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Rosella Namok, Outside family ... Mum side (2006) Acrylic on canvas, 104 x 174 cm |
Biography
| Born:
19 May 1979
Language Group: Aankum Lives: Lockhart River |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2009 | Ngatangku Ngaachi (My Country), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2008 | From
Sand Beach Side, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Ngaachi
Bla Mepla (Our Country), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Sea Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2006 | Up
North, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2005 | My
Puuya ... my life essence, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Rosella Namok: New Paintings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Rosella Namok: New Works, Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide |
| 2004 | Kungkay
Ma (Up North), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
‘nother side, October Gallery, London, England Rosella Namok, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries at the Essoign Club, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Rosella,
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Happen’
this way, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Tinta, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2001 | mepla
sarbie paint, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Ee right this way, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2000 | I
come from 'yah, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne |
| 1999 | 'bout here ... Lockhart River, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | On
the Edge: Visions of a tropical coastline, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur
State Academy of Fine Arts, Jaipur, India
Radical Regionalism: Local Knowledge and Making Places, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane Connecting With Country ... Connecting With Community: The Lockhart River Art Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Summer Show, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland |
| 2008 | New:
Selected recent acquisitions 2007–2008, The University of Queensland
Art Museum, Brisbane
From Cape to Cape, The Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2007 | La
revanche des genres: Art contemporain australien, Les Brasseurs, Leige,
Belgium; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Our Way: Contemporary Art from Queensland’s Lockhart River, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Charles Wang Center, Stony Brook University, New York, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Lockhart River Art Gang, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA The Art Gang Returns, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA Arte Indigena dall’Australia: Gruppo Artistico del Fiume Lockhart, Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy |
| 2006 | Right
here, right now: recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander acquisitions,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Radical Regionalism: the empire of shadows, Museum|London, Ontario, Canada Uncharted Territory, October Gallery, London, England Histoires de Terre et Mer: Peintures Aborigènes de Lockhart River, Australie, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Morbihan, Lorient, France Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA Painted Stories: Contemporary Paintings by Australian Aboriginal Women, Gallery 1601, Washington DC, USA So Much More Than Dots and Circles, The Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace, SA Paradise Found: imagining the tropics, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Something Old, Something New, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2006: shifting tides, moving sands, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns Gatherings II, Kick Arts, Cairns |
| 2005 | Black
Ink: Indigenous Prints from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection,
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Découvrir, rêver, investir ... l'Art aborigène d'Australie, The Embassy of Australia, Paris, France Lingua Franca: ARC Art Design & Craft Biennial, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2005: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art & Crafts from Tropical North Queensland, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns Affinities NAIDOC Exhibition, ABC Ultimo, Sydney Kungkay: Lockhart River Art Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT Dugongs of Hinchinbrook II, KickArts Gallery CoCa, Cairns, Queensland |
| 2004 | Intelligence
Now!, October Gallery, London, England
Spirit & Vision: Aboriginal Art, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Land/Space + Family/Place, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Telstra 21st National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition Out of Country, Gallery 1601, The Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Hot, Hotter, Hottest, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA HANG 12, A Clean Ocean Foundation exhibition, travelling to: Surfworld Museum, Torquay, Victoria; Sorrento House, Sorrento, Victoria; The George White Bar, St Kilda, Victoria; Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Sydney QUT Art Museum Indigenous Art Collection: Works from the Oodgeroo Collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane |
| 2003 | The
High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize, The High Court of Australia,
Canberra
Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Cairns Regional Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville) Water: Prints from Lockhart River and the Tiwi Islands, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from Lockhart River, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, USA Kulam Kannga (Beginning): New works by the Lockhart River Art Gang, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Grosse Kunstausstellung 2003, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney Icons That Build a Collection, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns The Year in Art, S. R. Irwin Gallery, Sydney Telstra 20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country), Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Lockhart River Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands, Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane Big Art, Small Viewer: celebrating children as artists, University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2002–04 | Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft, a travelling exhibition Funded by Visions Australia and the Gordon Darling Foundation: Jam Factory, Adelaide |
| 2002 | The
Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin,
Germany
Indigenous Highlights from the State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Telstra 19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Message Stick: Journey’s End, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Collectable Aboriginal Art Event, Raintree Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Darwin International Womens’ Day Event, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne New Ground, Main Street Gallery, Hahndorf, Adelaide |
| 2001 | Dreamtime:
Zeitgenössische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and the Light: 18.05–30.09.2001,
Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Lines of Descent: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prints and Objects, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane Telstra 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Laura Federation Exhibition: Local colour, local lives, Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery Masterworks, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Gatherings, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane A few of my favourite things, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane In my eyes: an exhibiton of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends, Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery, Cooktown Queensland |
| 2000 | Festival
of Pacific Arts, Cultural Center Jean Marie Tjibaou, Nouméa,
New Caledonia
Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Beyond the Pale, Adelaide Arts Festival, Adelaide Fortitude: New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Telstra 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition The Art of Place—Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards, Old Parliament House, Canberra Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery In my eyes: an exhibiton of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends, Cairns Regional Gallery Parma Belong Sandbeach: paintings and prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane Olympic exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney From the Top: Lockhart River paintings by Samantha Hobson and Rosella Namok, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane Lockhart River Print Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery |
| 1999-2001 | Message Stick, touring exhibition by the Lockhart River Art Gang, funded by Visions Australia |
| 1999 | 23rd
Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubljana, Slovenia
Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Laura International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery Lockhart River Art Gang 'we searching', Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane Main Street Gallery, Harndorfh, South Australia |
| 1998 | The
National Indigenous Art of Place Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, travelling exhibition Cape Country Gulf Sea, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney (part of the Pacific Wave Festival—collaboratively curated exhibition by the Cape York and Gulf of Carpentaria Aboriginal Artists Alliance) Message Stick, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane |
| 1997 | Mepla
Sarbie Art, with the Lockhart River Gang, Lockhart River Art and Culture
Centre
ngana nyllkana - us painting, with the Lockhart River Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery Rena Ellen Jones Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria |
Grants/Prizes/Awards
| 2003 | The
High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize (Winner), The Australian
Bar Association/The High Court of Australia, Canberra
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize (Winner), SECGS Redlands, Sydney The Australian Centenary Medal—for distinguished service to Indigenous art and to the community |
| 2000 | Lin Onus Youth Award--Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards, Australian Heritage Commission |
| 1999 | Australia
Council (ATSIAB)—a shared grant with the Lockhart River Art Gang to produce
new work for exhibition
Most innovative product by an indigenous artist, Momento Awards, Brisbane: for a set of stainless steel Sea Country bookmarks 2nd place, Works on Paper, Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival Nominated for Young Australian of the Year, Arts Section 23rd Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubljana, Slovenia: the screen prints My relations many generations and Clan Groups Around Lockhart River were selected for exhibition |
| 1998 | A
member of the Lockhart River Art Gang which won the National Heritage Commission
Art
of Place Community Endeavour Award
Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, screenprint Leaving the Community exhibited in Darwin and selected for the travelling exhibition |
| 1997 | Rena
Ellen Jones Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria: the screenprint
wiimumu
paamaanya mayi selected for exhibition and acquisition
Personnal Development Grant, Arts Queensland |
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Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
High Court of Australia, Canberra Artbank, Sydney ATSIC Collection, Canberra Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne State Library of Queensland, Brisbane Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns Charles Darwin University, Darwin Columbus State University, Georgia, USA Emerald Shire Council, Queensland Federal Court of Australia, Brisbane Flinders University, Adelaide Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland Health Quality and Complaints Commission, Brisbane Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland Macquarie Bank, Sydney Macquarie University, Sydney Mater Mothers’ Hospital, Brisbane Monash University, Melbourne Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Suncorp, Brisbane The Brisbane Club, Brisbane The Esk Collection, Tasmania The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA The University of Queensland, Brisbane Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria Wollongong University, NSW |