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Mabel Juli |
 Mabel was born c. 1933 at Five Mile, via Moola Bulla Station, East Kimberley Western Australia. She was raised in her mothers country, Springvale Station. The family then relocated to Bow River Station where Mabel worked as a young woman. Mabel is a highly respected Traditional Kitja Elder and acknowledged as one of the great First Generation Ochre artists. She began painting in the mid 1980s along with the late Queenie McKenzie and Madigan Thomas. Rover Thomas and Jack Britten (both deceased) were already attracting attention with their depictions of the country in ochre, and the women quickly followed, with in-depth Traditional Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) stories to explain their artworks. Queenie, Mabel and Madigan are renowned strong women, always workers, great organisers and teachers of culture to the young Kitja women. The content of Mabels paintings centres on Springvale (Darrajayn), as does the works of her brother International Artist Rusty Peters. Mabel has participated in many Exhibitions and was included in the prestigious Australian Heritage Commission Art Award in 1994. In 1995 she was part of the exhibition Paintings by Warmun Women in Canberra. Solo Exhibitions 2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 2004 Kaliman Gallery, Sydney Selected Group Exhibitions 1994 11th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Maintaining Family Tradition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide The 2nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra 1995 Paintings by Warmun Women, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Canberra 1999 Bush Garden, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Japingka Gallery, Fremantle Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin Short Street Gallery, Broome Spirits from an Empty Land, Riverside Studios, London 2000 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra Bett Gallery, Hobart Contemporary art of Australian Aborigines, Adelhausermuseum, Freiburg, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) Art of the Aborigines, Leverkusen and Dormagen, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) Limited Edition Prints, Chrysalis Publishing, Melbourne Past Modern, Short Street Gallery, Broome State of My Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney The Collection. Aboriginal Fine Art & Weavings, Gallery Australis, Adelaide Contemporary painting of Australian Aborigines, Städtische Gallery, Traunstein, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) 2001 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide The Unseen in Scene, Städtische Gallery Wolfsburg, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane Ochres, Short Street Gallery, Broome Short on Size, Short Street Gallery, Broome 2002 Art from Australia, Art Association Aschaffenburg, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) Easter Show, Bett Gallery, Hobart Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer, Germany Love Your Work, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle Span Galleries, Melbourne Thornquest Gallery, Southport Women of the East Kimberley, Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide 2003 Garmerrun: All Our Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide Big Country. Works from the Flinders University Art Museum collection, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide East Kimberley Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome Masters Exhibition, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Recent Works in Orchre by Warmun, Framed Gallery, Darwin Six Warmun Women Painting Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs The Moon Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome, (in co-operation with ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney) The World Luxury Cruise Ship, Australasis (in co-operation with Thornquest Gallery, Southport) True Stories. Art of the East Kimberley, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2004 Stadtgalerie Bamberg Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Gallery Baehr, Speyer) 2005 Best of Warmun, Gadfly Gallery, Perth Waterhole Show 11, Grant Pirrie (in co-operation with Raft Artspace), Sydney Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth Broadmeadows Public Hospital, Melbourne Edith Cowan University Art Collection, Perth FTB Group Collection Harland Collection Harvey Wagner Collection, USA Kaplan Collection, USA Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth National Australia Bank National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Northern Territory University, Darwin Literature Big Country. Works from the Flinders University Art Museum Collection. Flinders University City Gallery (Hrsg.), Adelaide 2003, Aust. Cat., ISBN 072581103X Das Verborgene im Sichtbaren. The Unseen in Scene. Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Cultural Department Bayer, Leverkusen, Bayer Australia, Sydney (Hrsg.), Speyer 2000, Aust. Cat., ISBN 3980707202 Meeuwsen, Franca. Aboriginal Kunst, de verhalen vertellen, Zwolle 2000, ISBN 9040095078 The Eighteenth National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Telstra, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (Hrsg.), Darwin 2001, Aust. Cat., ISBN 072454464X The Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award. The Art of Place. Australian Heritage Commission (Hrsg.). Canberra 2000, Aust. Cat. The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. Kleinert, S. and Neale, M. (Hrsg.). Oxford Univ. Press, Melbourne 2000, ISBN 0195506599 True Stories. Art of the East Kimberley. The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Hrsg.), Sydney 2002, Aust. Broch. |
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