William Sandy (B.1944-)

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William Sandy the first Pitjantjatjara man to be involved in the Aboriginal contemporary art movement since 1975. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. View William Sandy Curriculum Vitae page 337 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. William Sandy Biography

 

Summer Bush Bean Ceremony Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen
110 x 125 cm
Price:     $7,500

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Winter Bush Bean Ceremony Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen
158 x 125 cm
Price:     $8,500
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Autumn Bean Ceremony c. 2001 Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen Warumpi Community Art Centre
153.5 x 153.5 cm
Price:     $9,500

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Bean Ceremony 
Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image: 40.5 x 122cm
Framed:
76 x 158 cm
Price: $4,800 each
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Warumpi Community Art Centre

 

 

Bean Ceremony
Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image: 40.5 x 122cm
Framed:
76 x 158 cm
Price:     $4,800 each
B
UY

Warumpi Community Art Centre

 

 

Bean Ceremony
Close-up
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image: 40.5 x 122cm
Framed:
76 x 158 cm
Price:     $4,800 each BUY

Warumpi Community Art Centre

 
 
 

Artist:     William Sandy 1  (B 1944 - )
Title:      Summer
Bush Bean Ceremony 
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 110 x 125 cm
Price (stretched):     $7,500    
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Artist:     William Sandy 1  (B 1944 - )
Title:      Winter
Bush Bean Ceremony
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 158 x 125 cm
Price (stretched):     $8,500    
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Artist:     William Sandy 1  (B 1944 - )
Title:      Autumn
Bush Bean Ceremony circa 2001
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 153.5 x 153.5 cm
Provenance: From the Warumpi Community Art Centre, Alice Springs
Price (stretched):     $9,500      

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AWARDS:
1985 Northern Territory Art Award, Darwin;
William Sandy was the first of the Pitjantjatjara involved in the Aboriginal contemporary Art Movement.
View William Sandy Curriculum Vitae page 337 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.

Warumpi Community Art Centre in Alice Springs was one of the first Art Centers operated fully by Aboriginal artists. Many of painters who started the Aboriginal art movement like William Sandy,  Billy Stockman, Long Jack Phillipus are very old or have passed away and the younger generation is learning western customs. Today Aboriginal Australians live and work around the world, from Papunya to London, from Arnhem Land to New York. Thus, it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet can obtain important authentic paintings of William Sandy.

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Artist:    William Sandy  2 (B. 1944 - )
Title:
    Bean Ceremony - triptych
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 40.5 x 122cm each
Framed Size:      
76 x 158cm each
Price (framed): $4,800
each
a contemporary Gold leaf frame included

Provenance: Warumpi Community Art Centre, Alice Springs

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AWARDS:
1985 Northern Territory Art Award, Darwin;
William Sandy was the first of the Pitjantjatjara involved in the Aboriginal contemporary Art Movement.
View William Sandy Curriculum Vitae page 337 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.

NOTES:
Warumpi Community Art Centre in Alice Springs was one of the first Art Centers operated fully by Aboriginal artists. M
any of painters who started the Aboriginal art movement like William Sandy,  Billy Stockman, Long Jack Phillipus are very old or have passed away and the younger generation is learning western customs. Today Aboriginal Australians live and work around the world, from Papunya to London, from Arnhem Land to New York. Thus, it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet can obtain important authentic paintings of William Sandy.

About buying art 


 

 

Artist:    William Sandy (B 1944 - )
Title:
     Bush Bean Ceremony  circa 1995
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 72 x 118 cm
Signed:  on reverse
Price (framed):
     SOLD
 

 

William Sandy Biography:  
William Sandy was born circa 1944 near Ernabella in South Australia. View William Sandy Curriculum Vitae page 337 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. Wlliam Sandy started to paint in 1975. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. William Sandy has ived in Areyonga and Haasts Bluff in Papunya, since 1973, with his family where he began painting in 1975. William moved to Papunya in 1973 and two years later did his first painting for Papunya Tula Artists, after teaching himself to paint by watching the older artists. At Papunya he married Violet Nakamarra, Michael Nelson Jagamarra’s sister. They have four children. William Sandy was the first of the Pitjantjatjara involved in the contemporary art movement. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. William Sandy is also a very knowledgeable, traditional medicine man.

Warumpi Community Art Centre in Alice Springs was one of the first Art Centers operated fully by Aboriginal artists. Many of painters who started the Aboriginal art movement like William Sandy,  Billy Stockman, Long Jack Phillipus are very old or have passed away and the younger generation is learning western customs. Today Aboriginal Australians live and work around the world, from Papunya to London, from Arnhem Land to New York. Thus, it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet can obtain important authentic paintings of William Sandy.

Kunapi, far to the south of Papunya out towards Docker River, is his country from his grandmother and mothers side. William Sandy grew up walking around these places - and further north around Hermannsburg, Areyonga and Haasts Bluff. Eventually the family settled at Ernabella, where William attended the mission school. From here William Sandy came to Papunya in 1973 and married Violet Nakamarra, sister of Michael NELSON Jagamarra. They have four children, a boy and three girls, one adopted. From the time of his arrival in Papunya settlement, William worked for the Papunya Council. He is married to Violet Nakamarra, the sister of Michael Nelson Jakamarra. Some of his subjects are dingo, emu, women and green bean.

William Sandy is also a very knowledgeable, traditional medicine man. From the late '80's, he and his wife have been health workers with the Papunya Medical Service. William Sandy paints Dingo, Emu, Woman, Green Bean and other Dreaming stories for his country. His work was included in the 'Dreamings' show which toured the USA in 1988 - 89, and in the subsequent show of Papunya Tula Artists at the John Weber Gallery in New York. He had a solo exhibition in 1990 at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, and the Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery Melbourne 1994-95-96-97-98 . Grand Hyatt, Jakarta 1992, London 1993, Sydney 1994-95-96-97-98, , Australian Embassy Washington and New York 1999. William's wife, Violet Nakamarra, has also painted occasionally since the early '80's.  William Sandy has stopped other employment to painting since the early '80's when he began painting full-time for Galleries including Papunya Tula Artists group and the Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery in Alice Springs. In 1985 he won the Australian North Territory Art Award.

EXHIBITIONS
1982 Georges Exhibition, Melbourne; 1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney; 1985 Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Melbourne;
1986 Queensland University, Brisbane;
1988 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery;
1988 - 1989 "Dreaming" Exhibition which toured the USA;
1989 John Weber Gallery, New York, USA;
1989 Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico;
1990 Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
1990 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; 1990 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery;
1991 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA;
1992 IBM - Kawasaki City Gallery, Kawasaki, Japan;
1993 Chapman Gallery, Canberra;
1997 Manningham Art Space, Melbourne;
1999, 2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne;
1999, 2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne;
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, USA;
2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne; Lowe Art Museum University of Miami USA, IBM Kawasaki City Gallery Japan, John Weber Gallery New York USA, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City,Traveling exhibition USA, Wollongong City Art Gallery, Isaac Gallery Toronto Canada, National Gallery of Victoria, Embassy of Australian Washington, Mori Gallery Sydney, Wagga-Wagga City Art Gallery, Georges Exhibition Melbourne, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne, Aboriginal Art Gallery Melbourne, Queensland University Brisbane, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Araluen Centre Alice Springs, Chapmen Gallery Canberra, Manningnham Art Space Melbourne, Chapel of Chapel Gallery Melbourne.  

AWARDS:
1985 Northern Territory Art Award, Darwin; William Sandy was the first of the Pitjantjatjara involved in the contemporary art movement

COLLECTIONS:
Holmes a Court collection Perth;
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth; Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Wollongong City Art Gallery; National Gallery of Australia Canberra; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin; Broken Hill Art Gallery;  Artbank Sydney; Manningham Art Space, Melbourne;  Queensland Art Gallery  Brisbane; Queensland University, Brisbane; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery; Michael Hollow Collection, Alice Springs; Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne;  John Weber Gallery New York USA; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City Mexico; Isaacs Gallery Toronto Canada;  Lowe Art Museum University of Miami USA; Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs; IBM Kawasaki City Gallery Japan; Embassy of Australia Washington,USA; Mori Gallery Sydney; Grand Hyatt Jakarta and London; Donald Khan Collection USA; Groninger Museum Groninger The Netherlands; Oxford University England; Donald Kahn Collection USA; Corporate and private collections all over the world

Literature:
Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst. Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa. Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst. Kat.; Isaacs, J., Australia´s Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984; Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817; Modern Art - Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), o.O. 1992, ISBN 0646080520; Nangara. The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally, Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ., London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Tjinytjilpa. The Dotted Design. Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1998, Ausst. Kat.; Traumzeit - Tjukurrpa. Kunst der Aborigines der Western Desert. Die Donald Kahn-Sammlung, Danzker, J.B. (Hrsg.), Prestel, München und New York 1994, Ausst. Kat.; Voices of the Earth. Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia. Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954


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