Jimmy Robertson Jampijinpa (1944-2002)

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Jimmy was Robertson one of the best known painters in Lajamanu. View Jimmy was Robertson Curriculum Vitae page 78 Australian Encyclopaedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. COLLECTIONS:  Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia AdelaideArtbank; Holmes a'Court, Perth; Anthropology Art Museum Perth; Victorian Art Centre Melbourne; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA; Warnayaka Art Centre Jimmy Robertson Jampijinpa www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/Yapa_leaflet(E2).pdf UNESCO publishing; Museum Dorsey Paris, Museum Gottingen Germany. 

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Artist:     Jimmy Robertson Jampijinpa (1944 – 2002)
Title:
     Water Dreaming  painted Lajamanu 1989
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen

Image Size: 85.5 x 126.5 cm
Signed:  on reverse
Price (framed):  
POA - a contemporary gold leaf frame included
Provenance: Private collector NSW purchased in Melbou
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NOTES:
Illustrated page 78
Australian Encyclopaedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies by Janusz Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg.
 


 


 

 

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Biography:
Jimmy was Robertson one of the best known painters in Lajamanu. Please view Jimmy was Robertson Curriculum Vitae page 78 Australian Encyclopaedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. He has taken dances, songs and paintings to Sydney, Perth and Adelaide, the USA and Paris.  He is remembered by some in Paris for taking a trunk full of boomerangs and setting up a roadside stall on one of the main boulevards - an amazing and colourful individual, who attended the very first exhibition of the Lajamanu artists at the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne in 1987.  Jimmy lived in Lajamanu with two wives and nine children, he was full time painting as well as teaching dancing at Lajamanu Boys School.

SELECTED Exhibitions:
1983 - D'un autre continent: I'Australie le reve et le reel, ARC, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
1987 - Australian Made, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW.
1988 - Recent paintings from Lajamanu, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria.
1988 - The Fifth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1989 - Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria .
1990 - Lajamanu Dreamings, Technical and Further Education College, Darwin, NT.
1990 - The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1991 - Lajamanu Dreamings 2, Technical and Further Education College, Darwin, NT.
1991 - Aboriginal Art, Australian Embassy, Washington, USA.
1991 - Ngurra Mala, les lieux du Reve, Ecole des beaux-arts, Grenoble, France.
1991 - Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris.
1991 - The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1993 - Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971 -1993), Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth WA.
1993, The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1994 - Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, NT.
1994 - Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria.
1996- Bencia Open Studios,California.
1996 - Kormilda College.
1996 - The Rainbow Serpent, Sydney, N.S.W. 1997 - March Indigenart,Perth.
1997- "Innenseitte" Gottingen Germany.

COLLECTIONS:  
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia AdelaideArtbank; Holmes a'Court, Perth; Anthropology Art Museum Perth; Victorian Art Centre Melbourne; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA; Warnayaka Art Centre Jimmy Robertson Jampijinpa www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/aust/wlp/Yapa_leaflet(E2).pdf UNESCO publishing; Museum Dorsey Paris; Museum Gottingen Germany; Galeria Aniela Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park, Kangaroo Valley, NSW, Australia . 



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