Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Painted at Papunya, Northern Territory
  Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
  Purchased from Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney in July 1989
  
  EXHIBITED:
  On loan to St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, 12 March 2004-2011
  
  Turkey Tolson was one of the youngest members of the
  first painting group at Papunya in 1971. For much of
  the decade he lived at the outstation of Kungkayurnti
  where Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was one of his main
  influences. In fact Namarari had reciprocal rights in
  several of the Dreamings owned by Toslon. In 1985 he
  assumed the position of chair of the collective, Papunya
  Tula Artists, a post he held for ten years. By 1990 he
  commenced a series of paintings on the theme of spearmaking
  at the site of Ilyingaungau in his traditional
  country (see Straightening spears at Ilyingaungau, 1990, in
  the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia
  in Perkins, H. and H. Fink [eds.], Papunya Tula: Genesis
  and Genius, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales in
  association with Papunya Tula Artists, 2000, pp.114-5,
  illus.). Secret-sacred Men's Ceremonial Dreamings..., 1989, is
  a precursor to the Straightening Spears pictures. The
  field of strong repeated parallels lines of joined dots owe
  much to the influence of Mick Namarari.
  
  Turkey Tolson has been represented in several major
  exhibitions in Australia and abroad, including: the
  Nigerian Festival Exhibition, Lagos, Nigeria in 1977;
  Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art at the Pacific Asia
  Museum in Los Angeles in 1981; the seminal exhibition
  Koori Art '84, at Art Space, Sydney in 1984; in 1997,
  along with Joseph Jurra Tjaparljtarri he installed a sand
  painting for the exhibition Peintres Aborigènes d'Australie, at
  La Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris; Papunya Tula: Genesis
  and Genius, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales,
  Sydney in 2000; and Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal
  Paintings from Papunya, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum
  of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, Fowler Museum of
  Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles,
  and the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New
  York, in 2009.
  
  Wally Caruna
  
  
  This painting is sold with an accompanying Papunya Tula Artists certificate.

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