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  • Indigenous Artists - Aboriginal Featured Artists from Cooee Art Leven Gallery

    ARTISTS Art Leven formerly Cooee Art was established in 1981 and runs a hybrid art model to represent and support artists in an ethical and sustainable way. During the last decade under the guidance of Director Mirri Leven, Art Leven/Cooee Art has undergone a continuous evolution in every facet of the business. Today, as Australia’s oldest exhibiting Indigenous-focused fine art gallery, Art Leven is run as a space of collaboration, working directly with First Nations curators, art centres, and represented artists. FEATURED ARTISTS Emily Kame Kngwarreye 1909 - 1996 Neil Ernest Tomkins ​ Rover Julama Thomas 1926 - 1998 Dorothy Robinson Napangardi 1956 - 2013 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 1933 - 2002 Kitty Napanangka Simon 1948 Lin Onus 1948 - 1996 KONSTANTINA ​ Artists with available Artworks Filter by: 1000 Non gallery Artists

  • Artists profiles from Cooee Art Gallery

    ARTISTS View featured artists Filter by: 2 Abie Jumbyinmba Tjangala Ada Bird Petyarre Adolf Inkamala Alan Griffiths Alexandrina Kantilla Andrea Adamson Angelina George Ann Nyankulya Cleary-Farell Antonia Napangardi Michaels Arnulf Ebatarinja Artist Once Known Bai Bai Napangardi Barney Ellaga Benjamin Landara Bernice Perdjert Betty Bundamurra Betty Muffler Biddy Long Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey Blak Douglas Bradley Tunkin Bronwyn Kelly Carol Puruntatameri Charlene Napanangka Marshall Charlie Tjapangati Charmaine Brown Napurrula Christine Daisy Puruntatameri Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Colin Bird Conway Ginger Cowboy Loy Pwerl David Bell Debbie Napaljarri Brown Dhambit II Wanambi Dickie Minyintiri Djirrirra Wunungmurra Dr Christian Thompson AO Dundiwuy Wanambi Elaine Thomas Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarrey Emily Cullinan Emily Pwerle Esther Bruno Nangala Ewald Namatjira Francis Kerinaiua Freddie Timms Gali Gurruwiwi Yalkarriwuy Gary Djorlom George Tjungarrayi Ward Glen Jampijinpa Martin Gloria Napangardi Gill Gordon Barney Hamish Karrkarrhba Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty Henoch Raberaba Ian Waldron Inyuwa Nampijinpa Ivy Janyka Nixon Jack Dale James Lyuna Janelle Napurrurla Wilson Janice Murray Jeanie Napangardi Lewis Jerome Anderson Jimmy Baker Jimmy Pike Joe Lewis John John Bennett Jorna Newberry Joshua Bonson Jospehine Wurrkidj Judy Napangardi Martin June McInerney KONSTANTINA Kasey-Anne Nampijinpa Gallagher Katie Cox Kelly Napanankga Michaels Kenneth Jungarrayi Martin Kudditji Kngwarreye Kurun Warun Langaliki Lewis Laurie Gowanulli Leo Melpi Liddy Napanangka Walker Abie Kemarre Loy Ada Pula Beasley Adrian Jangala Robertson Alan Jameison Alice Nampijinpa Michaels Andrea Nungarrayi Wilson Angelina Ngale Pwerle Anna Price Petyarre Anyupa Stevens Arone Raymond Meeks Artists Once Known Barbara Weir Belinda Golder Kngwarreye Bernadine Johnson Beryl Jimmy Betty Carrington Beverly Cameron Biddy Long Nungurrayi Billy Benn Perrurle Borbobani Brandy Tjungurrayi Brook Andrew Cecily Napanangka Marshall Charlie Djurritjini Charlie Tjararu Tjungurrayi Charmaine Pwerle Cindy Nakamarra Gibson Clinton Nain Colleen Carter Cornelia Tipuamantumirri Cynthia Burke David Jarinyanu Downs Delores Tipuamantumirri Dhuwarrwarr Marika Djawida Nadjongorle Dora Griffiths Dr David Daymirringu Malangi Edwin Pareroultja Eleazer Nangukwirrk Elizabeth Nungarrayi Ross Emily Kame Kngwarreye England Bangala Eubena Nampitjin Fiona Omeenyo Freda Warlipini Gabriel Maralngurra Galuma Maymuru Genevieve Kemarr Loy Ginger Riley Munduwalawala Glenys James Gloria Tamerre Petyarre Gracie Morton Hector Jandany Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi Henry Wambiny Inawintji Williamson Inyuwa Nampitjinpa Jack & Biddy Dale Jacob Jungarrayi Spencer Jan Billycan Janet Nakamarra Long Jean Apuatimi Baptiste Jeannie Petyarre Jerusha Nungarrayi Morris Jimmy Djarrbbarali Joanne Currie Nalingu Joey Ngainmirra John Tjapaltjarri Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri Joshua Ebatarinja Joyce Mclean Nyurapayia Judy Napangardi Watson Junjun Jill Jack Karen Napaljarri Barnes Kathleen Ngal Katie Curley Kelly-Anne Nungarrayi Gibson Kenny Tjampitjinpa Williams Kunmanara Wingu Tingima Lamangirra #2 Gumana Lanita Numina Napananka Lee Nangala Gallagher Leon Russell Black Ada Bird Petyarre Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri Agnes Napanangka Donnelly Albury Jangala Dixon Alison (Jojo) Puruntatameri Andrew Wanambi Margalulu Angelina Tjaduwa Woods Annette Lormada Apphia Wurrkidj Arthur John Cowell Athena Nangala Granites Barney Campbell Tjakamarra Belinda Gurriniya Bernard Tjalkuri Beryl Nakamarra Gorey Betty Mbitjana Biddee Baadjo Biddy Napanangka Timms Billy Joongarra Thomas Boxer Milner Bronwyn Bancroft Bugai Whyoulter Chantelle Nampijinpa Robertson Charlie Nangukwirrk Charlie Ward Chris Japanangka Michaels Clem Abbott Coffee Carlton Colleen Whiskey Nampitjinpa Cory Warkatu Surprise Danny Possum Dawalinjara Dennis Nona Dianne Strangways Djirrirra Wunungmurra Dorothy Robinson Napangardi Dr George Tjapaltjarri Eileen Yaritja Stevens Elizabeth Kunoth Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi Emily Ngarnal Evans Estelle Munkanome Eunice Napanangka Francesca Puruntatameri Freddie Purla Gabrielle Possum Nungarrayi Galya Pwerle George (Hairbrush) Tjungarrayi Ginger Wikilyiri Gloria Mengil Goodie Barratt Greenie Purvis Helen Curtis Helmut Pareroultja Hilary Wirri Intjalki Atipalklu Irene Nangala Jack Britten Jacqueline Puruntatameri Jane M Tipuamantumirri Janet Tjitayi Jean Baptiste Apuatimi Jeffrey Jangala Gallagher Jillian Nampijinpa Brown Jimmy Nerrimah Jocelyn Venita Woods John B Fisher Johnny Bulun Bulun Josephine Burak Josie Kemarre Petrick Judith Nungarrayi Martin Julie Nangala Robinson KIRSTY-ANNE NAPANANGKA MARTIN Karina Penny Coombes Kathleen Petyarre Kay Baker Tunkin Kenan Namunjdja Kitty Napanangka Simon Kuntjil Cooper Lance James Larritjpira Munungurr Lena Pwerle Leston Japaljarri Spencer 2

  • Billy Benn Perrurle - Artist Profile - Cooee Art Leven

    < Back Billy Benn Perrurle Billy Benn Perrurle 1943 - 2012 ​ ARTIST PROFILE MARKET ANALYSIS PROFILE Billy Benn Perrurle 1943 - 2012 Language: Alyawarre Community: Utopia Billy Benn Perrurle was born in the Harts Range, 200 km northeast of Alice Springs. As a young man, he worked in the local mine and learned to paint from a miner's wife, who had been a Chinese watercolourist. Later when he began painting professionally, the influence of Chinese painting traditions was reflected in the scale and perspective of his artworks and their self-assured brushstrokes. Though he painted with acrylics, the colours were arranged like a classic watercolour palette. These were applied as washes before thicker impasto paint was added. Soft pinks, golden yellows, bright oranges, velvet purples, and deep browns were used to create landforms and features. He whipped up skies and laid down slopes and escarpments with fluid single movements. Billy Benn’s art has often been critically located outside of the art world category of fine art. Journalist Nicholas Rothwell was one of many writers to refer to him as an outsider artist, a status conferred due to his stylistically naive approach, his mental condition, and the fact that he was characterised as ‘lost between worlds’. Per Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists: Established in 2000, the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists studio is the first in Australia to occupy the intersection between supported studios and Aboriginal Art Centres. [...] The Mwerre Anthurre Artists developed out of Bindi Enterprises, which was established in 1978 to provide employment and community engagement opportunities to people with disability. In the 1990’s the late Billy Benn Perrurle started his career painting on off-cuts of timber and sheets of metal from the Bindi workshop. From these humble beginnings, the collective grew into an essential and distinctive Aboriginal Art Centre with several artists creating work that is highly sought after by galleries and private collectors alike. Collections: Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Solo Exhibitions: 2017 - Artetyerre, Cooee Art , Sydney. 2014 - Billy Benn Returning Home , Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney. 2010 - To Paint Every Hill , NG Art Gallery, Sydney. 2007 - Magic , Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne. 2003 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin. 2002 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Grant Pirrie Gallery, Sydney. Group Exhibitions: 2014 - The hills behond Hermannsburg, from the Gallery's Indigenous Collection , featuring the work of Arnulf Ebatarinja, Conley Ebatarinja, Benjamin Landara, Tristam Malbunka, Albert Namatjira, Keith Namatjira, Lenie Namatjira, Maurice Namatjira, Oscar Namatjira, Claude Pannka, Gloria Pannka, Nelson Pannka, Ivy Pareroultja, Otto Pareroultja, Billy Benn Perrurle, Norman Ratara, Vanessa Splinter, Roland Uburtja, Alison Walbungara, Richard Moketarinja at the AGNSW, Sydney. 2013 - Beautiful Art , featuring Adrian Robertson, Billy Benn, Billy Kenda, Conway Ginger, Jane Mervin, Kukula Mcdonald, Lance James, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld. 2013 - New Works , featuring Billy Benn, Dan Raberaba, Jane Mervin, Kukula Mcdonald at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 2013 - Good, strong, powerful , featuring Adrian Robertson, Billy, Benn, Billy Kenda, Kukula Mcdonald, Lance James at Tandanya National Aboriginal Institute, Adelaide, SA. 2013 - Bindi Artists 2013 , featuring Billy Benn Kemerre, Kukula McDonald, Jane Mervin, Dan Raberaba at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 2011 - Good Strong Powerful featuring the work of Lorna Kantilla, Alfonso Puantjimi and Estelle Munkanome, Billy Benn Perrurle, Kukula McDonald, Billy Kenda, Lance James and Adrian Robertson, Dion Beasley and Peggy Jones Napangardi at Arts Project Australia, 24 High St, Northcote Gallery, Melbourne. 2011 - Bindi 2011 , featuring the work of Billy Benn Perrurle, Billy Kenda, Adrian Robinson, Kukulu McDonald and Lance James at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 2010 - A View on Country , featuring Bill Benn Perrurle, Kukula McDonald, Adrian Robertson, Lance James and Billy Kenda at Mossenson Gallery, Perth, WA. 2010 - Looking Back at Country featuring the artists Makinti Napanangka, Billy Benn Perrurle and Martin Tjampitjinpa at Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne. 2010 - Remembering Country includes the artists Adrian Robertson, Kukula McDonald, Seth Namatjira, Billy Kenda, Lance James, and Billy Benn Perrurle, at Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne. 2010 - Emerging Elders , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 2009 - Bindi 2009 , featuring the following artists: Billy Kenda, Billy Benn and Lance James, at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Reunited: Billy Benn Perrurle & Gladdy Kemarre , Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne. 2008 - Visions of Utopia , featuring the following artists: Angelina Ngal, Billy Benn Perrurle, Cowboy Loy Pwerl, Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarrey, Elizabeth Mpetyan, Gladdy Kemarr, Jean Kngwarrey, Kathleen Ngal, Maisy Petyarr, Nancy Petyarre Kunoth, Pansy Petyarr McLeod, Poly Ngal, Ruby Morton Kngwarrey, Trudy Raggett at Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney. 2008 - Landscape Masters , featuring Billy Ben Perrurle, Adrian Robertson Jangala and Billy Kenda, at Alcaston Gallery, Sydney. 2008 - Bindi Artists 2008 , featuring Billy Ben Perrurle, Kukula McDonald, Adrian Robertson Jangala and Billy Kenda, at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 2008 - Land, Sea and the Universe , Alcaston Gallery @ the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne. 2007 - 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award , Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 2006 - Treasures from the Desert , Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne; The second Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition , Shalom College, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Billy Kenda, Kukula McDonald, Adrian Robertson and Billy Benn Perrurle , Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 2005 - 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award , Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; From little things, big things grow , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 2004 - 2004 Australian Culture Now , National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne; Apmere - Country Land and Place , Recent works by artists from Mwerre Anthurre Alice Springs, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi; 21st Telstra National Aborigainal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award , Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 2003 - The Bindi Perspective , Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs; 20th Telstra Art Awards , Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. 2001 - Desert Mob , Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs. 2000 - Desert Mob , Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs. Awards: 2006 - Winner of the 2006 Alice Prize , Alice Springs. Bibliography: Green, Charles., 2004 Australian Culture Now , National Gallery of Victoria, 2004, Melbourne. Billie Benn Perrurle & Catherine Peattie, 2011, Billy Benn, IAD Press, Alice Springs MARKET ANALYSIS

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  • Billy Benn Perrurle - Featured Artist

    Billy Benn Perrurle was born in the Harts Range, 200 km northeast of Alice Springs. As a young man, he worked in the local mine and learned to paint from a miner's wife, who had been a Chinese watercolourist. Later when he began painting professionally, the influence of Chinese painting traditions was reflected in the scale and perspective of his artworks and their self-assured brushstrokes. Though he painted with acrylics, the colours were arranged like a classic watercolour palette. These were applied as washes before thicker impasto paint was added. Soft pinks, golden yellows, bright oranges, velvet purples, and deep browns were used to create landforms and features. He whipped up skies and laid down slopes and escarpments with fluid single movements. Billy Benn’s art has often been critically located outside of the art world category of fine art. Journalist Nicholas Rothwell was one of many writers to refer to him as an outsider artist, a status conferred due to his stylistically naive approach, his mental condition, and the fact that he was characterised as ‘lost between worlds’. Per Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists: Established in 2000, the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists studio is the first in Australia to occupy the intersection between supported studios and Aboriginal Art Centres. [...] The Mwerre Anthurre Artists developed out of Bindi Enterprises, which was established in 1978 to provide employment and community engagement opportunities to people with disability. In the 1990’s the late Billy Benn Perrurle started his career painting on off-cuts of timber and sheets of metal from the Bindi workshop. From these humble beginnings, the collective grew into an essential and distinctive Aboriginal Art Centre with several artists creating work that is highly sought after by galleries and private collectors alike.

  • AUCTION RESULTS - The Rod Menzies Estate | Indigenous Art Collection | Part II

    It's a Wrap! Two years after his death, the late Rod Menzies’ collection of Australian Aboriginal art has been sold in its entirety. Menzies’ flirtation with Australian Aboriginal art began in 1999, when he hired Melbourne specialist Vivien Anderson to break into the increasingly lucrative Aboriginal art market that had grown from $715,000 in 1994 to $5.4 million. Anderson held only 2 sales in 1999 and 2000. In 2003 Menzies charged Aboriginal art dealer Adrian Newstead with the task of heading Menzies’ Aboriginal art department. In a self-described audacious move, Newstead widened the range of art on offer, securing works through his extensive dealer network. With Christies and Mossgreen entering the market in 2004, Australian Aboriginal art sales grew from $6.9 million at the start of the millennium to $26.5 million by 2007 with 60% generated through Adrian Newstead’s Menzies, and Tim Klingender’s Sotheby’s, sales. In 2008, with the Global Financial Crisis, Newstead, and Menzies parted ways. The art bubble had burst and several competitors departed the field while others were in decline. The secondary market for Aboriginal art dropped year on year until it reached its’ nadir in 2014 at just $5.7 million. Nine years later in 2017, Cooee Art Auctions debuted, with Newstead and then business partner Mirri Leven at the helm. The venture began with a bang when Emily Kngwarreye’s Earth’s Creation I, sold for $2.1 million. The painting, which set the Australian record price for any Aboriginal artwork in 2017, is still the most valuable painting ever sold by any Australian Female artist. In its first year operating as an auction house Cooee’s sales topped $2.6 million. Leven is now sole owner of the gallery and, going forward, head of the auction house. With the death of Rod Menzies in April 2022, the Menzies heirs agreed to entrust Newstead with the task of disbursing the father’s extensive 240 work Aboriginal art collection. Though he had sold his share of Cooee art to Mirri Leven by February 2023, Newstead remained in his position as head specialist on The Rod Menzies deaccession sales Parts I and II, which were held in November 2023 and March 2024. The sales realised a total of $3 million incl BP with 100% of all lots sold.

  • Judy Watson Napangardi

    (c.1925 - 2016) Born on Mt. Doreen Station, north-west of Alice Springs circa 1925, Judy Watson Napangardi grew up in the vast Warlpiri country that lies between the Tanami and Gibson deserts. Her traditional nomadic life came to an end, however, when the Warlpiri were forced to live in the new government settlement at Yuendumu. Years later, following the birth of her ten children amid great struggles living under European colonisation, the influence of those early years in the land of her ancestors burst forth in her art. Her principal focus was the women’s Dreaming of the Karnta-kurlangu – a large number of ancestral women who danced across the land, creating important sites, discovering plants, foods, and medicines, as well as establishing the ceremonies that would perpetuate their generative powers. At Mina Mina, these ancestral women danced and performed ceremonies before traveling on to Janyinki and other sites as they moved east toward Alcoota. During their ritual dancing, digging sticks rose up out of the ground and the women carried these implements with them on their long journey east, singing and dancing all the way without rest. The hairstring is anointed with red ochre and is a secret and sacred connection between the women’s ceremony and the country, which enables them to connect with the spirit of the Dreaming. The Rod Menzies Estate | Indigenous Art Collection | Auction Part II Cooee Art Leven 17 Thurlow Street Redfern Tuesday 5th March 2024 Below are some of Judy Watson Napangardi's artworks that appear in the Rod Menzies Estate Auction Part II

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