Commissions:           

1982, One of Lofty’s paintings was used on the Australian 40c stamp issued in 1982.

Awards:                    

1999, Winner, works on paper, National Aboriginal Art Award, NT Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin.

2004, Australia Day Honours: Named an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia

Collections:  

Artbank, Sydney.

Australian Museum, Sydney.

Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council held by the National Museum of Canberra.

Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia.

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnotts Collection, Sydney.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.

University of Queensland, Anthropology Museum, St Lucia.

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 – Bim Yolyolmi: Picture Told Story, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne; Late Works, Annandale

           Galleries, Sydney, NSW.

2005 – Bardayal Lofty Nadjamerrek AO, Dianne Mossenson Gallery, Melbourne.

2004 Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek, New Work on Bark, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.
2003 – Kubulwarnamyo Kunred Ngarduk – My Country Kubulwarnamyo, Annandale Galleries, Sydney.

Exhibitions:

2007 – National Indigenous Art Triennial 07, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2007 – 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Continuity: Culture, Country and Family, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne.
2006 – Spirit Country, Galerie lARTicle, Paris, France; Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition,

Parliament House, Darwin, Northern Territory.

2005 – One Way a group show of painters from the Stone country, Raft Art Space, Darwin; 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

2004 – Crossing Country – the Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney;
2004 – Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT,

2003 – Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, 1995 – Moon, Rainbow and Sugar bag – The art of Mick Kubarkku and Bardayal Nadjamerrek, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, and touring;

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1995 – The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.

1994 – Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria; The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra.

1993 – The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra.

1992 – The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin

1990 – The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin

1988 – Aboriginal art of the Top End, c. 1935-Early 1970s, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally

1987 – The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT

1986 – The Art of the First Australians, Kobe City Museum, Japan; The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1985 – The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.

1984/85 – Kunwinjku Bim, Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

1984 – The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT

1983 – Artists of Arnhem Land, Canberra School of Arts, Canberra.

1982 – Aboriginal Art at the Top, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1975 – Australian Bark Painting, from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA.

Select Bibliography:  

Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council,1979, Oenpelli Bark Painting, Ure Smith, Sydney. (C)

Brody, A., 1984, Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (C)

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

West, M., (ed.), 1995, Rainbow Sugarbag and Moon, Two Artists of the Stone Country: Bardayal Nadjamerrek and Mick Kubarkku, exhib. cat., Museum and Art Gallery of the NT

1994, Kunwinjku Art from Injalak 1991-1992, The John W. Kluge Commission, Museum Arts International Pty. Ltd., North Adelaide.

Altman, J., and Cook, P., 1982, Aboriginal Art at the Top, exhib. cat., Maningrida Literature Production Centre, Maningrida.

 
Perkins, Hetti and Willsteed, Theresa (eds.), Crossing Country – the Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004.

Togart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Top End Arts Marketing, Darwin, 2006.

West, M.K.C., (ed.), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.