Name: Claude Carter
Language: Gooniyandi
Biography:
Claude Carter has been painting professionally since 2005. His wife Andrea Pindan, also an artist, introduced Claude to the art form and taught him about mixing colours. Both Andrea and Claude have a strong graphic quality to their work.
Claude often talks about Aboriginal concepts in kartiya [European] terms and refers to his culture and painting in a way that we can make sense of and feel. Claude really loves to paint and gains a lot of satisfaction from it. Painting helps him to clarify and distil his thoughts about his country and the places he paints. He feels the land and culture through his stomach and heart and conveys these painted emotional spiritual responses to the viewer.
Claude resides in a small community called Bawoorrooga, living mostly with family members. He set up his community in 2000 without assistance from Government agencies and Land Councils. Initially, Claude sought approval from his elders and then continued with the support of his family. In the early years, the community worked hard carting water and many people thought they would never make it on their own. Since those days, they have gained assistance which has enabled community development including: installation of solar power, a bore, tank water, individual camps and the acquisition of a large raised donga with a verandah and roof. Claude continues to work hard for the development of his community. Claude and Andrea have four children of their own and are raising another three children.
PAINTING THEMES:
Bush fruit girndi [plum] off the limestone rocks
Goorroola [main waterhole where the Dreamtime snake lives] for minmingalla country (grandmoth- er’s country)
Ancestors Gooniyandi country from four generations earlier: Cabbage Woods, Campbell Spring, Minmingalla, Mimbi Caves and Bohemia Downs.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 | Galaroo Manyi [Waterhole Bush Tucker] | Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2008 | Wayanda, Goorroola, Barnda [Fire, Water, Earth] | Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2007 | Doorloo, jaman.ga [Heart, Stomach] | Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 | Mangkaja Arts 21 Year Anniversary Wirrinyiya ngaragngarag birra ngamoo ngamoo | Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
2009 | Generation Next | Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA |
2009 | Emerging and Re-emerging | Outstation, Darwin, NT |
2006 | Depth & Divergence | Cullity Gallery University Western Australia,Perth WA |
2006 | Too much good work | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
PUBLIC ART:
2010: Fitzroy Swimming Pool
2008: Fitzroy Valley Education Centre – panels project, concrete paving design
SPECIAL COMMISSION:
2007: Telstra Tourism Australia promotional corporate package
COLLECTIONS:
Art bank, Murdock University Fitzroy Crossing High School Murdoch University
Jungkut Billabong “This is next to Tarpu Jila this billabong. When raining time this place fills up with ngapa (water) every year I come back here and camp in the Jilji and go hunting and Read more…
