Rosella Namok

ROSELLA NAMOK

Solo Exhibitions

2009   Ngatangku Ngaachi (My Country), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2008   From Sand Beach Side, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007   Ngaachi Bla Mepla (Our Country), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Sea Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2006   Up North, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2005   My Puuya … my life essence, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Rosella Namok: New Paintings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok: New Works, Adele Boag Gallery, Adelaide
2004   Kungkay Ma (Up North), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
‘nother side, October Gallery, London, England
Rosella Namok, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries at the Essoign Club, Melbourne
2003   Rosella, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Rosella Namok, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2002   Happen’ this way, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Tinta, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2001   mepla sarbie paint, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Ee right this way, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2000I  come from ‘yah, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1999   ’bout here … Lockhart River, Hogarth Galleries, SydneySelected

Group Exhibitions

2009       On the Edge: Visions of a tropical coastline, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur State Academy of Fine Arts, Jaipur, India
Radical Regionalism: Local Knowledge and Making Places, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Connecting With Country … Connecting With Community: The Lockhart River Art Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Summer Show, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
2008       New: Selected recent acquisitions
2007/08, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
From Cape to Cape, The Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2007       La revanche des genres: Art contemporain australien, Les Brasseurs, Leige, Belgium; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Our Way: Contemporary Art from Queensland’s Lockhart River, The University of  Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Charles Wang Center, Stony Brook University, New York, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Lockhart River Art Gang, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Art Gang Returns, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Arte Indigena dall’Australia: Gruppo Artistico del Fiume Lockhart, Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
2006       Right here, right now: recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Radical Regionalism: the empire of shadows, Museum|London, Ontario, Canada
Uncharted Territory, October Gallery, London, England
Histoires de Terre et Mer: Peintures Aborigènes de Lockhart River, Australie, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Morbihan, Lorient, France
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
Painted Stories: Contemporary Paintings by Australian Aboriginal Women, Gallery 1601, Washington DC, USA
So Much More Than Dots and Circles, The Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace, SA
Paradise Found: imagining the tropics, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Something Old, Something New, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2006: shifting tides, moving sands, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
Gatherings II, Kick Arts, Cairns
2005       Black Ink: Indigenous Prints from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Découvrir, rêver, investir … l’Art aborigène d’Australie, The Embassy of Australia, Paris, France
Lingua Franca: ARC Art Design & Craft Biennial, Brisbane City Hall, Brisbane
The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2005: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art & Crafts from Tropical North Queensland, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
Affinities NAIDOC Exhibition, ABC Ultimo, Sydney
Kungkay: Lockhart River Art Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
Dugongs of Hinchinbrook II, KickArts Gallery CoCa, Cairns,  Queensland
2004       Intelligence Now!, October Gallery, London, England
Spirit & Vision: Aboriginal Art, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Land/Space + Family/Place, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Telstra 21st National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art  Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition
Out of Country, Gallery 1601, The Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hot, Hotter, Hottest, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
HANG 12, A Clean Ocean Foundation exhibition, travelling to: Surfworld Museum, Torquay, Victoria; Sorrento House, Sorrento, Victoria; The George White Bar, St Kilda, Victoria; Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Sydney
QUT Art Museum Indigenous Art Collection: Works from the Oodgeroo Collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2003       The High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize, The High Court of Australia,Canberra
Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Cairns Regional Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville)
Water: Prints from Lockhart River and the Tiwi Islands, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from Lockhart River, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, USA
Kulam Kannga (Beginning): New works by the Lockhart River Art Gang, The Kluge- Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Grosse Kunstausstellung 2003, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Icons That Build a Collection, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
The Year in Art, S. R. Irwin Gallery, Sydney
Telstra 20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition
Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country), Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Lockhart River Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands, Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane
Big Art, Small Viewer: celebrating children as artists, University of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
2002-04  Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft, a travelling exhibition Funded by Visions Australia and the Gordon Darling Foundation: Jam Factory, Adelaide
2002       The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany
Indigenous Highlights from the State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
Telstra 19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Message Stick: Journey’s End, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Collectable Aboriginal Art Event, Raintree Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery, Darwin
International Womens’ Day Event, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
New Ground, Main Street Gallery, Hahndorf, Adelaide2001Dreamtime: Zeitgenössische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and the Light: 18.05-30.09.2001, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Lines of Descent: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prints and Objects, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Telstra 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Laura
Federation Exhibition: Local colour, local lives, Cairns Regional Gallery
Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
Masterworks, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Gatherings, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane
Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
A few of my favourite things, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane
In my eyes: an exhibiton of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends, Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery, Cooktown Queensland
2000       Festival of Pacific Arts, Cultural Center Jean Marie Tjibaou, Nouméa, New Caledonia
Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Beyond the Pale, Adelaide Arts Festival, Adelaide
Fortitude: New Art from Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Telstra 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, travelling exhibition
The Art of Place-Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
In my eyes: an exhibiton of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends, Cairns Regional Gallery
Parma Belong Sandbeach: paintings and prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
Olympic exhibition, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
From the Top: Lockhart River paintings by Samantha Hobson and Rosella Namok, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Lockhart River Print Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
1999/01  Message Stick, touring exhibition by the Lockhart River Art Gang, funded by Visions Australia
1999       23rd Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubljana, Slovenia
Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Laura
International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Postcard Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
Lockhart River Art Gang ‘we searching’, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
Main Street Gallery, Harndorfh, South Australia1998The National Indigenous Art of Place Award, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, travelling exhibition
Cape Country Gulf Sea, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Sydney (part of the Pacific Wave Festival-collaboratively curated exhibition by the Cape York and Gulf of Carpentaria Aboriginal Artists Alliance)
Message Stick, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
1997       Mepla Sarbie Art, with the Lockhart River Gang, Lockhart River Art and Culture Centre
ngana nyllkana – us painting, with the Lockhart River Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery
Rena Ellen Jones Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria

Grants/Prizes/Awards

2003       The High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize (Winner), The Australian Bar Association/The High Court of Australia, Canberra
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize (Winner), SECGS Redlands, Sydney
The Australian Centenary Medal-for distinguished service to Indigenous art and to the community
2000        Lin Onus Youth Award–Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards, Australian Heritage Commission
1999        Australia Council (ATSIAB)-a shared grant with the Lockhart River Art Gang to produce new work for exhibition
Most innovative product by an indigenous artist, Momento Awards, Brisbane: for a set of stainless steel Sea Country bookmarks
2nd place, Works on Paper, Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival
Nominated for Young Australian of the Year, Arts Section
23rd Biennial of Graphic Art, Lubljana, Slovenia: the screen prints My relations many generations and Clan Groups Around Lockhart River were selected for exhibition
1998        A member of the Lockhart River Art Gang which won the National Heritage Commission Art of Place Community Endeavour Award
Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, screenprint Leaving the Community exhibited in Darwin and selected for the travelling exhibition
1997        Rena Ellen Jones Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria: the screenprint wiimumu paamaanya mayi selected for exhibition and acquisition
Personnal Development Grant, Arts Queensland

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Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
High Court of Australia, Canberra
Artbank, Sydney
ATSIC Collection, Canberra
Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns
Charles Darwin University, Darwin
Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
Emerald Shire Council, Queensland
Federal Court of Australia, Brisbane
Flinders University, Adelaide
Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Health Quality and Complaints Commission, Brisbane
Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Macquarie University, Sydney
Mater Mothers’ Hospital, Brisbane
Monash University, Melbourne
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Suncorp, Brisbane
The Brisbane Club, Brisbane
The Esk Collection, Tasmania
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Wollongong University, NSW