AUSTRALIAN ART ABORIGINAL –

Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour. Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c. 1940-2002) manifests colour as strokes of ink on paper: the saturated hues of the desert sky at dusk, and the glimmers of the sun on the water’s surface. His vivid and exceptional drawing, painting and printing skills reveal the desert as a place teeming with colourful life, history and stories. Ngirramanujuwal: The Art and Country of Jimmy Pike is a specially curated selection of the internationally renowned artist’s work from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies collection. It invites the reader to journey through the Great Sandy Desert, experiencing the Walmajarri seasons – makurra, parranga, yitilal and jutalkarra – as revealed through Pike’s art and intimate relationship with Country.

First Edition.

• 127 pages : colour illustrations, map, portraits ; 29 cm. #130626

• First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:

  • Art – Artists – Men
  • Art – Drawing
  • Art – Exhibitions
  • Art – Painting – Acrylic
  • Art – Print and printmaking
  • Culture – Relationship to land
  • Environment – Deserts
  • History – Biographies – Indigenous
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • Walmajarri people A66
  • Walmajarri language A66
  • Juwaliny language A88
  • Djugerari / Jukurirri / Cherrabun (WA West Kimberley SE51-12)
  • Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)

  Subject:

  • Pike, Jimmy, approximately 1940-2002
  • Pike, Jimmy, approximately 1940-2002 — Childhood and youth
  • Lowe, Pat, 1941-
  • Artists, Aboriginal Australian
  • Drawing, Aboriginal Australian
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian — 20th century
  • Artists, Aboriginal Australian — 20th century
  • Walmajarri (Australian people)
  • Walmajarri (Australian people) — Biography
  • Artists, Aboriginal Australian — Biography
  • Stockmen — Western Australia — Biography
  • Livestock workers — Western Australia — Biography
  • Australian

  Other authors/contributors:

  • Norton, Paris, 1992-, curator, writer of added text
  • Wilson, Leah, 1985-, curator, writer of added text
  • Lowe, Pat, 1941-, contributor
  • Ritchie, Craig, 1966-, writer of foreword
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, issuing body