Details of Samuel Namunjdja
About
Samuel Namunjdja was born in West Central Arnhem Land in 1965. He is part of the Kuninjku language group and belongs to the Yirridjdja moiety. A member of an artistic family, Samuel was taught to paint the stories of his clan by his father Peter Marralwanga, himself a distinguished painter.
Samuel has participated in more than thirty important group exhibitions as far afield as Slovenia, Janap, France, UK and USA since 1988. Still in his 20s, Namunjdja won the Rothmans Foundation Award for best painting in a traditional media at the National Aboriginal Art Award in 1993, and the Telstra bark painting award at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2006.
MEDIUMS
Painting: Ochres and PVC fixative on stringy bark and cotton rag
Wooden objects: Hollow log coffins, carved and painted wooden sculpture.
SUBJECT/THEMES
Various natural species such as Barramundi, crocodile, pelican, snake, possums, echidna, brolga, prawn, goanna, kangaroo, emu, wallaby, catfish, rainbow fish, large python & eggs, lily root, bonbon - diver duck, yibba - frog, Mertens water goanna, short necked turtle, silverfish. Spirit figures such as Namarrkon - lightning man, Mimih spirit figures, Ngalyod - rainbow serpent. Places in his clan conutry such as Gurakan - a place on Liverpool River and Mangkorlod country with its increase site and billabongs.
COLLECTIONS
AIATSIS Collection, ACT
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, VIC
Dr. Collin and Liz Laverty private collection, Sydney, Nsw
Kluge Collection, Morven Estate, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Museum D'Histoire Naturelle de lyon, France
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Samuel Namunjdja, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Samuel Namunjdja, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Spirit in variation Part 2, Annandale Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007 Spirit in variation, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2007 Rarrk-london-, Bargehouse Gallery, London, UK
2007 Blue Chip IX, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2006 Lorrkons and spirit figures, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2006 Recent works from Maningrida, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
2006 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2006 Peintures sur ecorce de Maningrida, African Muse Gallery, Paris France
2006 Dream Tracks, Aboriginal Art of Arhnem Land, La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama, Kingdom of Brahrain
2005 Rarrk, flowing on from Crossing Country, Annadale Galleries, Sydney. NSW
2005 22nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2005 Paris-Djinkarr-Milmilngkan, Maningrida Arts & Culture, Darwin, NT
2005 Rarrk, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2005 After Crossing Country, a surevy bark exhibition, Indigenart, Perth, WA
2005 Bark paintings and carvings from Maningrida, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2005 Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Wright exhibition space, Seattle, USA
2005 Recent Works from Maningrida, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2004 Crossing Country: the alchemy of western Arnhem Land art, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW
2004 Bark paintings, carvings and fibre works from Maningrida, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2004 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
2004 Fibre and sculptures, Indigenart, Fremantle, WA
2004 Hollow logs from Maningrida, Gallery gabrielle Pizzi, melbourne, VIC
2004 Living together is easy, Contemporary Art centre, art Tower Mito, Japan
2003 The visit, Annadale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
2003 Out of the wet- new art by Kuninjku artists, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2003 Dreamtime, contemporary Aboriginal art, Cankarjev Dm Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 Kuninjku show, Rebbecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2002 East + West, Annadale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2001 In the Heart of Arnhem Land. Myth and the making of contemporary Aboriginal art, Musee del l'Hotel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
2000 Transition: 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; touring nationwide: Tandanya, Adelaide, SA; Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1998 Maningrida Group Show, Alliance Francaise, canberra, ACT
1998 Spirits of the Dreaming Jarraman arts Aboriginal Corporation, National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Sydney, NSW
1996 13th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1993 10th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1992 9th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum & Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
1988 Gunwinggu Artists, Beaufort Convention Centre, Darwin, NT
AWARDS/GRANTS/COMMISSION
2006 Winner of the Telstra Bark Painting Award, 23rd National & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT.
2003 Highly Commended 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
1993 Rothmans Foundation Award [Best painting in a traditional media], National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
SELECTED
Bibliography
Kohen, A., m. Garde, J. Ryan, I. Jurzak, and P. Peltier. 2001. In the heart of Arnhem Lnad. Myth and the making of contemporary Aboriginal art. mantes-la-Jolie, France: Musse del l'Hotel-Dieu.
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. 2000. Telstra presents Transitions: 17 years of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Darwin: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
West,. M. 1997. 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strat Islander Art Award. Darwin: Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
Artworks of Samuel Namunjdja
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