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Thompson Yulidjirri

ARTIST BIO

(b. 1930, AUSTRALIA)

Born in county Gunbalanya(Oenpelli), this respected senior Aboriginal artist belongs to the clan Djalama and spoke Kunwinjku.

He specialized in Bark paintings, ochres on bark and arches paper, in cross-hatching style and miniaturising mimi figures with his own totems of brolgas and bush turkeys. He also paints ceremonial images of the sacred and ritual realms.
For many years, Thompson had been instructing young and emerging artists, as a painter as well as a respected Aboriginal dancer.

EDUCATION

Contemporary Paintings from Western Arnhem Land, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA, 1999

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITION

1999	Contemporary Paintings from Western Arnhem Land, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
1998	Desert Designs, Japingka Gallery, Perth, AUSTRALIA "Dreamings" Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, ITALY 15th NATSI Art Award, Darwin, AUSTRALIA “From Bush to City”, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, AUSTRALIA Meerzigt, Zoetermeer, THE NETHERLANDS.
1997	Juxtapositions: An exhibition of Australian Indigenous Works from the Collection of the Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
1996	The 13th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, AUSTRALIA 13th NATSI Art Award, Darwin, AUSTRALIA
1994	“Power of the Land”, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, AUSTRALIA The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, AUSTRALIA Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra, AUSTRALIA Hogarth Aboriginal & Tribal Art Centre, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
1993	The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, AUSTRALIA Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra, AUSTRALIA
1992	The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the N. Territory, Darwin, AUSTRALIA
1990	Spirit in Land, Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, National Gallery of Victoria CHINA
1989	Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart, AUSTRALIA
1987	The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, AUSTRALIA
1985	The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, CHINA
1984	Aboriginal Art, an Exhibition Presented by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, AUSTRALIA The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, AUSTRALIA

COLLECTIONS

Kluge Collection, Charlottesville Virginia USA.
Artbank, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
Australian Museum, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Dept. of Trade & Foreign Affairs, Canberra, AUSTRALIA
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AUSTRALIA
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, AUSTRALIA