
HECTOR JANDANY
Purnululu (Bungle Bungles Ranges), circa 1995
natural earth pigments on canvas
100 x 140 cm
Provenance
Warringati Arts, Western Australia (S685)
Private Collection, Queensland
Art Money payment in instalments available
Hector Jandany
(Warmun, 1923 – 2006)
Born in Warmun (Turkey Creek), Hector Jandany was an important artist from the East Kimberley Region who began painting for Waringarri Aboriginal Arts in Kununurra in the late 1980s, and later painted for the Warmun Arts Centre. His work was included in the important exhibition Images of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley at the NGV in 1993, and has been collected by Australia’s most important institutions.
Notable Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
Notable exhibitions
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Images of Power: Aboriginal Art from the Kimberley,1993
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Power of the Land: Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, 1994
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Imaging the Land, 1997
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, True Stories: Art of the East Kimberley, 2003