Jack Britten
selected biography
| Description: | Jack Britten
Born: c.1925-2002
Country: Warmum- WA
Language group: Gidja
A leading painter of the Frog Hollow group of painters (including Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie) he was best known for silhouetted landscapes seens in side section, based on land forms like the Bungle Bungles ranges adjacent to his desert home. Regarded as one of the most senior Kimberley group of ochre painters, his work gained national and international recognition through major surveys and individual shows.
Selected exhibitions:
1987- Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley, Goolarabooloo Gallery, Broome
1988- Turkey Creek: Recent Work, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
1988- Aboriginal Art from East Kimberley, New South Wales Craft Council Gallery, Sydney
1988- ANCAAA and Boomalli, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative, Sydney
1988- Art of the East Kimberley, Birrukmarri Gallery, Perth
1990- Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1992- Broome Fringe Festival, Broome
1992- Crossroads- Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1993- Images of Power, Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994- Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994- Australian Heritage Commission, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1996- 13th NATSI Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1997- Imagining the Land, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1999- Images in Ochre, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
Collections:
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Gifu Museum, Japan
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A |
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