 Sonda Turner "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 7297 Size = 107 x 122 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 7353 Size = 98 x 125 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 7899 Size = 113 x 127 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Honey Ants" Cat No. 7917 Size = 113 x 127 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Bush Tucker" Cat No. 7938 Size = 94 x 127 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 7963 Size = 103 x 120 cm. Acrylic on linen |
 Sonda Turner "Bush Tucker" Cat No. 7987 Size = 107 x 127 cm. Acrylic on linen |
Born: 1.3.1956
Region: Tanami Desert
Community Centre: Katherine, Alice Springs
Language Bloc: Ngarrkic
Language: Warlpiri
Social Affiliations: Nampijinpa subsection
Subjects and Themes: bush onion -yalka, two women dancing -
Mt. Liebig story, women's fire
Awards: 1986, Canberra Times Art Award
Commissions: 1991 "The Painted Dream", Auckland City Art Gallery,
New Zealand
Collections:
Artbank, Sydney. Nation Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Art Gallery of South Australia. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth. Malcolm Forbes, USA
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
Group Exhibitions:
1986, The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and
Art Gallery of NT, Darwin.
1990, Art Dock, Contemporary Art from Australia, Noumea, New Caledonia
1991, Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen
Centre, Alice Springs
1991, Alice to Penzance, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
1991, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn,
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA.
1992, Tjukurrpa, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel.
1993, Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia
(1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA.
1994, Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert;
The Donald Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Select Bibliography:
Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, 1991, Lowe
Art Museum, University of Miami, USA, exh. cat
Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C)
Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing,
New South Wales.
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman
House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C)
Premont, R., and Lennard, M., 1988, Tjukurrpa, Desert Paintings of Central
Australia, Centre for Aboriginal Artists, Alice Springs.
1993, Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia
(1971-1993), exhib. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. (C)
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