Details of Lena Yarinkura
About
Medium
Ceremonial regalia, twined basket, fibre sculpture, dilly bag, bronze and aluminium sculpture, hollow log coffin, carved and painted sculpture
Subject/Theme
Clan mythologies, mythological figures and animals, yawkyawk - mermaid, jamu - dog, mokko - crocodile and various animal species from the region such as bandicoot, spotted quoll and bush rat
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Ancestral Spirit Beings and Ceremonial Lorrkon, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne VIC
2008 Maningrida ARts, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2008 Maningrida Survey Show, Short StGallery, Broome ,WA
2008 Interwoven, Indigenart Perth, WA
2008 Weaving around the traps, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC
2008 Playa Art At Mary Place, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 Women's show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Journeys, Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Aboriginal Objects, Sculptues and Bush Toys, Michael reid Gallery, Sydney
2007 24th NATSIAA, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2007 Lorrkon, spirit being and fibre works, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne , VIC
2007 Togart Contemporary Art exhibition, Darwim, NT
2005 22nd NATSIAA, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2004 Bob Burruwal & Lena Yarinkura, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2004 21st NATSIA, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2004 Maningrida fibre: an exhibition of fibre sculpture, Bandigan art, Sydney, NSW
2004 2004 Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Contexture, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2004 Fibre and Sculptures, Indigenart, Fremantle, WA
2004 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Maningrida Fibre Arts, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2003 Threads of Time, Burrinja Gallery, upwey, VIC
2003 An exhibition of Rembarrnga artists, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2003 The visit, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2003 Bark paintings, sculpture and fibre work by Maningrida women artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Artist In Residence Exhibition, Coomalie Cultural Centre, NT
2003 Organic Forms in Fibre, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW
2003 Dreamtime, contemporary Aboriginal Art, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 Maningrida threads, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
2002 Fibre: an exhibition of woven art, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2002 Spirit of Arnhem Land, Redback Gallery, QLD
2002 Barks in the spotlight, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002 Wild Nature in contemporary Australlian art & craft, Jam Factory, Adelaide, SA
2002 Weave, NTU Gallery, Darwin, NT
2002 Inspiral, Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs, NT
2002 NATSIA, 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2002 Paper & String, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Qld
2002 Transition and Resilience, Jam Factory, SA
2002 The colour and the shape, Thornquest Gallery, Qld
2002 Frisson, 14th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Manly, NSW
2001 Out of the Mould, an exhibition of first works in bronze and aluminium from Maningrida,
Gallery Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2001 National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
2001 Weaving in 3 dimensions, Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney
2001 Vital Fluids, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra
2001 Yvonne Koolmatrie and Lena Yarinkura, Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney
2000 Transitions: 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award,
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin: toured nationally
2000 14th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial: Frisson, Tamworth City Gallery: toured nationally
2000 Bienniale of Sydney, Various venues and locations
1999 The Art of Fibre, Leichardt Street Studios, Canberra
1999 Contemporary Australian Craft, Japanese touring exhibition organised in conjunction
with the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney: toured to Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
Sapporo; Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Otsu
1999 My Country: Australische Aboriginal Kunst, Brandweer Kazerne, Utrecht, Netherlands
1999 Organic Forms, Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
1999 Spinifex Runner: a collection of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fibre
art, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW
1998 Maningrida Weavings, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1998 Spirits of the Dreaming, Jarraman Arts Aboriginal Corporation, National Aboriginal
Cultural Centre, Sydney
1998 Pandanus and Paperback, Gabrielle Prizzi, Melbourne
1998 a material thing; objects from the collection, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
1997 14th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1996 The Language of Place, Framed Gallery, Darwin
1996 Dreaming: Aboriginal Art from Australia, Galerie Kouwenhoven, Delft, Netherlands
1996 Contemporary Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1995 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award and Exhibition, Old
Parliament House, Canberra
1995 Maningrida: The Language of Weaving, A.E.T.A. Touring Exhibition throughout Australia
and New Zealand
1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the
Northern Territory, Darwin
1991 Sea People, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibiton, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1990 Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1990 From Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland;
toured to Swansea and Manchester, UK
1989 The Sixth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the
Northern Territory, Darwin
1987 Karnta Women's Exhibition, toured nationally and South-East Asia
AWARDS/GRANTS
2009 Toga Contemporary Art Award, Darwin, NT
1998 Professional Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, Aboriginal Arts Unit
1997 Winner of the Wandjuk Marika Memorial Three-dimensional Award, National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin
1995 Highly Commended in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art
Award, Canberra
1994 Winner of the Wanjuk Marida Memorial Award (Best artwork in open media), National
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin
COLLECTIONS
Aimee Proost private collection, Qld
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Djomi Museum, Maningrida, NT
Helen Read Collection, Darwin
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Museum D'Historie Naturelle de Lyon, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia
National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, California
Walonia Aboriginal Art, Netherlands
SELECTED
Bibliography
Art Gallery of NSW, a material thing; objects from the collection, Sydney: Art Gallery
of NSW, 1999
Australian Conservation Foundation, Habitat, Australia, 22:60, 1994
Australian Heritage Commission, The Second National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander
Art Award and Exhibiton, Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission, 1994
Australian National Gallery, 1992, Aboriginal Art, National Gallery News, Sept:5-7
Carew, M. & West, M.K.C., The Language of Weaving, Australian Exhbibition Touring
Agency, Maningrida Arts and Culture, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, 1995
Caruana, W., Aboriginal Art, World of Art, London: Thames and Hudson, 1993
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Transitions: 17 years of the National Aboriginal
& Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, 2000
McDonald,E., & Oakley, R., Biennale of Sydney 2000:, Sydney : Biennale of Sydney Ltd.
Mendham, D., Contemporary Territory, Darwin: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin, 1996
Moon, D. Spinifex Runner: a collection of contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Fibre
Art, Campbelltown, NSW: Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, 1999
National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia: an introduction to the collection,
Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1998
West, M. 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin: Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1997
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