8 April - 12 May 2022
John Mawurndjul: Painting the Spirit
Need to get details about exhibition custom fields via API.
John Mawurndjul is one of Australia’s most important artist and one of the most experimental bark painters of Arnhem Land. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and is represented in most major state and many private collections.
Mawurndjul’s career highlights include a major personal retrospective <> John Mawurndjul: Journey Through Time in Northern Australia at the Museum Tinguely in basel in 2005 and John Mawurndjul: I Am the Old and the New at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 2018 that toured nationally. Many of the works in this exhibition hold significant exhibition history which include the major retrospectives.
The works in this exhibition span a period from 1987 to 2015 – and most are from the collection of Bill and Anne Gregory – presenting a rare opportunity to see the development of a great artist over nearly twenty years. The exhibition includes earlier figurative works from the 1990s through to the abstract Mardayin Ceremony paintings that heralded his mature style in 2003.
Installation Views
Balang Nakurulk (John Mawurndjul AM)
John Mawurndjul AO is one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists, internationally renowned for his virtuosic rarrk (cross-hatching) and bark painting innovations. A senior Kuninjku artist from western Arnhem Land, he depicts djang (sacred sites and ancestral power) from his country around the Kurulk and Mann River region, creating optically complex surfaces that transform the aesthetics of bark painting. Mawurndjul has exhibited widely overseas, including major shows in Germany and at the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. In 2018, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the Art Gallery of South Australia presented John Mawurndjul: I am the Old and the New, a landmark retrospective. He won the Telstra NATSIAA in 1999 and 2003, and represented Australia internationally at the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), Humboldt Forum (Berlin), and other major institutions. His works are held in premier collections worldwide, including the Met and quai Branly.
There is no provenenace field for artists in AG, shoudl we add a custom field for this? Has it been scoped out sufficeiently
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