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TjangalaUta U Uta Uta Tjangala Uta Uta Tjangala 1926 - 1990 Djangala, Wuta Wuta, Uata Uata, Oata Oata, Yuta Yuta, Tjangala 2, Tjungala, Kumbabi Uta Uta’s painting career and reputation is closely aligned to the artistic renaissance that began at Papunya in 1971. He was a founding member of the men's painting group, inspired other Pintupi tribesmen, and becoming one of the most senior and influential painters amongst the group. Born in Western Australia in Drovers Hills, he made the epic journey to Haasts Bluff with his family during the severe drought of the mid to late 1950’s in the company of Charlie Tarawa. Two years later, after returning to his homelands, he made the journey once more with Timmy Payungka, Pinta Pinta and their families. Employed as a gardener at the Papunya school Uta Uta, then in his 40’s, became one of the original group drawing and painting on composition board with encouragement from art teacher Geoff Bardon. When supplying paints to Uta Uta and his gathering group of enthusiastic friends, Bardon suggested the men use their existing cultural symbols to depict their Dreamings and links to the land. The Pintupi men, having been pushed from their traditional homelands by government policy and European development, painted under a bough shelter behind the camp 'pouring into their work their acute longing for the places depicted … and chanting the song cycles that told the stories of the designs as they worked' (Johnson in Perkins 2000: 190). These early works aroused strong protest within Aboriginal communities when first exhibited in Alice Springs in 1974 because of the disclosure of secret and sacred knowledge. A period of experimentation followed, resulting in the development of a symbolic language of classic ideograms and the characteristic dot covered areas that veil sacred elements from the uninitiated. The large, tribally mixed population of Papunya intensified the interaction, but under the influence of artists like Uta Uta, the painting group was able to break through the political and cultural constraints toward a safer stylistic conformity, and prepare the way for personal and distinctive styles to emerge. Uta Uta in particular, with his exciting and charismatic personality as well as his bold and dynamic style, played a vital role in these developments. Bardon recalled many years later, 'everything that came from him was genuine' (2004: 70). Uta Uta’s 1971 and 1972 paintings generally featured major story elements with only the barest dotted in-fill within the iconography and small sections of the background. The aesthetic balance and harmony of these works is derived through colour and weight rather than by a geometric division of the painted surface. The rather crude dotting and line work of these early paintings on board embues them with an energy and power that is less apparent in his later more technically proficient works. His paintings are far stronger and more powerful when the clean unadorned background remains, unlike paintings by his contemporary Kaapa, whose early works became more aesthetically appealing as he began to in-fill the background. In developing a style that censored the more secret and sacred content in his painting, Uta Uta added more dot-work as the years went by. He painted more Tingari sites completely surrounded by neat dots that became less and less detailed. Despite his advancing age during the late 1970’s he continued to paint as he spent increasing time at outstations west of Papunya and, at the beginning of the 1980’s, he completed what was to become one of the most important and revered works of the entire Western Desert art movement. Yumari 1981, possibly his largest and most significant painting, reveals the mythical Tingari ancestors traveling across vast stretches of country as they create sites and institute rituals. Yumari is a rocky outcrop in his home country and the key ceremonial site of the area. Story elements and natural features blend seamlessly into a beautifully balanced geometry of concentric circles and connecting lines that enclose a central, abstracted figure. This body continues rather than interrupts the intense, minutely dotted background configurations, yet still holds the central focus. The work is characterised by the sinuous movement of converging regular and irregular shapes, accentuated by outlining white dots. The predominant use of an earthy red alongside vivid yellow ochre, further emphasizes the assertive quality in this cohesive and powerful statement of Aboriginal tradition. The work was exhibited at the XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo in 1983 and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Australia. While painting Yumari, important discussions were taking place at Papunya concerning the move back to the Pintupi homelands at Kintore. Land rights legislation during the 1970’s returned ownership of the land to its traditional owners and Uta Uta was a strong advocate for resettlement. The community art advisor had given Uta Uta the large stretched canvas and soon noticed, with some anxiety, that he was sitting cross-legged in the middle of it, singing determinedly as he painted. Eleven of his kinfolk including Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, Charlie Tjapangati and Yala Yala Gibbs later joined him to assist with the dotted infill, and all managed to balance on the wooden struts as they worked and talked excitedly about the practicalities and possibilities of the Kintore outstations. As a direct consequence of this and other art sales, income was generated that enabled Uta Uta to be amongst the first to set himself up with his family on a small outstation west of Kintore, thereby inspiring others to follow his example. The painting movement, given impetus through Uta Uta’s outspoken confidence in his people, had re-ignited a growing pride in their ancient heritage and a communicable enthusiasm for their Dreaming stories. It provided a meaningful world-view that could be passed on to the younger generations, giving them both inner spiritual and outer material resources for their own self-determination. The Western Desert art movement burgeoned, spreading along the lines of kinship and family that ultimately connect all desert communities, allowing an important dialogue to occur between past tradition and the demands of the present. Many of his offspring and immediate family became artists that would carry the baton of desert painting in to the next decade and beyond. They included his wife Walangkura Napanangka and their five children including Shorty Jackson who often assisted his father on the dotted backgrounds of his late career works. Although Uta Uta died in 1990, his work continues as a strong voice within the ongoing dialogue of Western Desert art and, unlike many of his contemporaries who began working with Geoff Bardon, many of his late career works are considered of equal or greater importance than his early boards. This was amply demonstrated when in 1985 Uta Uta won the National Aboriginal Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Despite the success of many of Uta Uta Tjangala’s late career works nine out of his ten highest results are for paintings created during 1971 and 1972 with the only anomoly was created as early as 1975. This is rare in as much as many of the early Papunya artists painted works in the first year of the movement that have failed to ignite collectors interest and their highest results are for works that were executed during the two years following 1971. His record price was set in 2015 when Women’s Dreaming 1972, a 60 x 45 cm board that sold for $103,312 at Sotheby’s in July 2003 (Lot 108) resold at Deutscher & Hackett for $207,400. This displaced the previous record set in 2013 for a work entitled Special Pintupi Travelling Ceremony (1972) which sold at Sotheby's in May for $183,000. Another work, Testicles Going Walkabout also entered his top ten at number six that year. Works painted in 1971 have been by far the most successful in terms of sales rate , however the average price for these, his earliest works, is well below that of his 1972 works. This is consistent with results for others amongst the founding group of desert painters. Only two in five paintings produced during 1973 to 1974 have sold and two in four for 1975 and 1976 works. Aart from one spectacular major work created in 1975 measurng a whopping 373 x 168 cm which sold at Menzies in 2019 for $147,273, it was not until the artist began producing similarly large works on canvas for Papunya Tula during the early 1980s that the auction prices paid for Uta Uta’s paintings increase dramatically. The highest price paid for a 1980s work was the $30,550 achieved by Christies in August 2001 when they sold Men's and Women's Dreaming at Wilkinkarra, a Papunya Tula provenanced work carrying a presale estimate of $18,000-25,000. This currently sits at the lower end of the artist’s top 20 records. 2019 proved to be a really excellent year for this artst with no less than 3 first rate examples of his work on offer. All three entered his career top ten results, which saw him become the 12th most sucessful artist in that year. Clearly, these very large works, and his 1971-2 paintings are his most collectable, with a premium likely for works with Geoffrey Bardon documentation. Very few eary boards have come up for resale other than those that failed to sell when first offered. The rare exception was an excellent 45.5 x 40.5 cm 1972 board Untitled (Two Boys Dreaming) that was passed in at Sotheby’s in July 2006 with a more than reasonable estimate of $40,000-60,000 given the $27,600 it had achieved at Sotheby’s in 1999. Another work, Medicine Story 1971 doubled in value in just three years when sold for $22,800 by Sotheby’s in July 2003 (Lot 169) and when offered once more in 2005 tripled in value to $66,300 when estimated at $20,000-30,000 becoming the artists sixth highest result to date. This is in line with the increasing fortunes of good paintings by this artist. In 2007-2008, nine of the ten paintings on offer sold, lifting his career clearance rate and average price against a downward trend in the market. Uta Uta's eigth highest result was set in 2012 when Mossgreen auctions offered works from the collection of the late USA collector John W Kluge. Big Corroboree with Water Dreaming Sacred Tjuringas, circa 1971/72 carried a presale estimate of $30,000-40,000 and sold for $67,100. Another 1972/73 work from the same collection went for $21,960 while estimated at just $4,000-6,000. As with a number of the early Papunya painters, Uta Uta is remembered for his important place in the genesis of Western Desert painting. Apart from his early works, and the odd larger canvas, his greatest legacy is the movement itself and his many descendants and relatives who have expanded the movement. He, and his small band of male companions, were the nucleus of those who explored horizons during their lifetimes, that expanded far beyond anything they could have imagined after their passing. 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

AbdullaIan W Ian W. Abdulla Ian W. Abdulla 1947 - 2011 Ngarrindjeri artist Ian Abdulla lived all his life at Cobdolga, an early irrigation settlement in the Riverland region of South Australia. The township is located beside the Murray River, it’s name a corruption of Cobdogle, the ‘king’ of the local Aboriginal tribe. Abdulla grew up by the swamp, formed when the system of locks changed the river level, a haven for water birds, especially pelicans. He began painting in the late eighties, a period of cultural renaissance in Cobdolga, due in large to mentorship from art activist and teacher Steve Fox, who had taken an extended break from his role as art adviser at Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land. Abdulla captured the prevailing mood of his community when he told Steve Fox that he couldn’t draw and that his mob had no culture left. ‘That was just on the surface though’, Fox later recalled, ‘it all changed the more we talked' (Fox 1992: 68). Despite Abdulla’s early misgivings about his creative potential, his work evolved and found an appreciative audience. Through his painting Abdulla came to relate the simple narrative stories that recorded his recollections of times and deeds that illuminated the life of the local Aboriginal people living in rural poverty. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, his childhood memories, though simply told, are far from simple and, importantly, are deeply grounded in historical context. It is a perspective that is at once personal and political, though gently so. In time Abdulla became the most successful of the Cobdolga artists. While much of their art was narrative, contemporary and political, Abdulla himself tended away from the overtly political and developed a quieter, more reflective style, which garnered considerable popular attention, and even affection, from the mainstream public. 'I can only paint what I know to be true,' Abdullah said, revealing the sense of authenticity that lends gravitas to his naive painting style. Human figures, tenuous within the painted landscape of mountains, trees, birds and animals, go about their activities integrated within, rather than imposed upon the background. The overall effect is one of continuity between a unique environment and its human inhabitants. Most of his paintings are annotated, and it is the text, centred in the visual forefront of the image, that provides the link between these naive images and the broader historical framework of Aboriginal dispossession and inequity. Although his work has remained stylistically consistent throughout his career, his final paintings departed somewhat from stories of his childhood to address contemporary issues. The vanished river life is replaced by the modern day hardships of life in Cobdolga; alcoholism, unemployment, violence and prison life. The childlike, figurative narrative delivers these stories simply as ‘truth’, recording events with a certain sense of objectivity and largely without judgement. Prominent attention to background surroundings still conveys the sense that human intention is subject to greater forces. In his painting Here is Where the Angels Carried Me to The Front Step When I Was Walking Around the Mission Looking For a Head Strainer 1999, Abdulla left behind the innocence of childhood and tells an adult story of hope and redemption. For an artist who initially maintained that, ‘In the future my paintings won't change much from what they are today‘ (Murphy 1992: 14), this direction is compelling. The lack of artifice always evident in Abdulla’s work reflected his opinion that what ultimately matters more than anything is that these stories are told. The sense that Abdulla was a ‘people’s artist’, and was a storyteller creating works for his own community as much as for a wider audience, has sat relatively comfortably alongside his commercial success and artistic recognition. His representation through Paul Greenaway in Adelaide and the Hogarth Gallery in Sydney was stable and enduring, built upon the same deep personal feelings that he imparted so successfully in his art. Over time he came to occupy a unique position within the broader canon of Aboriginal art as a contemporary voice outside of the ‘urban contemporary’ framework. Ian Abdulla’s work has been recognised in many ways since it gained recognition in the early 1990’s. He was awarded South Australian Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1991 and an Australia Council Fellowship in the following year. On two occasions he was runner up in the National Indigenous Heritage Art Award and in 1996 he won the General Painting section of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. His work has been developed into two popular children’s books that deal with social and environmental issues, As I Grew Older 1993 and Tucker 1994; and attesting to his enduring popularity, his life and art were the subject of the play Riverland directed by Wesley Enoch for the Adelaide Festival in 2007. Ian Abdulla passed away in early 2011 leaving behind this great legacy. Ian Abdulla’s naive narrative paintings have always been popular amongst collectors of contemporary Aboriginal art, as his extremely high success rate implies. It stood at 88% at the end of 2007 and even after several poor years it still stands at 71%. Since his death in 2011, Abdulla’s works are no longer available in the primary market. Paul Greenaway Gallery, Hogarth Galleries and Niagara Galleries held solo shows through the 1990s but since 2003, the secondary market has been the best place to acquire his works and nine of his highest ten results have been achieved since that time. Canvas works average around $9,000 and works on paper $5,000. Three of his highest ten results were achieved in 2003, a year in which no less than 16 works were offered for sale principally at Sotheby’s and Shapiro Auctioneers. That year not a single work failed to find a buyer, however, neither auction house managed to dislodge the $30,550 record set by Christie's in August 2001 for Putting Sprinklers on Tomatoes at Night (Lot 32). This extremely large work measuring 199 x 273 cm, carrying an estimate of $20,000-30,000, is unlikely to be beaten for some time to come. Lawson~Menzies managed to create his second highest result when Out at Night Stealing Pumpkins 1999 sold above the high estimate of $12,000 and achieved $16,800 in May 2007 (Lot 153). And Shapiro Auctioneers hold the record for the highest price achieved for a work on paper at $6,600. The majority of Abdulla’s works have sold through Shapiro Auctioneers and Sotheby’s, which between them have generated nearly half of his sales income. In 2009 Elder Fine Art offered four works at auction, all selling for under the two thousand dollar mark. In part these low prices, well below average, can be attributed to the smallish size of the works, measuring around 60 x 78 cm. However, in May 2003 Untitled (When We Used to Go Camping Down Near Gerard Mission...) measuring just 56 x 76 cm fetched $5,875 for Christie's (Lot 298A). This seeming anomaly is possibly explained by the fact that all were painted during 2008, the year prior to the auction, possibly arriving at auction direct from the artist’s studio. Somewhat tellingly (i) When My Step Brother. Passed Away. . ., 2006. (ii) That Night I Got Pissed 2006, offered by Deutscher and Hackett in 2009, with an estimate of $10,000-15,000 failed to find a buyer. Although no new records entered his top 10 results in 2015, no less than 23 works were offered for sale of which 14 appeared at Shapiro auctions. Though the highest price achieved was just $3,360 and only 15 of these sold, it was enough to make him the 33rd most successful artist that year against his career standing at 75th. While it is unlikely that Ian Abdulla’s paintings will dramatically increase in price they are likely to steadily grow in value due to their charm and general appeal plus his relatively small oeuvre. Very few, if any, have been re-offered for sale and this is testimony to the high regard in which they are held. Collectors who prefer unusual narrative contemporary works should consider this ‘outsider’ artist as one who deserves to be recongized for the special insight that he has given into the life of the marginal and dispossessed Aboriginal ‘fringe dwellers’ who grew up along the Murray and many other rivers in the rural regions from Southern Queensland and the Eastern and Southern states. 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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

Artist Profile for Jillian Nampijinpa Brown < Back Jillian Nampijinpa Brown Jillian Nampijinpa Brown ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE JILLIAN NAMPIJINPA BROWN - NGAPA JUKURRPA (WATER DREAMING) - MIKANJI SOLD AU$950.00 JILLIAN NAMPIJINPA BROWN - NGAPA JUKURRPA (WATER DREAMING) - PIRLINYARNU Sold AU$0.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Jillian Nampijinpa Brown 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 .

PADDINGTON ART PRIZE Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016 October 10 - October 20 2024 PADDINGTON ART PRIZE October 10 - October 20 2024 PADDINGTON ART PRIZE October 10 - October 20 2024 Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016

INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 20 June 2023 INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION 20 June 2023 INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION 20 June 2023 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 We are delighted to announce that our first Indigenous Fine Art auction for 2023 will be held on Tuesday the 20th of June 2023. Once more, the enthusiastic and dedicated team of Cooee Art specialists have assembled a wonderful selection of regionally diverse and historically significant Indigenous paintings, sculptures, and artefacts. These artworks were sourced from collections around Australia, the Americas, and Europe, and will now be offered to our discriminating collectors. This wonderful collection proves, without doubt, that the allure, resilience, and appeal of Australian Aboriginal art is eternal. The sale, consisting of 106 lots with an estimate value of $1.58 – 2.1 million, will be on view at Cooee Art Gallery located in Redfern from Saturday 10th to Tuesday 20th June 2023. VIEW CATALOGUE VIEW AUCTION RESULTS

Artist Profile for Jimmy Nerrimah < Back Jimmy Nerrimah Jimmy Nerrimah ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE JIMMY NERRIMAH - ALL THE JILA TAPU,WAYAMPARJARTI,WALYPA AND WILI Sold AU$0.00 JIMMY NERRIMAH - WALYPA JILA Sold AU$0.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Jimmy Nerrimah 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 .

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