Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a

Ganalbingu The Djinba are an Aboriginal Australian group of the Yolngu people of the Northern Territory. Name Their endonym Djinba comes from their word for the demonstrative pronoun 'this'. The two moieties are (a) Ganalbingu (Ganhalpuyngu) and (b) Man ...

Aboriginal artist. He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called " Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade".

Awards

Since 1993, the

Australia Council for the Arts The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Austr ...

, the arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia, has awarded a Red Ochre Award to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. In 2004, it was awarded to Bulunbulun.

Exhibitions

*Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Capital Museum, Beijing. *Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Melbourne Museum.

Collections

*Artbank, Sydney. * Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney *

Art Gallery of Western Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...

, Perth *Central Collection,

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

, Canberra *Djomi Museum, Maningrida *

Edith Cowan University Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan, and is the only Australian university named after a woman. Gaining univers ...

Collection Perth Western Australia * Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide * Holmes à Court Collection, Perth *Kluge Foundation, Morven Estate, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA *Milingimbi Collection, MECA, Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association *

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is the main museum in the Northern Territory. The museum is located in the inner Darwin suburb of Fannie Bay. The MAGNT is governed by the Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the ...

, Darwin *Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney *

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in t ...

, Canberra. *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited ar ...

, Melbourne. *

National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unit ...

, Darling Harbour, Sydney *Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra * The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA

References

External links

Parliament House Art CollectionJohn Bulunbulun
at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Red Ochre Award

WorldCat
1946 births 2010 deaths Australian Aboriginal artists Australian painters Artists from the Northern Territory {{Australia-painter-stub