BOOMALLI IN THE
KOORI MAIL NEWSPAPER
Founding member, Jeffrey Samuels with chairperson Euphemia Bostock and the artists of 'The good, the bad and the In-Between', Boomalli's current exhibition, Yatama Nigimali (Danny Eastwood) and Thaya Giwiirr (Jake Soewardie) featured in the Koori Mail.
WE ARE REQUESTING YOUR ASSISTANCE FOR OUR ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT
‘300 DOLLAR DAY’
WE ARE CALLING FOR ALL ARTISTS, ABORIGINAL AND NON-ABORIGINAL TO DONATE WORKS OVER THE VALUE OF $300 DOLLARS FOR SALE AT BOOMALLI
CO-OPERATIVE FOR $300.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative celebrated 25 years of existence in November last year. 9 of the 10 living members made it to a brilliant celebration (Vale Michael Riley).
This epic journey has only just begun as we strive to move the co-operative forward for our community and younger artists. Our volunteer contributions to the ongoing survival of the co-operative run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. People believe and donate their time and expertise to ensure that Aboriginal people have a voice in their own country.
This event will occur in the week of the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum for Citizenship. The opening will occur on Wednesday 29 May from 6 - 8pm and run through until Saturday 1 June. The last date for dropping off the donated work will be the Sunday 26 May by 4pm.
We have an inherited debt where interest is accruing daily (we are being asked to pay someone else's debt in the form of rates) Our commitment to resolving issues has been highlighted by the endurance that we have displayed,particularly in the last 3 years.
We are asking you to stand with us and secure a future for this co-operative.
For further info please contact Boomalli or email Bronwyn Bancroft at bronwynbancroft@hotmail.com
CO-OPERATIVE FOR $300.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative celebrated 25 years of existence in November last year. 9 of the 10 living members made it to a brilliant celebration (Vale Michael Riley).
This epic journey has only just begun as we strive to move the co-operative forward for our community and younger artists. Our volunteer contributions to the ongoing survival of the co-operative run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. People believe and donate their time and expertise to ensure that Aboriginal people have a voice in their own country.
This event will occur in the week of the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum for Citizenship. The opening will occur on Wednesday 29 May from 6 - 8pm and run through until Saturday 1 June. The last date for dropping off the donated work will be the Sunday 26 May by 4pm.
We have an inherited debt where interest is accruing daily (we are being asked to pay someone else's debt in the form of rates) Our commitment to resolving issues has been highlighted by the endurance that we have displayed,particularly in the last 3 years.
We are asking you to stand with us and secure a future for this co-operative.
For further info please contact Boomalli or email Bronwyn Bancroft at bronwynbancroft@hotmail.com
THE GOOD, THE BAD
& THE IN-BETWEEN
27 APR - 19 MAY
ARTIST TALK:
Thursday evening 7:00pm 9 May
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative is proud to present a touring exhibition from Blacktown Arts Centre, curated by Paul Howard, and featuring work by Yatama Nigimali (Danny Eastwood) and Thaya Giwiirr (Jake Soewardie).
For the first time in 20 years, well renowned and highly respected Aboriginal artists; Yatama Nigimali and Thaya Giwiirr have come together in an exhibition highlighting Aboriginal issues.
The Good, The Bad and The In-Between exhibition features up to 40 works on paper and work on canvas, previewing the artists’ conflicting emotions, memories and meditations over many decades on a range of social, political and distinctly Australian issues.
Yatama’s work portrays the Stolen Generation and the treatment of Aboriginals in prison. While Thaya, presents works of the native landscape and highlights the injustice of working Aboriginals who were paid with rations rather than money, then at the conclusion of their work were asked to leave the land.
Both artists have led extraordinary lives. Yatama has been an artist since he was 4 years old. As a shy child he preferred his work to do the talking. After leaving school at 12 and a half, he attended TAFE where he learnt drawing, printing and teaching. He later taught at TAFE and currently teaches art at correctional centers.
He was NSW Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1992, won the National Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 1993, the NSW Parliamentary Art Prize in 2008 and a finalist in the recent 2012 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize. He is currently a cartoonist artist for Koori Mail.
Thaya was raised by his grandmother until he was three years old and then spent his childhood and teenage years in state-run welfare homes in New South Wales. He spent most of his time absconding from the homes, being picked up on the streets and being returned.
Thaya has had works exhibited all across Sydney and work has been acquired for collections in New Zealand, France and China. Thaya also spent time teaching art in NSW Correctional Centres. Thaya has been a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize five times and twice for The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. As well as serving as the Director of the acclaimed Boomalli Aboriginal Co Operative in 2003-04.
Thursday evening 7:00pm 9 May
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative is proud to present a touring exhibition from Blacktown Arts Centre, curated by Paul Howard, and featuring work by Yatama Nigimali (Danny Eastwood) and Thaya Giwiirr (Jake Soewardie).
For the first time in 20 years, well renowned and highly respected Aboriginal artists; Yatama Nigimali and Thaya Giwiirr have come together in an exhibition highlighting Aboriginal issues.
The Good, The Bad and The In-Between exhibition features up to 40 works on paper and work on canvas, previewing the artists’ conflicting emotions, memories and meditations over many decades on a range of social, political and distinctly Australian issues.
Yatama’s work portrays the Stolen Generation and the treatment of Aboriginals in prison. While Thaya, presents works of the native landscape and highlights the injustice of working Aboriginals who were paid with rations rather than money, then at the conclusion of their work were asked to leave the land.
Both artists have led extraordinary lives. Yatama has been an artist since he was 4 years old. As a shy child he preferred his work to do the talking. After leaving school at 12 and a half, he attended TAFE where he learnt drawing, printing and teaching. He later taught at TAFE and currently teaches art at correctional centers.
He was NSW Aboriginal Artist of the Year in 1992, won the National Aboriginal Artist of the Year Award in 1993, the NSW Parliamentary Art Prize in 2008 and a finalist in the recent 2012 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize. He is currently a cartoonist artist for Koori Mail.
Thaya was raised by his grandmother until he was three years old and then spent his childhood and teenage years in state-run welfare homes in New South Wales. He spent most of his time absconding from the homes, being picked up on the streets and being returned.
Thaya has had works exhibited all across Sydney and work has been acquired for collections in New Zealand, France and China. Thaya also spent time teaching art in NSW Correctional Centres. Thaya has been a finalist in the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize five times and twice for The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. As well as serving as the Director of the acclaimed Boomalli Aboriginal Co Operative in 2003-04.
BOOMALLI ABORIGINAL
ARTISTS CO-OPERATIVE
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative is one of Australia’s longest running Aboriginal owned and operated art galleries. Established in Chippendale Sydney in 1987, Boomalli is a word derived from three different New South Wales language groups and means: “To strike; to make a mark”.
Originally started to house the one off exhibition ‘Boomalli Au Go Go’, Boomalli proudly celebrated its 25th Anniversary in November 2012. The founding members and participating artists in the ‘Boomalli Au Go Go’ exhibition continued the inaugural exhibition they had begun by running an art gallery along the same principals of self determination. Boomalli was one of several Aboriginal organisations such as Bangarra dance theatre and Gadigal Koori Radio that redefined the cultural landscape of Australia and the world by incorporating Aboriginal people into pivotal decision making roles within arts, media and cultural institutions.
One of the primary aims of Boomalli has been to re-address some of the social inequities experienced historically by Indigenous artists and provide an authentically strong cultural voice within a contemporary Australian context.
This has been achieved by making it possible for artists to take direct curatorial control of their individual exhibitions as well as devising their own marketing and sales strategies, thereby reclaiming processes which have been traditionally controlled by non-Indigenous stakeholders.
Since 1987 Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative has continued to promote the original objectives of the founding artist members by providing continuous support to New South Wales Aboriginal artists so that they can exhibit, define and promote Aboriginal art themselves.
Originally started to house the one off exhibition ‘Boomalli Au Go Go’, Boomalli proudly celebrated its 25th Anniversary in November 2012. The founding members and participating artists in the ‘Boomalli Au Go Go’ exhibition continued the inaugural exhibition they had begun by running an art gallery along the same principals of self determination. Boomalli was one of several Aboriginal organisations such as Bangarra dance theatre and Gadigal Koori Radio that redefined the cultural landscape of Australia and the world by incorporating Aboriginal people into pivotal decision making roles within arts, media and cultural institutions.
One of the primary aims of Boomalli has been to re-address some of the social inequities experienced historically by Indigenous artists and provide an authentically strong cultural voice within a contemporary Australian context.
This has been achieved by making it possible for artists to take direct curatorial control of their individual exhibitions as well as devising their own marketing and sales strategies, thereby reclaiming processes which have been traditionally controlled by non-Indigenous stakeholders.
Since 1987 Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative has continued to promote the original objectives of the founding artist members by providing continuous support to New South Wales Aboriginal artists so that they can exhibit, define and promote Aboriginal art themselves.
BOOMALLI ANNUAL
MEMBERS SHOW 2013
16 MAR - 15 APR
Shirley Amos I Bronwyn Bancroft I Euphemia Bostock Lewis Burns I Danny Eastwood I Euraba Paper Company Artists I Jenny Fraser I Teresa Gay I Gumbaynggirr Felt Artists | Aroha Groves I Adam Hill I Jess Johnson | Arone Meeks I Nicole Monks I Nicole Phillips I Jeffrey Samuels | Jasmin Sarin I Sharon Smith I Jake Soewardie I Gordon Syron | Graham Toomey
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Opening:
2pm to 4pm, Sat 16 March 2013
Runs till Sunday 15 April 2013
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Opening:
2pm to 4pm, Sat 16 March 2013
Runs till Sunday 15 April 2013
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