Australian Indigenous Artists

  • Tiwi : art & artists

    # 46984

    RYAN, Judith et al.

    Tiwi : art & artists

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2020. Quarto (300 mm x 255 mm), boards in dustjacket, pp. 336, illustrated. Tiwi visual and performative cultural practices have existed for many millennia, but it was only during the twentieth century that a wider public became aware of the magnificence of Tiwi painting and sculpture. This compelling publication …

  • Urban Dingo. The art and life of Lin Onus 1948 - 1996

    # 46980

    NEALE, Margo

    Urban Dingo. The art and life of Lin Onus 1948 – 1996

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2000. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 144, numerous illustrations, light handling wear and sunning to spine. A very good copy of a scarce title.

  • Dreamings of the desert : Aboriginal dot paintings of the Western Desert

    # 46979

    CHAPMAN, Christopher et al.

    Dreamings of the desert : Aboriginal dot paintings of the Western Desert

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 1996. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 140, illustrated. Celebration of 25th anniversary of dot painting movement resulted in this publication and in an exhibition of the entire collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s western desert art; recognition of movement; map of central Australian languages; illustrated history of …

  • Yiwarra kuju : the Canning Stock Route

    # 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 …

  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century

    # 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 …

  • Namatjira of the Aranda

    # 46965

    HALL, Vic

    Namatjira of the Aranda

    Adelaide : Rigby, 1963. Quarto, boards in illustrated dustjacket , pp. 56 plus numerous photographic plates. A fine copy.

  • Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)

    # 46838

    NICOLAS, Alain (ed.)

    Paysages rêvés : artistes aborigènes contemporains de Balgo Hills (Australie Occidentale)

    Marseille : Musée d’Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, Galeries Gaston Defferre, Centre de la Vieille Charité, 2004. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, pp. 128, colour illustrations, maps; a very fine copy. Scarce catalogue produced for an exhibition of works by artists from the remote Balgo Hills community in Western …

  • Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century (hardcover edition)

    # 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 …

  • One Sun One Moon : Aboriginal Art in Australia

    # 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 …

  • Aboriginal art 2006

    # 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.

  • Gordon Hookey : Con ject charr - jarr - yarh - "Arrgh!"

    # 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.

  • 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.

    # 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 …

  • Tracey Moffatt : Scarred for Life. 27 October - 19 November 1994.

    # 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.

  • Printed invitation to an exhibition of paintings from Ngukurr, Roper River, Northern Territory at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 14 February 1989.

    # 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.

  • The Torres Strait collections of A. C. Haddon : a descriptive catalogue

    # 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 …

  • Fluent : Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Judy Watson

    # 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 …