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

Artist Profile for Joshua Bonson < Back Joshua Bonson Joshua Bonson REGION: Cairns, Far North Queensland, with family ties to The Torres Strait LANGUAGE: Jawoyn and Kala Lagaw Ya (Mabuiag) ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS Joshua Bonson’s works are as much about the act of painting as they are the subject. Bonson’s palette knife, hands and brushes become an extension of his body, mind and spirit. A way of processing emotions and telling a story. A contemporary artist who shares stories of his Indigenous heritage passed onto him by his father and grandfather through his work. READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN / SUNSET 2 SOLD AU$12,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - GOLDEN SANDS SOLD AU$9,600.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE SOLD AU$8,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$7,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: MY TOTEM SOLD AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: SHIFTING TIDES SOLD AU$5,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$5,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SUNSET II SOLD AU$4,900.00 JOSHUA BONSON - INSPIRATION SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: ARAFURA SEA SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: KOEDAL SALTWATER CROCODILE SOLD AU$2,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$2,200.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$1,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$600.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$600.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: LAND, WATER, US SOLD AU$9,600.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - ABSTRACTION SOLD AU$8,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - OCEAN SHADES SOLD AU$8,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$7,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$6,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$5,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - GIANT CLAM SOLD AU$5,200.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: OCEANS RHYTHM SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$4,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: KOEDAL SALTWATER CROCODILE SOLD AU$3,000.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME (OCTET) SOLD AU$2,500.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$2,400.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME SOLD AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN - MOVING THROUGH MONOCHROME Sold AU$1,650.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: OCEAN'S RHYTHM TORRES STRAIT SOLD AU$800.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$600.00 JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN SOLD AU$600.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Joshua Bonson REGION: Cairns, Far North Queensland, with family ties to The Torres Strait LANGUAGE: Jawoyn and Kala Lagaw Ya (Mabuiag) Joshua Bonson’s works are as much about the act of painting as they are the subject. Bonson’s palette knife, hands and brushes become an extension of his body, mind and spirit. A way of processing emotions and telling a story. A contemporary artist who shares stories of his Indigenous heritage passed onto him by his father and grandfather through his work. ‘In our culture, there is a connection between people and families; kinship that can’t be described or translated in English. I capture those ties in my works, with my markings and the strokes of the brush. My heritage guides the stories captured. Textured streaks of acrylic create an element of flow, scaled perfection, they tell a personal story, a portrayal of uniqueness, solidarity, and an acknowledgement of bloodlines.’ Creating art for Bonson is a discipline where he has no boundaries and is free to experiment and explore the levels of creativity and master techniques. A space where he thrives and the canvas becomes the medium for which he portrays his inner thoughts and emotions; while inviting viewers to interpret and connect with the artwork on a personal level. ‘I create works to connect, to open windows into other people’s thoughts and to have them tell me what they see and feel. An opportunity for the audience to use their imagination to find something in my work that makes them think, feel, experience, and maybe share that with someone else. I want my works to generate stories that people connect over or around; I love hearing what people see in my paintings. Each work is a unique, with its own personality. They are all a part of me, enabling me to express myself, tell a story, start a conversation.’ Thick slabs of paint applied generously float on watery surfaces, alluding to his people and totem, the saltwater crocodile. Sections of landscape, closeups, memories of places and times gone past and family. Each painting is unique showcasing his visual language, portraying its own personality with the use of texture, movement and colour. Culture plays an important part in Joshua’s life and his art. ‘My great grandmother was from The Torres Strait islands and her eldest son was my grandfather, Donald Bonson. He told me everything is connected, the land, the water and us. Like the crocodile, we are saltwater people with an ancient lineage. Bonson also traces his ancestry through his great-great grandmother Dolly Bonson, a Jawoyn woman from Katherine who was also known as Bett-Bett the servant girl featured in We of the Never- Never and The Little Black princess books by Jeannie Gunn. In 2025, Joshua relocated from Darwin to live in Cairns Far North Queensland reconnecting with family and his ancestral home in the Torres Strait, the shift has been life changing as well as a homecoming as a part of him has always existed on the islands, on each of his artworks. Bonson is an award-winning artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally and his work is held in prominent collections including The National Gallery of Australia, Kerry Stokes, The Owen and Wagner Collection / Hood Museum of Art – Hanover, NH, USA, Wheelock Properties Collection, Toga Group and Art Bank to name but a few. Accolades have followed Bonson since the age of 18 when he was the youngest ever finalist in the prestigious 24th & 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award (2007 & 2008). He has been the winner of the Togart Contemporary Art Award (2011), Top End NAIDOC artist of the year (2013), Young Achievers Award NT & Artist of the year (2014) as well as a finalist in the 30th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (2013), City of Albany Art Prize, WA (2013), Churchie Art Award QLD (2015) and The Alice Prize, NT (2020). ARTIST CV SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2025 SKIN Art Leven Sydney, NSW 2023 / 2024 SKIN Standing in my ancestors footsteps, Art Leven Sydney, NSW 2021 SKIN To Connect - To Open Windows, Cooee Art Gallery, Redfern, NSW 2018 SKIN Cooee Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW 2016 SKIN Garrmalang Festival Darwin, Darwin Entertainment Centre, NT 2014 SKIN ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore 2013 SKIN 24hour Art, Darwin, NT 2012 SKIN Harvison Gallery, Perth, WA 2011 SKIN Harvison Gallery, Perth, WA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2023 Paul Johnson Gallery, Darwin NT 2021 NOTFAIR 2021 Melbourne, VIC 2020 Sydney Contemporary 2020 - Video & Exhibition 2020 Finalist: The Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT 2020 20/20 Group exhibition – 20 Artists from across Australia 2020 – Cooee Gallery NSW 2019 Sydney Contemporary, NSW 2018 Connections Exhibition: - Power House Museum, Sydney, NSW 2018 Garrmalang Festival Darwin, Group Exhibition, Darwin Entertainment Centre, NT 2015 Finalist: Churchie Art Award, Brisbane, QLD 2014 135th Meridian East, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Lion Arts Centre, SA 2013 2013 Joshua Bonson SKIN and Richard Bell 24hour Art Space Parap, Darwin, NT 2013 Finalist: 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award - NT 2013 Finalist: City of Albany Art Prize, Albany, WA 2011 Winner: Togart Contemporary Art Award, Darwin, NT 2010 Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Art Fair 2010, Melbourne VIC Participated as a selected artist 2008 Finalist: 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award – NT 2007 Finalist: 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award – NT SELECTED COMMISSIONS: TOGA Group Vibe Hotel, Germany, COX Architects, Canberra, ACT, Rydges Hotel, Palmerston, NT, University of Sydney AMMRF AWARDS + GRANTS: 2020 Finalist: The Alice Prize, NT 2015 Bundanon Trust Artist Retreat, NSW Ervin Vidor ( Scholarship ) 2015 Finalist: Churchie Art Award, Brisbane, QLD 2014 Winner: Young Achievers Award NT 2014 2014 Winner: Young Achievers Award NT - Artist of the year 2014 2013 Winner: Top End NAIDOC Artist of the Year 2014 2013 Finalist: City of Albany Contemporary Art Prize, WA 2013 Finalist: 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, NT 2013 NT Arts Grant – Travel to Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra educational trip with curators and referees Hetti Perkins, Brenda Croft, Tina Baum, Chips Mackinolty and Bruce Johnson Mclean (Grant) 2011 Winner: TOGART Contemporary Art Award, NT ( winner ) 2008 Finalist: 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, NT 2007 Finalist: 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, NT SELECTED COLLECTIONS: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Churchie Collection, Brisbane, QLD TOGA Contemporary Art Collection Australia & Berlin Peter Cooke Collection, QLD PricewaterhouseCoopers, Perth, WA Art Bank Collection, Sydney, NSW Somerville Community Services Inc Collection. NT Wheelock Properties Collection, Singapore The Owen and Wagner Collection / Hood Museum of Art Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, WA H.M & R.A Horton Collection, QLD & New Zealand / Art Gallery of NSW Arthur Roe Collection, VIC Varga / Coombs Collection NSW 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 .

MIRDIDINGKINGATHI JUWARNDA SALLY GABORI Cooee Art Redfern From 25 March to 10 April 2021 MIRDIDINGKINGATHI JUWARNDA SALLY GABORI Artists: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori From 25 March to 10 April 2021 MIRDIDINGKINGATHI JUWARNDA SALLY GABORI Artists: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori From 25 March to 10 April 2021 Cooee Art Redfern Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori was a leader of the Lardil people in the Kaiadilt community in tropical far north Queensland. She had little exposure to fine art, or any comparable form of mark-making prior to taking up painting in 2005 at 81 years of age. Kaiadilt traditional tools, objects, and bodies were scarcely painted. Their only recorded art was a group of drawings made at the request of ethnologist Norman B Tindale during his expedition to Bentinck Island in 1960, now housed in the South Australian Museum. Gabori painted meaningful sites, on Bentinck Island associated with tidal movement, seasonal change, and major climatic events such as drought and flood. She was mindful of the ebb and flow of life over all the seasons that made up her long life. As Djon Mundine eloquently put it. ‘Her works can be thought of as a memory walk, and a mapping of the physical and social memory of her long life on Bentinck Island’. Djon Mundine, The Road to Bentinck Island: Sally Gabori, in The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally Gabori, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2015 VIEW CATALOGUE EX ?

TjapaltjarriTommy Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri 1935 - 1987 Lowry was one of the foundation members of the Papunya Tula painting group to work with Geoffrey Bardon. He does not, however, appear as a profiled artist amongst those discussed in the ‘lives of the artist’ chapter in Bardon’s seminal book Papunya: A Place Made after a Story. Vivien Johnson speculated in her book 'The lives of Papunya Tula Atists' (2008: 115) that this may be due to the fact that 'Tommy No. 4 (Tjtjuwinya) Tjapaltjarri, whom Geoffrey Bardon described as a young man who occasionally painted with the group, was the same man as Tommy Lowry.' Johnson herself pays Lowry more attention, perhaps due to the stellar sale of Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya 1984 for $576,000 at auction during the year immediately preceding her important publication. Tommy came from Patjarr country in the Clutterbuck Hills. He was connected, in a rather intricate web to a number of other Papunya artists, including his older brother, Dr George and wife Carol Nampitjinpa, who began painting for Papunya in 2002. His early paintings feature classic Tingari iconography in earthy ochre tones such as Untitled - Ceremonial Design 1971. However, his major works at auction were created late in his life, close to his passing in the late 1980s. His most acclaimed work Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya 1984 has become emblematic since its inclusion in the groundbreaking 1988 exhibition Dreamings, The art of Aboriginal Australia, curated by the South Australian Museum for the Asia Society in New York. The exhibition subsequently toured venues through the United States and Australia. The painting relates to a creation story associated with country south-west of Kintore. Two traditional healers (ngangkaris) also referred to as Wati Kutjarra travelled through the area and sat chewing native tobacco. It was however so strong that they lay down and died sprawled on their backs with their legs wide apart on the sand. Their bodies began to urinate and so great was the flow that the ground became saturated and a great salt lake was formed. Today the lake is called Kumpurkurra (bad urine). Once the lake formed the men came back to life and travelled throughout the area having further adventures. Tommy Lowry began his artistic career carving wooden implements and traditional weapons. Though only an occasional painter for Papunya Tula, he quickly insinuated himself and became notable as a highly talented artist with an individual style. Works created during the early 1970s are extremely rare, however, and only the occasional piece from later in his career appears at sale, making them highly desirable and collectable. Until the 24th of July 2007 Tommy Lowry's auction results had him languishing well behind his contemporaries amongst the early Papunya painters. The repeated failure of two 1972 boards, both of which deserved a better fate, was clearly out of sync with market results for other artists who had worked with Geoff Bardon. Old Man's Story, a work from the 44th consignment to the Stuart Art Centre, had been offered at Sotheby's with a presale estimate of $20,000 - 30,000 in July 2005. Four years later it was offered again with a reduced estimate of just $10,000-15,000. It failed to attract a buyer on both occasions. A similar fate beset Women's Dreaming 1972, a lovely, iconic early board that first failed when offered at Christie's in 1998, carrying an estimate of $10,000-12,000 and passed in again eight years later carrying Sotheby's estimate of $40,000 - 60,000. Nevertheless, this greatly increased valuation reflected a reassessment of the market value of the artist’s works by Sotheby's. The following year, they placed a whopping $400,000 - 600,000 estimate on his monumental painting with impeccable provenance. When Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya 1984 sold for $576,000 at Sotheby’s in 2007 (Lot 51), it propelled Lowry from relative market obscurity to a place within the top 20 of the AIAM top 100. The work had featured in the Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2000 and attracted bidding from a private New York-based collector, rather than an Australian public institution. The price achieved was among the top ten results ever achieved for an Indigenous artwork, as well as being more than ten times the artist's previous market record. In June 2008 Joel Fine Art sold another late-career work by Lowry entitled Tingari at Tarkulnga 1987 , measuring 160 x 214 cm, for $32,940 (against a presale estimate of $15,000-$20,000). Nevertheless, the appearance of works by this artist at auction are extremely rare. Tommy Lowry was an artist capable of greatness who painted a relatively small number of spare, iconic boards in the early 1970s, as well as a large number of fairly generic Pintupi men's paintings toward the end of his life in the late 1980s. His success rate at auction is very healthy, and, following the renown he has achieved for his top-selling painting, it is unlikely that works will appear again in the future without arousing intense collector interest. 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NganjmiraBobby Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra 1915 - 1992 Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra is among the best known of the older generation of Kunwinjku artists, which includes Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek, Yirawala and Dick Nguleingulei Murrumurru. The Nganjmirra family has preserved a strong and recognisable figurative style throughout successive generations. His younger brothers Jimmy Nakkurridjdjilmi Nganjmirra (c.1917-1982) and Peter Nganjmirra (1927-1987) were also well known painters, and many of their children and grandchildren have established artistic careers. Nganjmirra was born around 1915 at Malworn, his father’s country between the Goomadeer and Liverpool rivers in West Arnhem Land. Marlwon is best known as a Yawk Yawk (female water spirit) Dreaming site, the primary Dreaming of Bobby Nganjmirra’s branch of the Djalama clan. Nganjmirra was brought up in Marlwon living a traditional lifestyle, visiting Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) for a short time in 1930 at the invitation of a stockman who visited the group. He subsequently spent a short time at school there and on Goulburn Island. After the Second World War he worked with the anthropologists Roland and Catherine Berndt and later, in 1975, he became a member of the Aboriginal Arts Board, having by that time concentrated on bark painting for some years. Most of Bobby Nganjmirra’s work was produced in ochre on bark, although he also did sketches on paper and a number of large scale ochre and acrylic works on paper for the John W. Kluge Commission at the end of his life in 1991-2. These were undertaken at the Injalak Art Centre, which was established in 1989. The incredibly wide range of his subject matter, from many sacred and profane stories to natural subjects, is testament to his high ceremonial status, knowledge and artistic confidence. He painted the stories of his own Yirridjdja moiety clan such as Luma Luma, Likanaya and Marrayka (the Yawk Yawk Sisters, first ancestors of the Djalama clan), as well as those of neighbouring areas such as Nimbuwah rock and Baby Dreaming from Kudjekbinj. His style is notable for its expressiveness - the mouths, eyes and noses of his figures contort to many emotive shapes and their limbs appear to dance in all directions. A naive and sketch-like stylistic tendency in many of his works is more the result of the primacy of 'story' in his painting over decorative qualities. Like many other western Kunwinjku painters he favoured multiple figures in his compositions, again heightening the sense of narrative. Most western Kunwinjku art draws upon the figurative rock painting tradition, and some of Bobby Nganjmirra’s earliest works display the parallel red hatching on white silhouettes typical of works on rock. However he soon turned to cross-hatching, a style associated with painting for the Mardayin ceremony. Bobby Nganjmirra’s work has been featured in a number of major exhibitions, including Old Masters - Australia’s Great Bark Artists at the National Museum of Australia in 2013, The Continuing Tradition at the National Gallery of Australia in 1989 and Kunwinjku Bim at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1984. After his death Bobby was known for some time by his skin name Nawakadj, as in the monograph on his stories and work Kunwinjku Spirit: Nawakadj Nganjmirra, Artist and Story-teller edited by Neil McLeod. However, in Gunbalanya he is still sometimes referred to by his nickname “Ten Million” (the price he was purported to have raise for his paintings), reflecting the humour of this early master of modern Kunwinjku art. Profile author: Dan Kennedy COLLECTIONS: Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, held by the National Museum of Canberra.; Artbank, Sydney.; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.; Australian Museum, Sydney.; Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia.; Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW.; Desert Rose Restaurant, Yulara Complex, Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park.; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnotts Collection, Sydney.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.; The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A. GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1984, The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; 1984/85, Kunwinjku Bim, Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria; 1985, The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; 1986, The Art of the First Australians, Kobe City Museum, Japan; 1986, The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; 1988, Aboriginal art of the Top End, c.1935-Early 1970s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1988, Yolngu, Aboriginal cultures of north Australia, The Royal Pavillion, Art Gallery & Museums, Brighton, United Kingdom.; 1989, Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; 1990, Balance 1990: views, visions, influences, Queensland Art Gallery, QLD; 1990, Spirit in Land, Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, National Gallery of Victoria; 1990, The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin BIBLIOGRAPHY: Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council,1979, Oenpelli Bark Painting, Ure Smith, Sydney. (C) ; Allen, L., 1975, Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines, Thomas Crowell Company, New York. ; Brody, A., 1984, Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.(C) ; Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C) ; Groger-Wurm, H., 1977, 'Schematisation in Aboriginal bark paintings.' In Ucko, P. (ed.), Form in Indigenous Art, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. ; Hill, M., and McLeod, N.,1984, From the Ochres of Mungo, Aboriginal Art Today, Dorr McLeod Publishing, West Heidleberg, Victoria. (C) ; Isaacs, J., 1984, Australia's Living Heritage, Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney. (C) ; Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New South Wales. ; Norton, F., 1975, Aboriginal Art, Western Australian Art Gallery Board with the assistance of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council. ; Ryan, J., 1990, Spirit in Land, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. ; 1990, Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. (C) ; Sydney Morning Herald, 12/6/1992 (Artists seek aid for legal action). ; Sydney Morning Herald, 12/6/1992 (Aboriginal art in a spin over row). ; 1994, Kunwinjku Art from Injalak 1991-1992, The John W. Kluge Commission, Museum Arts International Pty. Ltd., North Adelaide. 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Cooee Gallery founding director Adrian Newstead has this morning been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division. < Back OWNER AND DIRECTOR ADRIAN NEWSTEAD AWARDED THE MEDAL OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA - OAM Cooee Gallery founding director Adrian Newstead has this morning been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division. The award, to be announced on Australia Day, follows his 35-year commitment to the promotion of Indigenous Australian artists. The citation reads ‘For service to the museum and galleries sector, particularly through the promotion of Indigenous arts’. An art consultant, gallery owner and exhibition coordinator, his first work with Aboriginal communities was with the Tiwi on Bathurst Island in 1981. Over the past three and a half decades he has enjoyed close relationships with artists from the Kimberley region and Western Torres Strait Islands, senior Warlpiri artists in the Tanami Desert and the Spinifex people of the Great Victoria Desert to name but a few. Adrian Newstead’s gallery, Coo-ee Art, has organised hundreds of exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art here in Australia and internationally over the last 4 decades. During the 1990s, he initiated the Best in Sydney project and consortium within the Crafts Council of Australia and was a founding member of Austrade’s Visual Arts Export Panel, which set in place support for Australian gallery participation in international art fairs. He was the prime mover behind the establishment of the powerful Australian Indigenous Art Trade Association [now the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia]. Once appointed as National President, he established the first Aboriginal arts industry code of ethics and business practice. Newstead served for many years on the board of Aboriginal Tourism Australia and is a trustee and board member of the Aboriginal Benefits Foundation established from proceeds of art sales for the benefit of Indigenous health and education projects in Northern and Central Australia. Among the many causes it supports are Indigenous epilepsy, youth suicide and mental health. He became the Head of Aboriginal Art for Lawson~Menzies in 2003 and through 2007 – 2008 he was the Managing Director of the Australian-owned art auction house Deutscher Menzies [Menzies Art]. He is the immediate past president of the Art Consulting Association of Australia, having driven its rapid growth nationally between 2011 and 2015. In February 2014, Adrian Newstead published the critically acclaimed book ‘The Dealer is the Devil: An Insider’s History of the Aboriginal Art Trade’ which was launched by the Hon Marie Bashir and has been described as ‘A masterpiece of arts writing’ in Books + Publishing. An art consultant, dealer, and art commentator, Newstead continues to support Australian Indigenous artists and their communities from his home and gallery in Bondi Beach. Previous Next Featured artworks Quick View ANGELINA PWERLE NGAL - UNTITLED ( BUSH RAISIN MAN) Price AU$3,000.00 Quick View ALISON (JOJO) PURUNTATAMERI - WINGA (TIDAL MOVEMENT/WAVES) Out of stock Quick View LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI - KURLURRNGALINYPA JUKURRPA Price From AU$13,500.00 Quick View BRONWYN BANCROFT - UNTITLED Out of stock Quick View JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE Price AU$8,500.00 Quick View Book BOOK - KONSTANTINA - GADIGAL NGURA Price From AU$99.00 Quick View FREDDIE TIMMS - MOONLIGHT VALLEY Price AU$35,000.00 Quick View NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - BURN THERE, DON'T BURN THERE Price AU$7,000.00

WUMERA NANGAMAY - A SALT LAKE SERIES Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016 June 13 - July 13 2024 WUMERA NANGAMAY - A SALT LAKE SERIES Konstantina June 13 - July 13 2024 WUMERA NANGAMAY - A SALT LAKE SERIES Konstantina June 13 - July 13 2024 Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016 ARTIST STATEMENT: Wumera Nangamay: A Salt Lake Series Translation: to fly like a bird or a spear through the sky into dreaming (‘nanga’- sleep, ‘may’ - eye) Our connection to Country embodies more than merely the physical realm; it also allows us to connect spiritually. It is this spirituality that is often spoken of in Western terms as ‘dreaming’. Growing up in an urban city, this complex spiritual understanding was very limited for me. It is only now, as an adult, a mother, and a woman living in regional Australia - without the clutter and noise of a city - that I have begun to understand and lean into this way of being and knowing. One of the Gadigal songlines describes a physical and spiritual connection to a place other than our own Country, connects the Gadi to Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre). The great salt lake occupies 9,700 square kilometres of the desert and the wider basin area it sits within spans the intersection of South Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales. I have long been fascinated with this place, well before I knew of the songline and its significance to my ancestors. This lake is arid, dried out, and overwhelmingly beautiful in its many states of living and being. The lake and its creeks, waterholes, and tributaries only flow after the great desert rains and have been cared for by Arabana custodians for tens of thousands of years. There is also a very special Gadi story of the Garanga (Pelican) that follows breeding cycles between Warrane (Sydney) and Kati Thanda; it demonstrates a deep knowing of animal, spirit, people, and place. It is this wisdom of the cycles, this knowing of place that kicked off this series, a study of our great salt lakes, as seen by a bird soaring through the sky, dreaming of our big Countries. VIEW CATALOGUE ARTIST PROFILE KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #3 price AU$7,600.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #3 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #7 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #10 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #13 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #1 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #5 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #8 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #11 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #2 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #6 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #9 Sold AU$0.00 KONSTANTINA (KATE CONSTANTINE) - WUMERA NANGAMAY - SALTPAN #12 Sold AU$0.00 EX-june13-2024

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Artist Profile for Mitchell Japanangka Martin < Back Mitchell Japanangka Martin Mitchell Japanangka Martin ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE MITCHELL JAPANANGKA MARTIN - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) SOLD AU$950.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Mitchell Japanangka Martin 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 .