Jimmy Wululu
Jimmy Wululu | |
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Born | 1936 |
Died | 5 October 2005 |
Known for | Australian Aboriginal art, bark art, memorial poles |
Awards | Rothman's Foundation Award, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, 1989 |
Jimmy Wululu (c. 1936–2005) was an Aboriginal Australian artist of the Gupapuyngu language group.[1] He was a major contributor to the Aboriginal Memorial[2] and he was one of the major painters of the 1980s from his language group.[3] He is known for his bark paintings and his memorial poles.[3] His works have been featured in numerous significant exhibits all over the world.[3]
Life[]
Wululu was born in 1936 and he died on 5 October 2005.[3] He is an artist of the Gupapuyngu language group and part of the Yirritja moiety[4] and he is from Arnhem Land in Australia.[1] He grew up at the Milingimbi Methodist Mission and he first worked as a laborer and a builder.[3] He started painting professionally in the late 1970s[3] and his works are said to be in the traditional Arnhem Land tradition.[5]
Career[]
Wululu started professionally painting in the late 1970s.[3] He is best known for his bark art and his art on hollow poles.[6][5] His bark art is of the traditional Aboriginal style, which means that these bark arts are made of ochre and sheets of bark.[5] He is known to work frequently with David Malangu.[3] Wululu has rights in Balmbi country to paint via his mother's mother.[7] This means that he is entitled to paint the Yathalamarra stories. He is best known for his catfish bone designs on his bark and poles.[7]
Wululu's work has been included in major exhibitions such as the Dreaming Exhibition in the United States in 1988.[3] His works have been a part of many other exhibitions. Fifteen of his poles were featured in the Magiciens de la Terre show in Paris in 1989.[3] Some of the other exhibitions that his other works have been a part of are The Continuing Traditions (1989), I Shall Never Become a White Man at the MCA, Sydney (1994), Aratjara (1993-1994), and Paintings and Sculptures from Ramingining: Jimmy Wululu and Philip Gudthaykudthay at the Drill Hall Gallery (1992).[3]
Collections[]
- Art Gallery of New South Wales[8]
- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
- National Gallery of Australia[9]
- National Gallery of Victoria[10]
- National Museum of Australia[11]
Works[]
- Djaranbu ceremony (1962)[1]
- Catfish and herringbone (1987-1988)[12]
- Catfish and eel design (1987)[13]
- Niwuda - Yirritja Honey[14]
- Hollow Log Coffin with Honey and Catfish Designs (1987)[15]
- Hollow Log Coffin with Catfish and Eel Designs (1987)[16]
- Clan Well (1975-1976)[17]
Significant exhibitions[]
- Dreaming Exhibition (1988)[3]
- Magiciens de le Terre Show (1989)[3]
- The Continuing Traditions (1989)[3]
- I Shall Never Become a White Man (1994)[3]
- Aratjara (1993-1994)[3]
- Paintings and Sculptures from Ramingining: Jimmy Wululu and Philip Gudthaykudthay (1992)[3]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Djaranbu ceremony, (1962) by Jimmy Wululu". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "World of Dreamings". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Jimmy Wululu, b. 1936". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "Memorial". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ a b c "Jimmy Wululu - Australia (Aboriginal), Artist - LookingConfident". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "The Aboriginal Memorial". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ a b "No Ordinary Place : The art of David Malangi". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ "Djaranbu ceremony, (1962) by Jimmy Wululu". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Jimmy Wululu". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Jimmy Wululu | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ "Jimmy WULULU". National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Catfish and herringbone". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Catfish and eel design". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Niwuda - Yirritja Honey". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Hollow log coffin with honey and catfish designs". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Hollow log coffin with catfish and eel design". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Wululu, Jimmy. "Clan well". Item held by National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- 2005 deaths
- Australian Aboriginal artists
- Artists from the Northern Territory
- 20th-century Australian artists
- 1936 births