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Techy Masero
	When Trinity College students visited Barunga in the Northern Territory in September 2007 they were presented with a life-size papier-mâché freshwater crocodile. This is the work of Techy Masero. A gift to the College, the crocodile was created for the 2007 Barunga Festival.
Hilda Amuna Nampijinpa Bert, Lucinda Yilpi Nipper, Naomi Tjikatu Nipper and Loretta Napanangka Penhal
Areyonga Community, N.T
	**Utulu Kutju Nintiringanyi Culture Kutjupa Kutjupaku: Learning together for Different Cultures** 2007 acrylic on canvas This painting was gifted by the Indigenous artist and Pitjantjatjara teacher Hilda Bert and Areyonga students at the Young Leaders Summer School Valedictory Dinner. It represents the diverse groups and cultures coming together to learn and grow at Trinity College.
Carrington, Charlene
1976 - Kija East Kimberley
Massacre at Mistake Creek 2001 Ochre on Belgian linen Gift of Judge Peter Gebhardt 2002	Charlene was born on the major east Kimberley cattle station, Texas Downs, and moved with her parents, Sade and Churchill, to nearby Warmun at Turkey Creek shortly thereafter. She has remained in the area, working with the large community, and has produced several children, whilst pursuing her dream to become a creditable painter in her own right.
Onus, Lin
1948-1996 Melbourne
'Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute' from 'The Ongoing Adventures of X & Ray' 1992 Iris Giclee on Arches paper Courtesy of Michael J Eather from Fire-Works Gallery http://www.fireworksgallery.com.au E R White Club purchase 2000	Born in Melbourne, Lin Onus was the only child of a Scottish mother and an Aboriginal father from the Yorta Yorta people of Victoria This painting and its comic style characters appeal to many. The image appeared on the cover of the monograph "Urban Dingo. The Art and Life of Lin Onus 1948-1996" and publicised the travelling retrospective exhibition. In 1992, Onus commenced work on the series "Ongoing adventures of X and Ray". The dingo, Onus' totem and the stingray, an adopted symbol of Onus' collaborator Michael Eather, parallel the lives of these two artists, enacted in this series of works. The catalogue of the 2000 retrospective exhibition noted that "this seminal work reveals both the sense of kinship between these two travellers and the importance of narrative and humour. X (the female stingray) becomes a kind of surfboard for Ray (the male dingo), and they are seen riding the crest of one of art history's greatest waves, taken from the eighteenth-century Japanese woodcut by Hokusai." Onus' work has been exhibited internationally and in 1993 he was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia.
Moffat, Tracey
1960 - photographer, video artist, film-maker
Laudanum 5 1998 Photogravure on rag paper Courtesy of roslyn oxley9 gallery, Paddington www.roslynoxley9.com.au E R White Club purchase 2000 Laudanum has been exhibited in San Francisco, Paris, Salzberg, New York, Sydney and London. This work was chosen by the E R White Club in 2000 for its mythical and mysterious qualities. It is #6 of a series comprising nineteen photographs.	The series of photographs does not provide answers; it only raise questions. Attempting to read these as a linear narrative, Moffatt warns, is pointless, as the sequence is consciously 'twisted and only serve[s] to baffle'. What is the relationship between these two women? Foster Mother and 'Stolen' Daughter? Mistress and Servant? Are they friends or perhaps lovers? Do they like or despise each other? Moffatt, who is known as the "mistress of surrealism", belongs to the first generation of artists whose main influence stems from television, advertising, comics and movies. Her works have been described as "a potent mix of gender, class, race and colonialism, using a broad palette of influences from popular culture to high art". As well as directing music clips for Christine Anu and INXS, Moffatt has also made films and video art. Night Cries - A Rural Tragedy (1989) is, in a way, Moffatt's sequel to Jedda, that racist classic of the 1950's. The film featured Jimmy Little, and Marcia Langton (Foundation Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne). Moffatt's work is in some of the most significant international collections of contemporary art. She is undeniably one of the most interesting and successful contemporary Australian artists.
Nangala, Mantua James
c.1959 - Pintupi "Tjulyuru" s/e of Jupiter Well, W.A.
Tingari ceremonies 2002 Acrylic on canvas Presented by Chris Simon and Michael Barlow, Yanda Aboriginal Art, and Lachlan Edwards 2002 Nangala learnt to paint whilst assisting her father at Kintore in the early 1980's. Mantua paints designs associated with the secret Tingari ceremonies at the site of Tjulna, located south-east of Kiwirrkura.	Nangala was a young girl when her father, Anatjari Tjampitjinpa and her mother, Mamuriu Napaltjarri came in from the desert in 1963, one of the last groups to do so under the Welfare Patrols, led by Jeremy Long. The patrol, with Nosepeg Tjupurrula and a Tjampitjinpa from Papunya, had been looking for them on the road that is the original road made by Len Beadel, west into W.A. from Sandy Blight Junction. They met at "Mukala", at the time Nangala and her family were living on "bush mangari" or damper made from seeds, and were getting scarce water from rockholes. Nangala and her family travelled to Papunya by truck with the Welfare Patrol. This is well documented and photographs of Nangala and the group appear in "The Lizard Eaters", a book by Douglas Lockwood. In 1984 Nangala was involved with the first contact of the last group to come out the Gibson Desert. They were her Tjapaltjarri uncles and her mother's brothers.
Naparrula, Mitjilli
c.1945- Pintupi/Luritja Haasts Bluff, west of Alice Springs
Tjukurrpa Acrylic on canvas Presented by Chris Simon and Michael Barlow, Yanda Aboriginal Art, and Lachlan Edwards 2002 Mitjilli is a daughter of Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, a sister of Turkey Tolson Tjaparrula and is married to Long Tom Tjapanangka.	Mitjilli began painting in the early 1990's through the influence of her family painting her father's dreaming or "Tjukurrpa". She was taught this by her mother, as a women's interpretation. This dreaming depicts the making of spears, an important aspect of men's business. The straightening of spears was often painted by her brother, Turkey Tolson. Her paintings usually relate to wooden objects and their sources, such as trees from which the spear shafts and other objects are made. Her works show a strong use of pattern in formal arrangements, for which she has been awarded the Alice Springs Art Award in 1999. Her work is displayed in many collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Flinders University Art Museum in South Australia and the Sunshine Coast University, Queensland.
Nungurrayi, Nancy Ross
c.1935- Ngaatjatjarra and Pintupi/Luritja "Karrku", south of Kiwirrkura approx. 800km west of Alice Springs
Karrku story Acrylic on canvas Presented by Chris Simon and Michael Barlow, Yanda Aboriginal Art, and Lachlan Edwards 2002	Nancy and her family walked into Papunya from Wala Wala in the Gibson Desert, prior to the last group of traditional people being brought in by Native Welfare Patrols under Jeremy Long. She came in with her late Tjampitjinpa husband and two other co-wives. She is the sister of Naat Nungurrayi and George Tjungurrayi and now she lives at Kintore with her family. Nancy paints her "Karrku" story as well as other stories including "Mantarrkurra", "Tunitjarra" - kunkga tjutar, many women; "Marrapinta" - women's business; "Mamuttjulku" - Nancy's (Tjapaltjarri) father's site; "Mantjintjalkara" - located in the Karrku area; "Wirunya" - ceremonial skirt worn by women
Vincent, Ray Kuwyie
1940- Dhungutti, north coast NSW
Trinity and the Kulin people 2001 acrylic on canvas	Ray Vincent was Artist-in-Residence at Trinity College in 2001. He worked in the Art Studio and many students dropped by for a cup of coffee and a chat, or to join in a studio workshop. Over the course of his stay he completed this work which depicts the Trinity College community being embraced by the symbolism of the Kulin nation and the Wurrundjeri people who were the original inhabitants of the land that Trinity now stands on. Gift of the artist