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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra 1932-2020

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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra is a renown Australian artist. He was one of the first men to paint under Geoffrey Bardon that began Papunya Art Movement.  In 1971 Tjakamarra and Billy Stockman painted mural 'Widows Dreaming' and 'Wallaby Dreaming' preceding the major 'Honey Ant' mural. Long Jack awards include(1983) Northern Territory Golden Jubilee Award and (1984) Alice Springs Caltex Award.

Long Jack Phillipus work is held in major collections around the world. Long Jack Kalipinypa sold for $231,800, Water Ceremony for $98,182, Kangaroo Story $90,500, Bush Tucker $70,760 & Water Story $42,700.

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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra 1932-2020

Water Dreaming Story 1998

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

Image Size:  61 x 91.5 cm
Framed size: 90 x 120 cm

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Provenance: Warumpi Arts maintained by Papunya Tula Artists

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Warumpi Arts established in 1994 by Papunya Community Council was the first Aboriginal Community Art Gallery fully Owned, Directed and Operated by Aboriginal artists in Alice Springs, was maintained by Papunya Tula Artists until September 2004.    

Water Story
Water Dreaming painting has a classic water dreaming design of a roundel linked by meandering lines, often evident in the earliest of the Papunya boards.

Artists such as Billy Stockman, Jonny Warangkula Tjupurrula, Charlie Wartuma Tjungurrayi, Old Walter Tjampitjinpa together with Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra all executed versions of the Water Dreaming. Water Dreamings are highly iconographic works made up of geometric shapes, such as roundels, ovoid forms and crescent shapes.

The ability to find water in a desert environment is paramount to survival, and the knowledge of where springs, rock-holes and other sources of water were to be found, was an indication of importance. Consequently, Water Dreaming stories were secret and only available to initiated men of senior standing.

1. Bardon, G. and Bardon, J., Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2004, p. 49

Long Jack Phillipus (1932-2020) and Billy Stockman  Tjapaltjarri (1925-2015) were the  instrumental members in the beginning of the contemporary Western Desert. Now artists live and work around the world, from Papunya to London and Paris, from Arnhem Land to New York learning new ways and painting new modern stories.

 

Auction Results  Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra (1932-2020)

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1-Kalipinypa

Untitled (Kalipinypa), 1972

Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board, inscribed lower right: '4023', inscribed verso: '19141 / 3 of 9/10/72'

122 x 119 cm

Est: $70,000-100,000, Bonhams, The Serra Collection of Aboriginal Art including property from various vendors, Sydney, 22/07/2020, Lot No. 16

$231,800

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2-Water

Water Ceremony Story

Synthetic polymer paint on composition board

61 x 45.7 cm

Est: $80,000-120,000, Smith & Singer, Important Australian & International Art, Sydney, 18/11/2020, Lot No. 37

$98,182

     

3-Kangaroo

Kangaroo Story

Synthetic polymer powder paint on board

71 x 60.5 cm

Est: $50,000-60,000, Deutscher~Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian & International Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 20/04/1998, Lot No. 2

$90,500

     

4-Bush

Bush Tucker Story

Synthetic polymer paint on composition board, inscribed verso with Stuart Art Centre consignment number 18050

72 x 77 cm

Est: $40,000-60,000, Bonhams, Important Australian and Aboriginal Art, Sydney, 14/11/2018, Lot No. 18

$70,760

     

5-Children

Children's Kadaitcha Dreaming

Synthetic polymer powder paint on board

35 x 56 cm

Est: $60,000-80,000, Deutscher~Menzies, 19th and 20th Century Australian & International Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Melbourne, 10/08/1998, Lot No. 12

$63,000

     

Hunting

Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board, bears inscription verso: 7003

76 x 91.5 cm

Est: $30,000-40,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Aboriginal Art from the Luczo Family Collection, USA, Melbourne, 19/10/2016, Lot No. 28

$61,000

     

Mala (Spinifex Wallaby)

Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board, bears inscription verso: Stuart Art Centre cat. 18030

60.5 x 51 cm

Est: $45,000-65,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian & International Fine Art; Important Indigenous Art, Melbourne, 29/11/2017, Lot No. 45

$54,900

     

Snake Dreaming 

Natural earth pigments and bondcrete on composition board

50 x 40 cm

Est: $20,000-30,000, Sotheby's, The Anthony & Beverly Knight Collection of Early Papunya Art (Lots 1 – 46); Important Aboriginal & Oceanic Art (Lots 47, Melbourne, 28/05/2013, Lot No. 19

$53,680

     

Water-Story72

Water Story (Version 7)

Synthetic polymer powder paint and PVA on composition board

46.5 x 30 cm

Est: $30,000-50,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art,, Melbourne, 18/03/2020, Lot No. 4

 

$42,700

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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra biography

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Long Jack Phillipus was born circa 1932, at Kalipinypa, a major Water Dreaming place, north-east of Walungurru, in his mother's country. Long Jack Phillipus biography is in ABORIGINAL ARTISTS page 350.

The artist’s name ‘Long Jack’ comes from his unusually tall stature. A former stockman, Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was one of the founding members of Papunya Tula Artists, and its chairman in 1975 and again in the early 1990s.

Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was part of the Papunya Community from 1962. He was employed as a grounds man and was a member of the community council.

Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was one of the most important Australian artists, the founding group member of Papunya Tula Artists.

Long Jack was a highly respected elder in the Papunya Community and has a strong influence on the young people, particularly in maintaining their traditional ways.

Long Jack Phillipus was among the first generation of the Bardon years 1971–1973) of the Aboriginal artists to paint under Geoffrey Bardon’s influence in the early 1970's and one of the first masters responsible for the Aboriginal art movement.

The prominence of Indigenous art is due in part to the motivation and considerable effort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, particularly painters, who have played a major role in introducing both Australia and the rest of the world to Australia's Indigenous cultures.

In 2010 Long Jack Phillipus said to Luke Scholes: "We started it, like a bushfire, this painting business, and it went every way: north, east, south, west, Papunya in the middle.

Long Jack Phillipus work encompasses significant Dreamings that include: the Spinifex Wallaby, Kingfisher, Dingo, Possum and Emu Dreamings. Long Jack paintings also depict Hare, Wallaby, Kingfisher, Dingo and other Dreamings in the Mt Singleton area.

A number of his early works on board depict decorated ceremonial participants and ritual objects perhaps occasioned by the heightened environment in the Men's Painting Room, which prompted the artists to demonstrate visually the strength of their culture and law.

 

Long Jack Phillipus has worked for Warumpi Arts, the first Aboriginal Community Art Gallery fully operated by Aboriginal artists

Warumpi Arts was the first Aboriginal Community Art Gallery fully operated by Aboriginal artists, Owned and Directed by Aboriginal people.
In 1994 the Papunya Community Council established its own art centre to give Aboriginal people of Papunya increased involvement in the commercial aspects of Aboriginal art. This centre, called Warumpi Arts, maintained a gallery in Alice Springs until September 2004 and was the main centre for paintings by Papunya Tula Artists
. The Papunya Community Council then decided to close the gallery with the aim of later opening an art centre in Papunya.

The Papunya Tula Art Movement began in 1971 when a school teacher, Geoffrey Bardon, encouraged some of the men to paint a blank school wall. The murals sparked off tremendous interest in the community and soon many men started painting. In 1972 the artists successfully established their own company.

The company is entirely owned and directed by traditional Aboriginal people from the Western Desert, predominantly of the Luritja/Pintupi language groups. It has 49 shareholders and now represents around 120 artists. The company derives its name from Papunya, a settlement 240km north-west of Alice Springs. The Papunya Tula painting style derives directly from the artists’ knowledge of traditional body and sand painting associated with ceremony. To portray these dreamtime creation stories for the public, has required the removal of sacred symbols and the careful monitoring of ancestral designs.

The Western Desert art movement has come to be seen as one of the most significant art movements of the 20th century.

NGV Symposium – 'Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art give prominence to paintings produced at Papunya and also establishes the vital connection between the works of art and their sources in ephemeral designs made for use in ceremony.

Long Jack Phillipus father was a Warlpiri man, from Parikurlangu came to the north of Kalimpinpa and Long Jack mother was of mixed Warlpiri/Luritja woman, she also came from Kalimpinpa.

Long Jack Phillipus grew up in the bush west of Mt Farewell and came into Haasts Bluff settlement with his whole family as a teenager. He lived in Papunya and was close to his 'brother', Michael NELSON, with whom his family camped Haasts Bluff in the early years before the Papunya settlement. His younger sister, Pauline WOODS, is a well-known Western Desert artist currently working out of Alice Springs. He worked at Haasts Bluffas and married  Georgette Napaltjarri. They have two sons, three daughters and many grandchildren.

Jack Phillipus was one of the most senior and important artists of Papunya, he has painted continuously the important Rain Dreaming, north-east of Kintore since in 1971. 

LEGEND

Concentric circle represent the sacred site West Papunya in which ceremonies and various other deeds were performed by ancestors of the desert Aboriginal people.

These ancestors travelled the area in the Dreamtime world-creation period and their ceremonies created and modified many aspects of the landscape, to become what it is today.

Corroboree men of both the past and the present perform these ceremonies at the ceremonial sites today. The curvy lines joining the concentric circles are journey lines of the ancestors space time travels and present people travelling.

 

Collections

Long Jack Phillipus work is represented around the world including

Australian National Gallery of Victoria

Richard Kelton Foundation Santa Monica

Lowe Art Museum University of Miami

National Museum of Australia

Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection NZ

Museum of Victoria

Art Bank, National Art Gallery of New Zealand

National Gallery of Australia

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology Bristol UK

Australian National University Canberra

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia

Homes a Court Collection

Kerry Stokes collection

Powerhouse Museum

Christensen Collection Victoria

School of Archaeology Anthropology Australia

Qantas Art Collection

Donald Kahn art collection and others

 

AWARDS

1983 won the Northern Territory Golden Jubilee Art Award

1984 won first prize in the Alice Springs Caltex Art Award

1984 ordained as a Lutheran pastor

1990's Chairman of Papunya Tula Artists

 

Exhibitions

1971 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1971 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1974 Anvil Art Gallery, Albury

1974 Art of Aboriginal Australia, touring exhibition Canada, Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd

1976 Aboriginal Australia, Second touring exhibition Canada

1977 Christ College, Oakleigh, Victoria

1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney

1984 Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

1985 The Face of the Centre: Papunya Tula Paintings

1984 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1987 Circle Path Meander, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1987 A selection of Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian Capital Territory

1988 ANCAAA and Boomalli, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Ko-operative, Sydney

1988 Recent Aboriginal painting, AGSA, Adelaide

1989 Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria

1989 A selection of Aboriginal Art owned by the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian Capital Territory

1989 A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery Melbourne

1989  Design Warehouse Sydney Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

1990 l'ete Australien a' Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France

1990 From the Centre to the Sea, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative Chippendale, Sydney

1991 The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from the Tim and Vivien Johnson Collection

1991 Auckland City Art Gallery and Te Whare Taonga

1992 Aoteroa National Art Gallery, New Zealand

1993 Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia

1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria

 

Selected Bibliography Literature Source & FURTHER REFERENCES

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

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody

A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database, Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody

Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst. Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa. Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst. Kat.; Isaacs, J., Australia´s Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984; Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817; Modern Art - Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), o.O. 1992, ISBN 0646080520; Nangara. The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally, Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ., London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Tjinytjilpa. The Dotted Design. Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1998, Ausst. Kat.; Traumzeit - Tjukurrpa. Kunst der Aborigines der Western Desert. Die Donald Kahn-Sammlung, Danzker, J.B. (Hrsg.), Prestel, München und New York 1994, Ausst. Kat.; Voices of the Earth. Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia. Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954.

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