UNTITLED, 2001
KITTY KANTILLA
natural earth pigments on Belgian linen
77.5 x 105.5 cm
bears inscription verso: artist’s name, skin group: Fire / Dance: Rain and Jilamara Arts cat. 625-01
Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Milikapiti, Northern Territory (stamped verso)
Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane
Private collection, Brisbane, acquired from the above in November 2001
Tiwi Art, Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane, 12 October – 3 November 2001
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Jilamara Arts and Crafts, Milikapiti.
Kitty Kantilla lived and worked on Melville Island, Northern Territory
language group: Tiwi
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Kitty Kantilla, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2006 Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
2005 Land Marks, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2002 Meridian: Focus on Australian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2000 Beyond the Pale: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Adelaide Biennial of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1994 Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1988 Carved Wooden Sculptures by Tiwi Women from Paru, Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED LITERATURE
Ryan, J., Kitty Kantilla,National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2007
‘Kutuwalumi (Kitty Kantilla)’ in Contemporary Territory, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, 1994
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
British Museum, London, UK
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Museum Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane