Dolly SNELL JUKAJA - My Country
ADG: 849
DescriptionMy 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
