To some I’m a maverick, as much lunatic fringe as cutting edge. I’m both traditional and radical, out there mapping the boundaries; exploring those demarcation zones that are alive with human sensitivities, potentials and possibilities. I refuse to be assimilated or appropriated, allocated or intimidated; to have... Read More
To some I’m a maverick, as much lunatic fringe as cutting edge. I’m both traditional and radical, out there mapping the boundaries; exploring those demarcation zones that are alive with human sensitivities, potentials and possibilities. I refuse to be assimilated or appropriated, allocated or intimidated; to have my intellectual or emotional faculties severed from my physical and spiritual being: my Aboriginality (and ultimately my humanity) will always find a campsite.
BIOGRAPHY & COMMISSIONS
1987 Antique Tribal & Contemporary Silver Jewellery Aptos Cruz Gallery, SA
1988 Contemporary Jewellers Weswall Gallery, Tamworth, NSW.
1989 Look At Us Now Tandanya Inaugural Exhibition, Adelaide
1992 Jewellery, Aptos Cruz Gallery, Adelaide Festival
1994 Jewellery, State Library, Adelaide Festival
1996 Native Titled Now National touring exhib., commencing Tandanya, Adelaide Festival
National T.S. Islander Aboriginal Art Exhib., Museum & Art Gallery, Darwin NT
Stranger In Familiar Land Main Gallery Tandanya
1997 Dreaming the Republic Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
1997-1998 Same Story, Different Places National touring exhib., commencing Unley City Museum
1997-1998 Black Humour National touring exhib., commencing Canberra CAS, ACT
1997-2000 Impetus to Adorn National touring exhib., commencing Uni. Gallery, Launceston
1998 Elementary Perspectives (i) Kaurna Gallery Tandanya, Adelaide Festival
Driving Force National Motor Museum, SA
1999 Ceremony, Identity & Community National Gallery, Capetown, South Africa
2000-2001 The Federation Roadshow SA touring exhib.: commencing Migration Museum Adelaide
2000-2001 Karromarranendi 10 Year Retrospective, Main Gallery Tandanya
2000-2002 3SPACE: – 21st C. Indigenous Explorers National touring exhib., commencing Tandanya
2002 Heart & Spirit – 7 Spectres of Optimism SA Migration Museum, 2002 Adelaide Festival
2004 Impact: an illustrated Aboriginal History SA Migration Museum (permanent)
2006 Shelter + Homelessness Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre Gallery
FORUMS, PRESENTATIONS etc
1994-2006 Guest lecturer at w/shops, universities & schools (Adelaide, Flinders, UniSA etc.)
1999 S.A.V.A.E. Super Studio Summer School, 1/99
2000 From Appreciation to Appropriation Flinders Uni Nat. Art Forum, 3/00
Questacon, the Nat. Science & Tech. Centre Outreach Program, 10/00
2001 20th National Aust. Inst. of Art Educ. Conference, 9/01
2001 Art & the City Arts SA forum on Art in the Public Domain, 10/01
2002 Art, History or Politics? Adelaide Research Centre for Hum. & Soc. Sciences 12/01
Heart & Spirit Museums Aust. 2002 Nat. Conference 3/02
Environmental Experiences in Global Diversity U.N. (Aust) 2002 Fed. Conference
2003 Pallingjang Museum & Galleries Foundation of N.S.W. forum
2004 Trompe L’Oeil Symposium University of South Australia
PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS etc
1989 Tandanya First Survey catalogue
Tandanya, A Unique Arts Centre R & V Megaw Advertiser 4/10/89
1994 Aboriginal Art & the Dreaming Aboriginal Studies, D.E.C.S.
1995 Artistic Salute to Kaurna People Advertiser 2/2/95
New Works Take Pride of Place Daniel Thomas Advertiser 7/2/95
Public Sculpture In Australia M Hedger 1995
1996 Not Trad But True R & V Megaw Advertiser 21/9/96
Crackle & Hum J Neylon Adelaide Review 10/96
Australian Indigenous Languages D Nathan, Book & CD-ROM
1997 The Art of Life Since White Population R & V Megaw Advertiser 14/3/97
Black Humour catalogue
Same Story, Different Places catalogue & text
Impetus to Adorn: Circles About the Body catalogue
1998 Indigenous Artists Soar to the Fore R & V Megaw Advertiser 4/3/98
Circles About the Body K Cousins Canberra Arts Monthly 6/99
Black Humour Avril Quayle Periphery 34/98
Circles About the Body (www.artln.utas.edu.au/gallery/circles)
Aboriginal Artists of South Australia A Pring, D.E.C.S.
Mooditj – Aust Indigenous Cultural Expressions on CD-ROM Uni of W.A.
The Living Greats – Sth. Aust. Living Artists T Lloyd Advertiser 18/7/98
Imbued with Symbolism N Ioannou Advertiser 9/9/98
Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader Rutgers University Press USA
Celebrating an Aussie Icon ARTSTATE No. 8 12/98
1999 The Drive of Your Life L Campbell Advertiser 3/4/99
The Art of Empathy S Archdall Advertiser 18/5/99
What’s your Australian story? Inside Art, Adelaide Review 7/99
2000 3SPACE – 21st C. Indigenous Explorers CD-ROM & Catalogue text
Trio on Homeland R & V Megaw Advertiser 1/4/00
Tandanya: One City & A Festival D.P. Milika Artlink Vol. 20 No.1/00
Challenging Boundaries D. Mellor Artlink Vol. 20 No.1/00
3SPACE – 21st C. Indigenous Explorers D O’Brien dB magazine 3/5/00
Wraps To Come Off Highway Mystery S Archdall Advertiser 2/8/00
Fossil Forest At Edge Of Concrete Jungle S Archdall Advertiser 26/8/00
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art & Culture S Kleinert & M Neale
2001 Karromarranendi D O’Brien dB Magazine 10/1/01
Karromarranendi S Archdall Advertiser 15/1/01
Indigenous Explorers M Burbidge Arts Yarn Up No.12/01
One Year On RT Deutsche – Francaise Television interview
Payneham’s History Celebrated in Art C England Estn. Messenger 28/11/01
Tree’s a crowd S Archdall Advertiser 11/12/01
Art & the City ARTSTATE No. 20 12/01
2002 4th National A.T.S.I. Visual Arts Conference Symbol 3/02 (use of artwork images)
Rawest Nerves C Nicholls Advertiser 25/3/02
Nexus ABC Asia Pacific Television i/view 3/4/02 http://www.abcasiapacific.com/nexus
The Globalisation Institute, RMIT Melb. http://www.rmit.edu.au/globalism
Oscarts “Best New Public Artwork 2002” Advertiser arts panel choice 28/12/02
2004 Panel Discussions V Megaw Advertiser 1/10/2004
2006 Aust/NZ Learning Federation online digital library images & texts (in construction)
