Jimmy Pike

Jimmy Pike
Born
Kurnti Kujarra

c. 1940
east of Japingka, Western Australia
DiedNovember 3, 2002(2002-11-03) (aged 61–62)
Derby, Western Australia
EducationFremantle Prison
Known forPainting, print making, publishing
SpousePat Lowe
Websitewww.jimmypiketrust.org.au

Jimmy Pike (c.1940 – 3 November 2002) was a Walmatjarri Aboriginal artist.

Early life

Jimmy Pike was born around 1940 east of Japingka, an important jila or permanent waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, and grew up as a hunter-gatherer. Like many of his people he drifted north toward the river valleys and the sheep and cattle stations where food was more plentiful. Living as a fringe-dweller around Cherrabun Station, he eventually joined relatives at the station camp and worked as a stockman. He was named Jimmy Pike, after Phar Lap's jockey, by a cattle station manager.

Career

Pike learned to use western art materials while in Fremantle Prison. Even before he was released from prison his work was exhibited in major Australian galleries.

In 1989 Pike featured in a documentary The Quest of Jimmy Pike.

He illustrated a book Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen with his wife Pat Lowe. Pike has collaborated on a number of other books with his wife.

He held exhibitions in United Kingdom, Philippines, China, Namibia, and Italy. During a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery London in 1998, Pike and his wife Pat Lowe attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace.

He held a joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in the National Gallery of China in Beijing, called "Through the Eyes of Two Cultures". He was the first Australian painter to show there.

Pike died from a heart attack on 3 November 2002 in Derby, Western Australia.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Jimmy Pike". Jimmy Pike Trust. 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Artist Jimmy Pike (Kurntikujarra)". Virtual Reading Room. Education Services Australia Ltd and National Archives of Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Stephens, Tony (20 November 2002). "Painter recaptured his land in art". Obituaries. Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ↑ Tristram, John (1989). "The Quest of Jimmy Pike". Ronin Films. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Lowe, Pat (1997). Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen. Broome, W.A.: Backroom Press. p. 30. ISBN 1876332069.
  6. 1 2 "Through the eyes of two cultures". Exhibition Catalog.
  7. 1 2 3 "The Australian Art Print Network". Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fine Art Prints and sculpture. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Jimmy Pike". Art Gallery of NSW.
  9. ↑ Rainbow Serpent Archived 10 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
  10. ↑ "Jimmy Pike, Artist". Museum Victoria.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  11. ↑ "Jimmy Pike". National Gallery of Australia.
  12. ↑ "Kuntika Jimmy Pike". National Gallery of Victoria. Archived from the original on 17 June 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  13. ↑ "Kurnti Jimmy Pike". National Gallery of Victoria.
  14. ↑ Parliament House Art Collection Australian Parliament House
  15. ↑ Pike, Jimmy. "Desert Psychedelic". Queensland Museum.
  16. ↑ http://www.christensenfund.org/programs/northern-australia/