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William Sandy
/ Boomerangart Collection
/ Cat.No: 9695
From the early 1980s, William Sandy began painting for Papunya Tula artists in early 1980s. Some of his subjects are dingo, emu, women and green bean. He is also a very knowledgeable, traditional medicine man.
Selected exhibitions:
1982 Georges Exhibition, Melbourne;
1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney;
1985 Aboriginal Artists Gallery, Melbourne;
1986 Queensland University, Brisbane;
1988 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery;
1988 – 1989 “Dreaming” Exhibition which toured the USA;
1989 John Weber Gallery, New York, USA;
1989 Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico;
1990 Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
1990 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne;
1990 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery;
1991 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA;
1992,1996,1997, 1998 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs;
1992 IBM – Kawasaki City Gallery, Kawasaki, Japan;
1993 Chapman Gallery, Canberra;
1997 Manningham Art Space, Melbourne;
1999, 2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne;
1999, 2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne;
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, USA;
2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne.
Selected collections:
Robert Holmes a Court; Broken Hill Gallery; Wollonggong City Art Gallery; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Donald Khan Collection, USA; Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands.