Last of the Nomads - Works by Ian Rictor & Tjaruwa Woods

REDOT FINE ART GALLERY in collaboration with Spinifex Arts Project presents

Last of the Nomads Presenting Ian Rictor and Tjaruwa Woods A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art

23 Aug – 30 Sep 2021

Online Exhibition

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Last of the Nomads In October 1986, a desert-dwelling family of a community known as the Anagu tjuta pila nguru, or “people from the land of the spinifex” became the last Aboriginals in Australia to abandon traditional nomadic life. A male elder whom had left the Warburton mission, after a brief stay, with his young wife and stepdaughter twenty-five years earlier headed the family of seven.

Returning to the red-earth landscape of spinifex grass and mulga, they raised their children, remaining in the wilderness as family and friends departed for mission life. The family walked from rock hole to rock hole spearing kangaroo, emu, goanna, blue-tongued lizard and mallee hen: the last of five hundred generations to pursue this nomadic way of life across a stretch of remote country now stripped of all other residents.

Seeing the glint and streaks of aircraft in desert sky, they threw magical objects at them and sang

protective songs. White people were ghosts traveling above them and across the land. The couple told their children that distant trains were roaring Wati Wanampi, venomous water-snake beings.

From a hill overlooking the Blackstone mission settlement (today, Papulankutja) the children witnessed what they believed was a pitched battle between legendary warmala or warriors. The frightening vista was of an amateur football skirmish. It would be the family’s closest brush with the outside world until 1986.

Exiles living at the Coonana settlement for those displaced by the Maralinga nuclear tests of the 1950s believed their lost desert relatives dead. Stories about the family’s survival continued to circulate, however. In 1986, when a group from Coonana made a ceremonial visit to a remote desert site, they discovered fresh footprints. After following the trail for two days, they sighted a family carrying wooden spears and painted with ochre in preparation for ritual.

Reunited with kin, the husband and wife recognized relatives among the searchers. The male elder wept quietly upon hearing news of people he had not seen in decades. Relocated to mission settlements, the family of former nomads generated news reports about “the lost people” and “the last desert tribe.” The Sydney Morning Herald reported: “the three sons, the younger woman and her little boy had never seen the modern world before.”

Newspaper readers remained blissfully ignorant of a facet of modernity to which the “last huntergatherers on earth,” had been, quite literally, exposed.

Extract from Spinifex People as Cold War Moderns by Greg Castillo.

Published in Contemporaneity; Historical Presence in Visual Culture. Vol 1, No 1 (2011).

Damien Rictor & Angelina Woods, two of the last nomads - Newspaper Clipping, June 1998 Source: © The Australian

Noli and Ian Rictor on the back of a troupee Source: © Photos Courtesy of Paul Bulley

IAN RICTOR

Ian RICTOR Tuwan Acrylic on Linen 200 x 230cm 17-315

Ian has painted the significant site of Tuwan, located in the north of Spinifex Lands and a major site for the Nyii-Nyii Tjuta Tjukurpa (Zebra Finch Creation Line). This epic is a sacred ’Mens’ story that follows a group of zebra finch as they head south to the coast in search Rictor lived and walked by Tuwan for the early part of his life as a traditional hunter gatherer with his immediate family.

As a small group, they were the ’Last of the Nomads’ who walked into the settlement prior to the establishment of Tjuntjuntjara Community. Relatives had been tracking the family, who were rumoured to have perished long before, for many months before finally convincing them to join other family in the settlement.

Ian RICTOR working on 17-315 on a Large Canvas.

Source: © Photos Courtesy of Spinifex Arts Projects

Ian RICTOR Miramiratjara Acrylic on Linen 200 x 137cm 18-17

Ian has depicted the significant site of Miramiratjara situated in the heart of traditional Spinifex Country. This site offered people one of the few permanent water supplies in an arid environment and as such was where large groups would congregate for ceremony. Miramiratjara was also the site chosen for the initial Native Title High Court signing, prior the Spinifex People receiving their Land back. Ian has authority to paint and talk for such sites through either birth or paternal links.

Miramiratjara forms part of several Songlines. One is Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line) where the waterholes are said to be guarded by the two Wanampi (Magical Water Serpents) who still live there. It is also the site of Wati Nyulu (Golden Bandicoot Man) who during Creation burnt part of the immediate country before being caught in the same fire he started and eventually perishing. The naked sandhills that surround are said to be because of this event.

Ian RICTOR Kamanti Acrylic on Linen 200 x 137cm 18-68

Ian has depicted the significant site of Kamanti associated with Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is an epic that follows two water serpents, a father and his son, as they travel south through Spinifex Country on ceremonial business. The young son is volatile and the father watches him carefully. These are Creation beings who manifest as man and animal.

Powerful shape shifters who carve and mould the story and the landscape as they move through it. At Kamanti, the two men leave their story in the form of rockholes that serve as ever present reminders of their power that is still present today.

Ian RICTOR Kapi Mankurpa Acrylic on Linen 200 x 137cm 18-151

Ian has depicted three significant sites. Firstly Kamanti which has two rock holes situated in the heart of traditional Spinifex Lands and a site that forms part of the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is a powerful epic that follows a father and son as they traverse Spinifex Country on Cultural Business.

These two men take the form of Wanampi, magical water serpents and shape the landscape as they move through it, leaving behind the physical and spiritual reminders of their journey. At Kamanti, two rockholes appear side by side and are where the Two Men made camp on their travels.

The other site depicted is Tuwan, a special ’Mens’ site and where the Tjilpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line) begins. This story deals with a group of Zebra Finch Men as they move south to the coast in search of water. Kapi Mankurpa translates as three rockholes.

Ian RICTOR Wati Kutjara Serpent Men Country Acrylic on Linen 200 x 137cm 18-152

Ian has depicted country or significant sites associated with Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is an epic that follows two water serpents, a father and his son, as they travel south through Spinifex Country on ceremonial business. The young son is volatile and the father watches him carefully. These are Creation beings who manifest as man and animal. Powerful shape shifters who carve and mould the story and the landscape as they move through it. At Kamanti, the two men leave their presence in the form of rockholes that serve as ever present reminders of the power involved and still present today.

Ian RICTOR Wati Kutjara Acrylic on Linen 137 x 140cm 17-171

Ian has depicted the significant site of Kamanti and Tuwan, situated in the heart of traditional Spinifex Lands and both sites form part of the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). This is a powerful epic that follows a father and son as they traverse Spinifex Country on Cultural Business. These two men are Creation Beings and take the form of Wanampi, magical water serpents and shape the landscape as they move through it, leaving behind the physical and spiritual reminders of their journey. At Kamanti, two rockholes appear side by side and are where the Two Men made camp on their travels.

Ian RICTOR Tuwan Acrylic on Linen 137 x 140cm 20-210

Ian Rictor paints with quite confidence that comes from someone who knows their place in the landscape. Here he depicts the significant site of Tuwan situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site manifests the Tjulpu TjutaTjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line) and follows a group of Nyii Nyii (Zebra Finch Men) who travel south to the coast and save the world from rising seas.

These characters that Ian depicts are the creation beings who shaped the immediate environment as they moved through it, leaving a moral narrative etched into the physical domain as testament to their power and presence.

Ian RICTOR Tuwan Acrylic on Linen 137 x 90cm 17-010

Ian Rictor is a senior Spinifex Man who lived a traditional nomadic life throughout the Spinifex Lands until he and his immediate family ’walked in’ to Tjuntjuntjara Community in 1986 making him one of the ’Last of the Nomads’.

Here Ian has depicted the significant site of Tuwan, a place he knows intimately and has custodial responsibility for through birthright and paternal links. As such he is accepted as the authority on the Tjilpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line) that holds there.

Ian RICTOR Kamanti munu Tuwan Acrylic on Linen 137 x 90cm 20-204

Ian has depicted three significant sites. Firstly Kamanti which has two rock holes situated in the heart of traditional Spinifex Lands and a site that forms part of the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line).

This is a powerful epic that follows a father and son as they traverse Spinifex Country on cultural business. These two men take the form of Wanampi, magical water serpents and shape the landscape as they move through it, leaving behind the physical and spiritual reminders of their journey.

At Kamanti, two rockholes appear side by side and are where the Two Men made camp on their travels. The other site depicted is Tuwan, a special ’Mens’ site and where the Tjilpu Tjuta Tjukurpa (Many Birds Creation Line) begins. This story deals with a group of Zebra Finch Men as they move south to the coast in search of water. Kapi Mankurpa translates as three rockholes.

Ian Rictor in the Studio

Mervyn Rubuntja and Hubert Pareroultja Standing before Mt. Connor Source: © Photo Courtesy of Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra / Many Hands Art Centre

Source: © Photos Courtesy of Spinifex Arts Projects

Three Rictor Brothers: Mick, Noli and Ian at a traditional rockhole I Source: © Photos Courtesy of Spinifex Arts Projects

TJARUWA (ANGELINA) WOODS

Tjaruwa (Angelina) WOODS Kamanti Acrylic on Linen 230 x 200m 17-258

Tjaruwa comes from an area of many sandhills and rock holes which is what she paints in this painting. Kamanti is a major rockhole and within this vicinity are the water holes and significant sites of Nyuman, Kuru Ala and Tuwan. This area also has the presence of the Seven Sisters Tjukurpa running through it, an epic song line which traverses the Western Desert. The circles represent the rockholes whilst the lines of colour show the many sandhills and travelling tracks. Tjaruwa and her family were the last people to emerge from the Great Victoria Desert in 1986 where they had maintained a traditional hunter gatherer lifestyle until the wider Spinifex group decided to “bring them in.” Water sources are a precious resource in the desert and feature strongly in the Tjukurpa and thus the paintings of the Spinifex artists. These significant sites are intertwined with stories of Creation beings with magical powers forming the country as they journeyed over the desert landscape. To Spinifex People these beings are alive and present in the country today.

Tjaruwa Woods out Bush I Source: © Photos Courtesy of Spinifex Arts Projects

Tjaruwa Woods - On Country and in the Studio

Source: © Photos Courtesy of Spinifex Arts Projects

CV SECTION

Ian RICTOR Birth Date Language Place of Birth Skin/Clan

circa 1960 Pitjantjatjara Artulin / Tuwan Pitjantjatjara

Ian Rictor was born at Artulin/Tuwan c1955 and is a custodian and traditional owner of Tuwan.

Ian emerged from the bush with his small family group in only 1986 and they are the last of the known Aboriginal people to have remained living traditionally in the Western Desert.

In 1997 when the Spinifex Arts Project first began Ian was keen to join the group of painters. He took to the medium of paint on canvas with fluency and has been painting his birthplace and surrounding country since then. He has had increased success exhibiting with the Spinifex Artists in London, Utrecht and many galleries in Australia. Ian is an impressive and skilled hunter, bush mechanic and craftsman.

Ian Rictor I Source: © Photo Courtesy of Louise Allerton and Spinifex Arts Project

Ian lives in Tjuntjuntjara with his wife Kathleen Donnegan, also an artist and their extended family.

Collections Collection Prince Stefan of Liechtenstein, Embassy of Liechtenstein, Germany. (Men’s Collaborative) National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA. (Men’s Collaborative) Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (AAMU), Utrecht, Netherlands.

British Museum, London, UK. (Men’s Collaborative) The Corrigan Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative) Wagner and Owen Collection, USA. W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative) Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative) Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, Germany.

Alison and Peter W. Klein Collection, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Sammlung Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-Kg, Hamburg, Germany.

Awards 2016 Finalist (Men’s Collaborative) – 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art

Award - Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 Zeitreise - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Spinifex Artists - On Our Country - Japingka Gallery Fremantle, WA, Australia.

2020 Paris, Paris! - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Art Paris 2020 - ArtKelch at Art Paris 2020, Paris, France.

Smart Art - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

2019 Explosion - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Art Karlsruhe 2019 - ArtKelch at art Karlsruhe 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2018 Spinifex People Spinifex Land - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

In Kürze: Pila Nguruku Kapi Walkatjara – Painted Waters of Spinifex Country - ArtKelch,

Skulpturenpark Wesenberg| Künstler Bei Wu, Wesenberg (near Berlin), Germany.

Ngua Ninti – Knowing Country - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

2017 Wüste - Meer – Schpfermythen - ArtKelch presented at The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

Cologne, Germany.

Spinifex Arts 20th Anniversary - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Salon des Refusés, NATSIAA 2017 - Outstation and Paul Johnstone Galleries, Charles

Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Ascendent - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Farben der Wüste - ArtKelch at Teppichhaus Jordan, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany.

2016 Pila Nguratja – In Spinifex Country - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative)

Rawa Nyinanyi – Unbroken - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Exposition Spinifex Arts Project - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Purungu und Narrupa, ArtKelch at KUNSTWERK, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany.

Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Geisterstunde bei ArtKelch - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

2015 Spinifex Arts Project 2015 - Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tarnanthi - Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of

South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide. SA, Australia.

Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation, British Museum, London, UK.

Wo das Stachelkopfgras wächst - ArtKelch, Freiberg, Germany.

2014 Spinifex Artists - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Spinifex Tjukurpa - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Spinifex Arts Project 2014 - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art - 111 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association

with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

Pila – Spinifex Land - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjuntjuntjara – recent works from Spinifex Country - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2013 The Wild Ones - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Munich, Hamburg, Bodensee, Germany.

Salon des Refusés, Outstation and Paul Johnstone Galleries in the Old bank building, Smith

and Bennet Street, Darwin, NT, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative)

DesertMob 2013 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Kuwaritja - New Works of the Spinifex People Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

2012 Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country - fortyfivedownstairs Downstairs Gallery,

Vivien Anderson, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2012 Spinifex - People of the Sun and Shadow - John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.

2011 Living Water: Western Desert Works - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne. VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Artist - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2010 Desert Country - Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia, with a

National tour.

Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art - 111 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association

with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA.

DesertMob 2010 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Artists - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project 2010 - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2009 DesertMob 2009 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Generation Next - Randall Lane Gallery,Perth,WA, Australia.

Spinifex Artists - Ab-Original Gallery, Linz, Austria.

Tracking the Wati Kutjara – Spinifex 2009, COOEE Art Gallery, Bondi Beach, NSW, Australia.

Spinifex Artists 2009 - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

2008 DesertMob 2008 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Kapi Ninti – Knowing Water Knowing Country - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne; VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Artists Recent Work - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth,

WA, Australia. (Men’s Collaborative) 2007 DesertMob 2007 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Artists - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA.

Best of the Best - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Ten Years On - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA, Australia.

New Spinifex Works - Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2006 Spinifex - New Works - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Art of the Spinifex People - Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia.

Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2005 DesertMob 2005 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Law and Land - Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (AAMU), Utrecht, Netherlands.

Spinifex Artists, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK. 2004 Colour Power - Aboriginal Art post 1984 - National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project - Harbour House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.

2003 Spinifex Paintings - Raintree Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Art 03 - Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2002 Putitja Nguru - Art of the Spinifex People - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art, Australian national tour.

2001 Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Broken Hill City Regional Art Gallery - Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.

Flinders Arts Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

All About Art - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2000 Pila Nguru – Art and Song of the Spinifex People - Perth Museum, Perth WA, Australia.

national tour.

Tjaruwa (Angelina) WOODS Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1954 Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara Warutjara

Tjauruwa was born in the Great Victoria Desert, outside the Spinifex Determination Area, at Warutjara, the place of Minyma Tjilkamata - the Echidna Woman, near the current community of Jamieson (Manta Maru) within the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Except for possession of a few pieces of iron, fashioned into implements and tin bowls Tjaruwa lived traditionally until the winter of 1986 when her family group of seven was located in northern Spinifex by a group of Spinifex people making a sortie into country to re-visit important Men’s sites after some 25 years of absence.

Tjaruwa came in with a small son on her hip and camped with her family firstly at Yakatunya, 90 kilometres south of Tjuntjuntjara, joined the moving camp which accompanied the construction of a road, 300 kilometres through the length of the Spinifex Lands, before settling permanently at Tjuntjuntjara in 1989.

Tjaruwa Woods I Source: © Photo Courtesy of Paul Bulley

Tjaruwa was adjudged to be about 32 years old in 1986 and was given the birth date 1/7/1954. At this point in time (2021),Tjaruwa’s family remains the last Aboriginal group in the country to make first contact with contemporary Australia.

It is difficult to even imagine the changes Tjaruwa was to encounter living in her new world. She had acquired an extended network of kin to establish relationships with, the daily activity of hunting and gathering was essentially replaced by the community store and water was abundant.

Tjaruwa’s immediate priority was to care for her mother and uncle living in their new circumstances and it was not until her mother passed away that she took up an interest in painting.

At first she tended to paint as she observed other women painting and then the accumulated experience of her other life and her mother’s stories/designs poured out and Tjaruwa’s unique Spinifex perspective was translated with spectacular style and technique on to canvas.

Tjaruwa was a leading Spinifex artist, who’s works have featured in major awards and collections in Australia and abroad.

Collections Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia. (Women’s Collaborative) National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne. VIC, Australia. (Women’s Collaborative) Harriett & Richard England Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA. (Women’s Collaborative) British Museum, London, UK. (Women’s Collaborative) The Corrigan Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

The Sims-Dickson Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia. (Women’s Collaborative) W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Berndt Museum, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, WA, Australia.

Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich, Germany.

Awards 2009

2015

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth WA, Australia. (Women’s Collaborative) Finalist (Women’s Collaborative) – 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Art Paris 2020 - Art Kelch at Art Paris 2020, Paris, France.

Smart Art - Art Kelch, Freiburg, Germany.

2019 Kungakarungkalpa - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Explosion - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Art Karlsruhe 2019 – Art Kelch at art Karlsruhe 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2018 Spinifex People Spinifex Land – A Collection of Fine Spinifex Indigenous Art ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Ngura Ninti – Knowing Country - Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany.

The Womens Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. VIC, Australia.

Convoking the Genesis - Eurantica - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery - Brussels, Belgium.

2017 Collector Spotlight – 2017 - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

2017 Wüste - Meer – Schpfermythen - ArtKelch Gallery presented at The Rautenstrauch-Joest

Museum Cologne, Germany.

Spinifex Arts 20th Anniversary - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Gems from the remote Deserts - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, at the Parcours des

Mondes, Paris, France.

Spinifex Ascendent - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2016 Pila Nguratja – In Spinifex Country - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Rawa Nyinanyi – Unbroken - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Exposition Spinifex Arts Project - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.

LORE The visual language of cultural Identity - Raft Artspace, Tasmania.

Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Purungu und Narrupa Sammlung - in association with P. & A. Klein and ArtKelch,

Kunstwerk, Germany.

2015 Spinifex Arts Project 2015 - Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tarnanthi - Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of

South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Wo das Stachelkopfgras wächst. - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Kulunypa – selected small works from the Spinifex Arts Project - Outstation Gallery, Darwin,

NT, Australia.

Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation, British Museum, London, UK. 2014 Spinifex Artists - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art - 111 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe,

NM, USA in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

31st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project 2014 - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Tjukurpa - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Pila – Spinifex Land - Outstation Gallery, Darwin. NT, Australia.

Tjuntjuntjara Nguratja – Tjuntjuntjara is home - Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, ID, USA.

Salon des Refusés, Outstation and Paul Johnstone Galleries in the Old bank building, Smith

and Bennet Street, Darwin, NT, Australia. (Women’s Collaborative)

Tjuntjuntjara – recent works from Spinifex Country - Shorts St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2013 The Wild Ones - Raft Artplace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Kuwaritja – New Works of the Spinifex People - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Salon des Refusés, Outstation and Paul Johnstone Galleries in the Old bank building, Smith

and Bennet Street, Darwin, NT, Australia. (Womens Collaborative).

DesertMob 2013 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Munich, Hamburg, Bodensee, Lake Constance, Germany.

2012 The Bright, The Bold & The Beautiful: A Vibrant and Colourful Celebration of Indigenous

Australian Women - Cooee Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Spinifex – People of the Sun and Shadow - John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country - 45 Downstairs Gallery in conjunction

with Vivien Anderson, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2011 Living Water - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

DesertMob 2011 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

The Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Uwankara – Whole lot of Everything: Paintings from the APY/NPY Lands and Spinifex Country

2002-2011 - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2010 Spinifex Arts Project 201 - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Artists Survey Show - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Spinifex Artists - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art Now - Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA in

association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

DesertMob 2010 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA, Australia and National Tour.

2009 Generation Next - Randall Lane Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia.

Spinifex Artists 2009 - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Tracking the Wati Kutjara – Spinifex 2009 - Cooee Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

DesertMob 2009 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

2008 Kapi Ninti – Knowing Water Knowing Country - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. Australia.

Works from the Spinifex – Artists - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

DesertMob 2008 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

2007 New Spinifex Works - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

DesertMob 2007 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Seattle Arts Museum, Seattle, WA, USA.

Best of the Best - Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Ten Years On - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

2006 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

DesertMob 2006 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Art of the Spinifex People - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA, Australia.

2005 Spinifex Mob - Cooee Gallery Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Spinifex Artists - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK.

Law and Land Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2004 Colour Power - Aboriginal Art post 1984 - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project - Harbour House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.

2003 Spinifex Arts Project 03, Raintree Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Spinifex Arts Project 03, Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2002 Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art, Australian National Tour.

Putitja Nguru – Art of the Spinifex People - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

2001 Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Flinders Arts Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Broken Hill City Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.

All About Art - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra. ACT, Australia.

2000 Pila Nguru – Art and Song of the Spinifex People - Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA,

Australia with National tour.

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and with support from

Australian High Commission Singapore

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