Johnny Bulunbulun facts for kids

Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist.

He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called "Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade".

Awards

Since 1993, the Australia Council for the Arts, the arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia, has awarded a Red Ochre Award to an outstanding Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander) artist for lifetime achievement. In 2004, it was awarded to Bulunbulun.

Exhibitions

• Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Capital Museum, Beijing.
• Trepang: China & the story of Macassan – Aboriginal Trade, Melbourne Museum.

Collections

• Artbank, Sydney.
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
• Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra
• Djomi Museum, Maningrida
• Edith Cowan University Collection Perth Western Australia
• Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
• Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
• Kluge Foundation, Morven Estate, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
• Milingimbi Collection, MECA, Milingimbi Educational and Cultural Association
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Maningrida Collection, Sydney
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
• National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney
• Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA