Earthworks

MABEL JULI BARBARA NICHOLLS RAMMEY RAMSEY FREDDIE TIMMS

EARTHWORKS EARTHWORKS MABEL JULI BARBARA NICHOLLS RAMMEY RAMSEY FREDDIE TIMMS

JGM GALLERY

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Published by JGM Gallery, on the occasion of the exhibition

EARTHWORKS

14th March - 26th April 2019 curated by Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi and Juan Bolivar Publication designed by Alice Wilson Photography by Damian Griffiths JGM Gallery 24 Howie Street London SW11 4AY info@jgmgallery.com ISBN 978-1-9160585-0-7 Š 2019 JGM Gallery and the artists All rights reserved Cover Image: Corroborree(Detail) by Freddie Timms 2004 Inner leaf image left: After Mungo No.7 (Detail) by Barbara Nicholls 2017 Inner leaf image right: Warlawoon County (Detail) by Rammey Ramsey 2014 Image Opposite: Sink Hole Return, (Detail) Watercolour on paper in sand, Barbara Nicholls, 2016 , photo credit Sam Newstead

Introduction I want to thank Juan Bolivar for his expert curation of Earthworks.

Juan is a London based artist, curator and writer who has worked and exhibited with JGM Gallery.

Juan introduces the London based artist, Barbara Nicholls, who contributes a significant body of recent work, alongside three notable Indigenous Australian artists from the North Kimberley. Barbara spent many months in Australia for an artists’ residency in 2016 at the Mungo World Heritage site in NSW. Here she experienced the harsh Australian landscape and the magical cultural traditions in the art of Indigenous Australians.

Barbara Nicholls’ work concerns water and colour. It is also water Freddie Timms and Rammey Ramsey paint in the identification of important water holes in their country – the waterholes that have dominated human survival in this environment.

I first met the artists Freddie Timms, and Rammey Ramsey along with Paddy Bedford in Kununurra a decade ago when they lived together in a typical weatherboard house in the back suburban streets of Kununurra. The front verandah was facing a large red rock or monolith, a landmark of the town and the type of huge red rock that generally dominates the landscape of the north Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Tony Oliver was the manager and artistic director of the art centre known as Jirrawun based in this rather run down house, and the artists were painting in the back yard. On that visit I was treated to a superb lunch prepared by *Frances Kofod’s son, a trained chef.

The table in the back room leading to the yard was covered with a crisp white cloth, and here, the three artists

told their stories. The paintings we were shown after lunch were breathtaking. Freddie and Rammey were so excited about our visit and Paddy Bedford sat at the head of the table with his smart, carved walking stick beside him.

Ancient Cave Painting in the Kimberley Photographs; Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi

It was an unforgettable day and allowed privileged insight to the immense cultural importance of this work.

Rammey Rammsey and Freddie Timms were close friends and painted together for several decades. Once back at Warmun in the East Kimberley they reunited with the artist, Mabel Juli.

Mabel is one of Australia’s most cherished Aboriginal artists today. She paints memories of her childhood on Springvale Station, but her most sought after works are of Garnkiny – Moon Dreaming and the Ngarranggarni - Dreamtime Stories, stories she was told by her father and mother.

While Timms and Juli use the natural earth pigments in their work Rammsey mixes strong, man-made colours with natural earth pigments, colour is his signature and this work is stunningly different, demonstrating his unique style using traditional Aboriginal motifs that depict water holes in his Kimberley country. Again it is water that dominates the work. “think about the country where I was walking and camping...all the main waterholes, all the camping areas. I remember the places where I used to go mustering and I follow them up with my painting”.

Freddie Timms We pay tribute to Timms in this exhibition – certainly known as one of Australia’s greatest indigenous artists.

Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi March 2019

* Frances Kofod is a linguist and cultural consultant who has been working in the East Kimberley since 1971.

Rocks and Rock Pools in the Kimberley Photograph; Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi

EARTHWORKSS

by Juan Bolivar

It is difficult to imagine a time when the land had not been stood on. A land that had not been witnessed. To do this we’d have to travel back in time a few million years before the earliest forms of human life walked the earth.

Humans did not arrive hastily to this earth. A few billion years had passed since the beginning of known time and the ‘Big Bang’ which produced the first sub-atomic particles and common source of all matter; from the paper and ink you now hold in your hands as book form, to everything that is depicted within.

Our planet is approximately 4.6 billion years old. It’s often referred to as the ‘blue planet’ because of the large water mass that nestles the land. In 1972 the NASA Apollo 17 mission captured one of the most iconic images of our planet known to date that prompted the name ‘the Blue Marble’, but our planet has not always been blue. At one time it was an amorphous cluster of gases and the formation our ‘blue marble’ went through different stages of purple and green, as it formed through repeated galactic impacts and explosions. Stardust from the early solar system even thrown into this and became ‘gold’ which sunk deep beneath only to later be displaced back to the surface’s crust through further asteroid impacts some 4 billion years ago.

The first signs of life can be traced back to 3.5 billion years ago in the form of single-cell life forms, which only evolved much later on due to the insufficient oxygen in the atmosphere as our planet continued to endure more galactic collisions and extreme weather conditions. Before the earth’s crust settled into the distinct shades of ‘earth colours’ we know today, our planet was at one point a giant ‘snowball’ which must have resembled a cosmic sorbet as the earth was frozen for millions of years.

As the earth thawed the first forms of ‘multi-cellular’ life began to appear about 500 million years ago, during the ‘Phanerozoic’ era; the current Eon of our planet’s history. Some of these early micro-organisms were a form of early bacteria which was predominantly purple in colour and in its abundance it turned the oceans into seemingly purple water. Poetic license permitted, it must have given our planet an unimaginable assortment of colours not yet named and resembled a sci-fi film in appearance somewhere between ‘Dune’ and ‘Avatar’. This layer of purple bacteria acted as a filter or ‘sunscreen’ from the ultraviolet light emitted by the sun, creating a protective layer, underneath which a green bacteria grew and later became more complex multi-cellular life such as the algae which first cropped onto the land’s shores, and later, as oxygen producing plants, which helped to create the ozone and atmosphere that made all life on earth possible.

Species of family groups developed, but extinction was frequent and, though not as dramatic as our earlier ‘snowball’ period, regional ‘ice ages’ continued creating dramatic weather conditions and the constant extinction of species. The last major extinction period we endured was approximately 66 million years ago when an asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula. And so the story goes that after the time of dinosaurs came to an end, and the earth now resembled a more familiar palette of blue for the heavens, green for fauna and ochre for the earth, our distant relatives from the Homo family finally stood on the land we call earth a mere 3 million years ago.

Although Homo Erectus discovered fire 500,000 years ago, language is harder to pinpoint and its origins unclear with some theories indicating that visual forms of communication preceded the spoken word. Fire however was instrumental to evolution as it allowed food to be cooked making proteins easier to digest. This nutritional increase helped the brain size to increase and paradoxically as human’s brain size increased we began to be born sooner, with ‘softer’ not fully formed infant heads, creating an increased period of dependence as we arrived into the world helpless. Social skills and language began to develop. Tools and artefacts were made through the evolution of ‘thumbs’ and Neanderthals expressed for the first time symbols of ‘spirituality’; first in the form of carved figurines such as ‘Venus’ figurines from Upper Palaeolithic times, and later in the form of ‘Cave Paintings’ dating back 35,000 years ago to the ‘Altamira Caves’ in Spain. First paintings have common motifs but vary widely in style (with both examples of what we now call ‘figurative’ and ‘abstract’ idioms), and became present in different parts of the world, but newly discovered cave paintings dating back 80,000 years places Indigenous Australian Aboriginal people as the longest known, unbroken culture, traditionally expressing a relationship to the earth through visual language and ceremony.

Colours and marks were first used in body painting for ceremonies involving dancing and storytelling, using natural earths and ochre pigments, carbon black and limestone and the Iron and Magnesium Oxides we commonly call clay or soil. Their abundance as ‘earth pigments’ accounting for the commonality in artists’ palettes from Palaeolithic Indigenous Communities’ Cave Paintings, up to the Renaissance. These pigments accumulate distinctively in parts of the world, more famously in Italy (Sienna and Umbria), but also in places such as Australia and in particular ‘The Kimberley’ at the north of Western Australia, where it is believed the Wanjina (Ancestral Beings) were once responsible for creating the laws of human behaviour, the cycles of rain, and delivering the spirits of the unborn.

Their presence is seen in rock galleries, and descendants have a duty to conserve these through repeated re-painting. Having been preserved to this day from the 1930’s onwards, re-enactments of sections of these rock galleries began to be made onto portable sheets of bark by Aboriginal artists, gradually increasing in size until 1979 when Alec Minglemanganu adopted the use of canvas; a practice also incorporated into a revolutionary group of artists from the contemporary school of Indigenous Art in the small community of Warmun (Turkey Creek).

The Gija people of the Warmun area are today internationally renowned for their connections to the land and the longest unbroken cultural tradition. Warmun artists hold a significant place in the history of Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia, with early pioneers such Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie recognised as seminal in the new approaches utilised today by contemporary artists such as Mabel Julie, Rammey Rammsey and the late Freddie Timms.

Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni (Moon Dreaming)

Natural Ochre & Pigment on Canvas, 120 x 120cm

by Mabel Juli

After Mungo No.2

Saunders Waterford HP 300gsm, 41 x 42cm

by Barbara Nicholls

EARTHWORKS presents these selected artists from the Warmun in the north of Western Australia, brought together and exhibiting alongside Barbara Nicholls, a British artist who shares affinities with the notion of the land as a site for production.

Nicholls, whose recent practice’s central concern is the manifestation of pools of colour in the form of monumental watercolours, works primarily with paper laid on her studio floor, and on which she creates an ecosystem of water, pigment and colour; controlling and guiding drying cycles so that a sedimentary accumulation of colour occurs in overlapping and blending layers of paint. Working in her Peak District studio and extended residencies in Germany, Nicholls’ investigations have also led her to Australia in New South Wales. Here she made works in response to a residency in Mungo National Park, where her new works were informed by accounts of the filtering process of water carried out by Aboriginal communities, consisting of a series of interconnected circles dug in the ground through which water is filtered with the aid of a screen mesh of natural fibres.

In this exhibition, different responses to the land create a synergy of topographies and cartographies created through pools of (water) colour alongside the visual echoes of the ‘dreaming’ found in the maps and traditional stories related by these Indigenous artists. Their narratives – sometimes relating to the location of water – connect directly to the rock galleries where stories were first relayed 80,000 years ago. This current generation from the contemporary school of Indigenous art has adopted new conventions such as canvas and some also employ the relative new medium of acrylic paint, but for the majority, the representation of their land continues as the most poetic form of meta-painting imaginable, with pigments from their land, depicting the land they are witnessing and honouring. The signifier and signified the same.

50 years since ‘Earth Art’, became the first museum exhibition in America to engage with nontraditional art objects not commonly acknowledged in museum institutions, this exhibition EARTHWORKS at JGM Gallery proposes an expanded vision of ‘Land Art’ or ‘Earth’ Art’, through the traditional practices of painting and drawing, and the alchemical, metaphysical, ecological and ideological rippled connections these works make and where we find ourselves still in awe, 3 million years later, of our home, the earth.

Juan Bolivar, 2019

Warlawoon, 2012 90 x 120cm Synthetic Polymer on Board Rammey Ramsey

Assemblage Overlay, 2016 220 x 152cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Untitled, 2008 130 x 130cm Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas Freddie Timms

Moon Dreaming (Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni), 2018 120 x 90cm Natural Ochre and Pigment on Canvas Mabel Juli

Warlawoon Country, 2014 120 x 120cm Natural Ochre and Pigment on Canvas Rammey Ramsey

Slip Fault No.18, 2018 74 x 60cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Slip Fault No.17, 2018 74 x 60cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Pipe Creek, 2003 122 x 135cm Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas Freddie Timms

Warlawoon Country, 2008 80 x 100cm Natural Ochre and Pigment on Canvas Rammey Ramsey

Dripstones, 2015 38 x 28cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 300gsm Barbara Nicholls

Ripple Vibe, 2014 38 x 28cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 300gsm Barbara Nicholls

Warlawoon Country, 2014 180 x 150cm Synthetic Polymer on Canvas Rammey Ramsey

Frog Hollow, 2003 130 x 130cm Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas Freddie Timms

Solifluction, 2016 220 x 152cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Abysal Plain, 2014 220 x 152cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Moon Dreaming (Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni), 2018 120 x 120cm Natural Ochre and Pigment on Canvas Mabel Juli

Corroborree, 2008 80 x 100cm Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas Freddie Timms

After Mungo No. 8, 2017 41 x 42cm Watercolour on Saunders Waterford HP 638gsm Barbara Nicholls

Garnkiny doo Wardal, 2018 70 x 90cm Natural Pigment and Ochres on Belgian Linen Mabel Juli

Warlawoon, 2012 90 x 120cm Synthetic Polymer on Plyboard Rammey Ramsey

MABEL JULI b.1932 Mabel Juli is one of the most dedicated and iconic of all Warmun artists. Her seniority and status as one of Australia’s most revered painters has emerged from a consistent and growing body of work characterised by bold yet simple compositions that are informed by nuanced and detailed stories passed onto Mabel from her family.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 2016 2013 2006 2006 2004 2002

Mabel Juli Solo at Short Street Gallery, Broome Garkiny doo Wardel (Moon and star) - Harvey Art Projects, Idaho USA Sublime Paintings - Seva Frangos Art, Perth, WA The Great Mabel Juli, Short St. Gallery at Mary Place Gallery - Sydney, NSW Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery - Melbourne, Vic Kaliman Gallery - Sydney, NSW Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery - Melbourne, Vic

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS (for full history from 1994 please ask gallery) 2019 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008

Desert River Sea, Art Gallery of Western Australia - A landmark exhibition of Kimberley Aboriginal Art Jooroob “Coming Together” Exhibition - Warmun Art and Jirrawun Artworks curated by Nichola Dare Art for Wellbeing, Boab Health Services - Kununurra WA Void Exhibition, UTS Art Gallery - Curated by Emily McDaniel Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2018 - Finalist Badu Gili (Light, Water), Sydney Opera House - animated and projected on the Sydney Opera House sails.

Moon Dreaming & Other Stories - Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand DREAM TIME MINE - FORM Gallery Perth, curated by Kate Alida Mullen GIJA Exhibition, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Queensland - An exhibition honouring the Warmun artists Warmun At Twenty Exhibition - celebrating 20 years of Warmun Art Centre, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra Spiritual essence of the Earth with Warmun artists - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery, Brussels For the Women - Tandanya, Adelaide Middle Distance - Hanging Valley Telling Tales: excursions in narrative form - Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia LIVELY: New Prints from Warmun Arts - Nomad Arts, Darwin NT Garnkiny: Constellations of Meaning - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA Recent paintings by senior Gija artists from Western Australia - Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra, ACT Garnkiny: Constellations of Meaning - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Gija Contemporary Art from Warmun - Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney. NSW Warmun: Gija Contemporary Art of Western Australia - Harvey Art Projects, USA Warmun Aboriginal Art - Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA Transitions - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA Jadagen Warnkan Barnden — Changing Climate in Gija Country - Goulburn Regional Gallery, NSW Jadagen Warnkan Barnden — Changing Climate in Gija Country - The Cross Art Projects, Sydney, Australia Gija Manambarram Jimerrawoon – Gija Senior People Forever - Australian Embassy, Paris, France Warrmarn - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC Earth: Ochre Painting from Warmun - Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (Re) - Currents of Warrambany - Gecko Gallery, Broome, WA My Country and Me - ReDot Gallery, Singapore Deeper Water Tim Melville Gallery - Auckland, New Zealand Warmun 2011, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC Kimberley Aboriginal Artists, Cross Cultural Art Exchange - Darwin, NT 27th Telstra NATSIAA - Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT Ochre: Aboriginal Painting from Warmun - Tim Melville Gallery, New Zealand Warmun - Our Earth Our Story - Art Images Gallery, Norwood, SA Surface of Our Dreaming - Paintings by Gija Women - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT Desert Country Art Gallery of South Australia - Adelaide, SA and touring nationally No Name Station, Getrude Contemporary - Vic & Iberia Centre, Beijing Putipula Gallery - Noosa, QLD Mabel Juli Garnkiny + Marlene Juli Gurlabal - Seva Frangos Art, Perth, WA The Best of the Best 2 - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT Ochre: A Study in Materiality - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley - Redot Gallery, Singapore The Youngest One - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT Warmun Ochres: Rich Earth - Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA Warnarran Gelengen : Old Times New Times - Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

MABEL JULI continued GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED 2008

2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2005 2004

Sharing Difference on Common Ground: Mangkaja, Mowanjum, Waringarri, Warmun - Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA First and second generation artists from Waringarri and Warmun - Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth, WA A Stint of Prints: New etchings from Warmun Art Centre - Nomad Art Productions, Darwin, NT Red Centre, Red Dot: Celebrating Indigenous Australia - Australian High Commission, Singapore East of East Kimberley: Warmun in Asis - ReDot Gallery, Singapore The Women of Warmun: Ten years on - Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA Traces of Country: Indigenous fine art prints - Gecko Gallery, Broome, WA Melbourne Art Fair: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi - Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Vic Star Crossed lovers of the Kimberleys - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Warmun at Ten: A Decade of Warmun Art - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW Ten Years of Warmun Ochres - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT ‘Warmun: Ten Years On, Five Artists - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic Warmun at Ten, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair - Darwin, NT Greetings from Turkey Creek - Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW Warmun Snapshot, Aboriginal Art Fair - Darwin, NT Warmun Artists in New York - Ralph Pucci Gallery, New York, USA Warda-Wurrarem (all kinds of stars) - Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT Ngarrangkarni & Bible Stories - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Warmun Art Centre Presents - Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW Patrick Mung Mung & Mabel Juli - Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Warmun Womens Show - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Best of Warmun - Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA Die inneren & die äußeren Dinge - Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Germany

COLLECTIONS

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SIDNEY, NSW ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ARTBANK BERNDT MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, WA BROADMEADOWS HEALTH SERVICE COLLECTION, MELBOURNE,VIC CHARTWELL COLLECTION, AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI OTAMAKI COSMOLOGY GALLERY, GRAVITY DISCOVERY CENTRE, PERTH, WA EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION, PERTH, WA FTB GROUP COLLECTION HARLAND COLLECTION, NSW HARVEY WAGNER COLLECTION, USA KAPLAN COLLECTION, USA KERRY STOKES COLLECTION KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, PERTH, WA MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION, WA NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, IAN POTTER CENTRE, MELBOURNE, VIC NORTHERN TERRITORY UNIVERSITY COLLECTION, NT PARLIAMENTARY ART COLLECTION, ABORIGINAL PEOPLES ROOM, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, PERTH, WA PHILLIP HARDING COLLECTION, QLD QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, QLD WESTFARMERS COLLECTION, WA FOUNDATION BURKHARDT- FELDER ARTS ET CULTURE SWITZERLAND

AWARDS 2015 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 2013 Under The Sun: The Kate Challis RAKA Award for Visual Arts BIBLIOGRAPHY 1999 2001 2010 2011 2011

‘Ngalangangpum Jarrakpu Purrurn: Mother and Child’, Margaret Stewart, Magabala Books, Broome, WA ‘From Digging Sticks to Writing Sticks: Stories of Kija Women’, Veronica Ryan, Lamb Print, Perth, WA ‘No-Name Station’, Gertrude Gallery, Warmun Art Centre, Iberia Gallery Beijing ‘Digging for Ochre with Mabel Juli’ ABC Open on-line project ‘I am an artist, I come from the Bush’ ABC Open on- line project

BARBARA NICHOLLS

Barbara Nicholls lives in the UK and works in studios in London and Bollington, Cheshire SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 2017 2015 2013

2011 2010

2009 2008 2006 2005

2002 2001 2000

Grosse Watercolours Turps Gallery London Sedimentary Flow The New Art Gallery, Walsall Geological Influence Clarence Mill Bollington Amalgam Tourhaus Rombergpark Dortmund Germany Telpost Millingen ann de Rhjn Netherlands Residue Colart London Turnaround Pavillon am Milchhof Berlin Germany And In Berlin Central Space London Emerge AVA University of East London Beneath Berlin Milchhof Berlin Germany Borders Codes and Crossings APT Gallery London Darkness to Light AVA London Characters of Fire Electric Cinema & Gate Cinema London Quarry Parfitt Gallery London UK City Movements Lyric Square London What Passing-Bells Stockport War Memorial and Art Gallery War and Remembrance East London Gallery, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018

2016 2015 2014

2013

2012

2010 2009 2006 2005

2004 2000

Lakebed Concordia Gallery Sydney Australia 10 Jähringen Kunstverein Kleve Germany Lakebed Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery NSW Australia Testing 1>2 Unit 3 London Halve Bunder Millingen aan de Rijn, Netherlands Et in Arcadia Ego: Welchaos & Idlle Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany Flat Files Pierogi Gallery New York USA Industry PAPER Gallery Manchester Control ArToll Bedburg Hau Germany Water + Colour Griffin Gallery London Afterimage Emerson Gallery Berlin Germany (co curator with Karen Roulstone) Fort Pannerden Doornenburg Netherlands Dok25a Dßsseldorf Germany In Front of Behind ArToll Bedburg-Hau Germany Projektraum-bahnhof25 Kleve Germany Specular KARST Plymouth Borderlines Artoll Bedburg-Hau Germany Chasing Flames Turn Berlin Berlin Germany Arcadia Orleans House London Anywhere in the World ICA London Site Lines Croydon Town Centre London Tectonic Portobello Film Festival The Trench Imperial War Museum London Conflict Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery Siteworx Westbourne Studios London Siteworx Bay 67 London Religion Art & War Salon des Arts London Last Stop, Strand Underground Station. London California State University, Northridge USA Watts Tower Arts Centre, California USA Self Help Graphics, California USA Three Artists Cremer Street Gallery, London

SELECTED ARTISTS AWARDS 2014 2011 2009 2004

Arts Council England Individual Artist R&D Award Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Individual Artist Award Arts Council England Individual Artist Award West Way Development Trust Artist Award Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Trust Artist Award Eaton Fund for Artists Artist Award

BARBARA NICHOLLS

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Museum Kurhaus Kleve Germany; The New Art Gallery Walsall; Kings College Hospital London; Brighton College.

Private collections in New York, Connecticut, London, France and Iran

SELECTED RESIDENCIES 2019 2018 2017 2016 2016 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009

Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst Mungo World Heritage Site NSW Telpost. Millingen ann Rijn Control ArTolll co organiser with Matthijs Muller Telpost. Millingen ann Rijn Winsor and Newton London ArToll Bedburg-Hau Ateliergemeinschaft, Milchhof e.V.Berlin

​ SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Germany Germany Germany Australia Netherlands Germany Netherlands UK Germany Germany

2018 2017

2016

2015

Roulstone, Karen On Barbara Nicholls Turps Banana Edition #20 The New Art Gallery Walsall Clark, Robert, Guardian Guide (05.08.17) O’Reilly, Liz Lakebed exhibition catalogue 10 Art Exhibitions to see in August Royal Academy Magazine (01.08.17) Nijtmans, Anne, Volgende rondje buitenkunst in De Gelderlander (09.03.17) Holman, Martin, Sedimentärer Fluss monograph Black Dog Publishing (01.07.17) Holman, Martin, Sedimentary Flow monograph Black Dog Publishing (01.07.17) Wouters, Lisette, Moeder Natuur moet verder boetseren aan kunstwerken De Gelderlander (31.08.16) Middelkoop, Anja, Bodemmonsters op de Halve Bunder in De Rozet Kirwan-Taylor, Helen, Bright Young Things The Sunday Telegraph (04.09.16) Krupski, Britanny 10 artist’s to watch using watercolour ArtPin USA (26.02.16) Holman, Martin, Et in Arcadia Ego Welchaos und Idylle in Museum Kurhaus Frost, Heiner, Bange machen gilt nicht! in Schreibkraft (10.07.15) Matthias, Welchaos und Idylle, in Rheinische Post Gronewald, Claudia, Das Paradies ist vergiftet Neiderrhein Nachrichten Hale, Matt, Geological Influence Bollington Live no 64

Britton, Karen, Geological Influence in Macclesfield Express

Museum Kurhaus Kleve New Acquisition in Museums Reporter Nr 18 2014 Frost, Heiner, Ein Spiegel vertrocknet in

Neiderhein Nachrichten (31.10.14)

Trip, Tim, Brauchen wir Kontrolle? in Klever Wochenblatt (2.11.14) 2014 Middelkoop, Anja, Telpost Millingen Book 2013 Zubairi, Jamie, Water+Colour Sosogay online (24.02.13)

Michaela Nolte, After Image, UK Trifft Berlin, art review, “Kunststücke.”

Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany. (04.08.12)

Expositie in Telpost De Rozet Amalgam Michael Lempkin Innenstadt-Ostblog 2012 Frost, Heiner Wandlung und Verwandlung im bh25Neiderhein

Nachrichten(07.03.2012)

Daams, Andreas, Nachricten aus der Zwischenwelt NRZ (02.3.2012) 2010 Borderlines Rheinische Post

EDUCATION 1999-2006 1996-1998 1983-1986

University of East London, Doctorate in Fine Art University of East London, MA Fine Art Goldsmiths College University of London, BA (hons) Fine Art

FREDDIE TIMMS 1932 - 2017

Timms paints in a style reminiscent of Rover Thomas but recognisably his own, with expanses of open plains lined with white dots. Many of his artworks are like aerial maps of the bones of the country where he lived and worked all his life. Mapping is on a topographic level showing features of the landscape such as black soil, red ground, sandy ground, hills, creeks and water holes as well as a historical and spiritual level showing roads, stock yards, homesteads and dreaming places SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 2003 2002 1999 1999 1998 1997

Freddie Timms - Gould Galleries, Melbourne Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings Freddie Timms - Gould Galleries, Sydney Freddie Timms - Gould Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria Recent Paintings - Now Langford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Recent Paintings - Watters Galleries, Sydney My Country - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Recent Paintings - Watters Galleries, Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (for full history from 1989 please ask gallery) 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2008 2008 2005 2003 2003 2003 2003 2002 2002 2002 2001 2001 2001 2001 2000 2000 2000

2000

1999 1999 1999 1999 1999 1998 1998 1998 1996 1996

Jooroob “Coming Together” Exhibition - Warmun Art and Jirrawun Artworks curated by Nichola Dare Moon Dreaming & Other Stories - Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Mr Timms - Works from the Jirrawun Studio - RAFT Artspace / Burrows Road Sydney Jirrawun Collection - TARNANTHI Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Group Exhibition - Lindsay Street Gallery, Darwin When The Sky Fell - Legacies of the 1967 Referendum - Perth Insitute of Contemporary Arts, WA Jirrawun Colour, Rammey Ramsey and Freddie Timms - RAFT artspace, Darwin Last Tango in Wyndham, Jirrawun Artists - RAFT artspace, Darwin Beyond the Frontier - Sherman Galleries, Sydney Terra Alterius: Land of Another - Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales College, Sydney Kelly Culture: Reconstruction Ned Kelly - State Library of Victoria, Melbourne True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley - Yiribana Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW Jirrawun Jazz - Raft Artspace, Darwin Blood on the Spinifex - The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne Jirrawun artists - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Rhapsodies in Country - GrantPirrie at Art Miami, USA A Century of Collecting 1901-2001- Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney Ochre - Short Street Gallery, Broome The Eighteenth National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award Exhibition Four Men, Four Paintings - Raft Artspace, Darwin Opening 2000 - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne The Seventeenth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition From Appreciation to Appropriation: Indigenous Influences and Images in Australian Visual Art - Flinders University Art Museum City Gallery, Adelaide Land Mark: Mirror Mark: Mal Nairn Auditorium - Northern Territory University, Darwin; Columbus State University, Georgia, US; the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, US; Mapping our Countries - Djamu Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney The Sixteenth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition A Thousand Journeys: Aboriginal Art from North Western Australia - Tin Sheds, Sydney; touring regionally My Country - Northern Territory University Gallery, Darwin, NT Painting Country - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Freddie Timms, Ken Whisson: Landscape Paintings - Watters Gallery, Sydney The Laverty Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Jirrawun Artists from Crocodile Hole - Jemma Stowe, Perth Group Exhibition - Gallerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris Group Exhibition - Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

​ COLLECTIONS

NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA, ACT ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, WA ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ADELAIDE, SA ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, NSW ARTBANK, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA THE HOLMES A COURT COLLECTION, PERTH WOLLONGONG CITY GALLERY, WOLLONGONG, NSW LAVERTY COLLECTION, SYDNEY, NSW ABORIGINAL ART MUSEUM, UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY 1993

1999

2003

‘Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley’ Judith Ryan, National Gallery of Victoria ‘Art from the Heart,’ Australian Broadcasting Commision (DVD) ‘True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley.’Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (DVD)

RAMMEY RAMSEY b.1935 Ramsey began painting for Jirrawun Arts in 2000. In October 2000 his pictures were part of an exhibition with Hector Jandany, Timmy Timms and Paddy Bedford at William Mora Galleries in Melbourne called Gaagembi ‘ Poor Things’. The title of that show being a word used as a term of endearment, sympathy and sorrow. It is a word used by many people to express feelings about the country that is mostly lost to them, their predecessors who walked in it freely and the way of life that is gone.

Ramsey was one of the painters featured in the ‘Four Men Paintings’ exhibition at Raft Galleries in Darwin in March 2001. This was followed by a sellout show solo show at Raft during May 2001.

Rammey was a key figure in the production of the Bedford Downs massacre Joonba (coroborree) that was staged at the 2000 Telstra Art Award. He is an inspired dancer who helped train the young boys in dancing. He and Rusty Peters made the dance poles used in the original Joonba Rammey continues his art practice at Juwulinji (Bow River), and often commutes to the Warmun Art Centre to bring in his new pieces. He retains some bright acrylics which can be seen dispersed throughout paintings of distinctive ochre backgrounds, revisiting Warlawoon in the minimalistic and inimitable way that Rammey sees it.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2011 2004 2003 2001

New Work by Rammey Ramsey - Seva Frangos Gallery Rammey Ramsey - Deeper than paint on canvas - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Rammey Ramsey - RAFT Artspace Darwin Rammey Ramsey - RAFT Artspace Darwin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019

2019 2018

2018

2018

2017 2017 2017 2016 2015 2015

2014 2013 2010 2010 2006 2005 2005 2003

Desert River Sea, Art Gallery of Western Australia - A landmark exhibition of Kimberley Aboriginal Art held at the Art Gallery of WA. Beyond the surface of the Dreaming - Warmun & Jirrawun - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery, Brussells Jooroob “Coming Together” Exhibition - Warmun Art and Jirrawun Artworks curated by Nichola Dare, Aboriginal Contemporary GIJA Exhibition, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Queensland - An exhibition honouring the Warmun artists, and 20 years of the Gija art movement.

Warmun At Twenty Exhibition - A group exhibition celebrating 20 years of Warmun Art Centre, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra Jirrawun Collection - TARNANTHI Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide When The Sky Fell - Legacies of the 1967 Referendum - Perth Insitute of Contemporary Arts, WA Spiritual essence of the Earth with Warmun artists - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery Middle Distance - Hanging Valley LIVELY: New Prints from Warmun Arts - Nomad Arts, Darwin NT 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award - Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin Warmun: Gija Contemporary Art of Western Australia - Harvey Art Projects, USA Gija Manambarram Jimerawoon (Gija Senior Law People Forever) - Australian Embassy Paris, France Gaagembi - Poor Things - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne Four Men, Four Paintings - RAFT Artspace Darwin Jirrawun Artists - Melbourne Art Fair - William Mora Galleries in association with Jirrawun Arts Jirrawun in the House A Contemporary Experience from the East Kimberley - Parliament House, Canberra Beyond the Frontier - Sherman Galleries, Sydney Jirrawun Jazz - RAFT Artspace Darwin

AWARDS 2015 2014

32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Alice Prize Finalist

EARTHWORKS

EARTHWORKS 14th March - 27th April 2019

JGM GALLERY

JGM GALLERY