c.1935 - 2017
Lived and worked in Anamaraptji, west of Irrunytju, WA
\ Artists
Yannima Tommy Watson
In 2005 Yannima Tommy Watson was commissioned to create Wipu Rockhole, now permanently installed on a ceiling at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This commission assisted in establishing his reputation as one of a handful of internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artists.
Yannima Tommy Watson worked as a stockman, a labourer and a road builder before becoming a painter. In 2001, in a small corrugated-iron shed at Irrunytju, he learned how to use acrylic paints on canvas. In a very short time, Yannima Tommy Watson became a master painter. He is now regarded as a peer of Clifford Possum Tjapaljarri, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Rover Thomas.
Yannima Tommy Watson’s paintings do not present the same imagery as do his contemporaries’ works; rather, he chose a form of abstraction to pictorialise his sacred stories from both his mother's and his grandfather's country, often singing his stories as he painted them.
\ Artworks
ARAN (Cat. TWR3)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
IYARKA (Cat No. TWR7)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Kapi Piti (Cat No. TWKM94)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Kapi Piti (Cat No. TWR9)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Kututu Yiwara (Cat No. TWKM8)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Ngayuka Ngura (Cat No. TWR4)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Ngayuka Ngura (Cat No. TWR5)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Pikarli (Cat No. TWR1)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
WIPU (Cat No. TWKM93)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
WIPU (Cat No. TWKM95)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Walpanja (Cat No. TWR8)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Walunja (Cat No. TWKM7)
2013 \ Acrylic on board \ 37.5 x 27.5cm framed
Wankamaralj Kulpi (Cat No. TWKM27OCT)
2014 \ Acrylic on linen \ 180 x 244cm
Wipu
2015 \ Acrylic on linen \ 182 x 302cm
\ Exhibitions featuring Yannima Tommy Watson
12 - 14 Meagher Street
Chippendale, NSW 2008
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Summer Dates: The gallery will close on Friday 20 December and reopen on Monday 13 January, 2025 Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm Saturday, 11am - 4pm Summer Dates: The gallery will close on Friday 20 December and reopen on Monday 13 January, 2025 Closed Public Holidays (and Easter Saturday)