Artists
- Andrew Bryant
- Anne-Marie Zanetti
- Ben Hedström
- Charlotte Elizabeth
- Dai Li
- Darren White
- David Hinchliffe
- Erin Conron
- Gareth Edwards RWA
- Jaime Kiss
- James Ainslie
- Jo Young
- Joanne Villani
- June Sartracom
- Ken Barker
- Leonie Barton
- Mairi Ward
- Marie Le Lievre
- Melissa Ladkin
- Michael Ciavarella
- Michael Whitehead
- Mireia Serra
- Mitchell Cheesman
- Paul Reynolds
- Peggy Zephyr
- Rhonda Cao
- Rosella Namok
- Steve Rosendale
- Walala Tjapaltjarri
- Yanni Van Zijl
- Zhong Chen
Rosella Namok
Bio / CV
Born: 1979 Lockhart River QLD
Region: Eastern Cape York Peninsula
Community: Lockhart River
Language: Aangkum (Ungkun)
EXHIBITIONS—SOLO
2023 Meet Rosella Namok, Flying Arts Judith Wright Building Brisbane
2022 Regrowth FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2019 Sand Scribe FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2018 Nature’s Way FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2017 Weather Patterns II FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2015 Weather Patterns FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2014 New Moon in the City FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2012 YangkuyiWet Season Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery Sydney
2009 Rosella Namok Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2008 Rosella Namok Niagara Galleries Melbourne
2008 Rosella Namok – From Sand Beach Side Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2007 Sea Country Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2007 Ngaachi Bla Mepla Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2006 Up North Niagara Galleries Melbourne Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2005 My Puuya my life essence Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2005 Rosella Namok Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2005 Rosella Namok – New Works Adele Boag Gallery Adelaide
2004 Rosella Namok at The Essoign Club Melbourne
2004 Kungkay Ma (Up North) Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2004 other side October Gallery London England
2004 Rosella Namok – New Work Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2004 Rosella Namok Niagara Galleries at the Essoign Club Melbourne
2003 Rosella Hogarth Galleries Sydney Niagara Galleries Melbourne
2002 Tinta at Hogarth Galleries Paddington
2002 Happen’ this way Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2001 Ee Right This Way Hogarth Galleries Paddington
2001 melpa sarbie paint Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2000 I come from ”yah Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne
1999 ’bout hereLockhart River Hogarth Galleries Sydney
EXHIBITIONS—GROUP
2023 Evidence of Scale III: Drawing & Sculpture, FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2023 Lineage Despard Gallery, Hobart
2022 In Review FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Which Way? Despard Gallery, Hobart
2021 Shorelines FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Which Way? FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2021 Lockhart River Artists Despard Gallery, Hobart
2020 Twelve Ways FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2020 Twelve Artists FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize Caloundra Regional Gallery
2020 Black & White 2020 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2020 Lockhart Art Gang – Sharing Our Stories, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2019 Across the Top, Art Mob, Hobart
2019 Overcoming Adversity, Art Mob, Hobart
2019 Lunar Legacy, Art Mob, Hobart
2019 Matches 7: Michael Nelson Jagamara – A Shared Space, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Lockhart Legends Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 defining tradition | black + white Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 International Women’s Day Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Defining Tradition | the colourists Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Stories from my heart – Which Way Art Mob, Hobart
2019 On the Coast – The Art of Fiona Omeenyo & Rosella Namok Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2019 Tjanpi Desert Weavers and three Indigenous women painters Despard Gallery Hobart
2018 Welcome to Thompson Street FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2018 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2019 Tjanpi Desert Weavers and three Indigenous women painters Despard Gallery Hobart
2017 Sand, Salt & Spirit Coo-ee Art Gallery Sydney
2017 60 X√30 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2017 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair Sydney
2017 Weather Patterns II FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2017 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2016 She Walks the Line Part 1 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2015 Weather Patterns FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2014 – 2017 Saltwater Country travelling exhibition developed in partnership between Museums & Galleries Queensland and Gold Coast City Gallery. Curated by Michael Aird and Virginia Rigney. Gold Coast City Gallery, Australian Embassy Washington USA, AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art Utrecht Netherlands, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum, Cairns Regional Gallery, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, State Library of Queensland.
2014 QLD Gals FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2014 Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize Tattersall’s Club Brisbane
2014 Melbourne Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne
2014 Asia Contemporary Art Show Conrad Hong Kong
2014 The Long Hot Summer: Group Exhibition FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2012 The Bright The Bold & The Beautiful Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery Sydney
2011 Rosella Namok and Arone Meeks Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery Sydney
2009 Summer Show 2009 Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2008 Summer Show Hogarth Gallery Sydney
2007 Arte Indigena Dall’Australia: Contemporary Indigenous Art of the Lockhart River Art
2004 Wynne Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
2004 Land/Space + Family/Place Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth
2004 Hot Hotter Hottest Booker Lowe Gallery Houston Texas USA
2004 HANG 12 A Clean Ocean Foundation travelling exhibition
2004 The George White Bar St Kilda Victoria
2004 Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers Sydney
2004 QUT Art Museum Indigenous Art Collection: Works from the Oodgeroo Collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
2003 Story Place Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
2003 Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country) Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2003 Beneath the Monsoon Visions North of Capricorn Artspace MacKay
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
2003 The High Court of Australia Centenary Art Prize The High Court of Australia Canberra
2003 Water: Prints from Lockhart River and the Tiwi Islands Queensland University of Technology Art Museum Brisbane
2003 Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from Lockhart River Columbus State University Columbus Georgia USA
2003 Kulam Kannga (Beginning): New works by the Lockhart River Art Gang The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA
2003 Grosse Kunstausstellung 2003 – Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf Germany
2003 Icons That Build a Collection Cairns Regional Gallery Cairn
2003 The Year in Art S R Irwin Gallery Sydney
2003 Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands Artworkers Alliance Brisbane
2003 Big Art Small Viewer: celebrating children as artists University of Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
2003 Lockhart River Gang Gallery Gondwana Alice Springs
2002–04 Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft a travelling exhibition
2002 The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition Ludwig Erhard Haus Berlin Germany
2002 Indigenous Highlights from the State Art Collection Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth
2002 Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters Light Square Gallery Adelaide
2002 Telstra 19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
2002 Message Stick: Journey’s End Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
2002 Collectable Aboriginal Art Event Raintree Aboriginal Fine Art Gallery Darwin
2002 International Womens’ Day Event Vivien Anderson Gallery Melbourne
2002 New Ground Main Street Gallery Hahndorf Adelaide
2001 Dreamtime: Zeitgenossische Aboriginal Art / The Dark and the Light Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg Austria
2001 Wynne Prize Exhibition Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
2001 Lines of Descent: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prints and Objects Queensland University of Technology Art Museum Brisbane
2001 Federation Exhibition: Local Colour Local Lives Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
2001 Gatherings Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane
2001 A few of my favourite things Fireworks Gallery Brisbane
2001 In my eyes: an exhibition of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Cooktown Queensland
2001 Cape York Art Awards Laura Festival Laura Postcard Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery
2001 Masterworks Vivien Anderson Gallery Melbourne Gatherings Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane
2001 Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro University of Queensland Art Museum Brisbane
2000 The Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award Old Parliament House ACT
2000 Parma Belong Sandbeach: paintings and prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang Queensland Aboriginal Creations Brisbane
2000 Lockhart River Print Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
2000 Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art National Gallery of Australia Canberra
2000 Beyond the Pale: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide
2000 Fortitude: New Art from Queensland Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane
2000 Telstra 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory and travelling
2000 Postcards Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
2000 In my eyes: an exhibition of fine art prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang and Friends Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
2000 Olympic Exhibition Hogarth Galleries Sydney
2000 From the top: Lockhart River paintings by Samantha Hobson and Rosella Namok Andrew Baker Art Dealer Brisbane
1999 23rd Biennial of Graphic Art Lubljana Slovenia International Works on Paper Fair Sydney
1999 Postcard Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
1999 Lockhart River Art Gang ‘we searching’ Queensland Aboriginal Creations Brisbane
1999-2001 Message Stick: Art from North Queensland Lockhart River Aboriginal Community Queensland Aboriginal Creations Brisbane and touring (co-ordinated by Visions Australia)
1998 National Indigenous Art of Place Award Old Parliament House Canberra
1998 Telstra 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory and travelling
1997 Mepla Sarbie Art with the Lockhart River Art Gang Lockhart River Art and Culture Centre Queensland
1997 ngana nyllkana us painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang Cairns Regional Gallery Queensland
1997 Rena Ellen Jones Award Warrnambool Art Gallery Victoria
AWARDS
2004 High Court Centenary Art Award High Court of Australia Canberra 2003 Winner of the Redlands Westpac Art Prize Sydney
2000 Lin Onus Youth Award The Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award
1999 Most innovative product by an indigenous artist (a set of stainless steel Sea Country Bookmarks) Momento Awards Brisbane
1999 Works on Paper (Second Prize) Cape York Art Awards Laura Festival
1999 Nominated for Young Australian of the Year Arts Section
1998 Member of the Lockhart River Art Gang which won the National Heritage Commission Art of Place Community Endeavour Award
1997 Rena Allen Jones Award Warrnambool Art Gallery Victoria: screenprint selected for acquisition
1997 Personal Development Grant Arts Queensland
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth
ATSIC Collection Canberra
Australian Heritage Commission Canberra
Brisbane Club Brisbane
Cairns Regional Gallery Cairns
Columbus State University Georgia USA
Emerald Shire Council Queensland
Federal Court of Australia Brisbane
Flinders University Adelaide
International Education Services Brisbane
Macquarie University Sydney
Monash University Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
Northern Territory University Darwin
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane
Queensland Health Rights Commission Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
State Library of Queensland Brisbane
The Esk Collection Tasmania
The High Court of Australia Canberra
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA
University of Queensland Art Collection Brisbane
Warrnambool Art Gallery Victoria
Wollongong University NSW
COMMISSIONS
Private – Australia and USA