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Paddy Bedford Dingo Springs 2005 (detail). Private collection.
Image courtesy of Jirrawun Arts 
© The estate of Mr P Bedford
Paddy Bedford
Cockatoo Dreaming  2002
Private collection
Courtesy of Jirrawun Arts
© The estate of Mr P Bedford
Paddy Bedford
Gum Hole 2005. Private collection. Image courtesy of Jirrawun Arts © The estate of Mr P Bedford.
Paddy Bedford Boonoonggoowirrin—Middle Brand  2006 Private collection. Image courtesy of Jirrawun Arts © The estate of Mr P Bedford
Paddy Bedford Untitled 2003. Private collection. Image courtesy of Jirrawun Arts 
© The estate of Mr P Bedford
Paddy Bedford Untitled 2004. Image courtesy of Jirrawun Arts 
© The estate of Mr P Bedford

VIDEO & AUDIO GALLERY

Ovation Channel feature - Paddy Bedford exhibition

Running Time: 3:28

Ovation Channel feature segment about the MCA major survey of the work of leading Indigenous artist Paddy Bedford. Includes interviews with MCA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs Keith Munro, who discusses the artist's practice, background and some of the stories behind his paintings.

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Ovation Channel feature - Paddy Bedford exhibition

Running Time: 3:28

Ovation Channel feature segment about the MCA major survey of the work of leading Indigenous artist Paddy Bedford. Includes interviews with MCA Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs Keith Munro, who discusses the artist's practice, background and some of the stories behind his paintings.

PADDY BEDFORD



Paddy Bedford is a Gija elder from Warmun in the north east Kimberley region of Western Australia. As a senior law man he has been involved in painting as part of ceremony all his life. He began painting on canvas for exhibition, after Freddie Timms set up the Jirrawun Aboriginal Art group at Rugun (Crocodile Hole) in 1997 and is represented in several major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Australia. The first major solo exhibition of Bedford’s work, this project will include major paintings drawn from public and private collections across the country. A significant publication on Bedford’s work will be launched to coincide with it.

Bedford works in the 'Turkey Creek' style, with expanses of plain ochre and sparse lines punctuated by white dots, depicting the landscape in which he has spent a lifetime. His paintings combine important family Dreamings such as emu, turkey and cockatoo with roads, rivers, the living areas for traditional life and stock camp life, stock yards and country visited while mustering. Paddy Bedford is one of the artists commissioned to make work for the new Musée du Quai Branly in Paris which profiles art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

National touring information

International touring information

NATIONAL/REGIONAL TOUR

Art Gallery of Western Australia
12 May 2007 - 22 July 2207

Bendigo Art Gallery
11 August 2007 - 16 September 2007

University Art Museum, University of Queensland
3 November 2007 - 1 March 2008


Wayanagem
Paddy Bedford Activity Sheet for 4-7 year olds


(Gija word from the artist's country meaning "little ones")

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Gijam-boorroo deg-girrim linga-linga-girrim
Paddy Bedford Activity Sheet for 8-14 year olds


(Gija word from the artist's country meaning "Looking and thinking about Gija things")

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Paddy Bedford Education Kit



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