perkins as a trainee). Working at Mimi Arts crystallised Lee’s decision to undertake tertiary studies: firstly, as a Cultural Heritage Management student at Canberra’s College of Advanced Education, and then transferring to the Australian National University to undertake a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Anthropology. It was while studying Cultural Heritage management that Lee entered the Canberra Fashion Awards (1986), taking out the major Overall Design Award for “a stunning black evening dress with padded shoulders and a bodice falling gently into a wide band of glittering beading and sweeping the floor in a full skirt”, as described by journalist Pollyanna Sutton (The Canberra Times, 23 October, 1986). Lee’s dress also won the Adult Evening Dress section.While at the Australian National University, Lee also undertook internships at the National Gallery of Australia (their first Aboriginal intern, under the guidance of curator Wally Caruana) and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Upon graduating, Lee went straight into a job at the Australia Council for the Arts as a project officer for Indigenous Performing Arts. After having spent five or so years studying 'down south’ he soon, however, gave in again to the call of the north, returning home as a Larrakia anthropologist to commence a research position at the Northern Land Council. During this time he was also working on a play which drew on the story of his maternal heritage. This play, Keep Him My Heart: A Larrakia Filipino Love Story , eventually premiered in Darwin as a musical (complete with a Rondalla – Filipino guitar orchestra) in collaboration with musical director Christian (Bong) Ramilo. The production effectively brought Lee’s skills as writer and set/costume designer to the fore.In 1993, Lee began work on his photographic series Nice Coloured Boys , an allusion to Tracey Moffatt’s Nice Coloured Girls short film and in respect to her early encouragement of his artistic pursuits. It is Lee’s photographic work which has brought him most recognition as an artist. Nice Coloured Boys began as a project in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, initially as a way to reconnect with the region: India in particular was a country which resonated deeply with Lee from his first visit there in the ’70s, a visit that in fact became a two-and-a-half-year stay, living and working in Calcutta. It was partly the sense of belonging in a black country that made Lee feel so at home in India; the fact that many Indians reminded him, physically at least, of relations and other Aboriginal people in Darwin. And it was the physicality of the men that Lee wanted to celebrate with his Nice Coloured Boys series, to subvert Western stereotypes of male beauty and to explore other nuances of Aboriginal identity and art. In an article for Art Monthly Australia , Lee explains:...after the discovery of what I call my fluid identity I took advantage of this immediate rapport. If they wanted to believe I was Indian, Nepalese or even Assamese, it was easier to let them think that. I enjoyed slipping in and out of identities, and passing as one of them, even if they actually accepted that I was indeed a parytak (tourist), it was still fun to go along with the whole game. After all, I thought to myself, what does an Aborigine look like? (Gary Lee, 'Oh, boy! The portraits of Gary Lee’, Art Monthly Australia , June 2006, No. 190, p. 35.) In 1998, Lee’s portrait series Bablu, Milk Boy (from Nice Coloured Boys ) was published as one of the artist profiles in Photofile magazine. The theme for this issue, 'Happy Snaps’, perfectly suited Lee’s street photography methodology and also the fluid, in some eyes problematic 'dichotomy’ of local/tourist which underpins this series. At the suggestion of later Editor of Photofile , Alasdair Foster, Lee produced the Skin series, in which he placed himself in the frame, 'passing’ as Indian or Nepalese alongside men from these countries. Some photos from this series were subsequently reproduced in Photofile , with a black-and-white rendition also featured in “More Than My Skin” _(2008), a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Djon Mundine focusing on Aboriginal male photographers.Lee began full-time doctoral studies in 2005 under a scholarship at Charles Darwin University, Darwin. Initially, this was a research degree examining Larrakia iconography and aesthetics from colonisation (with the establishment of Darwin in the late 1860s) to the present day. Eventually it became a practice-based degree as, around the same time, Lee’s photography also came to reflect a combination of contemporary and historical Larrakia subjects. The catalyst for this was partly his involvement as co-curator (with Sylvia Kleinert) in an exhibition celebrating Billiamook (after whom it was titled), who was a key Larrakia figure in the region’s contact history. In this exhibition Lee displayed a portrait of his nephew, Shannon, alongside a portrait of Billiamook by the colonial photographer Paul Foelsche. Both Billiamook and Shannon are photographed at around sixteen years of age; both exude physical prowess. Lee’s portrait, later reproduced on the cover of Artlink magazine (an NT themed issue, 2005, Vol. 25, No. 2), became the basis of a diptych. A similar diptych, Mei Kim and Minnie (2006), was created with Lee’s portrait of his niece, Mei Kim, alongside a Foelsche portrait of Lee’s great, great grandmother, Minnie Duwun, which was first shown in the inaugural “TogArt NT Contemporary Art” exhibition.Lee’s venture into portraits incorporating his own family paralleled his foray into other Aboriginal portraits, more as an extension of his Nice Coloured Boys series. To some extent he had already been doing this (even while making frequent trips to India to continue Nice Coloured Boys ) as a way of documenting Aboriginal gay and transgender communities. From 2004, however, he began a discrete, ongoing series called Nymgololo – a Larrakia word for young man/bachelor – which focused on Aboriginal men in Darwin. In October 2007, Lee was in Canberra for the opening of the Culture Warriors exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia when he suffered a life-threatening stroke. It is ironic that 2008, a year in which he was undergoing extensive rehabilitation, was one of his busiest in terms of exhibition commitments including his very first solo exhibition, Maast Maast , at Darwin’s 24HR Art NT Centre for Contemporary Art ( Maast Maast is a Hindi term meaning 'sexy’, 'mischievous’ or with some element of mystique). This exhibition was largely a selection of past work from the Nice Coloured Boys , Skin and Nymgololo series, and surprising as his first solo show in light of a fairly impressive publishing and (group) exhibiting record. In some ways this irony is testament to the immediate power and validity of Lee’s photographic project but it also indicates an appreciation that photography is but one of his various artistic caps.Maast Maast was followed by a number of other solo exhibitions by Lee in Darwin, Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne, Clifton Hill (NSW), Perth and Auckland. It was also followed by many significant group exhibitions including nationally and internationally touring exhibitions. In 2002, as a seven-time finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Lee was awarded the Works on Paper Award for Nagi (2022), a photo-based tribute to his grandfather Juan (John) Cubillo who was tragically killed in the 1942 bombing of Darwin at the age of 36.
Writers:
O'Riordan, Maurice
moriordan
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2022
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Gary Lee is a Larrakia artist who has worked as a designer in a range of media, a curator and now works primarily as a photographer.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca1
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Latitude-18.7290723 Longitude146.6287178 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
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- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/billy-doolan
- Birth Place
- Palm Island, Qld., Australia
- Biography
- Billy Doolan was born on Palm Island, Queensland, and is a painter working with synthetic polymer paint on canvas. He is also a wood carver and makes didgeridoos.
His language group is Bwgcolman. His father was a Wakka Wakka man from central Queensland and his mother Tagalaka from Cape York. The artist’s totem is the Brolga.
A passionate environmentalist, he has stated that “I paint to share with people my dismay and frustration at what destruction and mayhem people inflict on Mother Earth, which also encompasses our waters and oceans and the life within.” [1] He has painted a series of works under the title Patterns of Life which reflect his concerns.
IN 2001 Doolan’s works were showcased in the 2001 exhibition 'Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland Australia’. In 2009, Billy was invited to travel to Sicily for a month and to paint his impressions of the island. A series of eight paintings was commissioned through his agent and an exhibition was launched on 28 October 2010 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Melbourne, VIC.
In 2011, the artist contributed to the 'Dreamtime Exhibition’ at MAN Museum, Nuoro, on the Island of Sardinia in Italy. Doolan was the guest of honour at the opening and performed a traditional smoking ceremony for the occasion.
^ Demozay 2001
Writers:
Allas, TessSip, Hans
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Billy Doolan Jnr. is from Palm Island, Queensland and is a painter who works with synthetic polymer paint on linen. He is also a wood carver.
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca2
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Latitude-21.56978 Longitude132.46828 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
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Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/maureen-turner
- Birth Place
- Mt Barkly, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Mt Barkly in 1952, Maureen Turner paints the Warlpiri Fire Dreaming for her country Warlukurlangu. She also paints an Emu story for this country. She first appeared as a painter on the files of the Mt Allan company Yuelamu Artists, but subsequently sold her work through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists and other galleries in Alice Springs. She has been painting since 1989 or earlier, and may have been influenced by her sisters, Sandra and Sonder Turner Nampitjinpa from Mt Liebig, where Maureen was a teacher in the community school. Later she moved to Alice Springs, and in 1990 travelled to Vanuatu for the Art Dock show, the first international art exhibition to be held in Vanuatu. In 2008, she was living in Adelaide.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Born at Bau (Mt Barkly), Turner is connected with the communities of Mt Allan and Mt Liebig. She previously sold her work through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs (NT), was living in Adelaide in 2008.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca3
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
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Latitude-21.8987641 Longitude134.8420227 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/lucky-kngwarreye
- Birth Place
- Utopia, NT, Australia
- Biography
- An Alyawarre speaker, born c.1952 on Utopia Station, she is the oldest daughter of Billy Morton Petyarre and his wife, Mary Morton. The family formerly lived at Ngkwarlerlaneme, but have recently established an outstation on their country at Ngkawenyerre, near Lucky’s Dreaming place, on the northern area of Utopia in the heart of Alyawarre lands. Like most of the Utopia artists, she did her first works on canvas with acrylics as part of CAAMA’s 1988-9 Summer project. Her principal Dreaming is Rainbow, which she often depicts in her paintings with dominant multi-coloured striped arcs. Lucky’s other Dreamings include Tjarpa Lanait (Witchetty Grub) and various other bush tucker species. She is also a skilled wood carver. Her younger sister is painter Janice Kngwarreye .
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Note: Primary biographer.
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1952
- Summary
- Alyawarre painter and skilled wood carver. Her multicoloured paintings represent the Rainbow, her principal Dreaming.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca4
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
Details
Latitude-21.8987641 Longitude134.8420227 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/nga-angelina-nala-pwerle
- Birth Place
- Utopia, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Utopia in the early 1950s, Angelina is an Anmatyerre speaker, who has been painting stories relating to women’s ceremonies and bush foods that grow in her country since 1988. She sells her work through galleries in Alice Springs and is now based at Camel Cam
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1952
- Summary
- Born at Utopia and an Anmatyerre speaker, Angelina Pwerle has been painting with acrylics on canvas since 1988. She works with a variety of media, including batik, and her work is widely exhibited.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca5
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
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Latitude-22.5216511 Longitude132.7344955 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kitty-pultara-cockatoo
- Birth Place
- Napperby, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born at Napperby in 1952, Kitty Cockatoo has lived on Napperby station for most of her life. She is the older sister of Jessie Napaltjarri and the younger sister of Kitty Pultara and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (they all have the same mother) and has been painting since 1986. Her paintings show Lightning and Bush Plum stories of the Napperby area and Central Mt Wedge station.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. 1952
- Summary
- Warlpiri and Anmatyerre artist Kitty Cockatoo, depicts Dreamings from Central Mt Wedge station and Napperby (NT) where she lives.
- Gender
- Female
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca6
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06
Details
Latitude-23.447 Longitude131.882 Start Date1952-01-01 End Date1952-01-01
Description
Extended Data
- DAAO URL
- https://www.daao.org.au/bio/kenny-tjakamarra
- Birth Place
- Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
- Biography
- Born in the early ’50s in his mother’s country north of Haasts Bluff, Kenny grew up in his father’s country around Coniston and is an Amnatyerre speaker. He worked as a stockman at Coniston and stations all over the Centre before coming to live at Napperby with his wife Jessie Napaltjarri’s family. His country was around the site of Winparku. He painted Snake Dreaming and Two Women Dreaming stories from this area around Haasts Bluff and the Perentie Dreaming story which runs from Kintore through Haasts Bluff.
Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
- Born
- b. c.1952
- Summary
- Amnatyerre artist who lived in Napperby (NT) after working as a stockman in Coniston for many years. He painted Dreaming stories associated with Haasts Bluff (NT).
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- None listed
- Age at death
- None listed
Sources
TLCMap IDtb9ca7
Created At2023-06-30 12:13:38 Updated At2023-12-11 17:49:06