© Martin Browne Contemporary
© All images copyright Marlene Gilson
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COMPILER: Henry Guerin
PHOTOGRAPHER: Jane Gardner
COLOUR SEPARATIONS: Spitting Image, Sydney
Cover Image: Raising the Flags, 2022, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
LIST OF WORKS
Building a Home, Family Altogether, 2023, acrylic on linen, 60 x 76 cm
Learning to Fly the Boomerang, 2023, acrylic on linen, 60 x 76 cm
The Wild White Man, 2022, acrylic on linen, 60 x 76 cm
Raising the Flags, 2022, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Newcomers, 2022, acrylic on linen, 60 x 76 cm
Happy Families - time when we all lived together, 2022, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Binbeal the Rainbow, 2023, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Market Day, 2022, acrylic on linen, 76 x 100 cm
Learning to Fly the Boomerang, 2023
Acrylic on linen
The Wild White Man, 2022
Acrylic on linen 60 x 76 cm
“William Buckley an escaped convict known as the wild white man lived with the Wadawurrung people for 32 years.”
Raising the Flags, 2022
Acrylic on linen
76 x 100 cm
“The Eureka flag represented independence, democracy and freedom and the British flag represented control.”
Happy Families - time when we all lived together, 2022
Acrylic on linen
Binbeal the Rainbow, 2023
Acrylic on linen
76 x 100 cm
“Bunjil the Creator Spirit had two wives, Kunuwarra the Black Swans and a son named Binbeal the Rainbow.”
MARLENE GILSON
Born 1944, Warrnambool
Clan – Wathaurung (Wadawurrung)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Binbeal, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, 2 - 25 March 2023
2022 Bunjil Wour Kun Ya - Spirit of my Ancestors, Martin Browne Contemporary, Melbourne Art Fair, 17 - 20 February 2022
2021 My Place - Before, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, 4 March - 28 March 2021
2020 On Country, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, 5 March - 29 March 2020
2018 Marlene Gilson, Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 21 September 2018 – 3 February 2019
2017 What If, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne, 5 August – 8 October 2017
2016 Painting Stories, Aunty Marlene, Solo Exhibition, Creswick and Bacchus Marsh Libraries, NAIDOC Week. 3 – 10 July
2015 Guraham - King William - His Country, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Ballarat, 26 September – 23 January 2016
2014 Wadawurrung - Past, Present & Future, Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum, Melbourne, 5 December 2014 – 28 June 2015 (with Deanne Gilson)
2012 Welcome to our Country (Ngardang baap yarrang) - Mother and Daughter - Wathaurung (Wadawurrung) Dreaming, Art Gallery of Ballarat, August 4th, 2012 - September 9th, 2012 (with Deanne Gilson)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Badu Gili: Wonder Women, Sydney Opera House, April 2021
2019 New Acquisitions, Shepparton Art Museum, January 2019
2018 The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War, National Gallery of Australia, 12 May – 29 July 2018 touring to Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart and the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
2018 Superpostion, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 March – 11 June 2018
2018 Colony: Frontier Wars, National Gallery of Victoria 15 March 2018 – 15 July 2018
2017 Reconciliation, Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria 24 May – 24 June 2017
2017 Taking the Myth, The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat, 26 April – 28 May 2017
2017 Leather Poisoning Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria,11 March 2017 – 9 April 2017
2016 Sovereignty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 17 December 2016 - 26 March 2017
2016 Kingston Art Centre, ‘I Never Painted My Dreams, I Painted My Reality’, Kingston Art Centre, Moorrabin, Victoria, 2 - 27 September 2016
AWARDS
2016 City of Ballarat, Bunjil Plaques on Twelve Historical Buildings
2016 Gekko Painting Award, Ballarat
2015 The 10th Anniversary Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 9 August – 20 September 2015
2015 Koorie Heritage Trust Reconciliation Award, Christmas Exhibition
2014 Koorie Heritage Trust Reconciliation Award, Christmas Exhibition
1956 Specially Commended Certificate of Merit, Children’s Art Award, Footscray, Melbourne
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australian Catholic University Art Collection, Melbourne Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora
City of Melbourne Art Collection, Melbourne Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria Deakin University Art Collection
Gekko Systems Art Collection, Ballarat
Guirguis Art Collection, Ballarat
Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne Manningham Gallery, Doncaster, Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Nigel Buesst Art Collection, Melbourne
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton
Sovereign Hill Gold Museum, Ballarat
Works held in private collections Australia and USA