Gordon Barney

Joormin, Yarrunga Country

2001

49" x 36"

124 cm x 91 cm

USD $6,000

  • About Gordon Barney

    Gordon was born around 1944 near Birrno, which is his country, near the main homestead of Alice Downs Cattle Station in the East Kimberley. He resides at Norton Bore Community, Via Turkey Creek with his wife, international artist Shirley Purdie. Gordon is well known in the region as a stockman who worked on many cattle stations, including Springvale, Chinaman’s Garden country and Alice Downs, locations which form much of  he content of his paintings. Gordon Barney is an important Western Australian Aboriginal painter, a senior lawman in his community, and a respected dancer at community ceremonies.

     

    Gordon began painting in 1998 with the encouragement of his wife, Shirley, and like her, favors the thick, crusty ocher medium. His depictions of the hills and rugged country he worked during his life quickly became noticed by collectors, and his relatively short painting career has been extremely successful.

  • About Joormin, Yarrunga Country

    Joorrmin is the name of the river and the hills at this place, low down from Yarrunga (Chinaman's Garden). Yarrunga is Gordon's country. It lies on Alice Downs Station, where Gordon was born and worked for many years.   This was country that Gordon used to muster cattle through and used to camp here during holidays from the station.

  • Gordon Barney Bio

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Born: 1944

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    Place: Norton Bore, East Kimberley

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    Selected Exhibitions:

     

    1999

    - Aboriginal Art, IHK Wurzburg, Germany (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer)

    - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

    - Hale School Annual Art Exhibition, Perth

    - Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

    - Japingka Gallery, Fremantle

    - Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin

    - Short Street Gallery, Broome

     

    2000

    - Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

    - Bett Gallery, Hobart

    - Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

    - Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

    - Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney

    - State of My Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

    - The Collection. Aboriginal Fine Art & Weavings, Gallerie Australis

    - This Earth for Us, Commonwealth Institute, London; Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh

     

    2001

    - Gordon Barney, Bett Gallery, Hobart

    - In Celebration, Peter Baillie Acquisitive Exhibition, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide

    - Ochre Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome

    - Painting Country, Chapel off Chapel, Melbourne

    - Thornquest Gallery, Southport

    - Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide

     

    2002

    - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

    - Shirley Purdie and Gordon Barney, Framed Gallery, Darwin

    - Land is Life. Art from Australia, Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Rügen, German (in co-operation with Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer)

    - Images and Identity, Germany (in cooperation with Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer)

    - Span Galleries, Melbourne

     

    2003

    - Garmerrun: All Our Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide

    - Ngarrgoorroon, Yiyili and Yarrunga - Four Artists from Warmun, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

    - The World Luxury Cruise Ship, Australasis (in cooperation with Thornquest Gallery, Southport)

     

    2004

    - Gallery Bamberg Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany (in cooperation with Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer)

    - Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

     

    2005

    - Gadfly Gallery, Perth

    - Hogarth Galleries, Sydney

     

    2006

    - Gentlemen of Warmun, Seva Frangos Art, Perth

     

    2007

    - Greetings From Turkey Creek, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

    - Back To The Board, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney

    - From The Ground Up: Ochre Work From The Kimberley, Chapman Gallery

    - Ten Warmun Works, Balmain Art & Craft Show, Father John Therry School, Sydney

     

    Selected Collections:

     

    - Artbank, Sydney

    - Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth

    - Prominent Private and Corporate Collections Worldwide

     

    Literature:

     

    - The Unseen in Scene. Aboriginal Art Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Bayer Australia, Sydney, Speyer 2000, Aust. Cat., ISBN 3980707202

    - The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. Kleinert and Neale(Hrsg.). Oxford Univ. Press, Melbourne 2000, ISBN 0195506599

    - From The Ground Up: Ochre Work From The Kimberley, Chapman Gallery

    - Ten Warmun Works, Balmain Art & Craft Show, Father John Therry School, Sydney