Awards/Grants/Commissions:

1982 Artist-in-Residence, Flinders University.

1983, June 18-29, Artist-in-Residence, Tin Sheds, University of Sydney.

1984, Dugout Canoe, carving, completed with his wives & family, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

1987, Dugout Canoe, carving, Maritime Display, Sydney Harbour.

1990, Ramingining Stories, Mural, Darwin GPO.

1991, Lions Haven for the Aged, practical painting demonstrations, Queensland.

1991, Mobil Yathalamarra Collection, NT Museum/Mobil Oil [touring]

1992, Memorial Award for Mawalan’s eldest son, [Best artwork in open media] National Aboriginal Art Award, Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin.

1993, Fourth Place, Traditional Section, Botany Art Awards, NSW.

1993, Conducted a ‘Bark Painting Workshop’, Kimberley Conference, Waringarri Arts, Kununurra. 

1993, Honourable Mention for Ramingining Artists, Australian Heritage Commission Art Award Exhibition, Old House Canberra [artist not named individually]

Collections:   

Artbank, Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Australian Museum, Sydney. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia. Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra. Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Qld. Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany. Milingimbi Collection, MECA, Milingimbi Educational and   Cultural Association. Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris, France. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ramingining Collection, Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnotts Collection, Sydney. Museum of Victoria, Melbourne. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney. Reserve Bank Collection. South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Horsfall Collection, Hobart. University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, St Lucia.

EXHIBITIONS:

1986, State Bank of NSW, Sydney (arranged Macquarie Galleries), 1966, Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 1969, Australian Aboriginal Art – The Louis A. Allen Collection, R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California,

Berkeley, 1969, Australie, Osobnost Primitivni’ho Malire, Naprstkovo  Muzeum, African and American Culture, Prague. 1972, Australian Aboriginal Art, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 1974, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Louis A. Allen. Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. 1974, Art of the Dreamtime, The Bennett Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Art Gallery  of South Australia, Adelaide.  1974 to 1976, Art of Aboriginal Australia, touring Canada, Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd. 1975, Australian Bark Painting, from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. 1979, European Dialogue, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of

New South Wales, Sydney. 1983, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

1983, XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1984, Objects & Representations from Ramingining, Power Institute [now MCA], Sydney 1986, Ramingining Art Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT. 1986, The Art of the First Australians, Kobe City Museum, Japan. 1986, The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1987, Ancestors and Spirits, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1988, Dreamings, the art of Aboriginal Australia, Asia Society Galleries, New York. 1989, Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National

Gallery of Australia, Canberra.  1990, l’ete Australien a’ Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France. 1990, Spirit in Land, Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land.   National Gallery of Victoria.   1990,

Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. 1991, Canvas and Bark, South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 1992, The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award

Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1992, Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo.  1992/3, New Tracks Old Land: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia, touring USA and Australia.  1993, Ten years of acquisitions,from ANU collection, Drill Hall  Gallery ACT.

1993, Arnhem Land Dreaming, Bark Paintings from Tasmanian Collections, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. 1993/4, ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward, Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark. 1994, Milminydjarrk, sand sculpture & dance,Tandanya, Adelaide Festival, SA. 1994, Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria. 1994, The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 1994, Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra. 1994, Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 1994, Malu Urul, National Maritime Museum, Sydney. 1995, The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and

Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1995, Galerie des Five Continents, Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris, France.

 Select Bibliography:

Allen, L., 1975, Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines, Thomas Crowell Company, New York.

Bennett, D.H., 1980, ‘Malangi: the man who was forgotten before he was remembered,’ Aboriginal History 4 (1) 43-47. (C)

Beresford, A., 1993, Arnhem Land Dreaming, Bark Paintings from Tasmanian Collections, exhib. cat. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Berndt, R. M. and Berndt, C. H. with Stanton, J., 1982, Aboriginal Australian Art, a Visual Perspective, Methuen Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney.

Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a Souvenir Book of Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National Gallery, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory. (C)

Caruana, W. (ed.), 1989, Windows on the Dreaming, Ellsyd Press, Sydney. (C)

Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C)

Chanin, E., 1990, (ed.), Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman House, Roseville, NSW, Australia

Crossman, S. and Barou, J-P. (eds), 1990, L’ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 Chefs d’Oevre de la Peinture Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. (C)

Dussart, F., 1993, La Peinture des Aborigines D’Australie, Editions Parentheses, Marseille, France.

Groger-Wurm, H., 1973, Australian Aboriginal Paintings and their Mythological Interpretation, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. (C)

Hill, M., and McLeod, N.,1984, From the Ochres of Mungo, Aboriginal Art Today, Dorr McLeod Publishing, West   Heidleberg, Victoria. (C)

Isaacs, J., 1984, Australia’s Living Heritage, Arts of the   Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney. (C)

Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New South Wales.

Kupka, K., 1972, Peintres Aborigines d’ Australie, Societe des Oceanites, Musee de l’Homme, Paris.

1993, Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, exhib. cat. (conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration with Gary Lee), Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln. (C)

McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., 1994, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales.

Mundine, D., 1995, ‘The food chain starts here: Larrtha’puy – from the mangroves’, Artlink, Vol. 15, No. 1, 46-47.

Murphy, B., 1983, XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Australia, exhib. cat.

Neale, M., 1994, Yiribana, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (C)

O’Ferrall, M., 1990, Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. (C)”Perkins H. ‘Beyond the Year of Indigenous Peoples’ in Art and Australia 1993 Vol. 31 No 1 p 98-101.

Ruhe, E. L., 1975, Australian bark painting, from the collection   of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe, exhib. cat. Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Michigan, USA.

Ryan, J., 1990, Spirit in Land, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Short, S., 1986, Banking on Art, Saturday Telegraph, Sydney, Jan. 29

Sutton, P. (ed.), 1988, Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria. (C)

Tweedie, P. and Scollay, C., 1979, ‘Art of the Aboriginal,’ Panorama: the Journal of Ansett Airlines Australia 21 (2), 1,4. (C)

Tweedie, P., 1985, This My Country, A View of Arnhem Land, William Collins Pty Ltd, Sydney.

Waterlow, N., 1979, Biennale of Sydney, exhib. cat.

1974, Art of Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited. (C)

1979, European Dialogue, exhibition catalogue, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1983, Australian Perspecta 1983, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (C)

1992, ‘Aboriginal Art’, National Gallery News, 10th Birthday edition, September/October 1992, p. 5-7.