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Kurtal Country
“This place in the desert. It’s all my country. My father took me all around there when I was a young boy.”
Categories: Mangkaja Arts
Name: George Tuckerbox
Community: Wangkajungka
Biography:
I was born in the 1930s near Nampinpa country in the Great Sandy Desert. I grew up in Yimpurrpa and travelled down the Canning Stock Route. My mother Wayurla Napurrula passed away at Tangku and my father at Nampinpa. When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my sister Ngamapu Napangardi took me to Christmas Creek. The station manager there was a kartiya [European] who sent me to Yeeda Station to work. I returned to Christmas Creek as a stockman. I used to walk around or use a donkey to get around. I drove bullocks across the Tanami Desert from Balgo to Alice Springs and worked in every station.
I began painting at Karrayili in Wangkajunga. In the 1990s I began to make artefacts and carvings. I’ve been painting with Mangkaja Arts since the late 1990s.
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08 91915272; mangkaja.arts@bigpond.com; www.mangkaja.com
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009: Emerging and Re-emerging Outstation, Darwin, NT
2009: Senior Artists from Fitzroy Crossing Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008: Through Our Eyes – Port Hedland Courthouse Gallery, WA
The Canning Stock Route
2008: Waterholes and Bush Tucker Bridget McDonald Hampton, VIC
2008: Divas of the Desert Gallery Gondwana, Sydney, NSW
2005: Wangkatjungka Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2004/2005: Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984 National Gallery of Victoria
2004: Ngurrara Canvas Perth Concert Hall,
Perth International Arts Festival, WA
2002: Native Title Business Contemporary Travelling exhibition
Indigenous Art
2002: Wangkatjungka Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2001: Ngurrara Canvas National Gallery of Australia, ACT
1999: Ngurrara Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Victoria
HBL Collection, Melbourne
DANCE PERFORMANCE:
1987: Kurtal – Tokyo Dance ceremony in Fitzroy Crossing
PUBLICATIONS:
2009: FORM and the National Museum of Australia
Canning Stock Route Project: Ngurra Kuju Walyja, One Country One People
2008: Exhibition Catalogue
Through Our Eyes: The Canning Stock Route Project
2007: FORM and the National Museum of Australia
The Canning Stock Route Project
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
2004: National Gallery of Victoria
Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984
2002: Joan Winter. Gurang Land Council. Regional Galleries Assn. QLD
Native Title Business: Contemporary Indigenous Art
2000: Oxford University Press & ANU
Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture / Ngurrara Entry
