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Paper Country Viewing Room Paper Country PAPER COUNTRY A curated exhibition of prints and paintings on paper Exhibition | 11 October - 2 November 2025 REGISTER YOUR INTEREST EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE - ANOORALYA - WILD YAM DREAMING price AU$18,000.00 GINGER RILEY MUNDUWALAWALA - UNTITLED (WURRU AND MARAWULU) price AU$11,000.00 ROVER THOMAS JOOLAMA - KILLAGURRA (DURBA GORGE) price AU$3,500.00 NETTA LOOGATHA BIRRMUYINGATHI MAALI - MIJILDA price AU$2,500.00 JACK BRITTEN - PURNULULU price AU$1,800.00 ADRIAN JANGALA ROBERTSON- FAMILY PORTRAITS price AU$1,300.00 JANE M TIPUAMANTUMIRRI - WOMEN'S CEREMONY price AU$1,000.00 VALERIE WEST - WATERLILY DREAMING price AU$700.00 LORNA KANTILLA - JUKWARRINGA price AU$500.00 DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 3, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 BROOK ANDREW - FRONTIER LIGHTS price AU$8,000.00 LIN ONUS - REFLECTION IN PEBBLES price AU$3,500.00 AMY RAYARRIWARRTHARRBAYINGATHI MINGUNGURRA LOOGATHA - BADA WARRKU -LATE AFT ... price AU$2,500.00 BENJAMIN LANDARA - UNTITLED price AU$1,750.00 DOROTHY NAPANGARDI - KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA price AU$1,200.00 JANE M TIPUAMANTUMIRRI - WOMEN'S CEREMONY Sold AU$1,000.00 DORIS BUSH NUNGARRAYI - WILINYI IKUNTIJI (HUNTING AT HAASTS BLUFF) price AU$650.00 CONWAY GINGER - MOTOR BIKE price AU$260.00 DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 2, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 LIN ONUS - PITOA GARKMAN price AU$4,800.00 NETTA LOOGATHA BIRRMUYINGATHI MAALI - MIJILDA price AU$2,500.00 ROVER JOOLAMA THOMAS - LAKE TOBIN price AU$1,850.00 RICHARD MOKETARINJA - UNTITLED price AU$1,400.00 DORIS BUSH NUNGARRAYI - BUSH MANGARRI TJUTA price AU$1,000.00 FREDDIE TIMMS - PURNULULU – (PICCANINNY GORGE) price AU$775.00 LORNA KANTILLA - JUKWARRINGA price AU$500.00 EXWOP25

Paper Country Paper Country Paper Country PAPER COUNTRY A curated exhibition of prints and paintings on paper Exhibition | 11 October - 2 November 2025 REGISTER YOUR INTEREST EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE - ANOORALYA - WILD YAM DREAMING price AU$18,000.00 GINGER RILEY MUNDUWALAWALA - UNTITLED (WURRU AND MARAWULU) price AU$11,000.00 ROVER THOMAS JOOLAMA - KILLAGURRA (DURBA GORGE) price AU$3,500.00 NETTA LOOGATHA BIRRMUYINGATHI MAALI - MIJILDA price AU$2,500.00 JACK BRITTEN - PURNULULU price AU$1,800.00 ADRIAN JANGALA ROBERTSON- FAMILY PORTRAITS price AU$1,300.00 JANE M TIPUAMANTUMIRRI - WOMEN'S CEREMONY price AU$1,000.00 VALERIE WEST - WATERLILY DREAMING price AU$700.00 LORNA KANTILLA - JUKWARRINGA price AU$500.00 DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 3, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 BROOK ANDREW - FRONTIER LIGHTS price AU$8,000.00 LIN ONUS - REFLECTION IN PEBBLES price AU$3,500.00 AMY RAYARRIWARRTHARRBAYINGATHI MINGUNGURRA LOOGATHA - BADA WARRKU -LATE AFT ... price AU$2,500.00 BENJAMIN LANDARA - UNTITLED price AU$1,750.00 DOROTHY NAPANGARDI - KARNTAKURLANGU JUKURRPA price AU$1,200.00 JANE M TIPUAMANTUMIRRI - WOMEN'S CEREMONY Sold AU$1,000.00 DORIS BUSH NUNGARRAYI - WILINYI IKUNTIJI (HUNTING AT HAASTS BLUFF) price AU$650.00 CONWAY GINGER - MOTOR BIKE price AU$260.00 DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 2, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 LIN ONUS - PITOA GARKMAN price AU$4,800.00 NETTA LOOGATHA BIRRMUYINGATHI MAALI - MIJILDA price AU$2,500.00 ROVER JOOLAMA THOMAS - LAKE TOBIN price AU$1,850.00 RICHARD MOKETARINJA - UNTITLED price AU$1,400.00 DORIS BUSH NUNGARRAYI - BUSH MANGARRI TJUTA price AU$1,000.00 FREDDIE TIMMS - PURNULULU – (PICCANINNY GORGE) price AU$775.00 LORNA KANTILLA - JUKWARRINGA price AU$500.00 EXWOP25

Mother's Story Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Viewing Room Mother's Story Dorcas Tinamayi Bennett Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Mother’s Story Dorcas Tinamayi Bennett 29 November - 13 December Presented in collaboration with Warakurna Art Centre Across the red-dune country between Tjukurla and Warakurna, stories move through families like breath. They are held, carried and renewed through generations, paintings shaped by what is seen and what is inherited. Mother’s Story honours the legacy of Dorcas Bennett’s mother, the revered painter and senior law woman Nyurupayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett), while affirming Dorcas’s own custodianship of the Tjukurrpa she carries forward. Born in the bush at Wurturu rockhole near Docker River, Dorcas’s early life unfolded through constant movement across Country, walking into Warburton Mission, then to Warakurna, Tjukurla, Amata and Areyonga, and the trauma of fleeing Maralinga fallout. These journeys shaped her memory and her art, culminating in the establishment of the Warakurna art centre in 2005, where she began painting and now serves as Chairperson. Her mother, Nyurupayia Nampitjinpa, grew up traditionally at Pangkupirri and lived without contact with white people until her teens. A healer and a woman of formidable ritual authority, she became one of the great painters of the Western Desert, her powerful canvases rooted in rockholes, sandhills and women’s law. Her works sit in the nation’s most important public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, NGV, AGNSW, AGSA and QAGOMA. The paintings in Mother’s Story extend this lineage. Dorcas paints the rockholes, sandhills, women’s journeys and water sources between Tjukurla, Yumarra and Warakurna, stories she holds as cultural obligation as much as artistic subject. As the final custodian of these narratives, her canvases re-energise her mother’s Tjukurrpa with urgency and devotion. Together they form a portrait of matrilineal resilience, celebrating the women who carried knowledge through displacement, mission life, nuclear fallout and cultural disruption, ensuring it lives on through painting, family and Country. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ExDorcas25

Mother's Story Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Mother's Story Dorcas Tinamayi Bennett Mother's Story Dorcas Tinamayi Bennett Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Mother’s Story Dorcas Tinamayi Bennett 29 November - 13 December Presented in collaboration with Warakurna Art Centre Across the red-dune country between Tjukurla and Warakurna, stories move through families like breath. They are held, carried and renewed through generations, paintings shaped by what is seen and what is inherited. Mother’s Story honours the legacy of Dorcas Bennett’s mother, the revered painter and senior law woman Nyurupayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett), while affirming Dorcas’s own custodianship of the Tjukurrpa she carries forward. Born in the bush at Wurturu rockhole near Docker River, Dorcas’s early life unfolded through constant movement across Country, walking into Warburton Mission, then to Warakurna, Tjukurla, Amata and Areyonga, and the trauma of fleeing Maralinga fallout. These journeys shaped her memory and her art, culminating in the establishment of the Warakurna art centre in 2005, where she began painting and now serves as Chairperson. Her mother, Nyurupayia Nampitjinpa, grew up traditionally at Pangkupirri and lived without contact with white people until her teens. A healer and a woman of formidable ritual authority, she became one of the great painters of the Western Desert, her powerful canvases rooted in rockholes, sandhills and women’s law. Her works sit in the nation’s most important public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, NGV, AGNSW, AGSA and QAGOMA. The paintings in Mother’s Story extend this lineage. Dorcas paints the rockholes, sandhills, women’s journeys and water sources between Tjukurla, Yumarra and Warakurna, stories she holds as cultural obligation as much as artistic subject. As the final custodian of these narratives, her canvases re-energise her mother’s Tjukurrpa with urgency and devotion. Together they form a portrait of matrilineal resilience, celebrating the women who carried knowledge through displacement, mission life, nuclear fallout and cultural disruption, ensuring it lives on through painting, family and Country. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ExDorcas25

Art Leven collects, curates and exhibits artworks by emerging, mid-career and established artists for more than 40 years. 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 (Emily Kam Kngwarray) 1909 - 1996 Neil Ernest Tomkins LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI 1930 - 2018 Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori c.1924 - 2015 Rover Julama Thomas 1926 - 1998 Dorothy Robinson Napangardi 1956 - 2013 Carol Puruntatameri 1959 - Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri 1933 - 2002 Kitty Napanangka Simon 1948 - 2024 Munhala Dhamarrandji 1978 Lin Onus 1948 - 1996 KONSTANTINA Alison (Jojo) Puruntatameri 1984 - Artists with available Artworks Filter by: Abie Jumbyinmba Tjangala Ada Pula Beasley Adrian Jangala Robertson Alan Jameison Alexandrina Kantilla Amy Loogatha 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 Biddy Long Bill Tjapaltjarri Whiskey Blak Douglas 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 Danie Mellor David Jarinyanu Downs Delores Tipuamantumirri Dhuwarrwarr Marika Djawida Nadjongorle Dorit Escott Dr David Daymirringu Malangi Edwin Pareroultja Eleazer Nangukwirrk Elizabeth Nungarrayi Ross Emily Kame Kngwarreye (Emily Kam Kngwarray) 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 LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI Langaliki Lewis Laurie Gowanulli Leo Melpi Liddy Napanangka Walker Lilly Napangardi Kelly Lily Sandover Kngwarrey Lindsay Bird Mpetyane Lloyd Kwilla Loretta Jones Lorna Napurrula Fencer Lucy Napanangka Yukenbarri Magda Nakamarra Curtis Manuel Pampkal Margaret Ngilan Dodd Margot Gurawiliwili Maringka Baker Mary Teresa Tailor Maureen Thompson Merinda Johnson Abie Kemarre Loy Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri Agnes Napanangka Donnelly Albert Namatjira Alice Nampijinpa Michaels Andrea Adamson Angelina Pwerle Ngal Ann Nyankulya Cleary-Farell Antonia Napangardi Michaels Arnulf Ebatarinja Artist Once Known Bai Bai Napangardi Barney Ellaga Benjamin Landara Bernice Perdjert Betty Bundamurra Beverly Cameron Biddy Long Nungurrayi Billy Benn Perrurle Bonnie Nakara Connelly 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 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 Lamangirra #2 Gumana Lanita Numina Napananka Lee Nangala Gallagher Leon Russell Black Lillian Kerinaiua Lily Karadada Lin Onus Lisa Uhl Lofty Nabardayal Nadjamerrek Lorna Kantilla Lorraine Austin Mabel Wiringgoon Julie Maggie Watson Napangardi Margaret Nangala Gallagher Margaret Nungarrayi Martin Maria Murdilnga Mary Dalpanany Mary Thomas Melissa Napangardi Williams Mervyn Street Ada Bird Petyarre Adolf Inkamala Alan Griffiths Albury Jangala Dixon Alison (Jojo) Puruntatameri Andrea Nungarrayi Wilson Angelina George Anna Price Petyarre Anyupa Stevens Arone Raymond Meeks Artists Once Known Barbara Weir Belinda Golder Kngwarreye Bernadine Johnson Beryl Jimmy Betty Carrington Biddee Baadjo Biddy Napanangka Timms Billy Joongarra Thomas 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 Bell Debbie Napaljarri Brown Dhambit II Wanambi Dickie Minyintiri Dora Griffiths 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 Lance James Larritjpira Munungurr Lena Pwerle Leston Japaljarri Spencer Lilly Kemarre Morton Lily Lion Kngwarrey Lindsay Bird Lloyd Jampijinpa Brown Lola Nampijinpa Brown Lorna Napanangka Ward Louise Numina Napananka Madigan Thomas Manini Gumana Margaret Napangardi Brown Margaret Wallace Marilyn Maria Nangala Turner Mary Napangardi Gallagher Maureen Baker Melissa Nungarrayi Larry Michael Jalaru Torres 2 Page 1 Non gallery Artists

Unbreakable Spirits Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Viewing Room Unbreakable Spirits Artists from Spinifex Hill Studio, WA Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Unbreakable Spirits Artists from Spinifex Hill Studio, WA 13 December 2025 - 17 January 2026 Art Afternoon | Saturday 13 December | between 2pm - 5pm “Unbreakable Spirits is a celebration of strength, resilience, and creative expression. Featuring works by all female artists from Spinifex Hill Studio – representing a rich diversity of language groups and cultural backgrounds – this exhibition showcases the power of intergenerational Indigenous art across a wide variety of styles and stories. These are women whose voices resonate through every brushstroke – award-winning and critically acclaimed, yet grounded in lived experience and generations worth of enduring and upholding cultural knowledge. These works reflect the unshakable spirit of artists from deeply personal narratives to bold explorations of Country, identity and memory. Together, their art tells a shared story of determination, connection, and unbreakable spirit.” REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ExSpinifex25

Unbreakable Spirits Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Unbreakable Spirits Artists from Spinifex Hill Studio, WA Unbreakable Spirits Artists from Spinifex Hill Studio, WA Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Unbreakable Spirits Artists from Spinifex Hill Studio, WA 13 December 2025 - 17 January 2026 Art Afternoon | Saturday 13 December | between 2pm - 5pm “Unbreakable Spirits is a celebration of strength, resilience, and creative expression. Featuring works by all female artists from Spinifex Hill Studio – representing a rich diversity of language groups and cultural backgrounds – this exhibition showcases the power of intergenerational Indigenous art across a wide variety of styles and stories. These are women whose voices resonate through every brushstroke – award-winning and critically acclaimed, yet grounded in lived experience and generations worth of enduring and upholding cultural knowledge. These works reflect the unshakable spirit of artists from deeply personal narratives to bold explorations of Country, identity and memory. Together, their art tells a shared story of determination, connection, and unbreakable spirit.” REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ExSpinifex25

FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION Tuesday 18th November 2025 AEDT 7:00pm Viewing Room FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION Tuesday 18th November 2025 AEDT 7:00pm First Nations Fine Art Auction Auction Tuesday 18th 2025 | 7pm AEDT Auction Type: Hybrid We are delighted to welcome you to Art Leven’s First Nations Fine Art Auction , held in our Redfern gallery on 18 November 2025 . This marks an important step forward for Australian auctions, introducing two pioneering models, Priority Bidding and the Hybrid Auction model designed to make collecting fairer, more flexible, and more connected than ever before. Priority Bidding rewards early engagement, offering collectors a reduced buyer’s premium of 15% (normally 25%) when leaving a binding absentee bid at least 48 hours before the auction. Inspired by the recent Phillips model in New York, it promotes a more equitable and efficient collecting experience. Our Hybrid Auction Model merges the accessibility of online participation with the excitement of a live sale. Conducted in real time from Redfern, all bidding takes place remotely via phone, absentee, or online, ensuring collectors across Australia and beyond can participate without geographical barriers. Reflecting shifts in the international market, this season’s auction focuses on timeless works of cultural and aesthetic significance. Highlights include Rover Joolama Thomas’ Bow River Station (Lot 4) and Yillimbiddi Country (Lot 36), Alma Webou Kalaju ’s monumental Pinkalarta (Lot 49), and Dorothy Napangardi ’s Karntakurlangu (Lot 39). A major feature is the strong selection of bark paintings (Lots 21–33, 57–68), celebrating the extraordinary diversity of Australia’s Top End and the renewed global appreciation for this important art medium. We invite you to join us for our extended viewing and to experience, firsthand, the future of collecting with Priority Bidding and the Hybrid Auction . Read full introduction here VIEW RESULTS VIEW PDF CATALOGUE Auction 18

FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION Tuesday 18th November 2025 AEDT 7:00pm FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION Tuesday 18th November 2025 AEDT 7:00pm FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION Tuesday 18th November 2025 AEDT 7:00pm First Nations Fine Art Auction Auction Tuesday 18th 2025 | 7pm AEDT Auction Type: Hybrid We are delighted to welcome you to Art Leven’s First Nations Fine Art Auction , held in our Redfern gallery on 18 November 2025 . This marks an important step forward for Australian auctions, introducing two pioneering models, Priority Bidding and the Hybrid Auction model designed to make collecting fairer, more flexible, and more connected than ever before. Priority Bidding rewards early engagement, offering collectors a reduced buyer’s premium of 15% (normally 25%) when leaving a binding absentee bid at least 48 hours before the auction. Inspired by the recent Phillips model in New York, it promotes a more equitable and efficient collecting experience. Our Hybrid Auction Model merges the accessibility of online participation with the excitement of a live sale. Conducted in real time from Redfern, all bidding takes place remotely via phone, absentee, or online, ensuring collectors across Australia and beyond can participate without geographical barriers. Reflecting shifts in the international market, this season’s auction focuses on timeless works of cultural and aesthetic significance. Highlights include Rover Joolama Thomas’ Bow River Station (Lot 4) and Yillimbiddi Country (Lot 36), Alma Webou Kalaju ’s monumental Pinkalarta (Lot 49), and Dorothy Napangardi ’s Karntakurlangu (Lot 39). A major feature is the strong selection of bark paintings (Lots 21–33, 57–68), celebrating the extraordinary diversity of Australia’s Top End and the renewed global appreciation for this important art medium. We invite you to join us for our extended viewing and to experience, firsthand, the future of collecting with Priority Bidding and the Hybrid Auction . Read full introduction here VIEW RESULTS VIEW PDF CATALOGUE Auction 18

Artist Profile for Jacob Jungarrayi Spencer < Back Jacob Jungarrayi Spencer Jacob Jungarrayi Spencer ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Jacob Jungarrayi Spencer ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

WainburrangaPaddy Paddy Fordham Wainburranga Paddy Fordham Wainburranga 1941 - 2006 During his lifetime, renowned artist, dancer, didgeridoo player, and storyteller Paddy Fordham Wainburranga embodied the living history of the people of Australia’s far north. Born in the bush at Bumdubu, near Bulman, north-east of Katherine, Paddy lived a totally traditional life learning the ancient customs and Dreamtime stories from his father and uncles. He first encountered whites at the age of eleven when, with European settlement encroaching on their lands, the Rembarrnga people were settled at Maningrida. Paddy began working as a stockman while still a young man on many of the stations throughout the Top End and it was not until the 1970’s when, settled once more at Maningrida, Paddy began to paint for the nascent Arts and Crafts Centre. Having learnt traditional bark painting from his father and being steeped in ancient stories, his innovative talent for formulating narrative sequences in a manner both authentic and accessible won him quick recognition. In time he became the senior elder of the Rembarrnga people and divided his time between making artworks and leading the Rembarrnga in important ceremonial activities throughout the Northern Territory. After leaving Maningrida and setting up his outstation further south near Bulman, Paddy Fordham was instrumental in helping to establish Mimi Arts and Crafts in Katherine. Later he created many of his finest paintings and sculptures while working with Aboriginal entrepreneur Glen Bird, who encouraged him to concentrate on major thematic works. The finest of these were exhibited at Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery in Sydney during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and sold to collections as diverse as the National Museum of Australia, the National Maritime Museum, the Australian War Memorial and the National Gallery of Australia. His major works of this period provided a unique Aboriginal interpretation of relations between black and white that artfully refigured history in the national imagination. These large barks and works on paper included magnificent narrative paintings entitled Too Many Captain Cooks, The Coming of the Welfare System, World War II Supply Ships, How World War II Began, and Macassan Traders. Human history is about cultures meeting the influences and conflicts that inevitably give rise to change. In the film Too Many Captain Cooks (1988) and bark paintings of the same name, Paddy Fordham gave an alternative view of the sequence of events following the ‘discovery’ of Australia by Captain Cook. History is re-examined in terms of his people’s understanding of it. Every piece of land was already spoken for in their oral history and song cycles. His narratives reveal a new layer of history, a rich source of creative initiative and spiritual sustenance. The enthusiastic public response to the film and related works attested to their timely importance. Not only did they re-align Aboriginal identity with its origins, but they deepened the possibilities for all Australians to explore and inhabit a unique country and character. Despite being best known for his history paintings, Paddy Fordham’s most enduring contribution to Australian art and the preservation of Aboriginal culture are his large narrative depictions of traditional Rembarrnga myths and legends created on bark and Arches paper and carved into wood. In his clearly delineated, elongated figures and ceremonial designs, Paddy presented an insight into ancient Aboriginal beliefs. In major narrative paintings he related how Aboriginal life began, how his people became divided into moieties and skin groups, what ‘pay back’ means, and how the clan system works including human relationship with the spirits, with nature, and with each other. Amongst a large number of other traditional stories, Paddy related the adventures of Gurrdunyu the Moon Man, Waditj the Rock Man, Gollomomo the Crocodile Man, Kollo Kollo the Left Handed Man and many many others. A favourite theme was depictions and stories associated with Balangalngalan. These ambiguous beings are responsible for seeing that things in the human world go in accordance with the will of the Spirits. They are said to be half-human, half-spirit, with the power to transform at will. They are wise and provide guidance and healing, often appearing in the form of animals or birds, but generally living as humans, and sometimes taking the role of witch doctor. However, they have been known at times to abduct unattended babies or straying children as a means of recruiting new members and can become quite strict when customs are not faithfully observed. So, like all other-worldly powers, they have a frightening aspect and must be heeded with great respect. They are spirits that are woven into the kinship system as inextricable links in a holistic cosmology. Paddy’s prominence was further enhanced when he was chosen to participate in the bicentennial celebrations of 1988. He produced 23 of the 200 painted, hollow, log coffins now permanently housed in the National Gallery of Australia, as a memorial to the Aboriginal lives lost since European colonization. During his lifetime Paddy’s works were included in landmark exhibitions in Australia, the UK, USA, and Germany and were the subject of several films, biographies and books. In 1989 he won the award for the best artwork in open media and, in 1993 was awarded first prize in the National Aboriginal Art Award offered by the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin. During the later part of his life, Paddy Fordham gave up painting major thematic works, and showed a preference for simpler, less cluttered imagery that appealed to the many visitors to the Katherine area, where his work was featured as a mural on the outer walls of the tourist information centre. He became the unofficial Aboriginal ambassador of the region, introducing visitors to the didgeridoo and delighting them with his stories related with good humour and raffish charm. Paddy Fordham was one of Aboriginal Australia’s most unique and accessible characters who left an artistic legacy comprising many fascinating paintings and sculptures, but also a great number of perfunctory works. His highest record of $55,200 was achieved for a collection of six large bark paintings, each of which would have been individually valued at between $5,000 and $20,000.These depicted the Payback System, Balangnangalang, Kinship, the Chicken Hawk and the Python, and Marriage. The collection was commissioned in 1987 by Glen Bird and held by a private owner for 20 years prior to sale. These magnificent works were spread across a four page layout in Lawson~Menzies November 2007 sale (Lot 65), an unusual and rather extravagant advertisment for a lot which was estimated at just $55,000-60,000. Other than this collection, Paddy Fordham’s highest price is $15,600 and only four works in total have exceeded $10,000 in value. This is disappointing for an artist who was capable of major works. However, many of his finest pieces were collected by institutions, or were painted in acrylic paint on full sheets of Arches cotton rag board. The Aboriginal art market in general, and auction houses in particular, have been reluctant to accept this medium in the place of traditional earth pigment on Eucalyptus bark. Paddy’s sculptural depictions of Balangalngalan Spirits occupy three of his highest five results at auction and ten of his top 20.The most successful of these was a magnificent 287 cm high sculpture with a splendid feather plume crowning its head, purchased directly from the artist by the former owners of the Katherine Hotel. Paddy Fordham’s best year at auction was 2007 when a staggering 22 works were offered for sale of which 18 sold for a total of $114,720. Compare this to the following year when just three works were offered of which two sold. The reason, however, is simple. Lawson~Menzies withdrew from specialist auctions at the end of 2007 and they were the unparalleled champions of Paddy Fordhams work, having sold 26 lots for a total value of $171,467. Their closest competitors have been Elder Fine Art with seven offerings, Deutscher~Menzies and Lawsons with six a piece. Mysteriously Sotheby’s are yet to offer a single work by this artist, whose work is in many of the most important state and national institutional collections. Go figure! Explore our artworks See some of our featured artworks below ANGELINA PWERLE NGAL - UNTITLED ( BUSH RAISIN MAN) Price AU$3,000.00 ALISON (JOJO) PURUNTATAMERI - WINGA (TIDAL MOVEMENT/WAVES) Out of stock LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI - KURLURRNGALINYPA JUKURRPA Price From AU$13,500.00 BRONWYN BANCROFT - UNTITLED Out of stock JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE Price AU$8,500.00 BOOK - KONSTANTINA - GADIGAL NGURA Price From AU$99.00 FREDDIE TIMMS - MOONLIGHT VALLEY Price AU$35,000.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - BURN THERE, DON'T BURN THERE Price AU$7,000.00 SHOP NOW