Badger Bates
(Australia 05 Oct 1947– )
- Language group
- Paakantji, Southern Riverine region
- Title
- Thina Yappa (Foot prints)
- Place of origin
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New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 1993
- Media category
- Materials used
- linocut, black on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 24/25
- Dimensions
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33.0 x 30.9cm blockmark; 56.0 x 38.5cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r. corner, pencil "BADGER 93".
- Credit
- Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund for Contemporary Aboriginal Art 1997
- Accession number
- 288.1997
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Badger Bates comes from the Paakantji people of the Darling River, western NSW. He has been central in encouraging local Aboriginal people to make linocuts by teaching and promoting the 'Far West School' in other centres. He first made linocuts with designs he had been carving on emu eggs since childhood; the new medium enabled him to make more detailed compositions. He uses traditional Aboriginal motifs and designs based on the region's rock art (engravings, stencils and paintings) and the wavy, geometric designs found on local wooden artefacts. His themes include depictions of local sites of significance and aspects of traditional lifestyle as well as Dreamtime stories.
"This is at Mutawintji. Emu and Kangaroo are coming in to drink. Nhatji is there. Boomerangs, goanna and hands and the tommy-axe (a stencil) are all at Mutawintji".
Hendrik Kolenberg and Anne Ryan, 'Australian prints from the Gallery's collection', AGNSW, 1998
- Bibliography (1)
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Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1998, 145 (illus.). cat.no. 123
- Exhibition history (2)
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Aboriginal Art of the Western Darling, Maudespace, 25 Jul 1996–11 Aug 1996.
Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998-1999), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Nov 1998–07 Feb 1999.
