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Charlene Carrington |
 Charlene is definitely one of the most talented, exciting young artists in Australia. Born in Perth 1977, she grew up at Warmun Community, Turkey Creek, Western Australia. She has established herself as a strong woman, an enthusiastic painter with an enquiring mind and the ability to fulfil her highest aspirations. Charlene is an established International Australian Artist. She is ambitious, determined to succeed in the Art World, yet retaining a deep love of her extended family and always her six children and her family are uppermost in Charlenes life. Quick to laugh, generous of herself, a popular loving and much loved lady. Charlene started painting at an early age the second child of Churchill Cann and Sade Carrington, both International Artists, her earlier paintings reflected the flowing lines and meticulous method of her mother. She was known to comment when young that she just didnt feel right when trying her fathers style, but it is now very apparent that many of her paintings are leaning towards Churchills swirling strokes and incredible ochre blending. Texas Downs has produced some wonderful painters, and, although the subject matter of Charlenes art is wide and varied, she admits to enjoying most of all the camping trips with her family to their home country Texas, and the paintings she completes of that land, with the Dreaming stories which her kangayi, grandmother Betty Carrington, her Uncle Hector Jandany (dcsd.) and her other relatives have taught her. Undoubtedly her art will be influenced by the artists she has learnt from and painted with, the best Queenie McKenzie, Jack Britten who taught both Sade and then Charlene, her grandfathers Beerbee Mungnari and Uncle Hector Jandany, Rover Thomas, George Mung Mung and many of the Senior Warmun artists. However, Charlene is taking the ochre medium into a totally new perspective, still with the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) Stories of her Kitja culture. Awards 1999 Special Commendation, East Kimberley Art Awards, WA 2002 Selected as the representative for the ABC's "Loud" Youth Arts Festival Solo Exhibitions 2006 Ngarrgooroon Country , Hector Janday and Charlene Carrington, Raft Artspace, Darwin 2004 Charlene Carrington Solo Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne in conjunction with Seva Frangos 2002 Kintolai Gallery in conjunction with the Adelaide International Festival of Arts, Adelaide, SA Selected Group Exhibitions 1994 Maintaining Family Tradition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide 1995 Kids of Warmun, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide 1999 East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin 2000 Bett Gallery, Hobart Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 2001 Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane Ochre Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome Short on Size, Short Street Gallery, Broome 2002 Recent Works from Warmun, Framed Gallery, Darwin Thornquest Gallery, Southport Warmun Group Show, Bett Gallery, Hobart Garmerrun: All Our Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide 2003 East Kimberley Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome Ngarrgoorroon, Yiyili and Yarrunga - Four Artists from Warmun, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Six Warmun Women Painting Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Waterhole, Raft Artspace, Sydney 2004 Body of Art, Raft Artspace, Darwin Die inneren und die äußeren Dinge. Bamberg, Germany (in cooperation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Bähr, Speyer) Women's Figurative Show Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA The Next Generation: Balgo And Warmun Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic 20th Telstra Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander National Art Award, Darwin Warmun Women, Alcaston Gallery, Fitzroy Gija - Across The Border, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT 2006 Women from Texas Downs, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth, WA Warmun Art Centre Presents, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2007 Back To The Board, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney Japingka Gallery, Fremantle Selected Collections Artbank, Sydney Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia Bibliographies 2003 Artwork featured on the cover of text ''Their Stories, Our History'', Melbourne, VIC |
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One of the unique skills Artists from the Kimberely region possess is the ability to mix the natural ochre pigments to create truly spectacular colours, shadings and effects that give ochre artworks a uniqueness unseen in any other style of art anywhere in the world.
