Docker River NT (acrylic on canvas)

This Artwork is an original by a Central Australian Aboriginal Artist. Copyright for the artwork remains with the Artist.

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Artist: Don Goodwin
Title: Docker River NT (acrylic on canvas)
Code: DG 3
Size: 154cm X 90cm
Price (AU): $1 800.00
Skin name (if applicable): Jinta Jinta
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Community: Ernabella
Region: SA Central Australia
Artist Biography:

*  Daniel Goodwin was born at Kenmore Part Station (ErnabellaSA) in 1947.  He was taken away from is family at the age o 5 and sent to a home in Port Augusta, where he went to school until he was 15 years old.  He returned to the Centre to look for his mother, and it took him 4 years to find her.  He had two brothers and one sister, and never saw or met his father.  
Dan was taught to paint by the sons of Albert Namatjira, Enos Keith and Ewald, but then went on to develop his own unique style.
One of his first awards was the 1968 “Adelaide Aboriginal Artist Award” for his watercolour “Paterson Ranges” WA.  Dan has had numerous exhibitions in NSW and won a number of awards, including the “Best Aboriginal Painter of the Year”.  In 1991 he also won the “Red Ochre Award” .  Included among his award winning paintings were a number of landscape works and “Goanna Laying Eggs” (a painting in traditional dot style).
In 1992 an exhibition was held in Alice Springs where Dann’s paintings were sold by auction to raise funds to send school children on holidays.
Over the years, Dan has travelled widely in Australia, selling his paintings and spreading the knowledge of his homelands region.  Dan’s paintings have been sold to people from all around the world, with one large painting sold in 2001 to an oversease buyer for $125,000.  An exhibition of Dan’s works was hed in Melbourne i 2004, opened by Governor General, Major Michael Jeffrey.

*this information was supplied directly by the Artist for the purposes of Authenticity


 
Last Updated: Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:18

Authenticity

We purchase all artworks directly from the Artists (who painted them), or from Community Art Centres.

The information about artists vary greatly, and mostly, this information is provided by the artists themselves directly.  Artists also vary greatly in the way they talk about themselves and their artworks.  There are often limits they have from their families and community, about how much, and what they can say about the iconic images, and symbols in their artworks.  The works and biographies of well known artists are more widely available, whilst new and emerging artists don't have a large work biography.  As individuals, artists can be reserved, shy, or, outgoing and prolific in their stories "yarns" and life histories. There are various levels and / or interest (or confidence) in English language usage and skills.  In the majority of Indigenous Central Australian communities, English is usually not the first spoken language.

All of the paintings in this collection of artworks, come with a "Certificate of Authenticity" issued by IDAH (us), or by the Art Centres from which we have acquired artworks.
The Certificates of Authenticity, or Certificate of Provenance provides information about the Artist and the Artwork.
Although the Certificates vary, they usually have an image of the artwork;  title of artwork; and name of the artist;  and some information about the artist and the artwork.  
Our Certificates have an image of the artist with the completed artwork, and some basic, or more detailed information about the artist and the painting, (with a couple of exceptions).  
Artists sign their paintings, usually on the back of the canvas, whilst some others sign on the front.  Usually they print their name, and community, and date.  They will often write some of the story, and/or explain the icons and their meanings.  This depends on how much detail of their Dreamtime stories and images they can talk about.

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