RARE SHORTY JANGALA ROBERTSON 122x95CM ART GALLERY NSW


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

SHORTY JANGALA ROBERTSON c.1925-

VALUABLE, LEGENDARY YUENDUMU/WARLUKURLANGU ARTIST

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Shorty Jangala Robertson
Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming)
(AK13117)
2006

Synthetic polymer paint on linen

Image:
183 x 122 cm (72 x 48 in)

AUD$14,500.00

Collections

Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs
Artbank, Sydney, NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Flinders University Art Museum, Melbourne
Gordon Darling Foundation, Canberra
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

THE PAINTING

LARGE 122 x 95CM

"Untitled"

Acrylic on Linen

Down Under Aboriginal Art Gallery Certificate of Authenticity

Photo of Shorty Signing the Painting verso (In C.O.A)

Completed 2009

Shorty Jangala Robertson was born around 1925 at Jila (Chilla Well), a large soakage and claypan north west of Yuendumu. He lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with his parents, older brother and extended Warlpiri family. They travelled vast distances across desert country, passing through Warlukurlangu, south west of Jila and Ngarlikurlangu, north of Yuendumu, visiting Jangalas, his skin brothers.

His childhood memories consist of stories associated with the Conniston Massacre of Aboriginal people and close to Jila, families were shot at Wantaparri. Shorty Jangala Robertson had virtually no contact with white fellas during his youth but remembers leaving Jila for Mt Theo 'to hide' from being shot. His father died at Mt Theo and then with his mother moved to Mt Doreen Station, and subsequently the new settlement of Yuendumu.

During World War II, the army took people from Yuendumu to the other Warlpiri settlement at Lajamanu. Shorty was taken and separated from his mother. However she came to get him on foot, and together they traveled hundreds of miles back to Chilla Well.

Drought food and medical supplies forced Shorty and his family back to Yuendumu from time to time. His working life was full of adventure and hard work for different enterprises in the Alice Springs/Yuendumu area. He finally settled at Yuendumu in 1967 after the Australian Citizen Referendum.

It is extraordinary in all his travels and jobs over his whole working life, that he escaped the burgeoning and flourishing Central Desert art movement of the 1970's and 1980's. Thus Shorty's paintings are fresh, vigorous and new. His use of colour to paint and interpret his dreamings of Ngapa (Water), Watiyawarnu (Acacia), Yankirri (Emu) and Pamapardu (Flying Ant) is vital, yet upholding the Warlpiri tradition. This fledgling artist well in his 70's is an active member of Warlukurlangu Co-operative. He lives at Yuendumu with his wife and artist Lady Nungarrayi Robertson.

Solo Exhibitions:
November 2003 First Solo Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
September 2004 Coo-ee, Sydney, NSW
February 2005 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
June 2005 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
February 2007 Singing the rain, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

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