Artists from Lajamanu -

Ronnie Lawson

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Place of birth Rilyi-rilyi, 1930 or earlier. A very old man, Ronnie Lawson is Pintupi/ Warlpiri and is well known and liked by everyone in Lajamanu for the sweetness of his disposition. His country is Rilyi-rilyi and his Dreamings are Karnta, Women Janmarda, Bush Onion and Wintiki. A Ronnie Lawson painting of Pituri Dreaming features on the cover of an award winning thesis on adult education at Lajamanu by David Macleay and another of Bush Bean on the cover of the catalogue of the Donald Kahn Collection which has been touring the USA and Europe since 1991. Ronnie often works with his wife, Louisa Lawson Napaljarri. They are both highly regarded painters. Ronnis Lawson started painting in 1986 in the traditional Painting course organsied by the TAFE unit at Lajamanu school.

subjects and themes
 
Bush onion- janmarda, women- Karnta, pituri- bush "tobacco", mens story.


collections

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.


exhibitions

Group exhibitions

1983 D'un autre continent: l'Australie le reve et le reel, ARC, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France

1987 Australian Made, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

1989, Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria

1991, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA

1993, The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1994, Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert; The Donald Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

1994, Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria


bibliography

Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, 1991,

 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA ; Johnson, V., 1994,

The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C) ; 1983,

D'un Autre Continent: l'Australie le Reve et le Reel, exhib. cat., ARC/Musee d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.(C)

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