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Artists from Fitzroy Crossing -
Butcher Cherel Janangoo | |
 Butcher Cherel Janangoo was born around 1920 at Jainaganjoowa, an area near the original homestead of one of the longest established cattle stations in the Kimberley, Fossil Downs. He now lives in the town of Fitzroy Crossing. Butcher’s mother was Kija and his father Gooniyandi. He speaks both languages as well as some Walmajarri and Bunuba. He has vivid memories of being taken ‘out bush’ as a child and going walkabout at law time. As both of his parents worked on the station in and around the homestead, it follows that Butcher also spent most of his working life on Fossil. As a stockman he worked cattle, droving from Fitzroy Crossing to Derby and Broome. He remembers this as being a difficult job: “real hard”. Butcher is a key elder of the Gooniyandi language group and has been instrumental in the retention of law ceremony at Luludja Community. He sees Aboriginal law and language as fundamentally important and feels uneasy that young people today do not have this tradition to refer to as they have not been educated as he was. Butcher’s works provide glimpses of his cultural and physical environment. As he stated: “with my eyes, my heart and with my brain I am thinking. When I go to sleep night time, I might ask myself “ah, I might do (paint) that one tomorrow’, not dreaming; I think about what to do next.” subjects and themes afternoon rain, coolamon, warda, boab nuts, Paddock pocket, Dilly bag, bush plums, waterlilies collections Aboriginal Affairs Department, Perth. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia. Curtin University, Perth. Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth. Westfarmers collection WA exhibitions Individual exhibitions 1992 Butcher Cheral Janangoo, Birukmarri Gallery, WA. 1993 Parntapi Bilgna, Artplace Gallery, Perth (with Peter Skipper). 1996 Durack Gallery, Broome. 1997 Joonany garra mi yoodila, I put it good way, Artplace, Perth. 1998 Gamba Malami Dagoola, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne. 1999 Imanara - Big Country, Festival of Perth Exhibition Artplace Gallery, Perth. 1999 Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts Gallery, Sydney. Group exhibitions 1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1992 Reflections of the Kimberley Gallery. 1992 Balgo, Kununurra, Fitzroy Crossing, Gallery 101, Melbourne. 1992 The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1993 Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 1993 Parntapi Bilnga: Peter Skipper and Janangoo Cherel, Artplace, Claremont WA. 1993 RAKA 1993, Ruth Adeney Koori Award, Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne. 1993 - 97 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (selected to hang) Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. 1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1995 Mangkaja, Old Mangkaja New Prints, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne. 1995 Prints from teh APW Collection. Survey show of recent works from teh APW archive. Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne. 1996 Mangkaa, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide. 1996-7Heritage Commission Art Award. Old Parliament House, Canberra. 1998 Mangkaja, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Londond. 1999 Story Boards, Ceramic tiles from the Kimberley, Fremantle Arts Centre. bibliography Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Exh.. Cat for 1992 Birrukmarri show Ryan, J., 1993, Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, exhib. cat. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. 1995, Mangkaja, Old Mangkaja New Prints, exhib. cat., Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency. Janangoo Butcher Cherel Birukmarri Gallery, Fremantle/Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, 1993. Ngarragi Muay Ngindaji, Ngajukuru Ngurrara Mniyarti. Ngindaji Ngarragi Riwi, Ngayukunu Ngurra Ngaa, this is my country, Artplace Gallery, Perth / Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency 1994. Mangkaja: Old Mangkaja New Prints Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne ? Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, 1999. Imanara: Big Country Festival of Perth Exhibition Artplace Gallery, Perth / Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency 1999. Story Boards Ceramic Tiles from the Kimberely, Fremantle Art cEntre/ Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency 1999. |
 region Kimberley state WA community Ftitzroy Crossing born 1920 c art centre Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency |
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