Rover Thomas

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Rover Thomas Joolama (* 1926 , † 11. April 1998 ) was an Aboriginal Artists, in Gunawaggi on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia was born.

Life

His mother was a Kukatja - and his father a Wankajunga aborigine. He grew up nomadic and his family moved with him to the Kimberley after his mother died when he was ten years old . He later worked as a stockman near Warmun on Turkey Creek . There he broke with the traditional Aboriginal painting style and painted landscapes. He was married twice.

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Rover's painted images speak a visual language of the country's history, present and past. His imagery is a part of Aboriginal art in the eastern Kimberley. Rover Thomas combined the painting style of the Western Desert with the style in the eastern Kimberley and showed a synthesis in his works. One of the traditional subjects he dealt with was the dreaming of the barramundi , a fish that was important to the Aborigines.

Rover Thomas has depicted the suffering that European settlers inflicted on the Aborigines in some of his works. In particular the painting of the late Rover Thomas and his wife Queenie McKenzie , also a successful painter, refer to the massacres of Aborigines as part of his series "Killing Times" with the pictures "Bedford Downs" (1985) and "Mistake Creek" (1990) . His wife Queenie painted a picture she named Massacre and Rover Thomas Story - Texas Downs Country .

In 1990 he won the John McCaughey Prize of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and in the same year he and Trevor Nickoll represented Australian art at the Venice Biennale . He took part in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rover Thomas: I want to Paint National Gallery of Victoria ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
  2. ^ Rover Thomas: Prints From the Kimberly ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aboriginalartprints.com.au
  3. ↑ Rover Thomas: I want to paint , National Gallery of Victoria ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ngv.vic.gov.au
  4. ^ Rover Thomas Education Kit: I want to paint, Art Gallery of NSW
  5. ↑ Massacre and Rover Thomas Story - Texas Downs Country (1996)
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, rover
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rover, Thomas Joolma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Gunawaggi , Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1998