Matthew Tjupurrula Gill b. c.1960

  • Artist (Painter)
A Kukatja artist, and resident of both Balgo (WA) and Nyirrpi (NT), Gill's experimentation with different painting techniques produced a unique style. His work is in major collections in Australia and overseas.
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Matthew Gill’s work has received much attention from non-Aboriginal people, in part because of his fascination, to a far greater degree than anyone else in the Balgo community, with non-traditional designs and techniques. For example, he combined the X-ray technique of Arnhem Land with his own desert motifs. Born at the old Balgo Mission in about 1960, he began painting in 1982. He usually painted Snake, Emu and Water Dreaming stories from the area surrounding Lake Lazlett. A Kukatja speaker, he lived either at Balgo or in the Nyirrpi community. He was the son of Mick Gill . In 1989 the artist spent three months living and painting in Japan. Former Warlayirti Artists coordinator Michael Rae once described Matthew Gill as 'the most original and talented of all the younger artists at Balgo’.

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Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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