Polly Ngale History and Collections

History


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2019 Polly Ngale - Arnwetky, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Emily & Others | Geniuses from Utopia, Art Mob, Hobart
2023 Vividly Bold, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2023 Top 20 of 2022, Art Mob, Hobart
2022 Desert Colours 2022, Honey Ant Gallery, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby/Sydney
2022 Nations 2022, Art Mob, at the Henry Jones Art Hotel Packing Room, Hobart
2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2022 Colour Pop, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2022 Utopia in Detail, Cooee Gallery, Redfern
2022 Palya - a tribute to Steve Ariston, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Mid-Winter Mofo, Art Mob, Hobart
2021 Top Ten Artists 2020, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2020 A Celebration of Mother's Day 2020, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2020 Innovative Australian Women, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2020 Polly Ngale & Kathleen Ngale: Bush Plum Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2020 Colours of Spring, 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 International Women's Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2019 Defining Tradition | the colourists, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Women of Influence Exhibition, Utopia Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Painting on Country - Utopia Artists, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2018 Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, me Collectors Room, Berlin
2018 Beyond the Veil, Olsen Gruin, New York
2018 Art Paris Art Fair, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Grand-Palais, Paris
2015 Sixteen Artists 16 x 2, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2014 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2014 Dot Code: Desert Artists, Japingka Gallery, Perth
2012 Lineart, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Gent, Belgium
2011 Thinking outside the square, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Stories from the Centre, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Spring, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2010 Parcours Nomad's en Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2010 Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2010 The Ngal Sisters: Painting Country | Angelina, Kathleen and Poly Ngal, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne
2009 Utopia - Bush Plum & Other delicacies, Honey Ant Gallery, Noosa
2009 Utopia - Bush Plum & Other delicacies, Honey Ant Gallery, Noosa
2009 Size Matters, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2009 JGM Gallery, London
2008 Utopia Revisited, NG Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her Legacy: Visions of Utopia that Penetrate the Soul of the Eastern Desert, Art Front Gallery Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2008 Dreamings the Land, Outback Aboriginal Art, Caulfield, VIC
2007 Visions of Utopia, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
2007 Journeys and Dreams, Gecko Gallery, Broome
2007 Journeys and Dreams, Gecko Gallery, Broome
2007 Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris
2005 Neville Keating Gallery, London
2002 Two Sisters: Kathleen and Polly Ngale, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne.
2000 Arts d'Australie Stephane Jacob / Espace Mezzo - Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris
1992 Modern Art Ancient Icon, The World Bank, Washington
1990 Utopia A Picture Story, batik from the Holmes A Court Collection by Utopia artists which toured Ireland and Scotland
1990 Art of the Eastern Desert, Eastern Desert Art, Brisbane
1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, A Summer Project, The First Works on Canvas, S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
1989 Aboriginal Art from Utopia, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Awards and Recognition

2022 Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2021 Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown - Finalist
2021 Calleen Art Award, Cowra Art Gallery - Finalist
2003 20th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist

Collections

  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  • The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
  • The World Bank, Washington
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
  • The Holt Collection
  • Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton VIC