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Kimberley Aboriginal Artist- Phyllis Thomas see the Artists prints Browse Kimberley Prints
Aboriginal artist, Phyllis Thomas is a Gija woman of Nakarra skin whose bush name, Booljoonngali, means ‘big rain coming down with lots of wind’. She was born at a place called Riya on the Turner River, south east of the Bungle Bungles. When young Phyllis worked on Turner Station looking after poultry, gardening, grinding salt and carting water from the well but often preferred to run away in to the bush with the old women. She loved walking all over the country with her mother’s mother and the other old women, hunting, collecting dingo scalps and looking for gold. She married Joe Thomas from Rugan, Crocodile Hole and lived there for many years. She began painting when Freddy Timms set up the Jirrawun Aboriginal Arts group there. Her work depicting Dreaming places and bush tucker from the Crocodile Hole areas as well as the country around the middle reaches of the Ord and Turner rivers where she was born, achieved almost immediate success. She was represented in the Telstra Art award exhibition in 1999 with a stunning picture Boornbem Goorlem, Hot Water Spring II done in black and a pinkish red colour made by mixing red and white ochre. The spring is in a gorge with the open sky shown as a plain expanse of paint above the water and rock faces. Other works include Bush Honey - ‘Sugarbag’ Dreaming at Dry Swamp in which the dark cells of the hives float on a plain ground, and Loomookool Blue Tongue Lizard Dreaming in which a prominent landscape feature is seen from the side. Her work has been acquired by a number of collectors and galleries including a special focus purchase of five paintings by the Western Australian Art Gallery. Aboriginal Art Prints Home	region Kimberly state WA community Warmun - Turkey Creek born 1940 language Gidja art centre Jirawoon Aboriginal Arts medium Limited edition prints, ochre on canvas

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

OTHER EXHIBITION VENUES
Other Australian and overseas venues and dates to be announced.

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