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Paddy Stewart Japaljarri
Aboriginal artist Paddy Stewart Japaljarri is from Mungapunju, just south of Yuendumu. When he was a young man he was a station worker at Mt Allen, Mt Dennison and up the top end. He worked as a chef in Papunya, hence his nickname Cookie. For a very long time now he has been living in Yuendumu. Cookie worked at the Yuendumu school teaching young kids, both kardiya and yapa (non aboriginal and aboriginal). He's taught painting, jukurrpa (dreaming), tracking (dingo, kangaroo, goanna etc...), how to make wax for the sand painting, dancing, making boomerangs and many other important culture traditions. Each day Paddy drove the school bus that collected the kids. He was also involved in the council here and in Night Patrol. Night Patrol has been absolutely invaluable as a yapa (aboriginal) policing body. Cookie has been drawing and painting for a long time, including working on the Yuendumu School Doors. He is presently the chairman for the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee.
In 1988 Paddy Stewart 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 world wide acclaim.
In 2000 Paddy Stewart undertook to produce 30 etchings of the original Yuendumu Doors in collaboration with Paddy Sims and under the guidance of Basil Hall, Northern Editions Printmaker (Northern Territory University). The first print of the etchings was all on one page and had its debut alongside the Yuendumu Doors while they were exhibited in Alice Springs. The etchings in a set were launched in 2001, to great aclaim with the set winning the Telstra, 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, for works on paper.
Subjects and Themes
Marlu (Kangaroo), Janganpa (Possum), Yarla (Yam), Warlawurru (Eagle), Wardapi (Goanna),Yajukurlu (Bush cabbage), Jarlji (Frog), Jajirdi (Native Cat), Ngatijirri (Budgerigar), Wakulyarri (Banded Rock Wallaby), Yanyilingi (Native Fuschia)
Pingirri (Meat ant)
Collections
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Seatle Art Museum, USA
Duncan Kentish
Private Collections
Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvin Grove, Glasgow, Scotland
Awards
2001 Telstra Work On Paper Award, The 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Telstra
Group Exhibitions
1985 Araluen, Alice Springs
1986 Editions Gallery, Perth
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1987 Reconnaissance Gallery, Melbourne Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1988 F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Hilton Hotel (Nadoc Week), Adelaide
Dreamtime Gallery, Perth
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Asia Society, New York, USA
F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne
1989 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
1990 Dreamings, South Australian Museum, Adelaide
South Australian Museum Shop, Adelaide Festival
1991 Aboriginal Art And Spirituality, Canberra
Albert Hall, Canberra
1992 The Haven Gallery, Melbourne
Emerald Hill, Melbourne
1993 Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide (Pacific Arts Symposium)
Aratjara - Art of the First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, West Germany
Artajara, Haywood Gallery, London, UK
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of central desert art 1971-1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane
H. B Starr Gallery, Florida
1994 The Assembly Hall of the Territorial Parliament, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida
Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Aratjara, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995 Kloosterkazerne, Breda INMA Foundation, Amsterdam.
1996 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
1997 Art Gallery NSW, Festival of the Dreaming, Ngapa Sand Painting, Sydney
1999 Fighting for Culture, Indigenart, The Mossenson Gallery, Perth, WA
Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2000 Print exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
jangku yinyi, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne
Kurawari, Desart Gallery, Sydney
Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Paintings and Prints, Northern Terrirtory University, Darwin
Wayuta, The Desart Janganpa Gallery, Alice Springs
Unhinged Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs
2001 Framed Gallery Darwin
Bellas Gallery Brisbane
Hogarth Gallery Sydney
Yuendumu Door Etchings, National Gallery of Australia
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2002 Indigenart Perth
The Warlukurlangu Collection, Parliament House Canberra
Chapman Gallery Canberra
Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre and Gallery Alice Springs
Bellas Gallery Brisbane
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
1991 Prof. H Antes, Berlin, commissioned a 7 x 3m canvas by fourty 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.
2000 Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi in collaboration with the Seatle Art Museum commissioned a 6' x 8' painting by Jack Jakamarra Ross, Paddy Japaljarri Sims and Paddy Japaljarri Stewart. This Pamapardu Jukurrpa (Flying Ant Dreaming) comes from a site called Yuwinji. Jack is one of the main kirda (owners) and the Paddy Sims and Paddy Stewart are kurdungurlu (like police) for this story. As part of this commission a video was produced documenting the creation of the painting, the story and various attempts to reach the site.
Bibliography
Artlink Volume 20 No. 1 Reconciliation? Indigenous art for the 21st Century 2000 p. 87
Diggins, L. (ed.) A Myriad of Dreaming Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne 1989
Sutton, P. (ed.) Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia Viking, New York 1988
Warlukurlangu Artists Yuendumu Doors Kuruwarri Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 1987
Crumlin. R. (ed.) Aboriginal Art And Spirituality, 1991
Morphy, H. Aboriginal Art, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1998
Morphy, H. and Boles, M.S. (eds.) Art from the land University of Virginia Press, Virginia, USA, 1999
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