Details of Spider Snell
About
Nyirlpirr was born at Yurramaral in the Great Sandy Desert. This is a pirnti (billabong water) and rockholes to the south eastern side of the Canning Stock Route. He came into the station country when he was already a young man. He quickly developed strong skills in handling horses and cattle. He had seen them along the stock route and had watered them at Lamboo well. He was a stockman on Christmas Creek Station for a long time.
Nyirlpirr is the respected elder for the Kurtal ceremony. His language is Wangkajunga.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
1997 Solo Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1992 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1992 Group Show, Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Ngajakura Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Festival of Perth Exhibition, Artplace
Gallery, Perth
1994 Group Show, Contemporary Australia Visions, Melbourne
1995 Group Show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane
1995 Group Show, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne
1996 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1996 Broken Promises, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
1998 Mangkaja Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2000 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome
2001 Past Modern, kimberley landscapes, Australia Square, Short st. Gallery, Sydney
2001 Short on Size, ShortstGallery, Broome
2002 Recent Works from Mangkaja, ShortstGallery, Broome
2002 Short on Size, ShortstGallery,Broome
2004 Broken Promises, ShortstGallery, Broome
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
AWARDS
1997 Fellowship Dance Fund / Australia Council
Bibliography
2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art
1994 Ngajukura Ngurrara Minyarti, this is my country, Exhibition Catalogue
