(Bush Onion) JURNTA that we digem up from the ground sometime we eat it raw or sometime we throw in the coals
Name: DOLLY JUKUJA SNELL
Language: Wangkajunga
Community: Mindi Rardi
Biography:
Jukuja was born at a jila [permanent waterhole] called Kurtal.Her Mum took her to Balgo and then to live at Warnku. I was living there when my sister Wagajia took me to Sturt Creek and then back to Warnku. From there we walked to Louisa Downs Station with my family.I spent time at Bohemia Downs and Christmas Creek Stations. I used to milk the goats at Bohemia Downs Station. I was a young girl without milk, I had not yet had children when I first went there.When I paint, I paint Kurtal. I paint one country. I can’t paint other country. I have two brothers and two sisters who belong to this jila
PAINTING THEMES:
Kurtal jila [living waterhole], jilji [sandhills] and surrounding country in the Great Sandy Desert
Mangarri [bush tucker] and plants from the Great Sandy Desert
Marrajati in the Great Sandy Desert
Kilan Kilan in the Great Sandy Desert
ART PRIZES
2015 Telstra Art Award – Overall Winner. Museum of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Kurtal Dolly Snell Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, QLD
2014 Kurtal, Jukuja Dolly Snell Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 2014 2013
2012 2012 | Fremantle Art Centre Print Award Everybody’s Prints Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Dolly and Spider Mangkaja Arts 21 Year Anniversary Wirrinyiya ngaragngarag birra ngamoo ngamoo | Fremantle Art Centre, WA Nomad Art, Darwin, NT Darwin, NT
Seva Frangos Gallery, Perth, WA Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
2012 | Couples Exhibition | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2012 | Papers | Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA |
2012 | Prints & Papers | Nomad Art, Darwin & Canberra |
2011 | Couples Show | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2011 | Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair | Darwin |
2009 | Mangkaja Artists 60x60 | Randell Lane Fine Art, WA |
2009 | 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory |
2009 | Sharing Difference on Common Ground and Kimberley Aboriginal Artists | Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA |
2009 | Senior Artists from Fitzroy Crossing | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2009 | Sitting Down with Jukuja & Wakartu | RAFT Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2009 | Mangkaja Survey Show | Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA |
2008 | Women On Country | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2008 | Waterholes and Bush Tucker | Bridget McDonnell Hampton Gallery, VIC |
2008 | Marnintu Maparnana [Women Painting] | ReDot Gallery, Singapore |
2008 | Divas of The Desert | Gallery Gondwana, Sydney, NSW |
2007 | X Marks the Spot | Wooloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2007 | Palya Art in Melbourne | The Barn, Melbourne, VIC |
2007 | Women Artists of Fitzroy Crossing | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2007 | Jila, Jilji and Miyi – Mangkaja Arts | Cool-Art Gallery, Coolum Beach, QLD |
2007 | New Legend | KALACC and William Mora Galleries |
2006 | Purnta [promised marriage] | Raft Artspace, Darwin NT |
2006 | Divas of the Desert | Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT |
2006 | Big Country | Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT |
2006 | Mangkaja Group Show | Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2005 | Jiljijanka Marnin [Women from the Sandhills] | Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2005 | Group Show | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2005 | Too Much Good Work | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2005 | Surprise; Cory & Friends | ReDot Gallery, Singapore |
2005 | True Colours - Recent works from Fitzroy Crossing | Queensland College of Art Gallery, Grif?th University, QLD |
2004 | Broken Promises | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2004 | Ngurrara Canvas | Perth Concert Hall, Perth International Arts Festival, WA |
2003 | Water and Food | Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia |
2003 | Fitzroy Fusion | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2002 | Group Show | Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
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2002 | Recent works from Mangkaja Arts | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2002 | Short on Size | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2001 | Mangkaja Arts 10 Years On | Tandanya, National Aboriginal |
2001 | 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition | Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA |
2001 | Ngurrara Canvas | National Gallery of Australia, ACT |
2001 | Past modern, Australia Square | Short St Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2001 | Fitzroy Women | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2001 | Short on Size | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2000 | Short on Size | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2000 | Past modern, Australia Square | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
1999 | Ngurrara | Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA |
1999 | Short On Size | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
1998 | Group Exhibition | Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London |
1997 | Group Exhibition | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1996 | Heritage Commission Art Award | Old Parliament House, Caberra, ACT |
1996 | Broken Promises | Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA |
1996 | Mangkaja Group Exhibition | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1996 | 13th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory |
1995 | Group Exhibition | Australian Perspectives Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
1995 | Kimberley Art | Melbourne, VIC |
1995 | 12th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory |
1994 | Ngajakura Ngurrara Mainyarti [This Is My Country] | Artplace, Perth, WA
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1993 | Images of Power | National Gallery of Victoria |
1993 | Mangkaja Women | Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth, WA |
1993 | 10th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory |
1992 | Group Show | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1992 | 9th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory |
1991 | Karrayili | Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA |
RESIDENCIES / PROJECTS / PUBLIC ART:
2012 | Fitzroy Crossing Police Station |
2010 | Fitzroy Crossing Swimming Pool |
2009 | Fitzroy Crossing High School |
2007 | Fitzroy Crossing Hospital |
PUBLICATIONS/FILMS
2009 | Kimberley Aboriginal Artists Sharing Difference on Common Ground |
2009 | Deutscher and Hackett, 25 March 2009 Important Aboriginal Art |
2007 | Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (KALACC) Stories & Dances from Saltwater, Desert,River & Range Country |
2007 | Aboriginal Law & Culture Corporation |
2006 | Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC) NEW LEGEND: A Story of Law and Culture and the Fight for Self-Determination in the Kimberley |
2005 | Exhibition Catalogue: ReDot Gallery, Singapore Surprise; Cory and Friends |
2004 | National Gallery of Victoria Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984 |
2003 | New Yorker Magazine, 28/08/2003 The Painted Desert: The Fate of an Aboriginal Masterpiece |
2003 | Exhibition Catalogue: Cullity Gallery UWA Perth/Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency - Martuwarra and Jila [River and Desert] |
2002 | Video documentary/ABC Television Kurtal Snake Spirit |
2002 | Exhibition Catalogue Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art / Marrawarra and Jila entry / Ngurrara Canvas 1 entry |
2001 | Kent Town, S. Aust. Wake?eld Press in association with the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya Kaltja Now: Indigenous Arts Australia |
2000 | Oxford University Press & ANU Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture / Ngurrara Entry |
2000 | IATSIS Canberra Karrayili: The History of Karrayili Adult Education Centre |
1998 | Video Documentary/SBS Television Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert |
1994 | Exhibition Catalogue Artplace WA Ngajakura Ngurrara Minyarti [This Is My Country] |
1993 | Exhibition catalogue, Fremantle Art Centre Mangkaja Women |
1993 | National Gallery of Victoria Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley |
1991 | Art Gallery of New South Wales Aboriginal Womens Exhibition catalogue |
1991 | Exhibition catalogue, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide Karrayili: Ten Years On |
COLLECTIONS:
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Artbank, Sydney
IATSIS Collection
Canberra Holmes a Court Collection
Edith Cowan University
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Northern Territory University
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia
HBL Collection, Melbourne
Harriett and Richard England Collection
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