Dolly SNELL JUKAJA - My Country
Dolly SNELL JUKAJA - My Country
Dolly SNELL JUKAJA - My Country

Dolly SNELL JUKAJA - My Country

c. 1996 114 x 96cm ADG:849

ADG: 849

Description

My Country, c.1996 - Story of painting

 

Dolly SNELL JUKUJA - Biography

Born c. 1933

Community Fitzroy Crossing

Outstation Kurtal

Region Kimberley, Western Australia

Language Walmajarri, Wangkajunga

Subjects Kurtal jila (waterhole), jilji (sandhills), Great Sandy Desert country, Mangarri [bush tucker] and plants from the Great Sandy Desert

Dolly Snell Jukaja was born at the sacred site of Kurtal (Helena Springs) in the Great Sandy Desert. Her Aboriginal name is Jukuja. As a young girl she left the desert and spent time on Bohemia Downs and Christmas Creek Stations.

Dolly first exhibited work in Karrayili at Tandanya, Adelaide, 1991. She was also represented in Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, 1993; and This is my country, a Mangkaja Arts group exhibition held at Artspace, Claremont for the 1994 Festival of Perth. She lives in Fitzroy Crossing and is a leader of Wangkajunga women's ceremonial law. Her husband Spider Snell won the best painting in new media section of the 21st Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin in 2004.

Exhibitions

1991 Karrayili, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA

1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

1992 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

1993 Images of Power, National Gallery of Victoria, VIC

1993 Mangkaja Artists, Hogarth Galleries, NSW

1993 Mangakatja Women, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA

1994 Ngaiakura Ngurrara Minyarti - This is my country, Artplace Gallery, Perth, WA

1995 Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne, VIC

1995 12th Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, selected work

1996 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, selected work

1996 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

1996 Broken Promises, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA

1996 Heritage Commission Art Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT

1997 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

1998 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK

1999 Ngurrara, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA

2001 Ngurrara canvas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

2001 Mankatja Arts Ten Years On, Tandanya, Adelaide, SA

2002 Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2003 Waterhole, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT

2003 Mangkaja Marniwarnti, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT

2003 Jila Jumu Jiwari and Wirrkuia, Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA

2003 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

2004 - Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

2005 – Jiljijanka Marnin: Women from the Sandhills, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2007 - Women Artists of Fitzroy Crossing, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT

Publications

1991 Karrayili -10 Years On, Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency

1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

1993 Mangkatji Women, exhibition catalogue

1994 Ngajakura Ngurrara Minyarti - This is my Country, exhibition catalogue

1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert, SBS Television.

2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art, Oxford University Press

2000 Kaitja Now, Indigenous Arts Australia, Wakefield Press and Tandanya Cultural Institute

1993 Ryan, J., Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

2004 Ryan, Judith (editor), Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Collections

Artbank, Sydney, NSW

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT

Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA

Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA

Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, WA

Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Northern Territory University, NT

The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA

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