Details of Sade Carrington
About
Sadie Carrington (bush name Dalimbal) was born at Balanygerre (Texas Downs Cattle Station) near Warmun in 1957. Her parents Betty Carrington Budbarria and Beerbee Mungari are also artists. Carrington has been influenced by many of the early apinters of Warmun including Hector Jandany, Jack Britten, Queenie McKenzie and Rover Thomas. 'I was one of the first artists to start painting, along with my father Beerbee, she says. 'Before Warmun Art Centre started we'd (Queenie and I) just come in (to the post office garden) and sit down and start painting.'
Carrington schooled at Beagle Bay Mission when she was four and was allowed to see her family for only two weeks a year. At thirteen, she went to the Pallentine Mission in Rossmoyne Perth and attended St Joachims Ladies College. At fifteen she returned to Texas to marry. Carrington started painting at the age of 13, using traditional ochre. The stories she paints are from her family's country, Texas Downs Station, as well as her Graet Grandmother country, Purnululu (the Bungle Bungles). 'Jack Britten taught me how tod oBungle Bungles, ' she says, commenting that men don't usually teach women but in the late 1980's there were not many young men fit to be painters.
Carrington's paintings are a tribute to her country and the connection she has taught primarily by her mother Betty Carrington. Carrington now lives both in Darwina and Warmun community. She has travelled extensively throughout Australia and overseas. Carrington brings to her work her expereince and awareness of the the contemporary international art world, combining this with intimate knowledge of Gija culture, history and language.
MEDIUM
Natural ochre on canvas
THEMES
Darrajayin Country (Springvale Station)
Massacre stories occurring on Gija lands
Well-known landscapes in Gija country
Traditional Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories from Texas country
Stories from family country, Texas Downs Station
Great-grandmother's country, Purnululu
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 A stint of Prints: New etchings from Warmun Art Centre, Nomad art Productions, Darwin, NT
2008 Traces of Country: Indigenous Fine Art Prints', Gecko Gallery, Broome, WA
2008 The Women of Warmun: Ten years on', Gecko Gallery, Perth WA
2002 Garmerrun: All our Country, 'Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
2001 Short on Size, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2001 Gulidford Grammar School Art Exhibtion, Perth , WA
COLLECTIONS
Laverty Collection
FTB Group Collection
Parliamentary Art Collection, Aboriginal People's Room, Parliament House, Perth, WA
AWARDS
1997 DARWIN ART AWARD - 3rd Prize, open category
