MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARA PARLIAMENT HOUSE MOSAIC ETC.


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Original/Reproduction:	Original	Era:	2000s
Originating Region:	Australia	Condition:	New

MICHAEL TJAKAMARRA NELSON c1949-

ALSO SPELT TJAKAMARRA, JAKAMARRA

LEGENDARY, VALUABLE WESTERN DESERT ARTIST

WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL NATIONAL ABORIGINAL ART AWARD 1984 (NOW NATSIAA)

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIA MEDAL FOR CONTRIBUTION TO ART- AM

COMMISSIONS
1987 – Sydney Opera House Bicentennial Mural
1988 – Mosaic Forecourt, New Parliament House, Canberra
1989 – BMW Art Car Project – Painted BMW M3 Racing Car

COLLECTIONS

Australian Museum, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Griffith Artworks, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
Opera House, Sydney
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland
Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Paul Eliadis Collection, Brisbane
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Vizard Collection, Melbourne
Sammlung Essl, Austria
Centre Culturel Tjibaou, New Caledonia
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
BMW Art Car Project, United States
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, United States

THE PAINTING

'Untitled'

Painted 2009

HUGE 127 x 95 CM

ACRYLICS ON LINEN

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

PHOTO OF MICHAEL HOLDING PAINTING (In C.O.A)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1989 – Michael Nelson Jagamara – Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1990 – Michael Nelson Jagamara - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1993 - Utopia Art, Sydney
1996 – New Work, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane
1997 – Nine Dreamings from Mt Singleton, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane, Redrock gallery, Melbourne
1998 – New Expressions, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane
1999 – Without the Story the Painting is Nothing, curated by S.P. Wright Brisbane City Gallery
1999 – MNJ, Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane
1999 – New work, Desart Gallery Sydney
2000 – Michael Nelson Jagamara Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2000 – Some Other Way, MNJ and Campfire Group. Fire-Works gallery, Brisbane

Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (also cited as: Michael Nelson Jagamara, or Jakamara) is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community in central Australia. Born circa 1949 at Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs) west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, he grew up ‘in the bush’. He lived at Haasts Bluff for a time until his parents took him to Yuendumu for European education at the mission school. He left school at thirteen, after initiation, and worked buffalo shooting, driving trucks, droving cattle, and in the army, before returning to Yuendumu and then to Papunya to settle in 1976. He worked for a time in the Government store and for the Council, observing the work of older artists for years before beginning to paint regularly for himself in 1983.

He is a ‘real Walpiri man’, a philosopher and an articulate exponent of Western Desert viewpoints on the internationally famous art movement in which he has played such a key role. Michael has gained worldwide recognition, participating in several national and international solo and group exhibitions. At almost any landmark occasion in aboriginal art during the golden years of the mid to late 80s, Michael was to be found, patiently giving the same eloquent, heartfelt answers to the media’s questions about why he painted this or that picture and what the Dreaming is. When the architects of Australia’s new Parliament House decided to incorporate an Aboriginal mosaic into the main forecourt of the building, the design they chose at this momentous site was Michael’s. Today his paintings are represented in major private and public collections throughout the world, including Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas2003- Redrock gallery Melbourne

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HUGE 127x95CM PAINTED SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE MURAL VALUABLE