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Aboriginal Artist, Pantjit Mary McLean is a respected elder of the Ngaatjatjarra people of the Western Desert. Now living in Kalgoorlie, she has experienced a life of huge variety. As a young woman and mother she came into contact with whitefella life at Warburton and then further west as a musterer on the sheep stations in the eastern goldfields of Western Australia. However, her early life within the tradition of her culture gave and continues to sustain a prodigious knowledge of the Tjukurrpa or Dreaming. Pantjiti Mary Mclean commenced drawing and painting in 1992 in a figurative manner and has since that time steadily established her position as a visual artist in Australia. She has won awards both for her art and her work with young people encouraging them through her commitment to a healthy lifestyle. She has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Curtin University for her contribution to the arts in Western Australia. Visually distinct because of the manner in which people, animals, birds and the topography of the land is portrayed, her work is instantly recognisable as being quirky and individual. Pantjiti Mary McLean enjoys immensely drawing and painting her stories and memories. subjects and themes Country Dreaming. collections ArtBank. Art Gallery of Western Australia. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Australian Capital Equity. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia. City of Fremantle. City of Perth. Crothers Collecton. Edith Cowan University. Holmes A Court Collection. Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Queensland State Art Gallery. Tandanya Aboriginal Arts Centre, Adelaide. Wollongong University. exhibitions Individual exhibitions 1993 Hunting Grounds, Fremantle Arts Centre. 1995 Aboriginal & South Pacific Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney. 1996 Pantjiti Mary Mclean Recent Painting. Boomali Gallery Sydney. Group exhibitions 1992 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. 1993 Border Art workshops Indigenous Arts exhibition, San Diego USA. 1993 Warta Kutju Street Art Project Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Perth WA. 1994 Bush Women iwth Paji Honey Child Yankarr, Daisy Andrews, Queenie McKenzie, Kantjuri Bates, Jingapa Davies, Fremantle Arts Centre. 1994 Bush Women, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Western Australia. 1994 Narratives, Boomalie Gallery. Sydney NSW. 1994 Gallery of Aboriginal and South Pacific Art. Sydney NSW. 1995 The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1995 Minmya Kutjara. With Nalda Searles. Fremantle Arts Centre. WA. 1995 Pantjiti Mary McLean. Survey Exhibition. Australia House, London UK. 1996 Telstra National Aboriginal Art Award. MAGNT. Darwin NT. 1996 Pantjiti Mary McLean Festival of Perth Exhibition. Fremantle Arts Centre. 1996 Festival of Perth Artist. (designed poster) 1996 Pantjti Mary McLean Recent Painting. Boomali Gallery Sydney, NSW. 1996 Language of the Land. Goldfiends Art centre with Nalda Searles. 1996 No Sickness Then. Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne Victoria. 1997 Telstra National Aboriginal Art Award. MAGNT Darwin. 1997 Off Shore On Site. Festival of the Dreaming. Casula Powerhouse Arts, Sydney. 1998 Blake Exhibition for Religious Art (collaboration with Nalda Searles.) Mitchell Gallery. National Library of NSW + touring component. 1998 Pantjti Mary Mclean. Recent Paintings. Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide SA. 1998 Pantjti Mary Mclean. Recent Paintings. Hogarth Gallery Adelaide SA. 1998 Telstra National Aboriginal Art Award. MAGNT Darwin. 1999 Go Along Now. Mustering Series. Fremantle Art Centre. 2000 Hogarth Gallery Sydney NSW. 2000 “Side by Side”. Art Gallery of Western Australia. 2000 Australian Heritage Commission Indigenous Art. Reconciliation section. Canberra. 2000 Telstra Indigenous art Awards. MAGNT. Darwin. 2000 Victorian Tapestry Exhibition Australian Galleries, Sydney. 2000 Yuway Art Centre, Sydney. 2000 Telstra Award Winners Exhibition. Customs House, Sydney. bibliography 1994, Bush Women, exhib. cat., Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, Western Australia. Andrew, B., 1994, ‘Narratives,’ Periphery 20, 22-25. (C) Weekend Australian V Laurie May 1999. Pantjititi Mary Mclean Mustering Catalogue McLean/Searles/Stanton 1998. Aboriginal Art Prints Home	region Western Desert state WA community Kalgoorlie, Docker River, Blackstone born 1935 active 1987 language bloc Djerag language Ngaatootarra art centre Japingka medium Acrylic paint on paper, pencil and felt pen on paper, acrylic paint on canvas, limited edition prints

DENNIS NONA CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION

Sesserae: New Works by Dennis Nona

Paris, London, Sydney, Brisbane

Dennis Nona is widely acknowledged as one of, if not the most, important living Torres Strait Islander artist.

This exhibition of installations, limited edition linocuts, etchings and cast bronze sculptures showcases the artist's most recent work.

PARIS
The Australian Embassy
6 April - 8 June, 2006

LONDON
Rebecca Hossack Gallery
35 Windmill Street,
LONDON (Dates TBA)

SYDNEY
31 Lamrock Avenue
BONDI BEACH, NSW
30 March - 16 April, 2006

BRISBANE
Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art
BRISBANE, QLD
3 June - 10 July 2005

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