Details of Jean Baptiste Apuatimi
About
Group Tapatapunga (March Fly) Dance Buffalo Art Centre Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island
Medium Painting: ochre on canvas, ochre on paper, ochre on bark, etching
Artists Statement: "I love my painting, I love doing it. My husband, Declan Apuatimi taught me to paint.The designs are ones he taught me - he said one day you will be an artist - you will take my place. Now I am doing that. Painting makes me alive."
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Etched in the Sun, Basil Hall Editions. Rebecca Hossacks Gallery London , UK
2009 Gifted , Recent acquisitions Charles Darwin University Collection.
2009 Ochre Imprints, Tandanya National Aboriginal Culture Institute, SA
2009-07 CULTURE WARRIORS, National Indigenous Art Triennial. touring nationally: National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Art gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of QLD/ Gallery of Modern Art.
2008 Western Australian Inaugural Indigenous Art Prize, Art Gallery of WA
2008 Paparanguwi Arikuturnuwi, Bett Gallery, TAS
2008 The Other Thing, Charles Darwin Uni Art Collection
2008 Tiwi Art Network Annual Telstra Award Exhibition, Brownsmart. NT
2008 Custodians: Country & Culture, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2008 Custodians: Country & Culture, Nomad Gallery, NT
2008 25th Silver Jubilee NATSIAA Telstra Award, MAGNT
2008 Melbourne Artfair- Represented by Raft Art Space Darwin, NT
2008 New Etchings & Lithographs by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi & Maria Josette Orsto. Nomad Gallery, Darwin, NT
2008 New Works from Tiwi Design, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2007 Australian Print Workshop Exhibition. Australian Embassy of Washington, USA
2007 In the world: head, hand, heart: Tamworth Regional Gallery: Artspace Mackay QLD: Gippsland Art Gallery VIC: Mosman Gallery travelling exhibition. QLD/SA/NSW.
2006 Yirrajirrima murrakupuni ngawurraningimarri (Three places coming together) Tiwi Art Network, Telstra Award Exhibition, Shop1.13 Smith st Mall, Darwin, NT
2006 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2006 All the Tiwi Mob, Short st Gallery, Broome, WA
2006 Kirripapurajuwi Nginga Ngawula Jilimara, Raft Art Space, Darwin.
2006 Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Washington, USA
2006 Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
2006 Kirripapurajuwi Nginga Ngawula Jilimara, Raft Art Space, Darwin.
2006 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art Award, Art Gallery and Museum of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2006 Right here Right now,Recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander acquisitions , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT
2006 Freestyle New Australian Design for Living. Museum of Victoria Melbourne, VIC. then touring nationally & internationally.
2005 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art Award, Art Gallery and Museum of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2005 Tiwi Art Network, Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair, Sydney
2003 Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide SA
2003 Wangatunga Jilamara, Raft Art Space, Darwin
2002 19th Telstra Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and art Gallery of NT
2002 Wangatunga Jilamara Paintings and Carvings Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2001 Across the Clarence Straight- Art of the Tiwi, Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns, QLD
2001 Islands in the Sun, National Gallery of Australia, ACT 2001 Taykwapi Tiwi, Raft artspace, Darwin, NT
2001 Taykwapi Tiwi, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2000 Papaluwi Jilamara , works by Apuatimi and daughters Josette Orsto and Carmelina Puantulura, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle
2000 Tiwi Dreaming, Taos, New Mexico, USA
2000 Tiwi 2000, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2000 17th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2000 Western Australian Art Fare, Fremantle Passenger Terminal , Perth WA
1999 Ngawayati, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1999 Nginingawula Tiwi Turtiyangini, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1999 Arukulunga Wunitaka Thelma, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1999 16th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1999 Jean Baptist Apuatimi, Solo exhibition, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1998 15th Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
1998 The Fourth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award - The Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1994 Art of the Tiwi from the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, touring :
Shepparton Art Gallery,Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Tandanya Adelaide
1993 Nginingawaluwla Tiwi Jilamara 1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Vic
1992 Ngingingawula Jilamara Kapi Purunguparri (Our Designs on Bark), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1993 The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Bathurst and Melville Island, The University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston
1991 Jilamara Milikapiti, Alcaston House Gallery, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Tapalingi Jean Baptiste Apuatimi in London. Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
2008 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth WA
2008 Ngiya amintiya nginaringa,ngiya gnamaringa, (mother & daughter - Jean Baptiste Apuatimi&Maria Josette Orsto)
Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, 2 Danks St. Sydney
2007 Ngiya Yirtanga Pulukatu (my name is female buffalo), Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2006 Makatingari (it sounds like running water) Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, 2 Danks St. Sydney
2005 Mirripaka (Salty Water) Raft Art Space , Darwin
2004 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2003 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2002 Wangatunga Jilamara, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra ACT
2002 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2001 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal& Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2001 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi , Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
2001 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi,Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
2000 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi,Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
1999 Paparluwi Jilamara, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery of South Australia
Batchelor College, NT
Charles Darwin University, NT
Ian Bernadt Private Collection
Kelton Foundation, California, USA
Kluge-Ruhe Collection, USA
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney
Monash University
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia ACT
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
Parliament House, Canberra
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Wesfarmers Collection
Bibliography
2007 Clark D. & Jenkins, S. (eds) Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, exhibition publications,2007.
2007 Perkins, H. & West, M. (eds) One Sun One Moon, Aboriginal Art in Australia. Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
2006 Thwaite,V. (ed) In the World: head, hand, heart 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery, exhibition catalogue.
2006 Nicholson, E & Price, R. Dreaming their Way, Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National MUseum of Women in the Arts, Scala Pub. London.
2006 Parkes,B. Freestyle New Australian Design for Living , Object Gallery, Sydney
1994 Art of the Tiwi from The Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (C)
1993 The Body Tiwi Aboriginal Art from Bathurst and Melville Islands,exhib,cat., The University Gallery,University of Tasmania, Launceston, (C)
1993 Bennet, J., 1993`Narrative and decoration in Tiwi Painting: Tiwi representations of Purukuparli Story, Art Bulletin of Victoria 33, 39-47, (C)
1993 Bennet, J.,1992 `Ngingingawala Jilamara kapi purunguparri (Our Bark Paintings), Gallery Monthly Magazine of National Gallery Society of Victoria, September.
