Details of Dolly (Jukuja) Snell
About
BIOGRAPHY
I was born at a jila (permanent waterhole) caled Kurtal. Mum took me to Balgo and then to Warnku. I was living there when my sister Wagajia took me to Sturt Creek and then back to Warnku. From there we walked to Louisa Downs Station with my family.
I spent time at Bohemia Downs and Christmas Ceek Stations. I used to milk the goats at Bohemia Downs Station. I was a young girl without milk. I had not yet had children when I first went there.
When I paint, I paint Kurtal. I paint one country. I can't paint other country. I have two brothers and two sisters who belong to this jila."
PAINTING THEMES
Kurtal jila (living waterhole), jilji (sandhills) and surrounding country in the Great Sandy Desert
Mangarri (bush tucker) andplants from the Great Sandy Desert
Marrajati in the Great Sandy Desert
Kilan Kilan in the Great Sandy Desert
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Four Desert Women, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2009 Mangkaja Artists 60 x 60, Randell Lane Fine Art, WA
2009 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strat Islander Art Awards, Museum adn Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2009 Sharing Difference on Common Ground, Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2009 Senior Artists from Fitzroy Crossing, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2009 Sitting Down with Jujuka and Wakartu, Raft Artspace, Darwin NT
2009 Mangkaja Survey Show, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2008 Women on Country, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Waterholes and Bush Tucker, Bridget McDonnell Hampton Gallery, VIC
2008 Marnintu Maparnana (Women Painting), ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008 Divas of the Dseert, Gallery of Gondwana, Sydney, NSW
2007 X Marks the Spot, Wooloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2007 Women Artists of Fitzroy Crossing, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2007 Jila, Jilji and Miyi - Mangkaja Arts, Cool-Art Gallery, Coolum Beach, QLD
2007 New Legend - Recent Works from the Kimberley, KALCC and William Mora Galleries, Melbourne VIC
2006 Purnta (promised marriage), Raft Artspace, Darwin NT
2006 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2006 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 Mangkaja Group Show, Raft Artspace, Darwin NT
2005 Too Much Good Work, Raft Arspace, Darwin NT
2005 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 True Colours, Dell Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD & Suzanne O'Connell Australian Indigenous Art, QLD
2005 Magkaja Art, Boutwell Draper, Sydney NSW
2004 Waterhole, Raft Artspace & Grant Pirrie Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 "Too much good work", Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2004 This is Still My Country, Artplace, Perth International Arts Festival, WA
2004 Broken Promises, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
2003 National Aboriginal Torres Strait islander Art Award, Museum and Art gallery of the NT
2003 Jaja and Jaja, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2003 Jila Jumu Jiwari & Wirrkuia, Cullity gallery, UWA, Perth, WA
2003 Mangkaja Marniwarnti, Raft artspace, Darwin, NT
2003 Waterhole, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2002 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
2002 Strength of line,drypoints and etchings from the NYU collection, NTU, Darwin, NT
2002 Recent works from Mangkaja, Shortst Gallery, Broome, WA
2002 Group Show, Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2001 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
2001 Fitzroy Women, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
2001 Mankatja Arts Ten Years On, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA
2000/01 Past Modern, Australia Square, with Short st Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Ngurrara Canvas, National Gallery of Australia
2000 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
1999 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome, WA
1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1998 Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1997 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydne, NSW
1996 Heritage Commission Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
1996 Broken Promises, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA
1996 Group Show, Hogart Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1996 National Aboriginal Art Award, selected work
1995 National Aboriginal Art Award, selected work
1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne, VIC
1995 Group Show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1994 Ngaiakura Ngurrara Minyarti - This is my country, Festival of Perth Exhibition Artplace Gallery, Perth, WA
1993 Mangakatja Women, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA
1993 Images of Power, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC
1992 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 Karrayili, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Artbank
IATSIS Collection
Holmes a Court Collection
Edith Cowan University
Flinders University Art Museum
Northern Territory University
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia
HBL Collection
Harriet & Richard England Colection
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Sharing Difference on Common Ground, Kimberely Aboriginal Artists
2009 Important Aboriginal Art, Deutscher and Hackett, March 2009
2007 New Legend: Kimberley Art & Life. Paintings, Stories & Dances from Saltwater, Desert, River & Range Country, KALCC - 2006 Kimberley Aboriginal Law & Culture Corporation
2003 The Painted Desert - The Fate of the Aboriginal Masterpiece, New Yorker Magazine 28 July 2003
2003 Martuwarra and Jila, Jumu, Jawarri and Wirrkuja, Exhibition catalogue University of WA
2002 Kurtal; Snake Spirit, Video Documentary/ABC Television
2001 Painting Up Big, the Ngurrara Canvas, Kaltja Now Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, SA
2000 Karrayili, The History of Karrayili Adult Education Centre, IATSIS Canberrra ACT
2000 Kaitja Now, indigenous Arts Australia, Wakefield press and Tandanya Cultural Institute
2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art, Oxford University Press and ANU
1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert, Video Documentary, SBS Television.
1994 Ngajakura Ngurrara Minyarti - This is my Country, Exhibition Catalogue
1993 Mangkatji Women, Exhibition Catalogue
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition Catalogue
1991 Karrayili -10 Years On, Exhibition Catalogue
