Australian Indigenous Artists
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# 46977
PICKERING, Michael et al.
Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route
Canberra : National Museum of Australia, 2010. Quarto, cards in dustjacket, pp. [xx]; 230, illustrated. The Aboriginal people of Australias Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track …
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# 46966
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Reprint, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 162, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists between 1803 and 1903. Never before collected …
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# 46707
SAYERS, Andrew (1957 - 2015)
Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)
With a foreword by Lin Onus and a chapter by Carol Cooper. Melbourne : Oxford University Press in association with National Gallery of Australia, 1994. First edition. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket, slight sunning to spine, pp. 162, illustrated. A very good copy. ‘Andrew Sayers examines a considerable body of drawings produced by Aboriginal artists …
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# 46896
PERKINS, Hetti et al.
One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia
Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 368, illustrated. This copy is still sealed in the publisher’s shrink-wrap, but it has a small amount of loss at the foot of the spine where perhaps it was dropped, and as such is sold as a reference copy. ‘Aboriginal art …
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# 46740
LIVESEY, Scott
Aboriginal art 2006
Melbourne : Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 60, illustrated. Price lis enclosed. Includes works by Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Timothy Cook, George Tjungurrayi and others.
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# 46528
HOOKEY, Gordon (1961- )
Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr – jarr – yarh – “Arrgh!”
February 17th – March 17th. Melbourne : Nellie Castan Gallery, 2007. A4 sheet printed on both sides, illustrated in colour; verso with details of 22 works with prices; original folds, light creasing. Scarce piece of ephemera from a 2007 exhibition by Indigenous Queensland artist Gordon Hookey. No copies traced on Trove.
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# 46529
KOORIVISION INC.; DEACON, Destiny et al.
KooriVision Inc presents Kitch’en Koori. Art works, a kitchen, words, and an Oz kitsch dis-play. Fringe Studio, 1st Floor 184 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, 2-19 September 1992.
[Melbourne] : KooriVision Inc., 1992. Exhibition flyer/invitation. A4 sheet folded to form [4] sides (last side is blank), illustrated; very good condition; loosely inserted is a 2-page essay on the significance of the kitsch Aboriginalia display by Kylie Belling and Johnny Harding. This exhibition was part of the 1992 Melbourne Fringe Festival. It included a …
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# 46319
[MOFFATT, Tracey]
Tracey Moffatt : Scarred for Life. 27 October – 19 November 1994.
Prahran, Vic. : Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, 1994. Exhibition room list. Foolscap folio, stapled, [2] pp., photocopied; all works in the exhibition were photo offset prints priced at $300 each (edition of 50); a good copy. Scarred for Life has become one of Moffatt’s most acclaimed series of photographic works.
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# 46326
GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI
Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.
Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1989. Folding card, 200 x 100 mm, work by Ginger Riley illustrated; gallery information printed inside and verso; good condition, aside from the fact that the card was once pinned to a noticeboard by the original invitee.
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# 46106
MOORE, David R.
The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue
London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue – scholarly and very well illustrated – of the material culture field-collected …
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# 46064
KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame (1910 - 1996) et alia
Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson
XLVII esposizione internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia 1997. Sydney, N.S.W : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bent), pp. 52, illustrated, a few spots of foxing. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Australian Pavilion, 47th Venice Biennale, 15 June – 9 November 1997, then touring Australia from …
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# 46188
RYAN, Judith et al.
Mythscapes : Aboriginal art of the desert
By Judith Ryan ; with an essay by Geoffrey Bardon. Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (edges rubbed), pp. 104, folding colour plates. Includes chapters on Papunya Tula, Albert Namatjira and the Hermannsburg School, the Balgo Hills, Yuendumu and others.
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# 46091
BERESFORD, Amanda
Arnhem Land dreaming : bark paintings from Tasmanian collections
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1993. Exhibition catalogue, self-wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [8], illustrated. Includes barks from Groote Eylandt, Yirrkala, Central Arnhem Land, Western Arnhem Land and the West Kimberleys.
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# 46092
McCARTHY, F. D.
Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings 1912 – 1964
Exhibition organized by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Commonwealth Arts Festival Exhibition. Liverpool, U.K. : Walker Art Gallery, 1965. Octavo, lettered wrappers, pp. 23, illustrated. ‘Introduction and catalogue of exhibition written by F.D. McCarthy; bark paintings from Northern Territory – Bathurst and Melville Islands – Tiwi people; Goulburn Island, western N. Arnhem Land Maung; …
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# 46094
MUNDINE, John
The art of Ramingining
Surfers Paradise, Qld : The Centre Gallery, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [6], illustrated. Related ephemera enclosed. Includes works by George Milpurrurru, David Malangi et al.
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# 46104
SKERRITT, Henry F. et al.
Irrit̲itja kuwarri tjungu = Past & present together : fifty years of Papunya Tula artists
Edited by Fred Myers and Henry Skerritt ; with contributions by John Kean. Charlottesville, VA : University of Virginia Press, 2021. Quarto, illustrated boards (corner bumped), pp. xiii, 278, illustrated. ‘In 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia’s remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of …