Michael Nelson Jakamarra
Michael Nelson Jakamarra , also written Jagamarra , (* 1946) was born in Vaughan Springs in the Northern Territory . He is an artist and aboriginal .
Life
He lived in Haasts Bluff as a child of Warlpiri parents in a family group of Long Jack Phillipus Jakamarra . His parents - his father was a medicine man - took him to a mission school in Yuendumu to receive a European education. He left them as a teenager to work as a buffalo hunter, truck driver and drover before joining the military. After serving in the military, he came to Papunya in 1976 , where he settled and married. He has seven children, six girls and one boy. In Papunya he worked for the government for many years in the care of older artists before he himself began painting in 1983.
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In his youth he learned sand, body and sign painting from his grandfather. Jakamarra's symbolic language includes the possum , snakes, kangaroos , flying ants and the dreaming of the yams .
From 1983 he painted in acrylic paints. He won the National Aboriginal Art Award in September 1984; In 1986 he exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney and in 1987 an 8.20 meter long painting of him was unveiled in the foyer of the Sydney Opera House . When Parliament House in Canberra opened in 1988 , its 196 square meter granite pavement mosaic at the entrance to the building attracted international and national attention; he was invited to greet Queen Elizabeth II .
His artwork, the Five Stories, produced in 1985, was one of the most widely reproduced works of Australian art in the 1980s. In 1989 he designed a BMW Art Car : Together with other prominent Aboriginal painters, he painted a BMW racing car in the traditional Aboriginal painting style.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions at home and abroad:
- Gabrielle Pizzi Gallery in Melbourne
- Utopia Art in Sydney
- Australian National Gallery in Canberra
- Institute of Contemporary Art in London
- John Webber Gallery in New York
Collections
Collections of his work can be found:
- Northern Territory Art Gallery in Darwin
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin
- Australian National Gallery in Canberra
- Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra
- Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane
- Jakamarra Collection in Sydney
- Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney
- The Australian Museum in Sydney
- Western Australia Art Gallery in Perth
- South Australian Museum in Adelaide
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakamarra, Michael Nelson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jagamarra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vaughan Springs , Australia |