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Yuendumu Art - Paddy
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 Paddy Sims Japaljarri's country is west of Yuendumu but he has lived in Yuendumu since he was a young single man. Back when there were no clothes, Walpiri people wore hair string belts that they made. When Paddy Sims Japaljarri was young he worked sawing mulga trees for the wood and for fuel for fires. Paddy was also involved with gardening and farming in the Yuendumu district. This included growing watermelons, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and other vegetables. The farm was at Four Mile Bore where they had chickens, pigs, ducks and other animals. Paddy is married to Bessie Nakamarra and he is warringiyi (grandfather). All his life he's been hunting goanna, kangaroo, emu and other animals each day for bush tucker. Paddy has passed his knowledge on to many of the young men. This has also lead to him working at the Yuendumu school teaching jukurrpa (Dreaming), painting, hunting, traditional dancing and bush tucker and has also helped out on excursions out bush, to Alice Springs and to Darwin. Paddy has been painting for Warlukurlangu (the Art Centre at Yuendumu) for many years. In 1988 Paddy Sims was selected by The Power Gallery, Sydney University to travel to Paris with five other Warlpiri men from Yuendumu to create a ground painting installation at the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Georges Pompidou. The trip took place in May 1989 and the painting was received with worldwide acclaim. subjects and themes Yiwarra (Milky Way), Ngarlkirdi/Warna (Witchetty Grub/Snake), Pirntirna (Woma Python), Liwirringki (Burrowing Skink), Ngaru (Bush Plum), Walpa (Wind ), Jungunpa (Marsupial Mouse), Mala (Hare Wallaby), Wakulyarri (Banded Rock Wallaby), Warlu (Fire), Witi (Ceremonial pole), Ngalyipi (Snake vine) collections Australian National Gallery, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Art Gallery and Museums, Glasgow, Scotland South Australian Museum, Adelaide Australian Museum, Sydney Musee National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France Tim and Vivien Johnson Donald Kahn, USA. The Christensen Fund Kelton Foundation, California, USA. Major Private Collections exhibitions Group exhibitions 1985 Araluen, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. 1986 Editions Gallery, Perth; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; RSASA Gallery, Adelaide; Centre Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland 1987 Achille Lauro, Perth; Blaxland Gallery, Sydney; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1988 Anima Gallery, Adelaide; FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Dreamtime Gallery, Perth; 'Dreamings. The Art of Aboriginal Australia' Asia Society, New York, USA; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne. 1989 FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; 'Dreamscapes', Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh USA; Chesser Gallery, Adelaide; 'Mythscapes' National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; 'Dreamings: Aboriginal Art from the Outback' Bahti Indian Gallery, Tuscon USA; 1990 'Dreamings' South Australian Museum, Adelaide; South Australian Museum Shop, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide; 'L'ete Australien', Musee Fabre, Montepellier, France; 'Dreamscapes' Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona USA; Channing, Dale, Throckmorton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin; Dreamtime Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland; Milagros Contemporary Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA; Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne; Bond University Campus Gallery, Queensland; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; IUNC (showing at Hilton Hotel), Perth 1991 'Dreamscapes', Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh USA; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Te Whare Taonga o Aotearoa National Art Gallery & Museum, New Zealand; Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin; Emerald Hill Gallery, Melbourne; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; 'Dreamscapes', Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona, USA; 'Flash Pictures by Aboriginal Artists' Australian National Gallery, Canberra 1992 The Long Gallery, Hobart; Dreamtime Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland; Bird in the Hand Gallery, Sewickley, PA. USA; Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs; Alliance Francais, Canberra; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney Chapman Gallery, Canberra 1993 Adelaide Town Hall, (in association with the Pacific Arts Symposium); 'Aratjara', Hayward Gallery, London UK; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; 'Dreaming the World', St. Mungo's Museum, Glasgow UK; Abershart North, Auckland, New Zealand; Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; Jukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of Central Desert art 1971-1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; CINAFE (Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition), USA; Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane La Peinture des Aborigenes d'Australie, Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris France; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra; Warlukurlangu Collection, Parliament House, Canberra; 1994 The Assembly Hall of the Territorial Parliament, Tahiti, French Polynesia; Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide (in conjunction with The Adelaide Festival); 1994 Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida USA; Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA; Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney 1995 Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney 1997 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; 1998 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Raintree Gallery, Darwin; Framed Gallery, Darwin; Desert Designs, Perth 2002 New Paintings from Yuendumu, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK; 2003 Yilpinji, Love, Magic and Ceremony, Outback Gallery, Darling Harbour. Sydney. Australia. Yilpinji, Love, Magic and Ceremony, Darwin Entertainment Centre Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory. Yilpinji, Love, Magic and Ceremony, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. commisions 1988 The South Australian Museum commissioned the painting of an external mural by six Warlpiri artists. 1991 Prof. H Antes, Berlin, commissioned a 7 x 3 metre canvas by forty two of Yuendumu's artists. The painting forms part of the 1993 European touring exhibition 'Aratjara - Australian Aboriginal Art' curated by Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein Westfalen Dusseldorf West Germany. 1992 The Australian National Gallery commissioned a collection of 14 paintings by the Association's prominent artists. The collection documents the major Dreamings represented in the current painting movement of the Yuendumu region. 1993 The Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, commissioned a 4 x 3m canvas by twenty of Yuendumu's artists. The Dreaming depicted was 'Munga Jukurrpa' (Night Sky Dreaming). The canvas was the central feature of a major exhibition on Australian Aboriginal art hosted by the Glasgow Museum in July 1993; The Art Gallery of Western Australia commissioned a series of canvases for their collection. The paintings form part of the 'Dot and Circle Retrospective' featuring work from the Central and Western Desert regions, hosted by the gallery in October 1993. 1994 Warlukurlangu Artists Association completed two large works (each 2.15 x 2.85 metres). The project was financed by a grant from the Community Cultural Development Unit of the Australia Council. The paintings are 'Ngapa Jukurrpa' (Water Dreaming) and 'Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa' (Women's Dreaming). 1995 'Watiyawarnu' (4 x 3 metres) canvas completed for Warlukurlangu Artists 1996 'Cockatoo Creek' canvas (4 x 3 metres), South Australian Museum 'Karrku' canvas (7 x 3 metres) for Kluge Foundation, USA. 1997 'Liwirringki' (4 x 2.5 metres) for the Gantnor Myer Foundation, Melbourne. 'Ngapa' canvas (7 x 3 metres) completed for the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Festival of the Dreaming. bibliography Caruana, W. (ed.) Windows on the Dreaming. Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery. Ellsyd Press, Sydney 1989; Caruana, W Aboriginal Painting, Thames and Hudson (World Art Series), London 1993; Ryan, J. Mythscapes. Aboriginal Art of the Desert The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989. Sutton, P. (ed.) Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia Viking, New York 1988. Symonds, M.; Portley, C.; Phillips, R. "The Visual Arts" (Fourth Edition), Jacaranda Wiley, Brisbane, 1992 Warlukurlangu Artists Yuendumu Doors Kuruwarri Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 1987. Johnstone, C (Dir) The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings From Tim And Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1990 O'Ferrall, M 'Jukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of central desert art 1971- 1993', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1993 |
 region Tanami Desert state NT community Yuendumu born ca. 1925 active 1985 language bloc Ngarrkic language Walpiri art centre Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association Inc medium Screenprint and acrylic paint on canvas, limited edition prints. |
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