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Susie Bootja Bootja is an Aboriginal artist from Balgo Hills in the Northern Territory of Australia. Susie Bootja Bootja is a vibrant and colourful personality who is respected for her knowledge of the law and ceremony of Kurtal (fresh water spring in WA). She tells stories about playing at the waterhole of Kangingarra (northern reaches of the Canning Stock Route) where she spent her youth. Susie walked in from the desert as a teenager to Tjumundora, one of the early mission sites. When Susie moved to the old mission at Balgo Hills, she worked in the kitchen making bread and helping serve food to the dormitory children. There she met her first husband and had her first child, Lucy. Her husband was killed on a mustering trip due to intertribal conflict and left her a widow. Later she eloped with Mick Gill and had another six children and they remain a devoted couple today. Susie was one of the first women painters and is well known for her initial dual use of western and traditional representations of country (hills, trees, snakes) along with lively use of bright greens, pinks and sky blues. Her innovative dotted colour fields began in 1996, and she continues to develop her style each year. Her eldest son, Matthew Gill, with Sister Alice Dempsey from the St John's Adult Education Centre, started up the Art Centre in Balgo in 1985. Since then Susie Bootja Bootja has produced a profusion of paintings that are filled with her exuberant personality and her joy for life. She has travelled widely with her art, including Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Kununurra. Susie also prides herself on her ability to sing both in English and Kukatja, as well as her ceremonial dancing. She is also a keen and knowledgeable hunter. subjects and themes Tjunda- bush onions. Tjirrilpattja- bush carrot. Wanayarra- rainbow snake and eggs. Water and rain dreaming. Waterholes of Kurtal country. Tartjalpa snake. collections Morven Estate. Collection Araluen Centre. Flinders University Art Museum Collection. The Holmes a Court Collection. Kelton Collection, USA. Kluge-Ruhe Collection, USA. Ganter Myer Collection. ArtBank. exhibitions Individual exhibitions 2002, Raft Artspace, Darwin Group exhibitions 2002 Balgo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth 2002 Art from Balgo, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs 2002 Womens Exhibition, Parliament House, Melbourne 2002 Lagamanu- An artist’s survey , Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 2001 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome 2001 18th NATI Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin 2001 Kutjungka, Bett Gallery, Hobart 2001 Balgo Works, Staedtische Gallery, Wolsfburg, Germany 2001 New Paintings from Balgo, Cutliffe Gallery, Sydney 2001 Past Modern: an exhibition of Kimberley Landscapes, Short Street Gallery in conjunction with Australia Square, Sydney 2000 Outlandish Dreams II, john Ruskin House, UK in association with Arts Network International 2000 The Westside: Images in Ochre and Colour, Coo-ee II Exhibiting Gallery, Yuwayi Art Precinct, World Square, Sydney 2000 Olympic Exhibition, Coo-ee Exhibiting Gallery, Yuwayi Art Precinct, World Square, Sydney 2000 Desert Mob 2000, Araluen Art Gallery, Alice Springs 2000 Lagamanu, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 2000 17th National ATSI Art Awards, Museum Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 2000 Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2000 Waltja – Family, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 2000 Balgo: Selected Recent Works, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne 2000 Balgo Art, Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs 2000 Lagamanu Aboriginal Paintings, Bett Gallery, Hobart 2000 Dreaming in Colour: Australian Aboriginal Art from Balgo, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Virginia, USA 1999 Aboriginal Art, IHK, Würzburg, Germany 1999 16th National ATSI Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1999 Desert Mob ‘99, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs 1999 Mularrpa (True) Balgo, Framed, the Gallery, Darwin 1999 Miliynyin, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1999 Miliynyin, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle 1998 Painting Country, Pearlers Row Gallery, Broome 1998 15th National ATSI Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1998 Ngurrara: My Own Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1998 The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1997 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs 1997 New Paintings from Balgo Artists, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Big Balgos: Recent Paintings by Warlayirti Artists, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1997 New Paintings by Balgo Women, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Dreamings, Arnhem, The Netherlands 1997 Daughters of the Dreaming: Sisters Together Strong, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 1997 Desert Country, Matso’s, Broome 1996 Songlines XV: Lagamanu, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK 1995 Landscape as Language: Australian Perspectives, Fine Art Gallery, Brisbane 1994 Desert Spirit Paintings, Channing Gallery, Santa Fe, USA 1993 Aboriginal Art Exhibition: Kung Guunga, Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach 1991 Paintings from Kukatja Country, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK 1991 Yapa Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lagamanu, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France 1991 Warlayirti Artists from Lagamanu WA, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1990 Recent Balgo Paintings, Dreamtime Gallery, Perth 1990 Paintings from Kukatja Country, Deustcher Gallery, Melbourne 1990 Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, touring exhibition, USA 1989 Warlayirti Artists: Continuing Links with Land, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington 1989 Recent Paintings from Balgo, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1989 Balgo Painting, Dreamtime Gallery, Perth 1998, Winner of Telstra Open Painting Award, 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. bibliography 1999, Cowan, J, Balgo New Directions, Craftsman House, Sydney, in association with G+B Arts International Limited 1994, Cowan, J., Wirrimanu, Craftsman House, Sydney, in association with G+B Arts International Limited. 1994, Johnson, V., The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville NSW. 1994, Dream Journeys Calendar, image reproduction. 1993, Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London, UK. 1991, Glowczewski, B., Yapa Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Lebon Gallery, Paris, France. (n.d.) Aboriginal Artists of Western Australia, folios of works and biographies, Aboriginal Education Resources Unit, Western Australia. Aboriginal Art Prints Home	region Kimberley state Western Australia community Kaningarra born 1935 active 1986- language Kukatja art centre Walayiriti Artists, Balgo Hills medium Screenprint and 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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Other Australian and overseas venues and dates to be announced.

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