Michael Nelson Tjakamarra

Michael Nelson Jakamarra, also written Jagamarra, ( b. 1946 ) was born in Vaughan Springs in the Northern Territory. He is an artist and Aboriginal.

Life

He lived in Haasts Bluff as a child of Warlpiri parents in a family group of Long Jack Phillipus Jakamarra. His parents - his father was a medicine man - brought him to Yuendumu in a mission school, so there he received a European education. This he left as a teenager to work as a buffalo hunter, a truck driver and drover, before joining the military. After military service, he came in 1976 after Papunya, where he settled and married. He has seven children, six girls and one boy. In Papunya, he worked for the government for many years in the care of older artists before he even started painting in 1983.

Work

In his youth he learned the sand, body and sign painting from his grandfather. Jakamarras symbolic language includes the possum, snakes, kangaroos, flying ants and the Dreaming of yams.

In 1983 he painted in acrylics. He won the National Aboriginal Art Award in September 1984; In 1986 he exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney in 1987, a 8.20 -meter-long picture of him in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House was unveiled. As the Parliament House was opened in Canberra in 1988, found his 196 -square-meter mosaic of granite paving at the entrance of the building international and national attention; he was invited to welcome the Queen Elizabeth II.

Its made ​​in 1985 image work, the Five Stories ( five stories ) was one of the most reproduced works of Australian art in the 1980s. In 1989 he designed a BMW Art Car: In other prominent Aboriginal painters, he painted a racing car by BMW in the traditional style of painting of the Aborigines.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions at home and abroad:

  • Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne
  • Utopia Art in Sydney
  • Australian National Gallery in Canberra
  • Institute of Contemporary Art in London
  • John Webber Gallery in New York

Collections

Collections of his works are:

  • Northern Territory Art Gallery in Darwin
  • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin
  • Australian National Gallery in Canberra
  • Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
  • Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane
  • Jakamarra Collection in Sydney
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
  • The Australian Museum in Sydney
  • Western Australia Art Gallery, Perth
  • South Australian Museum in Adelaide

Swell

  • Website of www.jintaart.com.au
  • Website of www.aboriginal -desert- art.com.au

Itemization

  • Painter (Australia)
  • Aboriginal art
  • Australian
  • Born in 1946
  • Man
Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory Parliament House (Canberra) Indigenous Australian art
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