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Nyirlpirr was born at Yurramaral in the Great Sandy Desert. He
came into the station country when he was already a young man.
He quickly developed strong skills in handling horses and cattle.
He had seen them along the stock route and had watered them
at Lamboo Well. He was a stockman on Christmas Creek Station
for a long time.
Nyirlpirr is the respected elder for the Kurtal ceremony.
Exhibition History
Solo exhibitions
1997 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions
1991 Contemporary Australian Visions, Melbourne
1992 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Ngajukura Ngurrara Minyarti- this
is my country, Festival
of Perth, Artplace
Group Show, Contemporary Australia Visions, Melbourne
1995 Kimberley Art, Melbourne
Group Show, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Group show, Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane
1996 Group Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Broken promises, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute,
Adelaide
1998 Mangkaja Group Show, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
1999 Aboriginal Kunst von West Austgralien, Galerie Gaswerk,
Schwabach, Germany
2001 Ngurrara Canvas, National Gallery of Australia
Mangkaja Arts Ten Years On Mangkaja’s Ten Years Anniversary
Show, Tandanya, Adelaide
2002 Native Title Business Contemporary
Indigenous Art, National
Travelling Exhibition
2003 Murrkunkura Ngarrangkarnijangka
Ngurrara: Three men’s
countries from the
Dreamtime, Raft Artspace, Darwin
Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja, University of Western
Australia
2004 This is still my country... 10
years on... Perth
International Arts Festival- Artplace
Publications
1994 Ngajukura Ngurrara Minyarti,
this is my country / Exhibition Catalogue
1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great
Sandy Desert Video
Documentary / SBS
Television
2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art Oxford University
Press and ANU Biennale D’art Contemporain de Noumea
/ Exhibition Catalogue
2002 Kurtal; Snake Spirit Video Documentary / ABC Television
Native Title Business Contemporary Indigenous Art / Travelling
Exhibition Catalogue
2003 Australian Art Collector Magazine Issue 23 / Article
by Maurice O’ Riordan
The
Painted Desert The Fate of an Aboriginal Masterpiece / Geraldine
Brooks / New Yorker
Magazine July 28
Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja Exhibition
Catalogue / University of Western Australia
Dance
Performances
1998 Parliament House Canberra and ANU
1999 American Palace of the Legion of Honour / San Francisco
Carlton
College
Northfield Minnesota and Kennesaw State University, Atlanta USA
2000 Launch / Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
ANU Canberra
Biennale D’art Contemporain de Noumea
Awards
1997 Fellowship Dance Fund, Australia Council
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Lions Eye Institute- Perth,
Kennesaw State University- Atlanta Georgia
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