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biography:
Jack Phillipus, born
circa 1932 at Kalimpinpa, is
one of the most senior artists of Papunya
involved with the early Aboriginal art movement in 1971 and has painted
continuously since that time.
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Jack Phillipus is an important Rain Dreaming site north-east of
Kintore. Jack Phillipus father, who was Warlpiri, came from Parikurlangu to the
north of Kalimpinpa and his mother, who was of mixed Warlpiri/Luritja
descent, also came from Kalimpinpa.
Jack Phillipus paints Rain
Dreaming site north-east of Kintore. Jack is one of the most senior and
important artists of Papunya involved with the early Aboriginal art
movement in 1971 and has painted continuously since that time.
Long Jack
Phillipus grew up in the bush west
of Mt Farewell and came into Haasts Bluff settlement with his whole
family as a teenager. He worked at Haasts Bluffas a timber contractor
and stockman and married Georgette Napaltjarri. They have two sons,
three daughters and many grandchildren. Long Jack has been part of the
Papunya painting movement since the beginning of the '70s when he was a
Councillor at Papunya. It was Long Jack, together with Billy STOCKMAN,
who was also a school yardman at the time, they offered their help with
painting the murals around the Papunya school, which preceded
the large Honey Ant mural. Long Jack has painted intermittently since
those times, taking out the Australian North Territory Golden Jubilee Art Award in 1983 and the
Alice Springs Art Prize in 1984.
In 1984 Long Jack
Phillipus was ordained as a Lutheran
pastor. Of the Warlpiri / Luritja language group, Long Jack's paintings
depict Hare, Wallaby, Kingfisher, Dingo and other Dreamings in the Mt
Singleton area. He lives in Papunya and remains close to his 'brother',
Michael NELSON, with whom his family camped Haasts Bluff in the
early years before the Papunya settlement. His younger sister, Pauline
WOODS, is a well-known Western Desert artist currently working out of
Alice Springs.
Exhibitions:
1971, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne;
1971, Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth;
1974, Anvil Art Gallery, Albury;
1974, Art of Aboriginal
Australia, touring exhibition Canada, Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd;
1976, Aboriginal
Australia, Second touring exhibition Canada;
1977,
Christ College, Oakleigh, Victoria;
1983, Mori Gallery, Sydney;
1984,
Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs;
1985, The Face of the
Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings;
1984, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne;
1987, Circle Path Meander, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne;
1987, A selection of Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill
Hall Gallery, Australian Capital Territory;
1988, ANCAAA and Boomalli,
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative, Sydney;
1988, Recent
Aboriginal painting, AGSA, Adelaide;
1989, Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of
the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria;
1989, A selection of
Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian Capital
Territory;
1989, A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art,
Westpac Gallery; Melbourne; Design Warehouse Sydney Lauraine Diggins
Fine Art;
1990, l'ete Australien a' Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery,
Montpellier, France;
1990, From the Centre to the Sea, Boomalli
Aboriginal Artists Co-operative; Chippendale, Sydney;
1991, The Painted
Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson
Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery and Te Whare Taonga;
1992, Aoteroa
National Art Gallery, New Zealand;
1993, Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings,
Aboriginal Art from Central Australia
1993, Art Gallery of
Western Australia, Perth;
1994, Power of the Land, Masterpieces of
Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria.
1983, Northern Territory Golden Jubilee Art Award;
1984, Alice Prize, Alice Springs;
Collections:
Art Gallery of Western
Australia Perth;
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne;
National Gallery of Australia
Canberra;
Art
Gallery of South Australia Adelaide;
Art Bank
Sydney; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
Australian; National University, Canberra;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Darwin; Museum of Victoria, Melbourne; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA;
private and corporate collections around the world.
Select Bibliography:
Brody, A., 1985, The face of the centre: Papunya Tula paintings
1971-1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Bardon, G.,
1979, Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Rigby, Adelaide; Bardon,
G., 1991, Papunya Tula Art of the Western Desert, McPhee Gribble,
Ringwood, Victoria; Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and
Hudson, London. (C) ; Crossman, S. and Barou, J-P. (eds), 1990,
L'ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 Chefs d'Oevre; de la Peinture
Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. (C) ; Diggins, L.
(ed.), 1989, A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal
Art, exhib. cat., ; Malakoff Fine Art Press, North Caulfield,
Victoria; Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert
Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, NSW. (C) ; Ryan, J., 1989,
Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery of
Victoria; exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
(C); 1974, Art of Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Rothmans of
Pall Mall Canada Limited. (C) ; 1988, ANCAAA and Boomalli, exhib.
cat., Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative, Sydney. (C) ; 1988,
Recent Aboriginal Painting, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide; 1993, Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal
Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), exhib. cat., ; Art Gallery
of Western Australia, Perth. (C); © Discovery Media, Documentation
Pty Ltd, and the Australian ; Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
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