Fire-Works gallery - George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi Biography

	Born: c1947 Language: Pintupi Country: Pintupi Region: Remote Western Desert region WA/NT George Hairbrush was born circa 1947 in his traditional Pintupi country in the remote Western Desert region of Australia. Around 1976 he affiliated himself with the Papunya Tula artist group where he launched his career as an artist. George Hairbsuh predominantly paints aspects of the Tingari Dreaming, which features mythical characters who traveled throughout the country and shaped the landscape. He was a Finalist in the 2007 Art Gallery NSW Wynne Prize. George Hairbrush’s works are exhibited and collected by many galleries and institutions throughout Australia and held in private, corporate and public collections.
		EXHIBITIONS-SELECTED
	2011	Eclectica Exhibition Series (I, II & III) FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
	2008	From the air, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Anzac Arstists, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Repeart that again: the serial impulse in art since the 60s, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
	2007	Lines and Signs, fireworks gallery, Brisbane
	2006	Homage to the Square, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Three Large Rooms, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Art Forum, Berlin (in association with David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane)
	2005	The Dark and The Light II, fireworks gallery, Brisbane
	2004	Predominantly White by predominantly black artists, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Spirit & Vision, Sammlung Essl, Austria
	2002	fireworks gallery, Brisbane Lines II, fireworks gallery, Brisbane
	2001	DREAMTIME: The Dark and The Light, Sammlung Essl, Austria
	2000	Lines, firework gallery, Brisbane
	1998	Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
	1997	Utopia Art, Sydney
	1996	Araluan Arts Centre, Alice Springs
	1995	Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin Groninger Museum, The Netherlands Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs Gallerie Australis, Adelaide Chapman Gallery, Canberra
	1994	Dreamtime gallery, Broadbeach
		COLLECTIONS
		National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Museum of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Queenland Univeristy Art Museum. Brisbane Artbank, Sydney Supreme Court of Northern Territory, Darwin Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Robert Homles a Court Collection, Perth Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, America University of Virginia, America Private collection, Australia & overseas
		BIBLIOGRAPHY
		Dreamtime. Zeitgenossische Aboriginal Art. Edition Sammlung Essl (Hrsg.), Klosterneuburg 2001, Aust. Kat., ISBN 3902001038 Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817