ABN 37 096 876 083
GALI YALKARRIWUY GURRUWIWI
Born c 1942 Clan Galpu Lives Elcho Island, NT
EXHIBITION HISTORY SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi - Yothu Yindi Banumbirr Djama: Elder and Younger Banumbirr - Intergenerational Passing of Knowledge, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC 2007 Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi: Banumbirr – Morning Star Poles, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Moonlight, Mountains and Pig Tusks: Painted Wisdom of the Ömie Cheifs & Banumbirr: Morning Star Poles, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC 2014 Yukuwa ga Ganguri: Bark Paintings, Larrakitj and Banumbirr (Morning Star Poles), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC 2012 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi & Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi - Tapalinga & Jilamara & Banumbirr, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC 2011 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT Evolve - Selected Gallery Artists: Painting and Sculpture, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC 2010 Masterwork, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art Now, Vivien Anderson Gallery in association with Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe NM, USA Dharri Wangdangarri (Standing Proud and Strong), Chapman Gallery, Canberra ACT 2009 Floating Life - Contemporary Fibre, Queensland Arts Gallery, Brisbane QLD 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT Elcho Connections, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin NT Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA 2008 Kate Challis RAKA Award 2008: contemporary indigenous visual arts, Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne VIC 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT Vivien Anderson Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Exhibition Building, Melbourne VIC 2006 Dhuwa – Yirritja, Elcho Island Group Show, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane QLD L’esprit De La Terre D’Arnhem, Paris, France
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ABN 37 096 876 083
2002 Fibre, Raft Gallery and ANKAAA, Darwin NT Banumbirr, National Maritime Museum, Sydney NSW 2001 18th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT 2000 The Native Born, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney NSW and international tour (Germany, Spain, Sao Paolo, New York and Taipei) 17th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT 1999 My Island Home, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago U.S.A; Durham Board, Toronto Canada 16th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT 1998 Vlaams-Europeesch Conferentiecentrum, Brussels Belgium 15th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT 1997 First Person Plural, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago USA Kimberley Art Gallery, Melbourne VIC 1995 12th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT 1994 Fibre Art from Elcho Island, University of NSW, Sydney NSW 1989 Aboriginal Art, The Continuing Traditions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT
COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne VIC Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia The Hartland Collection, Sydney Australia Arnaud Serval Collection, Paris France
AWARDS & PRIZES 2011 Winner - 3D Category, 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2008 Winner - Kate Challis RAKA Award: contemporary indigenous visual arts
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Art Gallery of Western Australia 2009, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA Cawte, J. 1993, The universe of the Warramirri : art, medicine, and religion in Arnhem Land, New South Wales University Press, Kensington NSW
GROUND FLOOR, 284 – 290 ST KILDA ROAD, ST KILDA VICTORIA 3182 AUSTRALIA T. +61 3 8598 9657 E. [email protected] www.vivienandersongallery.com
ABN 37 096 876 083
Elcho Island Art and Craft and Bandigan Aboriginal Art and Craft 2002, Banumbirr: Elcho Island Artists & Bandigan Morning Star Collection, Bandigan Aboriginal Art & Craft, Sydney NSW 1997 First Person Plural, Exhibition Catalogue, Betty Rymer Gallery Chicago USA Hamby, L. 1994, Fibre art from Elcho Island: catalogue of an exhibition, St. George Campus, the University of New South Wales, School of Applied and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Murphy, B. (ed). 1996, The native born: objects and representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney NSW Rothwell, N. 2010, ‘Magic Island’ in The Weekend Australian Magazine, May 8 - 9 Sunday Arts, ABC TV, Episode 1 2009 ‘Tracks’ in Time Magazine December 2, 2002 Community Aid Abroad Calendar, 1994
GROUND FLOOR, 284 – 290 ST KILDA ROAD, ST KILDA VICTORIA 3182 AUSTRALIA T. +61 3 8598 9657 E. [email protected] www.vivienandersongallery.com