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Artist:     Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri (B.1925-)
Title:      Hunting Ceremony  painted Mt Liebig 1992  
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 69 x 98 cm
Signed:  on reverse
Price:  POA  - a modern Gold leaf frame included
Provenance: Galeria Aniela purchased from a private collector Melbourne

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Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, "Yala Dreaming" 1971 sold for $200,500 at Sotheby's International Auction, 29 June 1988 (source); Sotheby's Sydney. Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, is one of the greatest of the seminal ‘art mob’ from the 70’s at Papunya. He became one of the legendary founders of the Aboriginal art movement in 1971. His paintings provide a link with that historic moment at Papunya and documented 40 thousand years sacred Aboriginal Dreamings.

This painting is illustrated page 30, The Tjulkurra by Janusz Kreczmanski, a well known author and an art collector.

Artist:     Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri (B.1925-)
Title:      Hunting Ceremony painted Mt Liebig 1995  
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 69 x 98 cm
Signed:  on reverse
Price:  POA  - a modern Gold leaf frame included
Provenance: Galeria Aniela purchased from a private collector Melbourne

How to BUY              About buying art 

NOTES:
Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, "Yala Dreaming" 1971 sold for $200,500.00 Sotheby's International Auction, 29 June 1988  Sotheby's Sydney. Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, is one of the greatest of the seminal ‘art mob’ from the 70’s at Papunya. He became one of the legendary founders of the Aboriginal art movement in 1971. His paintings provide a link with that historic moment at Papunya and documented 40 thousand years sacred Aboriginal Dreamings.

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biography:
View Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri Curriculum Vitae page 376 Australian Encyclopaedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies by Kreczmanski and Birnberg. Billy Stockman is an old master and one of the most celebrated artists with renowned International reputation. His work is widely collected in Australia and internationally. As a founder of the Contemporary Art Movement and as a senior custodian of his land and dreaming stories, Billy has been active in communicating his traditional beliefs to the outside world. Billy's work has been seen around the world in several traveling exhibitions, as well as being featured in many Galleries and Collections through out Australia. Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, a proud man from the Anmatyerre people in Central Australia.

In 1988 he was involved with the opening and exhibited in New York for the "Dreamings: Art of Aboriginal Australia'. This exhibition traveled to Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the 'All Black Festival' in South Africa. In recent years the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has acquired his painting as well as the New South Wales Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, University of WA Anthropology Museum. Known as one of Australia's most exceptional artists, Billy Stockman Japaltjarri, through his paintings, is able to promote Aboriginal culture throughout the world helping to develop the resurgence of the Dreaming as well as a healthy economic base for the Aboriginal communities. It is important that the spirit of Jukurrpa is revived to aid in the healing of the entire planet. Focusing on the spiritual content of Aboriginal society Billy is able to incorporate this strong foundation with a modern definition for all to understand and benefit from.

A proud family man Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri (B.1925-) from the Anmatyerre people in Central Australia, Billy was one of the original stockmen and founders of the Papunya community in the Central Desert. His role in this community varied from a cook to helping the Pintupi people settle in to community life, then as one of the founders of the aboriginal art movement in 1971. In 1971 Geoffrey Bardon a white school teacher assigned to the Papunya School began a project of painting a mural using the aboriginal colors and traditional iconography.

Along with three other artists, Billy Stockman, took over the project which became the first piece of Central Desert Art to be exhibited. This painting represented the "Honey Ant Dreaming". These artists held vitally important tribal positions and were instrumental in the instruction of young Aboriginal men. Instead of imposing European notions of perspective on their paintings, the men used the existing system of desert culture symbols to depict their dreamings and their relationship with the land. This was an experiment which had staggering results. This genesis of the contemporary art movement empowered a renewed sense of pride and cultural identity among the Aboriginal people of the region. Billy Stockman soon emerged as one of the most prolific and important artists of his time.

Billy Stockman work, sprung from the world's oldest continuous culture, still stands alone and its very essence is one of intrinsic spirituality. The powerful and heroic dreaming symbols of his paintings are charged with authority and religious knowledge. The ebullient texture of his work is anchored by a metaphysical core and a deep affinity with the land. As a founder of the Contemporary Art Movement and as a senior custodian of his land and dreaming stories, Billy has been active in communicating his traditional beliefs to the outside world.

Billy's work has been seen around the world in many traveling exhibitions, as well as being featured in many Galleries and Collections through out Australia. In 1988 he was involved with the opening and exhibited in New York for the "Dreamings: Art of Aboriginal Australia'. This exhibition traveled to Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the 'All Black Festival' in South Africa. In recent years the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra has acquired his painting as well as the New South Wales Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, University of WA Anthropology Museum. Known as one of Australia's most exceptional artists, Billy Stockman Japaltjarri, through his paintings, is able to promote Aboriginal culture throughout the world helping to develop the resurgence of the Dreaming as well as a healthy economic base for the Aboriginal communities. It is important that the spirit of Jukurrpa is revived to aid in the healing of the entire planet. Focusing on the spiritual content of Aboriginal society Billy is able to incorporate this strong foundation with a modern definition for all to understand and benefit from.

Exhibitions:
1971, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Western Australia;
1974, Anvil Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales;
1977, Nigerian Festival, Lagos, Nigeria;
1977, Christ College, Oakleigh, Victoria;
1982, Georges Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria; 1983, Mori Gallery, Sydney;
1984, Anvil Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales;
1985, Dot and Circle, a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic; paintings of Central Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne;
1985, The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings;
1971-1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
1987, A selection of Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian Capital Territory;
1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally;
1989, A selection of Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian Capital Territory;
1991, Alice to Penzance, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London;
1991, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA;
1991, Canvas and Bark, South Australian Museum, Adelaide;
1991, The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery;
1991, Te Whare Taonga o Aoteroa National Art Gallery, New Zealand;
1992, Tjukurrpa, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel;
1993, Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia;
1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Western Australia;
1994, Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert; The Donald Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

Collections:
National Art Gallery of New Zealand http://www.aaia.com.au/stockman.htm; Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; Artbank Sydney;   National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory - Darwin; Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Christensen Collection held Museum of Victoria Melbourne; Flinders University Art Museum Adelaide; Australian Department of Archaeology and Anthropology: National University, Canberra; Australian Qantas Collection; Donald Kahn collection Museum of Victoria Melbourne; Campbelltown City Art Gallery; South Australian Museum Adelaide; The Kelton Foundation Santa Monica USA;  Holmes a' Court Collection Perth; corporate and private collectors throughout the world.

Select Bibliography:
Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn; 1991, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA; Bardon, G., 1979, Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Rigby, Adelaide. (C) ; Berndt, R. M. and Berndt, C. H. with Stanton, J., 1982; Aboriginal Australian Art, a Visual Perspective, Methuen Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney; Brody, A., 1985, The face of the centre: Papunya Tula paintings; 1971-1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Bardon, G., 1991, Papunya Tula Art of the Western Desert; McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, Victoria. (C) ; Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C) ; Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New South Wales; Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists; Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C) ; Maughan, J., and Zimmer, J., (eds), 1986, Dot and Circle, a Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings of Central Australia, exhib. cat., Communication Services Unit; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. (C) ; Schulz, D., 1994, Lines from the Dreamtime, The Australian Way, Qantas in flight magazine, May 1994; West, M.K.C., (ed.), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; 1993, Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), exhibition cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth