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Tjungkara Ken
Tjungkara Ken (born 1 October 1969) is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Amata, South Australia, in the APY lands. She began painting in 1997, when Minymaku Arts was opened by the women of Amaṯa. She started painting professionally in 2008. By that time, the artists' co-operative had been renamed Tjala Arts. Themes Ken's paintings depict stories and figures from her personal ' ( Dreaming), the spirituality that is associated with her ancestor's homeland. Her father is from the country around Amaṯa and Walitjara, and Ken most often depicts this country and its ' in her paintings. She also illustrates her mother's country, which is further west, near Irrunytju in Western Australia. Exhibitions and awards Ken's paintings have been featured in group exhibitions in many of Australia's major cities. Some of her work was also part of an exhibition in Graz, Austria in 2002. One of her paintings, titled '' – My Country'', was chosen as a finalist for the National Aboriginal & Torres ...
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Amata, South Australia
Amata, formerly known as Musgrave Park, is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Ernabella/Pukatja, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana, Mimili and Pipalyatjara). Amata is part of the Amata – Tjurma electorate. The people of the Tjurma Homelands regard themselves as a separate community. Geography and governance Amata lies about due south of Uluru and south-west of Alice Springs, in the north-west of South Australia, within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands. It is located at the western end of the Musgrave Ranges, about south of the border with the Northern Territory. Being above sea level, Amata is also South Australia's highest town. It lies within one of seven electorates within the APY lands, representing the Amata and Tjurma wider communities, which elect the Executive Board of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara. Tjurma appears to be or h ...
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Jimmy Baker (Australian Artist)
Jimmy Baker (born as Pintjutjara; c. 1915 – 20 April 2010) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Early life Jimmy Baker was born some time around 1915. He was born at Malumpa, an old camping site near what is now Kaṉpi in north-western South Australia. His name at the time was Pintjutjara. He had a brother, Toby Ginger Baker, and a sister, Tjuwilya. He and his family lived a traditional, nomadic life in the desert, and had no contact with Euro-Australian society. Their first encounter with White people was in the early 1920s, with a group of Christian missionaries travelling from Ernabella to Warburton. On their way back, the missionaries tried to persuade the family to come with them to Ernabella, but Jimmy's father, Tjuwintjara, was not ready to give up life in the bush. When Jimmy was a teenager, his father encountered an expedition led by anthropologist Ted Strehlow. Strehlow gave Tjuwintjara food in exchange for his help as a guide. Strehlow also gave the family ...
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21st-century Australian Painters
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1969 Births
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is First inauguration of Richard Nixon, sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Leonid Brezhnev, Brezhnev es ...
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Ken Sisters
The Ken Sisters also known as the Ken Family Collaborative or Ken Sisters Collaborative are a collective of award-winning Pitjantjatjara artists from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of northern South Australia. Artists * Tjungkara Ken * Tingila Yaritji Young * Maringka Tunkin * Paniny Mick * Sandra Ken * Freda Brady * Sylvia Ken * Nyanu Ken History The Ken Sisters are the daughters of artist Mick Wikilyiri, a Traditional Owner of Tjala (Honey Ant) Country. They live and work in Amata community and are represented by Tjala Arts and APY Art Centre Collective. As part of the Western Desert art movement, they work collaboratively, at times painting the one canvas simultaneously on the studio floor. As Tjunkara Ken describes "that's the way I came up painting, kids sitting down with grandmas, and grandma telling the story and putting dots down". They regularly paint ''Tjala tjukurpa'' (Honey Ant dreaming) and to ''Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa'' (Seven S ...
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Maringka Tunkin
Maringka Tunkin (born 1959) is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Central Australia. Life Tunkin was born at Mulga Park in the south-west of the Northern Territory, near the South Australian border in 1959. She is the daughter of Mick Wikilyiri, who is the custodian and traditional owner of Tjala (Honey Ant) Country. Her mother Paniny Mick, is also an artist, whose work is in punu (wood carving), batik, and weaving. Career Tunkin is part of a contemporary Western Desert art tradition which involves working collaboratively in the creation of art, predominately painting. She is part of a family collaborative called the Ken Sisters, along with Tingila Yaritji Young, Freda Brady, Sandra Ken, and Tjungkara Ken. They initially came together 20 years ago under the name Minymaku Arts (meaning "belonging to women"), a collective of artists formed in Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. She is now represented by the APY Art Centre Collective. She is also an adv ...
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Yaritji Young
Yaritji Young (born c. 1956) is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Pukatja, a community within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and she now lives at Rocket Bore; a homeland north of Amata. Young is a significant Australian Aboriginal artist and senior law women who is to committed to fostering law and culture and this forms a core part of her artistic practice. Most of Young's paintings are drawn from the Tjala (Honey Ant) Dreaming. Young often works with her sisters and their collaborative artworks, in which they are known as ' The Ken Sisters Collaborative', receiving international attention and winning major awards. Life and painting Young's parents are Mick Wikilyire and Paniny Mick and she was born in the bush, near a creek, at Pukatja. Little is known of her early life but she attended school in Amata and, it was here, that she first learnt to make baskets, her earliest form of textile work. In late 2000 Young began painting at Tjala Arts (then known as Min ...
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Wynne Prize
The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. As one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne. Now held concurrently with the Sir John Sulman Prize and the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. It is awarded annually for "the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists completed during the 12 months preceding the losingdate". Many of Australia's most famous artists have won the prize, including William Dobell, Brett Whiteley, Hans Heysen, Lloyd Rees, Fred Williams, William Robinson, Eric Smith, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, and Sali Herman Sali Herman (12 February 1898 – 3 April 1993) was a Swiss-born Australian artist, one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War. Life and career Herman arrived in Melbourne in 1937 and enlisted in the Aust ...
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Art Gallery Of NSW
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia. The gallery's first public exhibition opened in 1874. Admission is free to the general exhibition space, which displays Australian art (including Indigenous Australian art), European and Asian art. A dedicated Asian Gallery was opened in 2003. History 19th century On 24 April 1871, a public meeting was convened in Sydney to establish an Academy of Art "for the purpose of promoting the fine arts through lectures, art classes and regular exhibitions." Eliezer Levi Montefiore (brother of Jacob Levi Montefiore and nephew of Jacob and Joseph Barrow Montefiore) co-founded the New South Wales Academy of Art (also referred to as simply the Academy of Art)Published online 2014 an ...
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List Of Archibald Prize 2017 Finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Tony Albert – '' Self-portrait (ash on me)'' * Jessica Ashton – ''Self-portrait as a clown '' *Kate Beynon – ''With amulets and their shadows'' (Self-portrait) * Andrew Bonneau – ''Portrait of Ayako Saito'' *Boys of Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Preparatory School – ''Goodbye, Sir!'' (Portrait of Dr John Vallance) * Keith Burt – '' Bare Tarragh'' (Portrait of Tarragh Cunningham) * Mitch Cairns – '' Agatha Gothe-Snape '' (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2017) * Jon Campbell – '' Two sunny boys (Peter Oxley and Jeremy Oxley)'' * Jun Chen – ''Ray Hughes'' * Yvette Coppersmith – ''Professor Gillian Triggs'' *Tony Costa – '' Simon Chan'' *Lucy Culliton – ''Finished packing'' (Portrait of Steve Peters) *Jonathan Dalton – ''Lottie and James '' (Portrait of Lottie ...
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Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archibald, the editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' who died in 1919. It is administered by the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and awarded for "the best portrait, preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics, painted by an artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the date fixed by the trustees for sending in the pictures". The Archibald Prize has been awarded annually since 1921 (with two exceptions) and since July 2015 the prize has been Australian dollar, AU$100,000. Winners *List of Archibald Prize winners Prize money *1921 – £400 *1941 – £443 / 13 / 4 *1942 – £441 / 11 / 11 *1951 – £500 *2006 – $35,000 *2008 – $50,00 ...
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