Australian Indigenous Artists

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 46191

    JENKINS, Susan (editor)

    No ordinary place : the art of David Malangi

    Edited by Susan Jenkins ; contributions by Nigel Lendon, Djon Mundine, Margie West and members of the Malangi family. Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2004. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 112, illustrated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 31 July – 7 November 2004. No ordinary place celebrates the …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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; …

  • # 46093

    GREEN, Jenny

    Pmere : country in mind. Arrernte landscape painters

    [Alice Springs] : Tangentyere Council, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. ‘Compiled for an exhibition of the same name in Freemantle 1988 – Includes comments by Jillian Namatjira – Gabriella Wallace – Clem Abbott – Wenten Rubuntja – Doug Abbott – Basil Rantji – Desmond Ebataringa – Therese Ryder – Kathleen Wallace’ – Trove

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 46137

    RUHE, Edward Lehman

    Aborigine bark paintings : an exhibition of primitive art from Arnhem Land, Australia organised by Edward L. Ruhe. The Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, Vermont. November 30 – December 21 1973.

    Octavo (225 x 150 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 21, illustrated in b/w.; a good copy. Catalogue for an exhibition of 88 Arnhem Land barks from Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Western Arnhem Land, Groote Eylandt, Melville Island etc., organised by American collector and academic Dr Edward Lehman Ruhe. Trove locates a single copy in Australian institutional collections …

  • # 46136

    BOULTER, Michael and Christopher HODGES

    [PAPUNYA TULA; UTOPIA] Australia’s first international art movement

    Sydney : Utopia Art, June 1990. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp. 19, with b/w illustrations; centre pages foxed, otherwise very good. This extremely hard-to-find commercial gallery publication provides a brief overview of the Papunya Tula and Utopia art movements, in the context of the origins of contemporary Aboriginal art. It was written and …