Jack Britten

Jack Britten
Untitled 2001

Ochre on Linen
900 x 600
JB7071 SOLD sold

Jack Britten Frogs Hollow

ochre on linen
120 x 90 cm
JB9001 SOLD sold

Jack Britten
Untitled 1990

ochre on linen
120x90cm
mrw6 sold

 
Jack Britten

Jack Britten

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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