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Arthur Koo'ekka Pambegan
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Biography
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Born
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1936 |
| Lives | Aurukun, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Language | Wik Mungkan language group, Winchanam ceremonial group |
| Totems | Walkan-aw (a sacred site in the Flying-fox Story), Kalben (a Bonefish Story Place) |
Solo Exhibition
| 2008 | Walkan-aw and Kalben, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
Group Exhibitions
| 2007 | Culture
Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra
Sand : Savannah : Salt, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Puulway—Wik and Kugu Totems: Contemporary Australian Sculpture from Aurukun, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Carved
from the Cape: Indigenous sculpture from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland,
Australia, Australian Art Resources, Melbourne
New Directions from Aurukun, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Aurukun Artists: Paintings and Sculptures, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2004 | Wik
Kaa'th Pii'tha—Wik Stories of our Dreams, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Hitting On and Kicking Off, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns |
| 2003 | Story
Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art
Gallery, Brisbane
Songlines: Emerging Queensland Indigenous Artists, Fox Galleries, Brisbane |
| 2002 | Stories
from Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, National
Museum of Australia, Canberra; Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany Kank inum-Nink inum (Old way-New way), Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Coolum, Queensland Journey, Urban Art Projects, Brisbane |
| 2000 | Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in Modern Worlds, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| 1998 | Wik: Takeback, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, Sydney |
| 1997 | Painting
the Land Story, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Laura Festival Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland |
| 1996 | Pacific
Wave Festival of Arts, Bondi Pavilion Community Cultural Centre, Sydney
Savode Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | Recent Sculptures from Aurukun, Aboriginal and South Pacific Gallery, Sydney |
| 1993–94 | Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, England; Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1989 | Australian and International Sculpture, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
| 1988 | Australian Art Post-1960, Deutscher Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
| 1980 | Aboriginal Australia, presented by the Australian Gallery Directors Council in association with National Gallery of Victoria: travelling to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Australian Museum, Sydney |
Award/Commission
| 2007 | Regional Resident Award, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 2002 | Art Built-in, William McCormack Place, Cairns |
Bibliography
| Caruana,
Wally. Aboriginal Art, Thames & Hudson, London and New York,
1993 and 2003, p. 185
Cochrane, Susan. ‘Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest’, Artlink, Vol 23, no 4 Cooper, Carol; Morphy, Howard; Mulvaney, John; and Peterson, Nicolas. Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981 [ex. cat.] Demozay, Marion (editor). Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland Australia, Keeaira Press, Southport, 2001 Denham, Peter. ‘Not to give away, not to die away: An interview with Arthur Koo’ekka Pambegan Jr’, Story Place: Indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2003 [ex. cat.] Denham, Peter. ‘Arthur Pambegan Jr: Not to Die Away’, Artlink—the old magic: elders of the artworld, Vol. 26 No. 4, 2006, pp. 66–67 Dunlop, Ian (director). Dances at Aurukun, Australian Commonwealth Film Unit for Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Sydney, 1964, Colour film, 16mm, 28 mins. Hutchings, Patrick. ‘Longtime coming’, The Age, 20 October 2007 Songlines: Emerging Queensland Indigenous Artists, Keeaira Press, Southport, 2003 [ex. cat.] Kaus, David. ‘National Museum of Australia, Canberra’, in Cochrane, Susan (ed.). Aboriginal art collections: highlights from Australia’s public museums and galleries, Craftsman House, St Leonards, NSW, 2001, pp. 22–28 McLean, Bruce; Sutton, Peter; and Woods, Chantelle. ‘Arthur Koo’ekka Pambegan Jr’, Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2007 [ex. cat.] Morphy, Howard. Aboriginal Art, Phaidon Press, London and New York, 1998, p. 393 Reynolds, Amanda. ‘Wik Ceremonies are Sacred’, Stories from Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, National Museum of Australia, Canberra; in association with Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2002 Sutton, Peter. ‘Pambegan, Arthur: Bonefish’, Puulway—Wik and Kugu Totems: Contemporary Australian Sculpture from Aurukun, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2007 [ex. cat.] Sutton, Peter (ed.). Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking, in association with the Asian Society Galleries, New York, 1988 Sutton, Peter. ‘High art and religious intensity: A brief history of Wik sculpture’, Aboriginal art in modern worlds, National Gallery of Australia, 2000 [ex. cat.] |
Public Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Australia, Canberra Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney |