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Phyllis Thomas / Boabs and Owl (3B)
SKU: 17345
100cm x 100cm Ochre on Canvas, 2012
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$3,800.00
100cm x 100cm Ochre on Canvas, 2012
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Artist Profile
c. 1938 – 2018
Phyllis was born at Turner River (Kartang Rija) and grew up in the beautiful Purnululu region in the East Kimberley, which is now World Heritage listed. Her mother was Kitja skin and her father Jaru (desert-way). Phyllis worked around the station, doing yard duties and assisting with the domestic animals. Whilst in Wyndham, she met her husband, Joe Thomas, a stockman. She accompanied him to Springvale, then Mabel Downs Stations. Joe worked at Bow River Station alongside the late Timmy Timms for Sam and Maggie Lilly, and much later when the Government granted the station to the Timms Family, Joe was granted an excision, and developed Rugan Community (Crocodile Hole).
Joe was instrumental in setting up a school on his Community, and Phyllis taught the children culture – carving, painting and dancing. Eventually the school was closed and the children attended the larger school at nearby Warmun Community.
Phyllis is a highly collectable First Generation Ochre Artist whose works are held in the very best Private and Corporate Collections, including Parliament House. She was an established Senior Kimberley Ochre Artist who painted and exhibited with the highest profile Ochre Artists of the East Kimberley, and with her art centre at Warmun. Her works are traditional, she was a respected Law Woman in the Region and depicted her country and the Dreaming Stories in natural ochre medium.
Phyllis passed away peacefully in late 2018. She was a strong leader, an incredible artist and a wonderful lady, who will be sorely missed by all that knew her.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008
– Recent Etchings 2005 – 2008, Northern Editions, Darwin. Other artists featured were Paddy Bedford (dec), Rammey Ramsey, Freddie Timms and Rusty Peters
– Jirrawun Women: Peggy Patrick, Goody Barrett and Phyllis Thomas, Grant Pirrie, Sydney
2007
– All Around Texas – Phyllis Thomas, Churchill Cann and Charlene Carrington, Japingka Gallery, Perth
– From The Ground Up, Ochre Work From The Kimberley, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
– Greetings From Turkey Creek, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
– Back to the Board, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2006
– Womens Business, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
– East Kimberley Exhibition, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2005
– New Work from Warmun, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2004
– A Selection of Contemporary Art, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney. Other artists featured included Emily Kngwarreye and Paddy Bedford
2002/03
– Blood on the Spinifex, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2000
– 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
– Parliament House Collection, Canberra
– Art Gallery of Western Australia
– Private and corporate collections throughout Australia and Overseas
Artwork Description
The boab tree is very important to us mob, not everybody knows but in old days they would eat up the boab nut for vitamins – stopped the old people getting colds. Not like people today, they buy those tablets but you don’t need to, we still sometimes eat that nut for vitamins, you crush him up and eat him up. See that birdie (owl)? That’s where the birdie-birdies live. In the boab tree. Sit on their nests like a chook. Then have those babies.
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