Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist. He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called " Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade".

Awards

Since 1993, the

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 Austra ...

, the arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia, has awarded a

Red Ochre Award The Red Ochre Award is an annual art award for Indigenous Australian artists. Background and description The Red Ochre Award was established in 1993 by the Australia Council for the Arts. It is awarded annually to an outstanding Indigenous Au ...

to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. In 2004, it was awarded to Bulunbulun.

Exhibitions

*Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Capital Museum, Beijing. *Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Melbourne Museum.

Collections

*Artbank, Sydney. *

Art Gallery of New South Wales 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 importa ...

, Sydney *

Art Gallery of Western Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...

, Perth *Central Collection,

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

, Canberra *Djomi Museum, Maningrida *

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Collection Perth Western Australia *

Flinders University Art Museum Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), sometimes referred to as Flinders Art Museum, is an art museum in Adelaide, South Australia, that preserves and develops Flinders University's historical and contemporary art collections. History The ar ...

, Adelaide *

Holmes à Court Collection Holmes may refer to: Name * Holmes (surname) * Holmes (given name) * Baron Holmes, noble title created twice in the Peerage of Ireland * Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond (born 1971), British former swimmer and life peer Places In the ...

, Perth *Kluge Foundation, Morven Estate, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA *Milingimbi Collection, MECA, Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association * Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin *Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney *

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

, Canberra. *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two ...

, Melbourne. *

National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United ...

, Darling Harbour, Sydney *Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra *

The Kelton Foundation The Kelton Foundation, also known as the Richard Kelton Foundation, in Santa Monica, California, was founded in 1983 as a private charitable organization by real estate developer Richard Kelton, who died in 2019. Its main activities comprise "ethnog ...

, Santa Monica, USA

References

External links

Parliament House Art CollectionJohn Bulunbulun
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Red Ochre Award

WorldCat
1946 births 2010 deaths Australian Aboriginal artists Australian painters Artists from the Northern Territory {{Australia-painter-stub