Born: 1947
Region: Alice Springs, Western Desert
Community Centre: Darwin
Language Bloc: Western Desert
Language: Luritja, Wombaya,
Medium/ Form:
Water colors on arches paper, Acrylic on canvas
Designs:
The National Aboriginal flag. (Harold owns the copyright).
Awards:
1984, Third Prize, Inaugural National Aboriginal Art Award, Northern Territory
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin
Commissions:
1992, Portraits of Parliamentarians, Darwin NT
Collections held:
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Northern Territory Chief Ministers Department.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Exhibitions:
1968, Adelaide, solo exhibition, opened by Don Dunstan, SA
1977, Arnhemland Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin, NT
1978, Heritage Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin, NT
1985, Esplanade Gallery, Darwin, NT
1986, The Parap Gallery, Darwin, NT
1986, Raintree Gallery, Darwin, NT
1987, Birukmarri Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1987, Esplanade Gallery, Darwin, NT
1988, The Showcase Gallery, Darwin, NT
1988, Caz Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1989, Masterworks Exhibition, Raintree Gallery, Darwin, NT
Group Exhibitions:
1984, The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery
of NT, Darwin
1985, The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery
of the NT, Darwin
1990, Balance 1990: views, visions, influences, QAG, Brisbane.
1993, The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery
of the NT, Darwin
Select Bibliography
Try and find out more about this:
ATSIC News Spring 1991.
West, M., 1984, ‘The first national Aboriginal art Award’, in Australian Aboriginal
Studies, Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies, 1984, No. 1.