Big John Dodo
(Australia 1910– )
- Language group
- Karajarri, Kimberley region
- Title
- Maparn, doctor man
- Place of origin
-
Western Australia →
Australia
- Year
- circa 1985
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- natural pigments on carved sandstone
- Dimensions
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35.5 x 14.0 x 21.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Ronald and Alison Fine 1994
- Accession number
- 438.1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Bibliography (5)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 73 (colour illus.), 74-75, 79. cat.no. 25
'Portrait sculpture: simultaneously the most artificial and the most "real"' by Deborah Edwards, pg. 29-31., Look Sep 2003, Sep 2003, 31.
Margo Neale (Australia) (Author), Yiribana: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection, Sydney, 1994, 92, 93 (colour illus.), 136, 139. plate no. 44
Hetti Perkins (Australia) (Author), Ken Watson (Australia) (Author), A material thing - objects from the collection, Sydney, 1999.
Margo Neale (Australia) (Editor), Sylvia Kleinert (Australia) (Editor), The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, South Melbourne, 2000, 232 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (4)
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Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997.
A material thing - Objects from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 Aug 1998–09 Feb 1999.
The possibilities of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 04 Mar 1999–20 Jun 1999.
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003.
