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After Burn-grass (2006) Acrylic on canvas 101 x 167 cm |
Biography
| Born:
4 May 1981
Language Group: Kuuku 'Ya |
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| Lives: Lockhart River |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | My Country ... My Land, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2009 | Our Life ... Our Way, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2008 | Life
is our land ... our culture, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Our life ... is land ... is culture, October Gallery, London, England Ngayu Aalmana Ngaachi Ngatangku (Growing up with Country), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2007 | Modern
Day Life,
Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
From My Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney |
| 2006 | Land to Sea, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
| 2005 | From my country ... Land and sea, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2004 | Yuma kuyi Pi’i (Fire and Water), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Kalmaa-na
Waympa Wimpa (From the Bush to the Sand Beach), Andrew Baker Art Dealer,
Brisbane
Lanthalantha (Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Yuku Untana (Fuel for the Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2001 | ‘ee be right ... b’um ‘bye, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2000 | From the Top, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | New
2009: Selected Recent Acquisitions, The University of Queensland Art
Museum, Brisbane
Connecting With Country ... Connecting With Community: The Lockhart River Art Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane |
| 2008 | From
Cape to Cape, The Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2007–08 | 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 |
| 2007 | Sand
: Savannah : Salt, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Arte Indigena dall’Australia: Gruppo Artistico del Fiume Lockhart, Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy Power and Beauty: Indigenous art now, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Lockhart River Art Gang, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA The Art Gang Returns, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA |
| 2006 | 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 Lockhart River Art Gang, Ewha Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2006: shifting tides, moving sands, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns |
| 2005 | The
Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2005: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art and Crafts from Tropical North Queensland, Tanks Art Centre,
Cairns
Kungkay: Lockhart River Art Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT |
| 2004 | Hot,
Hotter, Hottest, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Out of Country, Gallery 1601, Washington DC, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA The Summer Salon 2004, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Vivien Anderson Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne |
| 2003 | Story
Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art
Gallery, 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 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 Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands, Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country), Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Lockhart River Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs |
| 2002 | Inaugural
Exhibition, Ian Potter Museum of Australian Art, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne
The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany Lines II, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2001 | Dreamtime:
Zeitgenössische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and the Light: 18.05-30.09.2001,
Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Gatherings, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane |
| 2000 | Lockhart
River Print Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
Parma Belong Sandbeach: paintings and prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane |
| 1999-2001 | Message Stick, touring exhibition by the Lockhart River Art Gang, funded by Visions Australia |
| 1999 | International
Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Lockhart River Art Gang Exhibition, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane |
| 1998 | Message Stick, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane |
Awards
| 2001 | 2nd
Prize, Painting, Laura Festival, Queensland
2nd Prize, Works on Paper, Laura Festival, Queensland |
Bibliography
| Allen,
Felicity. ‘Fighting spirit’, The Herald Sun, 13 August 2001
Anderson, Peter. ‘Galleries’, The Courier-Mail, 31 May 2000 Anon. ‘Story Place: Indigenous art of Cape York and the Rainforest’, The Courier-Mail, 26 July 2003 Brown, Phil. ‘Big Impressions: Indigenous images go on show in a collection of prints from northern artists’, Brisbane News, 16–22 April 2003 Brown, Phil. ‘Burning Passion: The talent of Lockhart River artist Samantha Hobson burns bright in her latest Brisbane show’, Brisbane News, 28 March–4 April 2003 Brown, Phil. ‘Artistic struggles: Painter Samantha Hobson looks at the bigger picture facing Aboriginal Australia’, Brisbane News, 13–19 September 2006 Burbidge, Madeleine, ‘The Art Gang’, Arts Yarn Up, Winter 2000, Australia Council for the Arts, Canberra Burnett, David and Johnson, Trish. ‘Sharing Culture—Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest’, Antiques & Art in Queensland, March to July 2003 Butler, Sally. ‘Start Now!: A Guide to the Aboriginal Art Market: North Queensland & Torres Strait Islands’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 13, July–September 2000 Butler, Sally. ‘Lockhart River’s Wildly Indigenous Art’, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, Number 63, Winter 2007, Brisbane Butler, Sally. ‘Samantha Hobson’s ‘Resistance’ Painting, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts, Number 62, Summer 2006–2007, Brisbane Butler, Sally. Our Way: Contemporary Art from Lockhart River, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2007 Dreamtime: Zeitgenössische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and the Light: 18.05–30.09.2001, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria [ex. cat.] Cotroneo, Nicole. ‘From Australia, Today’s Aboriginal Art’, The New York Times, 14 October 2007 Demozay, Marion (editor). Gatherings: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from Queensland Australia, Keeaira Press, Southport, 2001 Eather, Michael. Lines II, 2002 [ex. cat.], Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane Edwards, Ron and Anne & the Lockhart River Gang (compiled and illustrated by). An Explorer's Guide to Lockhart River, The Rams Skull Press, Kuranda, Queensland, 1997 Finnane, Kieran. Review, Alice Springs News, May 21, 2003 Gordon, Michael. ‘Indigenous art gets a room of its own’, The Age, 26 October 2002 Harper, Alison. ‘Editor’s Art to Art’, Art Market Report, Issue 31, Frst Quarter 2009 Helmrich, Michele. ‘Unlocking Lockhart: Young artists are reinventing their culture—and commanding attention in the art world—with their fresh and contemporary painting’, Outback, Issue 31, Oct/Nov 2003 Jerums, Georgina, ‘Principal Artists: Who will be the next Brett Whiteley, Max Dpain or Emily Kngwarreye? Georgina Jerums meets five Australian artists on the verge of greatness’, The Sunday Age Magazine, 12 December 2004 Lockhart River Art Gang. The Message Stick: Art from North Queensland's Lockhart River Aboriginal Community, 1999 [ex. cat.] McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; and McCulloch Childs, Emily. The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Aus Art Editions/The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006 McCulloch, Susan. Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001 McCulloch-Uehlin, Susan. ‘Water Marks’, The Weekend Australian, 21–22 July 2001 McCulloch, Susan. ‘Dream weavers: Artists reap the benefits’, The Weekend Australian, 19–20 July 2003 McLean, Sandra. ‘Messages that Stick’, The Courier-Mail, 21 June 2002 Magnusson, Tony. ‘Art form the heart: The Lockhart River Art Gang are the category busters of contemporary Aboriginal art’, HQ, July–August 2003 Maier, Heidi. ‘Travelling North’, The Courier-Mail, 15 February 2003 Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Mastery of medium and matter’, The Australian, 26 May 2000 Martin-Chew, Louise. ‘Tales of the far north: Rare Aboriginal works make a spirited exhibition’, The Weekend Australian, 26–27 July 2003 Morrell, Tim. ‘The Lockhart River Gang’, Artlink, Volume 22 No 3, 2002 Neales, Sue. ‘Burning Bright’, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, July 2002 Noonan, Kathleen. ‘Hooked on Hobson’, The Courier-Mail, 30 September 2006 Prior, Cathy. ‘River artists run with inspiration’, The Australian, 19 December 2001 Pulley, Roz. ‘Talent unlocked’, The Cairns Post Weekend Extra, 10 June 2000 Pulley, Roz. ‘Cape art makes capital gains’, The Cairns Post, 9 November 2002 Ryan, Judith. ‘Politics, Truth and Blood: Indigenous art matters’, Power & Beauty: Indigenous art now, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2007 [ex. cat.] Strickland, Katarina. ‘Cape of good hope’, The Weekend Australian, 20–21 July 2002 Wilson, Gavin. Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Queensland [ex. cat.] |
Public Collections
| National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane The University of Queensland, Brisbane Queensland Department of Education, Brisbane Columbus State University, Georgia, USA The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Suncorp, Brisbane |