Details of Peggy Griffiths
About
Peggy was born on Newry Station in August 1941, her mothers' name was Dianah Dingil, and her Father is Frank Moore. Peggy's father used to be employed as a stockman on Newry Station. Peggy lived with her mother on Newry station until equal wages were introduced and a lot of the Aboriginal workers were forced to leave.
Peggy then went to Ivanhoe Station. Peggy did some schooling there but only for a short while, she and her mother then moved to Argyle Station (before it was flooded) it was here she found out that she was promised to Alan Griffiths. Peggy and Alan then moved to Kununurra.
Peggy first started painting and carving didgeridoos, boabs and boomerangs back in 1985, a few years later she started painting on canvas. Soon after she started print making with Waringarri Arts at the Northern Territory University and in 1996 Peggy was the first Indigenous artist to win the 1995 Fremantle Print Award. Peggy enjoys art but mainly does it to keep the stories of her grandfather Charley Mailman alive.
MEDIUM
Pigment on Paper Limited Edition Prints
Carved slate and Didgeridoo
THEMES
Traditional Country of her father and grandfather
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 West meets East - Peggy Griffiths, Seva Frangos Art, Perth, WA
2005 Dreaming the Spinifex, Seva Frangos Art at Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
GROUP SHOWS
2008 Kimberley Ink, Northern Editions, Darwin, NT
2008 Celebration, Seva Frangos Art, perth, WA
2008 Kimberley Ink and Ochre, Wollongong University, NSW
2005 When Waringarri Came to Town, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2004 Kimberley Focus - Alan and peggy Griffiths, perth International Arts Festival, Perth, WA
2004 Waringarri 3 Women, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2003 Art of the East Kimberley, Short st. Gallery, Broome, WA
2002 Kimberley Ochre, Cullen Bay, NT
2002 Short on Size, Short st. Gallery Broome, WA
2002 Heyson Prize, Adelaide, SA
2002 Love Your Work - 30 year Exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre Perth, WA
2002 Warrgebarenkoo Fremantle Arts Centre Perth, WA
2002 Cossack Art Awards, Cossack, WA
2001 Groundwork, Fremantle Arts Centre Perth, WA
2001 Past Modern, Short st. Gallery Broome @Australia Square, Sydney, NSW
2000 Greenhill Galleries, Perth, WA
2000 Redback Art, Brisbane, QLD
2000 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory Darwin, NT
2000 High on Art, Melbourne, VIC
2000 Cowara House, Cowaramup, W.A.
1999 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory Darwin, NT
1999 East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra, NT
1997 East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra, NT
1996 Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, WA
1995 Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, WA
COLLECTIONS
Australian Equity - Kerry Stokes Collection
Parliament House Collection Perth WA
Parliament House Collection Canberra ACT
Artbank Australia
Edith Cowan University Collection, Perth
Royal Perth Hospital Collection, Perth
Northern Territory University Collection, Darwin
University Of Technology Collection Sydney NSW
Fremantle Art Centre Collection, Fremantle
Church Gallery Art Angels
Art Gallery of Western Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Private Collections - Australia wide
AWARDS
1995 Fremantle Print Award
