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Gabriella Possum
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (born in 1967) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Papunya community, she followed in her father Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's footsteps and became an internationally respected painter. Examples of her work are held in many gallery collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Flinders University Art Museum, the Kelton Foundation Collection, the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the Royal Collection. Early life Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Born in 1967 in Papunya, around 2.4 km northwest of Alice Springs in the community formed in the 1930s when Pintupi and Luritja people were forced off their traditional land and moved into Hermannsburg and Haasts Bluff. Her language is Anmatyerre. She spent her early life in Alice Springs, where she began painting with her father from a ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papunya
Papunya (Pintupi-Luritja: ''Warumpi'') is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly northwest of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is known as an important centre for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art, in particular the style created by the Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, referred to colloquially as dot painting. Its population in 2016 was 404. History Pintupi and Luritja people were forced off their traditional country in the 1930s and moved into Hermannsburg (Ntaria) and Haasts Bluff, where there were government ration depots. There were often tragic confrontations between these people, with their nomadic hunter-gathering lifestyle, and the cattlemen who were moving into the country and over-using the limited water supplies of the region for their cattle. The Australian Government built a water bore and some basic housing at Papunya in the 1950s to provide room for the increasing populations of people in the already-established A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Council For The Arts
The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Australian Council for the Arts, with the first members appointed the following year. It was made a statutory corporation by the passage of the ''Australia Council Act 1975''. The organisation has included several boards within its structure over the years, including more than one incarnation of a Visual Arts Board (VAB), in the 1970s–80s and in the early 2000s. History Prime Minister Harold Holt announced the establishment of a national arts council in November 1967, modelled on similar bodies in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was one of his last major policy announcements prior to his death the following month. In June 1968, Holt's successor John Gorton announced the first ten members of the council, which was init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yung Warriors
Yung Warriors (also called Tjimba and the Yung Warriors) are an Australian hip hop group, formed in 2007. They released their debut album ''Warrior for Life'' in June 2007. Yung Warriors played at 2008 Big Day Out, at Yabun in Sydney, and at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education in Melbourne Their music has had national airplay on Triple J. They were nominated for Deadly Awards in 2008 and 2009. Members *Tjimba Possum Burns *Danny Ramzan *Kidd Benny Former members *Narjiic Day-Burns Discography Studio albums Singles Awards and nominations AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector. , - , AIR Awards of 2012 , ''Standing Strong'' , Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Album , Music Victoria Awards The Music Victoria Awards are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Resale Royalty Right
''Droit de suite'' (French for "right to follow") or Artist's Resale Right (ARR) is a right granted to artists or their heirs, in some jurisdictions, to receive a fee on the resale of their works of art. This should be contrasted with policies such as the American first-sale doctrine, where artists do not have the right to control or profit from subsequent sales. History The ''droit de suite'' was first proposed in Europe around 1893, in response to a decrease in the importance of the salon, the end of the private patron, and to champion the cause of the "starving artist". Many artists, and their families, had suffered from the war, and ''droit de suite'' was a means to remedy socially difficult situations. According to Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, ''droit de suite'' was created in France following the sale of Millet's 1858 painting, the '' Angélus'', in 1889 at the Secretan sale. The owner of the painting made a huge profit from this sale, whereas the family of the artist lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warlugulong
''Warlugulong'' is a 1977 acrylic on canvas painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Owned for many years by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the work was sold by art dealer Hank Ebes on 24 July 2007, setting a record price for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work bought at auction when it was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million. The painting illustrates the story of an ancestral being called Lungkata, together with eight other dreamings associated with localities about which Clifford Possum had traditional knowledge. It exemplifies a distinctive painting style developed by Papunya Tula artists in the 1970s, and blends representation of landscape with ceremonial iconography. Art critic Benjamin Genocchio describes it as "a work of real national significance ndone of the most important 20th-century Australian paintings". Background Contemporary Indigenous Australian art originated with the Indigenous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulumbu Yunupingu
Gulumbu Yunupingu (1943 – 10 May 2012), after her death known as Djotarra or Ms Yunupingu, was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Early life and family Born in Gunyangara, Northern Territory in 1943, Yunupingu was a member of the Gumatj clan and spoke the Gumatj language. Daughter of artist and Gumatj leader Mungurrawuy Yunupingu, she was sister to Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu; singer Mandawuy Yunupingu (of Yothu Yindi); artists Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu; and several others. Their mother was artist and elder Bakili. Artworks In 1999, together with her sister Gaymala and Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Gulumbu was engaged to paint a large film set for the film ''Yolngu Boy'', based on the historic Yirrkala Church Panels. In 2012, a painting on wood titled ''Garrurru (Sail)'', weighing a tonne and measuring seven by three metres, was installed at the Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donny Woolagoodja
Yornadaiyn (Donny) Woolagoodja (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. He is a member of the Worrorra people of the Kimberley area of Western Australia. Career Woolagoodja is the first chairman of the Mowanjum Artists Centre. Woolagoodja's giant Wandjina artwork featured at the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Similar works were also featured at the 2016 Vivid Sydney festival's Lighting of the Sails celebration. Personal Donny Woolagoodja was born in 1947 at the Kunmunya Mission on the Kimberley coast, the son of Sam Woolagoodja. Honours and awards *2021 Red Ochre Award - Australia Council for the Arts *2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards i ... NonFiction Award, shortlisted Publications * * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djon Mundine
Djon Mundine (born 1951) is an Aboriginal Australian curator, writer, artist and activist. Early life Djon was born in Grafton, New South Wales in 1941. He is one of 11 children born to Roy Mundine and Olive Bridgette Mundine (nee Donovan). His siblings include Roy, Anne, Olive, Kaye, Charles, Peter, Philip, Warren Mundine, James and Graeme. He is a Wehbal man from the West Bundjalung nation, from the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. He is also a descendant of the Gumbaynggirr, Yuin people. Mundine spent his early life growing up in South Grafton. In 1963, his family settled in the western Sydney suburb of Auburn. Mundine went to the Catholic Benedict Marist Brothers College and went onto commence study at Macquarie University. Career Mundine is a curator, writer, artist and activist and is celebrated as a foundational figure in the criticism and exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art. Mundine has held many senior curatorial positions in both national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karla Dickens
Karla Dickens (born 2 December 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian installation artist of the Wiradjuri people, based in Lismore, New South Wales. Her works are in major public collections in Australia. Early life and education Dickens was born on 2 December 1967 in Sydney and lived in several suburbs. Her father worked on the wharves and drove trucks. Her mother was a factory worker. She was close to her grandmother, who lived in Mascot, where a group of Aboriginal people taken off their land had settled. Her grandmother married a German immigrant who promised her a house, and Dickens' father was their only child. Her grandparents were important influences, and her grandfather started her on her journey to re-use found materials. Dickens is of Wiradjuri heritage. Dickens loved primary school and was class captain, house captain and school captain. She loved geography (discovering the world), maths (she was good at it) and art, and continually made things at home, cutting and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but completed by an Australian architectural team headed by Peter Hall, the building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition. The Government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation. The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas, held in Sydney, Australia. It includes outdoor immersive light installations and projections, performances by local and international musicians, and an ideas exchange forum featuring public talks and debates with leading creative thinkers. This event takes place over the course of three weeks in May and June. The centrepiece of Vivid Sydney is the light sculptures, multimedia interactive work and building projections that transform various buildings and landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in and around the Sydney central business district into an outdoor night time canvas of art. During the 2015 festival, sites of interest were Central Park, Chatswood and the University of Sydney as well as around the CBD, Darling Harbour and The Rocks, New South Wales, The Rocks. History Vivid began as a smart light festival in 2009 for energy efficiency curated by lighting designer Mary-Anne Ky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Art Trams
The Melbourne Art Trams is a major public art project in Melbourne, Australia. It is a revival and re-imagining of the ''Transporting Art'' project which ran from 1978 to 1993 and saw 36 painted W-class trams rolled out across the Melbourne network. Melbourne Festival reinvigorated the project in 2013 with an annual expression of interest process from Victorian-based artists. Seven professional and one emerging artist are commissioned each year, with their artwork digitally printed on vinyl and applied to modern trams. The eight designs are released onto the network each October as part of Melbourne Festival's visual art program. In 2017, one design celebrated the 20 year anniversary of the shared history of tram workers and decorated trams in Melbourne and Kolkata, India. In 2018, the project was renewed for three years. The project is funded by Melbourne Festival, Creative Victoria, Public Transport Victoria and Yarra Trams Yarra Trams is the trading name of the operato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
