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 Paddy Sims Japaljarri
Paddy Sims Japaljarri's country is west of Yuendumu but he has lived in Yuendumu since he was a young single man. Back when there were no clothes, Walpiri people wore hair string belts that they made. When Paddy Sims Japaljarri was young he worked sawing mulga trees for the wood and for fuel for fires. Paddy was also involved with gardening and farming in the Yuendumu district. This included growing watermelons, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and other vegetables. The farm was at Four Mile Bore where they had chickens, pigs, ducks and other animals. Paddy is married to Bessie Nakamarra and he is warringiyi (grandfather). All his life he's been hunting goanna, kangaroo, emu and other animals each day for bush tucker. Paddy has passed his knowledge on to many of the young men. This has also lead to him working at the Yuendumu school teaching jukurrpa (Dreaming), painting, hunting, traditional dancing and bush tucker and has also helped out on excursions out bush, to Alice Springs and to Darwin. Paddy has been painting for Warlukurlangu (the Art Centre at Yuendumu) for many years.
In 1988 Paddy Sims was selected by The Power Gallery, Sydney University to travel to Paris with five other Warlpiri men from Yuendumu to create a ground painting installation at the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Georges Pompidou. The trip took place in May 1989 and the painting was received with worldwide acclaim.
Subjects and Themes
Yiwarra (Milky Way), Ngarlkirdi/Warna (Witchetty Grub/Snake),
Pirntirna (Woma Python), Liwirringki (Burrowing Skink), Ngaru (Bush Plum), Walpa (Wind), Jungunpa (Marsupial Mouse), Mala (Hare Wallaby), Wakulyarri (Banded Rock Wallaby), Warlu (Fire), Witi (Ceremonial pole), Ngalyipi (Snake vine)
Collections
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery and Museums, Glasgow, Scotland
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Australian Museum, Sydney
Musee National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France
Tim and Vivien Johnson
Donald Kahn, USA
The Christensen Fund
Kelton Foundation, California, USA
Major Private Collections
Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
1985 Araluen, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1986 Editions Gallery, Perth
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
RSASA Gallery, Adelaide
Centre Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
1987 Achille Lauro, Perth
Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1988 Anima Gallery, Adelaide
FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Dreamtime Gallery, Perth
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia Asia Society, New York, USA
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne
1989 FOE Community Art Space, Melbourne
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Dreamscapes, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh USA
Chesser Gallery, Adelaide
Mythscapes National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
Dreamings: Aboriginal Art from the Outback, Bahti Indian Gallery, Tuscon USA
1990 Dreamings, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
South Australian Museum Shop, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide
L'ete Australien, Musee Fabre, Montepellier, France
Dreamscapes, Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona USA
Channing, Dale, Throckmorton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin; Dreamtime Gallery,
Gold Coast, Queensland;
Milagros Contemporary Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Friends of the Earth Gallery, Melbourne
Bond University Campus Gallery, Queensland
Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
IUNC (showing at Hilton Hotel), Perth
1991 Dreamscapes, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh USA
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Te Whare Taonga o Aotearoa National Art Gallery & Museum, New Zealand
Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin
Emerald Hill Gallery, Melbourne
Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
Dreamscapes, Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Flash Pictures by Aboriginal Artists, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1992 The Long Gallery, Hobart
Dreamtime Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Bird in the Hand Gallery, Sewickley, PA. USA
Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs
Alliance Francais, Canberra
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1993 Adelaide Town Hall, (in association with the Pacific Arts Symposium)
Aratjara, Hayward Gallery, London UK
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Dreaming the World, St. Mungo's Museum, Glasgow UK
Abershart North, Auckland, New Zealand
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Jukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of Central Desert art 1971-1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
CINAFE (Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, USA
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
La Peinture des Aborigenes d'Australie, Musee des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris France
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Art Award, Australian Heritage Commission, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Warlukurlangu Collection, Parliament House, Canberra;
1994 The Assembly Hall of the Territorial Parliament, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide (in conjunction with The Adelaide Festival)
1994 Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida USA
Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995 Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1997 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1998 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Raintree Gallery, Darwin
Framed Gallery, Darwin
Desert Designs, Perth
2002 New Paintings from Yuendumu, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
2003 Yilpinji: Love, Magic and Ceremony, Outback Gallery, Darling Harbour. Sydney. Australia
Yilpinji: Love, Magic and Ceremony, Darwin
Entertainment Centre Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory.
Yilpinji: Love, Magic and Ceremony, Alcheringa Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada
Commisions
1988 The South Australian Museum commissioned the painting of an external mural by six Warlpiri artists
1991 Prof. H Antes, Berlin, commissioned a 7 x 3 metre canvas by forty two of Yuendumu's artists. The painting forms part of the 1993 European touring exhibition Aratjara - Australian Aboriginal Art, curated by Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein Westfalen Dusseldorf West Germany
1992 The Australian National Gallery commissioned a collection of 14 paintings by the Association's prominent artists. The collection documents the major Dreamings represented in the current painting movement of the Yuendumu region
1993 The Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, commissioned a 4 x 3m canvas by twenty of Yuendumu's artists. The Dreaming depicted was Munga Jukurrpa, (Night Sky Dreaming). The canvas was the central feature of a major exhibition on Australian Aboriginal art hosted by the Glasgow Museum in July 1993
The Art Gallery of Western Australia commissioned a series of canvases for their collection. The paintings form part of the 'Dot and Circle Retrospective' featuring work from the Central and Western Desert regions, hosted by the gallery in October 1993.
1994 Warlukurlangu Artists Association completed two large works (each 2.15 x 2.85 metres). The project was financed by a grant from the Community Cultural Development Unit of the Australia Council. The paintings are Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa (Women's Dreaming).
1995
'Watiyawarnu' (4 x 3 metres) canvas completed for Warlukurlangu Artists
1996 Cockatoo Creek, canvas (4 x 3 metres), South Australian Museum
Karrku canvas (7 x 3 metres) for Kluge Foundation, USA
1997 Liwirringki, (4 x 2.5 metres) for the Gantnor Myer Foundation, Melbourne
Ngapa, canvas (7 x 3 metres) completed for the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Festival of the Dreaming
Bibliography
Caruana, W. (ed.) Windows on the Dreaming, Aboriginal Paintings in the Australian National Gallery. Ellsyd Press, Sydney 1989
Caruana, W. Aboriginal Painting, Thames and Hudson (World Art Series), London 1993
Ryan, J. Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989
Sutton, P. (ed.) Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia Viking, New York 1988
Symonds, M.; Portley, C.; Phillips, R. The Visual Arts, (Fourth Edition), Jacaranda Wiley, Brisbane, 1992
Warlukurlangu Artists Yuendumu Doors Kuruwarri, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 1987
Johnstone, C (Dir) The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings From Tim And Vivien Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1990
O'Ferrall, M Jukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of central desert art 1971- 1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1993
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Pieces by Paddy Sims Japaljarri:
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Yanjirlpiri - Star (Yilpinji Portfolio Collection)
2002
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