Details of Jimmy Donegan
About
BIOGRAPHY
Jimmy was born at Yanpan, a rockhole near Ngatuntjarra Bore around 1940. He grew up as a bush baby in country around Blackstone and Mantamaru (Jamieson) in Western Australia. Jimmy has family links throughout the Pitjanjatjarra lands; his wife is from a place near Kalka. Jimmy brought his wife and children to live at Blackstone because of Jimmy's tie to country here. He is widowed and has four children. He has now returned to Kalka Community to live with his children and close to his sister Molly Nampitjin Miller.
Jimmy is a wonderful wood craftsman, his spears, spear throwers and boomerangs are prized and much sort after. He is rich in story and a strong man for law and culture. A quote from The Australian Art Review November 2006, "His works are dazzling compositions of swirling, intensely-coloured dots, sometimes crossed by lines signifying the journey of the two snakes above and below the surface of the earth."
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2010 Kulunypa tjuta painamilani, Short St Gallery in Cairns, QLD
2010 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
2010 "Tjukurpa Pulkatjara- The power of law" South Australian Museum, Adelaide,SA
2009 Ninuku Artists 'Ngintaka Tjukurpa: Perentie Lizard Dreaming', Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2009 Tjungu: All together, Aboringinal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2008 Desert Mob, Alice Springs, NT
2008 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2008 Desert Mob, Alice Springs, NT
2008 Tjukurpa Kutjupa Kutjupa: Other Stories from Ninuku Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Short St Gallery Broome, WA
2007 Desert Master Class, South Australian Museum, SA
2007 Senior Men Group Show, Men Happily Painting Together, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2007 Shared exhibition with Mornington Island at Marshall Art, Adelaide, SA
2007 Western Desert Mob Launch, Perth, WA
2007 Big Country, Gallery, Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2007 Papulankutja Artists Group Exhibition, Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA
2006 Tjilpi Show, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Waterloo, NSW
2005 Lirru Puru Kuniya Tjukurrpa, Randell Lane Fine Art at Tristan Gallery, Perth, WA
2005 Big Red Country Exhibition, Kalgoorlie Goldfields Art Centre, WA
2005 Desert Mob, Alice Springs, NT
2005 Senior Artists of Blackstone and Patjarr, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Waterloo, NSW
AWARDS
Winner - 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2010
COLLECTIONS
Swift Lagerberg
Thomas Vroom, The Netherlands
Peter Klein, Germany
The University of Western Sydney
Merenda Collection
The Marshall Collection
The Corrigan Collection
Laverty Collection
Bibliography
Rothwell, Nicholas. "Revelatory Show of Strength in Tradition". The Australian, 16 August 2010
Rothwell, Nicholas, "One Painting - A Lifetime of Dreams and Stories', The Australian, 14 August 2010
"Tjukurpa Pulkatjara- The power of law", Catalogue,Wakefield Press first Published 2010.
