Anne HOGAN
Birth Date Language Place of Birth Home
1/07/1945 Pitjantjatjara Tjulapi Tjuntjuntjara
Anne Hogan is a senior Spinifex woman born at Tjulapi rockhole around 1945 in the Great Victoria Desert of Western Australia. Like many Spinifex people of the time Anne walked in from the desert to Cundeelee Mission to escape a long period of drought as well as British nuclear testing at Maralinga. Anne along with her husband, children and other family members left the mission for long periods during ceremonial cycles and to perform cultural responsibility to country. In the early eighties when a core group of older people moved back to country and set up camp at Yakadunya just north of the Nullarbor Plain Anne moved also with her family. Anne also lived at Kalka in the APY Lands when she remarried and moved to her husband's country. Anne joined the Spinifex artists around 2001 travelling with the group on painting trips out bush to record and document her extensive knowledge of the Spinifex area particularly where she was born and grew up as a young girl. This knowledge has proved invaluable when Anne works on Women's Collaborative works where sacred sites in the Western Desert are discussed and recorded in paint such as the Seven Sisters. Anne is a meticulous painter with a well refined sense of colour and composition and has works in both private and public institutions.
Group Exihibitions 2014 'Spinifex Arts Project 2014', Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC. 2013 'Salon des Refuses', Outstation and Paul Johnstone Galleries in the Old bank building Smith and Bennet st Darwin, Darwin, N.T. (Women's Collaborative). 'DesertMob' Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T. 'Kuwaritja - New Works of the Spinifex People' Outstation Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory.