clifford possum tjapaltjarri

CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI
Date de naissance : c.1933
Communauté : Papunya, Alice Springs
Langue : Anmatyerre, Arrernte
Support : acrylique sur toile
Thèmes : possum, fire, kangaroo, snake,fish, men's love
story, lightning, goanna
EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES (SELECTION)
2004
• Binocular: looking closely at Country, Ivan Dougherty Gallery , Sydney
2003 -> 2004
• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, exposition itinérante qui a débuté à la Art
Gallery of South Australia et a continué à travers toute l’Australie
1990
1988
• Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
• Clifford
Possum
Tjapaltjarri
Contemporary Arts, London
Paintings
1973-1986,
Institute
of
1987
• Paintings of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Avant Galleries, Melbourne
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES (SELECTION)
2006
• Terre de Rêves, Terre des Hommes, Musée des Tumulus de Bougon,
Bougon
2005
2004
• Terre de Rêves, Terre des Hommes, Ambassade d’Australie, Paris
• Terre de Rêves, Terre des Hommes, Musée de la Préhistoire, Nemours
• Art Paris, Salon d’Art Contemporain, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob,
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris,
• EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, Musée d’Art Aborigène,
Utrecht, Hollande
Biographie Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
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ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS
2003
2002
• Art Aborigène Contemporain, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovénie
• Art Paris, Salon d’Art Contemporain, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob,
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris,
2000
1997
• Arts d’Australie, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob / Air France, Paris.
• Dessine moi un rêve. L’Art des aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie •
Stéphane Jacob / Musée des Beaux-Arts, Auxerre
• L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob /
Festival du Film, Cannes
• L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob /
Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers
1994
1993
• Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, The Donald
Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
• Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of
Victoria
• Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (19711993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1993/4
1992
• ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians,
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
• Hayward Gallery, London
• Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark.
Touring:
Kunstammlung
• Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National
Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo.
1991
1990
• Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra
• Alice to Penzance, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
• Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art
Museum, University of Miami, USA
• Canvas and Bark, South Australian Museum, Adelaide.
• L’été Australien à Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Montpellier
• Songlines, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
• Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection,
Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Lake Oswego Center for the
Arts, United States of America
1989
• A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery,
Melbourne
• Design Warehouse Sydney [through Lauraine Diggins Fine Art]
• Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra
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ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS
• Papunya Tula: Contemporary Paintings from Australia's Western Desert,
John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1988
• Dreamings, the art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia Society Galleries, New
York
• The Fifth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1987
• Circle Path Meander, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Aboriginal Art from the Central Desert and Northern Arnhem Land,
Community Arts Centre, Brisbane.
1985
• Dot and Circle, a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of
Central Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
• The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings 1971-1984, National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1984
• Painters of the Western Desert: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Paddy Carroll
Tjungurrayi and Uta Uta Tjangala, Adelaide Arts festival
• Aboriginal Art, an Exhibition Presented by the Australian Institute of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
1983
• XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo.
1981-82
1980
1974
• Aboriginal Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Australian Museum, Queensland Art Gallery
• Perspecta (with Tim Leura), Sydney
• The Past and Present of the Australian Aborigine, Pacific Asia Museum,
Los Angeles
• Papunya Tula, Macquarie University Library, Sydney
• Anvil Art Gallery, Albury, New South Wales, Australia
PRIX ET COMMANDES
1991
1985
• Strehlow Research Foundation, Alice Springs
• Mural, new Alice Springs Airport
• Mural Design, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs.
1983
• Alice Prize, Alice Springs NT
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ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS
Clifford Possum a été le président de la communauté artistique de Papunya Tula
Artists de la fin des années 70 au début des années 80.
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Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia
Broken Hill Art Gallery
Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE (SELECTION)
• Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, 1991, Lowe
Art Museum, University of Miami, USA
• 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
• Berndt, R. M. and Berndt, C. H. with Stanton, J., 1982, Aboriginal
Australian Art, a Visual Perspective, Methuen Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney
• Brody, A., 1985, The face of the centre : Papunya Tula Paintings 19711984, NGV, Melbourne
• Caruana, W., 1987, Australian Aboriginal Art, a Souvenir Book of
Aboriginal Art in the Australian National Gallery, Australian National
Gallery, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory
• Caruana, W. (ed.), 1989, Windows on the Dreaming, Ellsyd Press, Sydney
• Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London
• Chanin, E., 1990, (ed.), Contemporary Australian Painting, Craftsman
House, Roseville, NSW, Australia
• Cooper, C., Morphy, H., Mulvaney, D.J. and Petersen, N., 1981, Aboriginal
Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney
• 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
• Crumlin, R., (ed.), 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Collins Dove,
North Blackburn, Victoria
• Crocker, A. (ed.), 1981, Mr Sandman Bring Me a Dream, Papunya Tula
Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs and Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, Sydney
• Diggins, L. (ed.), 1989, A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century
Aboriginal Art, exhib. cat., Malakoff Fine Art Press, North Caulfield,
Victoria
• Duerden, D., 1990, 'Clifford Possum in London', Art Monthly, August
1990, No. 33, P. 12
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ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS
• Isaacs, J., 1984, Australia's Living Heritage, Arts of the Dreaming,
Lansdowne Press, Sydney
• Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New
South Wales
• Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman
House, East Roseville, New South Wales
• Johnson, V., 1994, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Gordon and
Breach Arts International limited, Craftsman House, East Roseville,
Australie
• Johnson, V., 1995, 'Is there a gender issue in Aboriginal art?', Art &
Australia, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 350-357
• 1993, Aratjara, Art of the First Australians: Traditional and Contemporary
Works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists, exhib. cat.
(conceived and designed by Bernard Luthi in collaboration with Gary Lee),
Dumont, Buchverlag, Koln
• Neale, M., 1994, Yiribana, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
• Maughan, J., and Zimmer, J., (eds), 1986, Dot and Circle, a Retrospective
Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings of Central Australia, exhib. cat.,
Communication Services Unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Melbourne
• McCulloch, A., & McCulloch, S., 1994, The Encyclopedia of Australian Art,
Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd, St Leonards, New South Wales
• Smith, B. with Smith T., 1991, Australian Painting 1788-1990, Oxford
University Press, 3rd edition
• Sutton, P. (ed.), 1988, Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking,
Ringwood, Victoria
• 1983, XVII Sao Paulo Biennale, exhib. cat.
• 1981, Australian Perspecta 1981, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary
Australian Art, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• 1988, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Paintings 1973-1986, exhib. cat.,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court
Collection, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings Ltd., Perth
• 1993, Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia
(1971-1993), exhib. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
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