Kevin Gilbert b. 10 July 1933

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Painter, printmaker, cartoonist, photographer, poet, writer, historian and activist. Produced the first known fine art prints by an Aboriginal artist, made while he was in prison.

Citations

  • Desmond, Michael & Dixon, Christine (1995), '1968’.

  • Briscoe, Gordon; Dobrez, Livio; Headon, David; Dodson, Michael; Gilbert, Eleanor (1994), 'Aboriginal History’, 18/1-2.

  • Gellatly, Kelly (1999), 'Re-take: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Photography’, exhibition catalogue and handlist, National Gallery of Australia, 1998-10-03/1999-02-21.

  • de Berg, Hazel, National Library of Australia, Oral History tape, Interview with Kevin Gilbert.

  • Gilbert, Eleanor (ed) (1996), 'Breath of Life: Moments in transit towards Aboriginal Sovereignty exhibition catalogue’, CAS, Gorman House.

  • Howie-Willis, Ian (1994), 'K. Gilbert’, Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, ed. David Horton, Canberra: AIATSIS, pp.413-14.

  • Kerr, Joan (1999), 'Artists and Cartoonists in Black and White’, Sydney, New South Wales: National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery.

  • Pollock, Reg (Assistant Director General NSW Dept School Education) (1993), 'Foreword’, Jumna Milla Tunth: Our weapon/our shield, Penrith, New South Wales: Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery catalogue.

  • Rainbird, Stephen (1993), 'Contemporary Aboriginal prints in the Queensland University of Technology collection’, Imprint 28/4 (summer), pp 5-7.

  • Samuels, Jeffrey and Watson, Chris (1987), 'Aboriginal Australian Views in Print and Poster’, West Melbourne: Print Council of Australia catalogue, 1987-07-25/1987-09-17.

  • Kevin Gilbert (1990), 'The struggle continues’, Artlink vol 10, nos 1 & 2, pp. 52-53.

  • Miller, Steven (2004), 'Tradition Today: Indigenous art in Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, p. 48’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Grishin, Sasha (1997), 'Australian Printmakers in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1991-1995,pp. 96-97’, Craftsman House, Sydney.

  • Kolenberg, H. & Ryan, A. (1998), 'Australian prints from the Gallery’s Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • James Murdoch (research and interview) Peter Campbell (production) (1992), 'Kevin Gilbert (video recording of interview)’, Australian Film Institute Archival Film Series.

  • Blackout series (1991), 'Kevin Gilbert: poet, prisoner, playwright, worker, thinker, voice’, Aboriginal Program Unit, ABC.

See also

  • K Gilbert "The Cherry Pickers" 1988 https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18515984?q=Kevin+Gilbert+The+Cherry+Pickers&c=book
  • K Gilbert, "Living black: Blacks talk to Kevin Gilbert", Penguin Books Australia, 1978
  • K Gilbert, "Because a white man'll never do it", Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1973
  • K. Gilbert, "The blackside : people are legends and other poems", Hyland House, South Yarra, 1990
  • K. Gilbert ed), "Inside Black Australia : an anthology of Aboriginal poetry", Penguin, Ringwood, 1988
  • K. Gilbert "Aboriginal sovereignty: justice, the law and land: including draft treaty", 1988
  • K. Gilbert, "Flashes of essence" CAMA 1993 (poetry recording)
  • K. Gilbert "Black from the edge" 1993
  • Child's dreaming : poems /​ by Kevin Gilbert ; photography by Eleanor Williams

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists