PHILIP GUDTHAYKUDTHAY
- » 24/10/2022: lt is with great respect and sadness we acknowledge the passing of senior Yolŋu artist Mr Gudthaykudthay and offer condolences to the Ramingining community and all who knew him for this loss. “He was an extraordinary painter focussing on Gandayala; the Creation Being of Ramingining, and the Wagilag Sisters Creation Story. He was the last of a generation of Bula’Bula Arts founders and first artists.” Bula-bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation has said. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to present a solo exhibition of Mr Gudthaykudthay’s work in 2021, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, in association with Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation. Mr Gudthaykudthay (Pussycat) contributed five burial poles to the Aboriginal Memorial conceived and coordinated by Djon Mundine in 1988, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Aboriginal Memorial was recently relocated and celebrated as part of the 40-year anniversary of the NGA.
- » 16/05/2022: Congratulations to Philip Gudthaykudthay and Amanda Williams who have been invited as finalists for the The King's School Art Prize 2022. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is being judged this year by Isobel Parker Philip, Senior curator of Australian contemporary art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Prizes are announced Friday 20/05/22.
- » 11/10/2021: The Commercial will recommence regular gallery hours from Thursday 14/10/21. Our current exhibition, Philip Gudthaykudthay - The Pussycat and the Kangaroo, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, continues until 06/11/21.
- » 02/10/2021: In light of current NSW Health regulations, the Philip Gudthaykudthay - The Pussycat and the Kangaroo exhibition, curated by Djon Mundine OAM will be online from today 02/10/21 and then open usual gallery hours once possible from Thursday 14/10/21 continuing until Saturday 06/11/21.
- » 27/09/2021: Between 1979 and 1995, Bandjalung curator, writer, artist and activist, Djon Mundine OAM, worked as resident art advisor on the island of Milingimbi and then at the newly-formed Bula’bula Arts centre in Ramingining, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. During his sixteen years living at Milingimbi and Ramingining, Mundine developed close connections with Yolgnu artists. One of these artists was Liyagalawumirr painter Philip Gudthaykudthay (pronounced ‘g’day, g’day’). Gudthaykudthay is also known by the nickname, ‘Pussycat’. Pussycat, born around 1935 or possibly some years earlier, is the senior living artist from Ramingining and one of the senior artists from the larger Central Arnhem Land area. Pussycat’s mother’s country is Ramingining. He paints both his mother’s and his father’s country. Philip Gudthaykudthay – The Pussycat and the Kangaroo is an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine of 23 paintings on canvas by Gudthaykudthay ranging in dates from 2005 to 2019. The exhibition is presented in association with Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Ramingining.