Details of Bertha Linty
About
Bertha grew up on Wallal Station with her parents. She travelled around the Great Sandy Desert country as a young woman. She came to Bidyadanga for a meeting and never left. Her husband had passed away at this time. "Ilyarra is my birth country and my mother and fathers country. It has lots of tali (sand dunes) it is a special place for me. Lots of people camped here because it has water and lots of mayi (bushfoods). On one side is a warla (mud flat) which foods with milk water when it rains."
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Desert Heart, Nevill Keating Gallery, London, England
2006 Northern Journey, The Priory at Bingie, Bingie, NSW
2005 The Return of our Land, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 Recent Works from Kirriwirri, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 22nd Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards, Darwin, NT
2005 Painting Country - A West to East Journey, World Expo Aichi, Japan
2005 Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Desert Ocean,Short st. Gallery @ Kidogo Gallery, Fremantle, WA
2004 Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Bidyadanga Artists, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2004 Bidyadanga Art, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 2004 Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2004 21st National Telstra Art Awards, Northern Territory Art Gallery, Darwin, NT
2004 Bidyadanga Artists, Raft Art Space, Darwin, NT
2004 Desert to Saltwater, Short st. Gallery @ Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, NSW
2003 Manyiljara, Short st. Gallery, Broome, WA
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Laverty Collection
National Gallery of Australia
Sam Barry Collection
Harvey Wagner Collection, USA
PUBLICATIONS
Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, CD-ROM, NGV, 2005
Painting Country - A West Meets East Journey Catalogue, 2005
Colour Power Catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2003
Bibliography
The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006
