Some features and content of this website may not work as intended. Artworks are displayed solely to aid potential purchasers in making their selection. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. Consequently, Johnson's portrait of Tjapaltjarri includes symbols, objects and vignettes from Tjapaltjarri's life in a composition that evokes the sitter's presence and biography as well as his inner world and a deep cultural knowledge unconstrained by time. Growing up, Clifford enjoyed a tradition bush lifestyle and was given the name Possum by his parental grandfather. Clifford possum tjapaltjarri warlugulong 2007 Background Contemporary Indigenous Australian art originated with the Indigenous men of Papunya, located around 240 kilometres (150 mi) northwest of Alice Springs in Australia's Western Desert, who began painting in 1971. Because everybody there all ready waiting. Possum's father was Tjatjiti Tjungurrayai and his mother was Long Rose Nangala. Possums first contact with Europeans was through his father, who sold dingo scalps in exchange for tea and flour at the Jay Creek government ration depot. Warlugulong is a 1977 acrylic on canvas painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. The omission led scholar Vivien Johnson to conclude that Warlugulong (1977) portrays a narrower geographic area than the preceding work. In 1928 police shot and killed nearly 100 Aborigines at the infamous Coniston massacre. 'Tjapaltjarri finally allowed to rest in peace', "Indigenous artwork tipped to sell for $2.5m", ABC News online, "Aboriginal Artwork sells for record price", News Limited, news.com.au, "National Gallery bought dot painting", 25 July 2007, Clifford Possum - An Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamarra, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri&oldid=1101388819, Clifford Possum, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjari, This page was last edited on 30 July 2022, at 19:35. In 1976, with the assistance of Tim Leura, he painted Warlugulong 1976, which he later described as his number one painting. She concludes that there is "a topographic rationale for the order in which the Dreamings appear from left to right (that is, east to west) across the painting [as well as for] the transverse Dreaming trails". Possum was of the Anmatyerre culture-linguistic group from around Alherramp (Laramba) community. TheCompanion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was the most famous of the contemporary artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri In Ocula Magazine Ocula News Swiss Collector Buys Kelton Collection of Australian Indigenous Art Melbourne, 3 December 2020 In a deal worth millions, Bruno Raschle acquired more than 250 works in the California-based collection. The Papunya movement began in 1971 when Western Desert men began painting their traditional designs onto small boardsdesigns that were previously confined to . By the 1970's he was one of the most accomplished carvers in Central Australia. Conditions were so bad during these years that Possums father perished from lack of water. In 1988, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London organised a retrospective it was Tjapaltjarris first solo exhibition and the first time an Australian Aboriginal artist had been honoured in this way by the international art world. This writer had the opportunity to meet Clifford Possum at an exhibition of his paintings and sculpture held at a small inner city Sydney gallery in August 2001, a few months before he became seriously ill. A gentle and quiet-spoken man with a light-hearted sense of humour, Possum was proud of his life as a stockman and passionate about his artistic work. Art lovers and collectors, both here and around the world, have held the Desert Masters in high regard, because of the efforts by individuals such as Clifford.Clifford passed away in Alice Springs on the 21st June 2002, after recently being recognised for his contribution to Australian Art and culture, by being made an "Officer of the Order of Australia". Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, AO (c.1937 - 2002) Australia's Most Celebrated Aboriginal Artist. Same all the ladies, they been get all the bush fruit, might be bush onion, plum, might be honey ants, might be yala, all the kungkas (women) bring them back. Clifford Possum emerged as one of the leaders in this school of painting, which has come to be called the Western Desert Art Movement. Clifford Possum was the first recognised star of the Western Desert art and one of Australia's most distinguished painters of the late twentieth century. jun 2002) bio je australijski slikar koji se smatra jednim od najpoznatijih i najuglednijih predstavnika aboridinske umjetnosti.Pripadao je klanu Peltharr iz Anmatyerre kulturno-lingvistike grupe. SYDNEY, Australia, June 29 Clifford Possum, who painted some of the masterpieces of Australian aboriginal art, died on June 21 in Alice Springs in the Australian desert, an ancient landscape. Possums family, like countless others, existed on government and mission rations with occasional low-paid work on nearby cattle farms. This broad stretch of territory defined the diversity of subject matter in Clifford's paintings. While his year of birth is considered to be approximately correct, the day and month remain undocumented. Tim Johnson, Tim Johnson Four years prior to his birth, a harsh drought had compelled several groups of Aborigines into the Coniston area, producing tensions with local farmers who wanted the scarce water resources for their cattle. Clifford Possum accurately described this period as the killing times. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born on Napperby Station about 200 kilometres north-west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born in 1932 in Alice Springs on a creek bed on Nagger by Station. /  Posthumously, Tjapaltjarri's works are drawing increasing attention. Other Aboriginal artists have incorporated western mediums into their work, such as Emily Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas, and Freddy Timms. Possum and Bush Tucker Dreaming, 1996 . At last, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri presents a comprehensive account of the work of this extraordinary artist. See opening hours His work is featured in many of the main galleries and collections around Australia and internationally. Namatjira was the leading Aboriginal artist at the time, finding growing success for his realistic watercolour landscapes that captured the stark and unique beauty of central Australia. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. [5] A number of the men developed a distinctive style of narrative painting that, beginning around 1976, resulted in the production of several "monumental" works that included representations of both their traditional lands and of ceremonial iconography. An established wood-carver and a skilled painter, in the early 1970s Clifford along with his brother Time Leura Tjapaltjarri joined the painting men which soon transformed into the Papunya Tula Artists. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri is arguably the most famous male Central Western Desert artist, who from 1971 until his death in 2002 dominated the Aboriginal art scene. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people. In 1976 a BBC documentary crew traveled deep into Australias Northern Territory to watch Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and his brother Tim Leura paint a masterpiece. NAVIGATION Anmatyerr, Central Desert region. c.1932- 21 June 2002 The full text of the article is here , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. His first opportunity to paint came when one of Albert Namatjira's sons gave him acrylic paints and the master began his work. Photo: Professor JVS Megaw, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri. On one level TheCompanion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. After his father, Tjatjiti Tjungurrayai, passed away during Clifford's youth in the 1940s, his mother, Long Rose Nangala, settled at Jay Creek with her second husband, One Pound Jim Tjungurrayai. Born: Napperby, Northern Territory, Australia circa 1932, Died: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia 21 Jun 2002, Language group: Intimate knowledge of the land had been passed down through generations of indigenous Australians through ephemeral sand drawings, but Tjapaltjarris transfer of these traditional maps to canvas with the paths and stories they contain can be read as deeds of title, reclaiming ownership of ancestral land. 1990 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Price on request Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Women's Dreaming, c1990 Red Desert Dreamings US$49,500-US$61,875 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Worm Dreaming Napperby, 1996 LaiSun Keane US$12,000 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Collections include the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the Kelton Foundation and the Royal Collection. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri died in Alice Springs on the day he was scheduled to be invested with the Order of Australia for his contributions to art and to the Indigenous community. After his father's death in the 1940s his mother married Gwoya Jungarai, better known as One Pound Jimmy, whose image was used on a well known Australian postage stamp. 1977. Images may not be reproduced for any reason without express permission from the artist. Contact with Albrecht had an ongoing impact on Possum and his family. DOB: In the 1940's, Clifford and his family re-located to Jay Creek, where he became a stockman, working at several stations throughout the area. Closed Good Friday & Christmas day Diversity in the Desert. One of the extraordinary qualities of Clifford's work and other Western Desert artists is that they are a visual writing and speak to the Aboriginal as books do to Europeans.When asked why he became an Artist, he answered,"That Dreaming been all the time. No accurate records were ever kept but Possum was born sometime in 1932, in an isolated dry creek bed about 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The incident led to the first conviction of an Australian art dealer for fraud and saw some malicious and undeserved criticism directed against the artist by a number of influential collectors. This meant removing them from tribal lands and herding them into settlements. 1-20 out of 145 LOAD MORE. [8] The work and the price it achieved at auction in 2007 are cited as evidence of both the importance of Clifford Possum as an artist, and of the maturation and growth of the Australian Indigenous art market. Possum was one of the first Aboriginal artists to use acrylic paint for what is now known as the dot art style. Primary Marketplace ( 2022 ): Australia Clifford Possum TJAPALTJARRI is an artist born in Australia c.1932 and deceased in 2002. And they been using them on body different times.Kids, I see them all the time, painted. His obituaries, which appeared in newspapers around the world, generally referred to him as Clifford Possum and gave his age as about 70. He was of the Peltharr skin. [3], Contemporary Indigenous Australian art originated with the Indigenous men of Papunya, located around 240 kilometres (150mi) northwest of Alice Springs in Australia's Western Desert, who began painting in 1971. He learnt ancestral stories from elders like One Pound Jim Tjungurrayi, who took on the role of his father, and was famous for his extensive knowledge of the country. [12], When the Australian government in 2009 introduced a resale royalty scheme, the sale history of Warlugulong was frequently used to argue in favour of the scheme, designed to ensure that artists and their families continued to benefit from the appreciating value of old works.[18][26][27]. Warlugulong is an Indigenous Australian Art Acrylic Painting created by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri in 1977. [9][10] The artist's images of this period are visually complex, and contain a wide variety of patterns, unified by strong background motifs and structure. The work, in fact, sold for $2.4 million; the following day, it was revealed that the National Gallery of Australia had been the buyer. [notes 1] Owned for many years by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the work was sold by art dealer Hank Ebes on 24 July 2007, setting a record price for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work bought at auction when it was I use paint and canvas that's not from us, from European people. [9] The Gallery's purchase eased tensions of a rumoured Government legal intervention had the work been purchased by an overseas buyer, out of concern that significant indigenous art would be "lost" overseas. In 2002 Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service as a contributor to and pioneer of the development of the Western Desert art movement, and to the Indigenous community through interpretation of ancient traditions and cultural values., Vivien Johnson in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014, Open daily Cattle rustler, rum runner, brilliant painter, By continuing to browse Obelisk you agree to our Cookie Policy. The use of images of works of art reproduced on this website and all other content may be restricted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. The National Museum of Australia acknowledges First Australians and recognises their continuous connection to Country, community and culture. Possums father was taken prisoner during the assault. There is greater visual symmetry in this painting than in its 1976 predecessor; symmetry is a strong influence in the works of many of the early Western Desert artists, including Clifford Possum, Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa. Warlugulong was Tjapaltjarris first monumental canvas, and became the template for a series of large-scale paintings made through the late 1970s. In doing so Clifford, as well as the other artists involved with the Papunya Tula Movement, helped to develop the true definition of Aboriginal Art, an art revolving around a culture, The Jukurrpa.In some of his stories Clifford attempts to give a visual impression of sunlight, cloud, shadow and earth to denote specific times of the day. CLIFFORD POSSUM TJAPALTJARRI (AUSTRALIAN, 1932-2002) View catalog Sold: $11,000.00 Estimate: $8,000 - $14,000 November 19, 2022 10:00 AM CST St. Louis, MO, US Request more information Additional Details Description: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Aboriginal Australian (Anmatyerre), 1932-2002 Perentie Dreaming, c. 1986 Acrylic on canvas It sold for $2.4million, thoroughly eclipsing the previous record for an Indigenous Australian painting, set when Emily Kngwarreye's Earth's Creation was bought in May of the same year for just over $1million. Lungkata was the Bluetongue Lizard Man, an ancestral figure responsible for creating bushfire. [9], This work excludes elements of several dreamings associated with country further south, which had been included in the painting created by Clifford Possum and his brother a year earlier. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). He was the chairman of the Papunya Tula Artists from the 1970's to the 1980's. This website comprises and contains copyrighted materials and works. Possum Tjapaltjarri contributed to the Indigenous Australian Art movement and died on June 21, 2002. The National Portrait Gallery is an Australian Government Agency, oil and polymer vinyl paint on canvas (, The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. Like Albert Namatjira before him, Clifford Possum blazed a trail for future generations of Indigenous artists; bridging the gap between Aboriginal art and contemporary Australian art. [14][notes 2] Art critic Benjamin Genocchio has referred to the 1977 work as also being by the brothers;[13] however, the National Gallery of Australia credits it solely to Clifford Possum. (age55in2002), Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO Copyright in all materials and/or works comprising or contained within this website remains with the National Portrait Gallery and other copyright owners as specified. Grandfather and grandmother, uncle and aunty, mummy and father, all that, they been carry on this, teach 'em all the young boys and girls. Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Colonial Australian Art. Their works were mostly Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) stories, representing the creation of significant sites and landforms by ancestral beings along their paths of travel through traditional lands. As an artist who frequently incorporates celestial-like symbols and motifs in his work, Johnson was drawn to the meditative and intricate quality of dotting and sought permission from the Papunya artists to employ it. Numerous Indigenous Australians are noted for their participation in, and contributions to, the Visual arts of Australia and abroad. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was an Australian artist born in 1932. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present. In the early 1950s the artist went to live at a recently opened lodge that catered to tourists drawn to the area by the landscapes of the Hermannsburg Mission watercolourists. [3] The authors of the National Gallery of Australia's book, Collection Highlights, characterises the painting as the artist's most significant. By the mid-1970s he was chairman of the company and had emerged as one of its most inventive artists. [6] The work, in fact, sold for $2.4 million;[7][8] the following day, it was revealed that the National Gallery of Australia had been the buyer. Got questions, comments or corrections about Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri? Going, going, gone: The painting sold for $2.4 million. After completing five works of similar scale and style during the 1970s, Possum began experimenting with colour and subtle modifications of traditional symbols. In 1988, Londons Institute of Contemporary Art presented an exhibition of his paintings, and a second solo exhibition also in London in 1990 brought him critical acclaim in Europe and North America. Clifford Possum was born in 1932 on Napperby Station. Often these techniques would be carefully interwoven into an integrated composition, overlaid with more dots to producing an illusion of changing spatial depth. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born in Tjuirri, an area north of west Alice Springs, also known as Napperby Station. Master weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie is passionate about preserving the near lost art of Ngarrindjeri weaving. People use them to paint up. [16], While the painting has been described as showing the story of an ancestral being called Lungkata starting the first bushfire,[13] it portrays elements of nine distinct dreamings, of which Lungkata's tale is the central motif. Bardon, who later described the settlement as an unsewered, undrained, garbage-strewn death camp in all but name, won the respect of the older men and encouraged them to paint their ancestral stories. He began carving during the same period and had established a reputation as a craftsman before becoming one of the first men to take up painting at Papunya, a settlement established 240 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs in the 1960s. Video, Know My Name In 1971, Geoffrey Bardon, a young teacher, arrived at Papunya. NOTICE: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Artist Biography Shopping Cart | Wish List | About Us Artworks Exhibitions Buying Guide Our Services Art & Culture Contact Us Search Aboriginal Artworks Text Search Search Website Colour Range Size and Shape Range Size: Shape: Price Range On Sale Low: High: Region & Theme In contrast to Namatjiras realistic watercolours, Bardon supplied them acrylic paint and discouraged references to Western images. [23] The bank sold it by auction in 1996. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Clifford Tilmouth Colin Bird Colleen Wallace Nungari Connie Nakamarra Fisher Corinne Nampijinpa Ryan Cornelius Jungarrayi Spencer Cowboy Louie Pwerle D Dadu Gorey Nungarrayi Danny Japaljarri France David Angus Jungala Deborah Napaljarri Wayne Debra Nangala McDonald Debra Young Nakamarra Delores Furber Napaltjarri [9] Like the other four works of the period that are symbolic maps of the artist's country, the painting is accompanied by annotated diagrams of the images and notes that explain the dreamings that they include. Clifford developed his own unique style that included secular non-traditional motifs. Tjapaltjarri worked alongside many of Australias discrete indigenous cultures, mastering six Western Desert languages and absorbing a vast swath of the traditional stories of the Dreaming. . [12] Artist and curator Brenda L Croft agreed, considering it "an epic painting, encyclopaedic in both content and ambition" and "the artist's most significant work". The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. The work had been tipped to fetch up to A$2.5 million, more than double the then-record for Aboriginal art at auction. Throughout the work, Upambura the Possum Man's footsteps follow the wandering lines that give the painting its overall structure. His final days were spent at the Hetty Perkins Nursing Home in Alice Springs, where he passed away surrounded by close family and friends. Tjapaltjarri had been a part of the Papunya art community for four years and was one of their most successful and respected artists, but it was his previous career as a stockman working on central Australias pastoral stations, or ranches, that made him uniquely qualified for the project. In June he received the Order of Australia for his pioneering work in the development of the Western Desert Art movement, and was to be officially invested with the award on the day he died. www.redrockgallery.net/pages/Clifford-Possum-Tjapaltjarri.html. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, post 1976, Alice Springs/Northern Territory/Australia, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and his brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri were selected by Papunya Tula Artists. Tjapaltjarri joined Papunya Tula Artists in February 1972 and was one of their founding directors. . He was chairman of Papunya Tula Artists in the 1980s and received the Order of Australia in 2002. He worked extensively as a stockman on the cattle stations in and around his traditional country. All the young fella they bring 'em back kangaroo. This is a pure example of how . His career as an artist began in the 1950's when he carved snakes and goannas. Painting, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 202.0 h x 337.5 w cm. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 1977. The other artists working with him took his lead and removed any elements of European Art from their work. His older brother Cassidy Possum Tjapaltjarri was a traditionalist who barely gone outside of the Yuelamu community and was one of most respected elder till his passing in 2006, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was the most famous of the contemporary artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. That Dreaming carry on. He rapidly distinguished himself as one of the companys most accomplished and inventive artists, an exponent of striking, multi-layered and meticulously rendered visual effects. Encouraged by his brother Tim, Clifford Possum, who had already begun teaching woodcarving at the settlement, joined Bardons painting group, which later became the Papunya Tula Artists Company. It makes accessible the development of a master painter of the Anmatyerre tribe, one of the founders and leaders of Western Desert art. The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. Billy Stockman, another founding member of the Papunya Tula art movement, survived the massacre and was raised by Clifford Possums mother. 1977 painting by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Tjapaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a, A separate, smaller work with the similar title, "Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri: Larger than Life", "Dreaming Story at Warlugulong (Warlukurlangu)", "Aboriginal artwork sells at record price", "A pretty good result all round, possums", "Clifford Possum artwork sells for record price", "National Gallery of Australia unveils major painting by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri - Warlugulong 1977", "Aboriginal artists gain royalties for resold art", List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warlugulong&oldid=1105769071, Collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 18:20. What is now referred to as the Papunya movement began in 1971, when the men started transferring their designs from the body and the ground onto panels of masonite and other moveable surfaces. WARLUGULONG 1977. [17] It was purchased for A$1,200 by the Commonwealth Bank, which hung it in a bank training centre cafeteria on the Mornington Peninsula. The auction house trading the work expected it to fetch around $5,000 and did not make a feature of it in the catalogue, but dealers including Hank Ebes, the successful bidder, recognised the painting's significance and it sold for $36,000 plus commission. ABN 70 592 297 967|The National Museum of Australia is an Australian Government Agency, Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Old Masters: Australia's Great Bark Artists, Australia's Defining Moments Digital Classroom. The charcoal grey areas indicate the burnt-out country, and the white dots represent ash. In the early 1950s, Possum met Albert Namatjira at Glen Helen Gorge, a newly developing tourist spot established by the nearby cattle station owner. View our artist exchanges (English) 1 reference. After learning how to muster and brand cattle, he became a stockman at Hamilton Downs and then head stockman at Narwietooma station. Go to Artist page. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO Born: c.1932; Napperby, Australia Died: June 21, 2002; Alice Springs / Stuart, Australia Nationality: Australian Art Movement: Native Art Painting School: Papunya Tula Field: painting Family and Relatives: Michelle Possum Nungurrayi, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. By the time he started visiting Papunya in the mid-1960s he had a well-established reputation as a woodcarver, based on his talent for capturing lifelike effects of motion. 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