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Lindsay
Bird Mpetyane
Biography
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Born circa 1935,
Lindsay Bird Mpetyane
is a renowned Australian artist.
Biography:
page 146,
Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.
Lindsay
work is represented
in
collections
around the World.
Lindsay
was introduced to batik painting in the late 1970s he was
the only male to participate in the silk batik project. He
began painting with acrylic on canvas in the late 1980’s. As
a senior Law man, he can depict many themes of men’s law in
his paintings. His paintings are often large, and are
imposing with their boldness of colour selection and
harmonious design.
Lindsay Bird
was
instrumental in making acrylic
paintings important at Utopia.
Lindsay
Bird Mpetyane is
the nephew of the great Emily Kame
Kngwarreye. After
Emily Kame
Kngwarreye
Lindsay Bird was
one of the first artists to have solo
exhibitions.
Lindsay work is
characterised by precision and
imposing bold
colour
combination.
Lindsay Bird
high-quality paintings are
keenly sought by collectors throughout the
world.
Lindsay is represented in many private and
Museum collections both in Australia, overseas and in Books such as 'A
Picture Story-Robert Holmes a Court collection' and 'The Art of Utopia'
by Michael Boulter.
Lindsay’s dreamings include ‘Charpa’ (honey ant), ‘Bush Plum”,
‘Men’s Ceremony”, “Yam Dreaming” and ‘Snake Dreaming”.
One of the themes
to Lindsay’s painting is his reference to sacred ceremonial sites where
“men’s’ business” is conducted. Lindsay most often depicts these sites
in a circular style surrounded by hunting weapons which are the spirits
keeping the area safe.
These paintings are simple in their design but
very strong in their meaning reflecting Lindsay’s respect for the
ceremonies conducted at these sites.
Lindsay has been
associated with Mbantua since 1985 and produced his first painting for
us in 1987. Lindsay painting of a Snake Dreaming and is still held in the Mbantua collection.
Lindsay
paintings are keenly sought by collectors and galleries throughout the
world. Lindsay dreamings include Prickle, Mulga Tree, Bloodwood trees, Bush Plum, Honey
Ant and Woomera.
Lindsay
live and his family group with his wife Mavis, and three
daughters, Kavean, Jessica and Rosy Ngale
is very
much traditional, maintaining strong links with their land values and
ceremony. Lindsay is recognized in his community, as one of the leaders in
the Art movement from Utopia.
Lindsay is an important Aboriginal
leader in the Utopia district. Lindsay
Bird Mpetyane is the cousin to Greeny Petyarre and brother in law to Ada
Bird.
COLLECTIONS
 Lindsay Bird
imposing with bold colour art
is
keenly sought by collectors and galleries throughout the
world.
Lindsay Bird
Mpetyane
work is represented
in corporate and private collections
in USA,
Japan,
Denmark, Poland,
Italy,
England and
Australia
including:
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum Australia
Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin Ireland
Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association
Art Bank Sydney
Homes a Court Collection
Winchester Regional
Airport Collection USA
Powerhouse Museum
Parliament House Canberra
Australian Art Gallery
Art Gallery of South
Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Gallery of Western
Australia
Art Gallery of New South
Wales
Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery
Kluge-Ruhe Collection University Virginia USA
Lindsay Bird
Biography
Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies page 146.
Born circa 1935 at Ungoola
Lindsay Bird
Mpetyane
worked as a shepherd and a stockman. When in the late
1970s, the Utopia women were introduced to batik painting, Lindsay Bird was one of a
first (few men) to work in this medium
as well. As a senior
Law man, he can depict many themes of men's law in his paintings.
Lindsay Bird Mpetyane
paintings often large, are imposing with their boldness
of colour selection and harmonious design.
Lindsay Bird Mpetyane
paintings include the
stories of
Wild Plum
Mulga
Bore
,
Perentie Lizard, Snake, Mulga Seed and Honey Ant.
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
1988 New Year / New Art - Sydney
1989 A Picture
Story - Tandanya South Australia
1989 The Royal Hiberian Academy - Dublin
Ireland
1989
Gallery Gundulmirri - Warrandyte Melbourne
1989 Art from Utopia -
St Louis, USA
1989
Solo Exhibition - Utopia Art - Sydney
1991
Utopia Arts Sydney
1990
'Utopia - A Picture Story' - travelling exhibition Dublin, Cork,
Limerick, U.K.
1991 'Flash Picture' - National Gallery of Australia
1992 (series of canvases) touring Italy and Japan
1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1994 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice
Springs;
1999
'Spirit Country' Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A1999,
2000 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Mbantua
Gallery, Alice Springs
Solo Exhibition Utopia Art Sydney 1991, Art
from Utopia - St Louis USA, New Year/New Art Sydney 1989, Tandanya, South Australia, The Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin, Ireland,
Contemporary Aboriginal Art touring Australia and USA.
Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Harvard University and
Touring USA and Australia; Aboriginal Art from Utopia - Regional
Gallery, Noosa
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Literature
SOURCE
& FURTHER REFERENCES
Aboriginal
Artists
dictionary of biographies
Central
Desert
Western Desert &
Kimberley Rigion A Biographical Dictionary by
Kreczmanski, Janusz B and
Birnberg, Margo (eds.):
(JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)
Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994
Lindsay Bird
Biography:
page 146,
Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.
 Australian
Aboriginal Artist dictionary of biographies
Kreczmanski,
Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal
Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert,
Western Desert and Kimberley Region JB Publishing
Australia, Marleston, 2004.
Aboriginal
Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical
Dictionary by Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman
House 1994
The Oxford
Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture edited by
Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP
2000
Aboriginal
Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert,
Western Desert & Kimberley Region JB Publishing
Australia, Marleston, 2004
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Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas,
A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury
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Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection,
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