BARBARA WEIR
Born: 1945 Bundy River Station NT
Language: Alyawarre/Anmatyerre
Country: Atnwengerrp
Region: Utopia north-east of Alice Springs NT
EXHIBITIONS—SOLO
2020 Barbara Weir: Culture + Country, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2012 Barbara Weir Kate Owen Gallery Sydney
2010 In the footprints of Barbara Weir Central Art Deloraine Tasmania
2010 Desert Journeys DACOU
2007 Blowing in the Wind Artmob Hobart
2006 Recent Paintings Gallery Savah Sydney
2002-04 Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
2002 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1999 Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
1999 Gathering the Past Redback Art Gallery Brisbane
1998 Chapman Gallery Canberra
1997 Aboriginial Gallery of Dreamings Melbourne
1997 Barry Stern Gallery Sydney
1997 DACOU Gallery Adelaide
1996 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
EXHIBITIONS—GROUP
2022 Motherline: Charmaine Pwerle, Barbara Weir & Minnie Pwerle, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Nations 2022, Art Mob, at the Henry Jones Art Hotel Packing Room, Hobart
2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Into the Sunset, Pwerle Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
2022 Ngawiya Ngubadi, The Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Herefordshire, UK
2022 Art Mob's 20th Birthday Exhibition, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Voyage across Aboriginal Australia - Founders' Favourites, Fondation Burkhardt-Felder Arts et Culture, Moitiers, Switzerland
2021 Of the Land, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2021 Top Ten Artists 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 A Vision of Country: Australian Aboriginal Landscapes, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Colours of Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Pointillism Perfection, Art Mob, Hobart
2020 Blue July, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Director's Choice 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 Top Ten - Our Most Popular Artists 2019, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Summer Show & Art Parade, Salt, Queenscliff, VIC
2019 defining tradition | black + white, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Matches 6 - Group Exhibition - Featuring Barbara Weir, Ian Bettinson, Jack Britten, Lilly
Kelly Napangardi, Minnie Pwerle, Tony Tuckson & Yvonne Mills-Stanley, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 International Women's Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Spring Collection: Exhibition to celebrate our beautiful Spring Collection, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2019 defining tradition | the colurists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Colours of Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2018 20/20 Vision: 20 Years 20 Women, Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney
2018 Earth's Creation, Emily Kame and Family, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2017 Atnwengerrp Revisited | Family Show and Artist in Residence Programme, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2015 Women of Papunya, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2014 New to view: Utopia FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2010-2011 New Beginnings Brits Art & Promotion Übach-Palenberg Germany
2010 Utopia Colour Salt Contemporary Art VIC
2010 Desert Art from Utopia DACOU
2010 Latest works by Barbara Weir Mantua Gallery NT
2010 Tradition to Modernity: A Showcase of Unique Contemporary Indigenous work from Central Desert Regions Central Art Deloraine TAS
2010 Artitja: The Gift Collection – Art + Objects: small and affordable 2010 Artitja Fine Art Gallery
2010 The Imprint Utopia Collection Central Art TAS
2010 McCulloch’s Aboriginal Art @ Flinders 2010: A Summer Exhibition from The Lands Salt Contemporary Art VIC
2008 Blue: a group exhibition FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2008 Utopia Revisited NG Art Gallery Chippendale Sydney
2008 Utopia Discoveries Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
2008 EWB Elements Travelling exhibition to capital cities of Australia Dacou in conjunction with Dreamtime Art
2007 Robert Steele Gallery New York USA
2007 Standing on Ceremony Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
2007 Robert Steele Gallery New York USA
2007 Australian Embassy Washington USA
2007 Desert Diversity Flinders Lane Melbourne
2007 Treasures of the Spirit – Investing in Aboriginal Art Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
2007 APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition with Rio Tinto FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2007 Best of the Best Gallery Framed Darwin
2007 Blowing in the Wind Artmob Hobart
2007 New Works from Utopia Space Gallery Pittsburgh USA
2007 Lines & Signs FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1997-07 DACOU Adelaide
2006 Utopia Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
2006 APS Bendi Lango Art Exhibition RioTinto Offices Melbourne
2005-06-07 Annual Group Exhibition Shalom Insititute University of New South Wales Kensington
2005-06 Utopia exhibitions Gallery Savah Sydney
2004-05-06 Gallery Savah Sydney
2004 Spirit & Vision Sammlung Essl Austria
2004 Lines IV FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2004 Lines III FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2004 Entry Points FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
2003-2004 Framed - The Darwin Gallery Darwin
2002 Alison Kelly Gallery Armadale Victoria
2002 Knut Grothe Galeri Charlottlenlund Copenhagen
2002 Paintings From Utopia Framed - The Darwin Gallery Darwin
2002 Mixed Utopia exhibition at Galeri a Le Temps Du Reve France
2002 Contemporary Aboriginal Art From The Utopia Region - combined exhibition at BMGART Adelaide SA
2002 Generations Utopia combined exhibition at Japingka Gallery Perth Western Australia
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
2002 A Collectable Aboriginal Art Event Raintree Gallery Darwin
2001 Out of Utopia Chapman Gallery Canberra
2001 Alison Kelly Gallery Armadale
2001 YPO Conference in conjunction with Mbantua Gallery Alice Springs
2001 Painting Country Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
2001 Desert Colour, My Country combined exhibition Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery Darwin
2001 Women Artists of the Australian Desert Gallery 2021 Auckland New Zealand
2001Two Women Dreamings Dreamtime Gallery
2001 Santa Fe New Mexico USA
2001 An Art Odyssey The West End Precinct Adelaide
2001 Nangara The Ebes Collection Japanese Museum Tokyo
2000 An Affair to Remember ArtSauce Singapore
2000 Discovery Gallery Savah Sydney NSW
2000 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney NSW
2000 Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
2000 Gordes Vaucluse France
2000 AMP building Sydney Olympics
2000 Mary Place Gallery Sydney
2000 Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery Sydney
2000 Women’s Business at The Australian Exhibition Centre Chicago USA
1999 Utopia BMG Art Adelaide
1999 Bush Garden Japingka Gallery Fremantle
1999 Utopia V Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1999 Caring For Country Tandanya Cultural Institute Adelaide
1999 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
1999 Gallery Savah Sydney
1999 North Shore Fine Art Sydney
1999 Dream Works Gallery Savah Sydney
1998 Women Painters Of The Desert FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1998 ARTEXPO New York in association with Mandurah Ltd New York
1998 Utopia IV Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1998 SCECGS Redlands Sydney
1998 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
1998 Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
1998 The Adelaide Festival Theatre
1998 Art Felchlin Zurich Switzerland
1998 Gallery Griffiouen Belgium
1998 Boomerang Gallery Amsterdam
1998 Kunsdcentoum Aalst Belgium
1998 Kunsdcentoum Dendermonde Belgium
1998 Frank Popko Gallery Rees Germany
1997 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney NSW
1997 DACOU Gallery in Adelaide
1997 Dreamings of the Desert Art Gallery of South Australia
1997 Hogarth Gallery in Sydney
1997 Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne
1997 Ten Years On Sutton Gallery Melbourne
1997 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1997 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
1997 FireWorks Gallery Brisbane
1996 Framed Darwin
1996 Gallery Woo Mang and Partners Paris France
1996 Flinders Lane Gallery Melbourne
1996 Quadrivium Gallery Sydney
1995 DACOU Gallery Adelaide
1995 Davis Avenue Gallery Melbourne
AWARDS
2021 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award - Finalist
2021 Ravenswood Art Prize - Finalist
2020 Calleen Art Award - Finalist
2018 Artwork selected for the British Embassy, Canberra
2018 Paddington Art Prize - Finalist
2009 Top 50 Collectable Artists, Australian Art Collector Magazine
2002 19th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2000 Redlands Westpac Art Prize Mosman Art Gallery Sydney (finalist)
2000 17th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (finalist)
1998 15th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (finalist)
1997 14th annuat National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (finalist)
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne
Queensland Art Galley Brisbane
The Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide
Queensland College of Art Griffith University Brisbane
The University of Adelaide
The University of Queensland
AMP Collection
Macquarie Bank Collection
Artbank Sydney
Ebes Collection-Workum The Netherlands
Holmes a Court Collection
Hitachi Collection
Hank Ebes Collection
