Hubert Pareroultja

Born in 1952, Hubert Pareroultja is a senior Western Arrarnta-Luritja man who lives at Kulpitharra / Lundara outstation west of Hermannsburg (Ntaria). This is his homeland.

Hubert has been painting watercolours since he was a young boy thus following in the footsteps of his father Reuben Pareroultja and uncles Otto and Edwin Pareroultja. Reuben, Otto and Edwin were part of the original Hermannsburg School watercolour movement and were all acclaimed artists. When Hubert was a kid he watched the original Hermannsburg School watercolour artist Albert Namatjira and his father and uncles as they painted.

Hubert paints many of the same locations that Namatjira and the Pareroultja brothers painted in particular Hermannsburg, Mt Sonder and James Range. Hubert lives and works in the Western MacDonnell Ranges to this day.

His work is displayed in many important collections.
In 2020 Hubert is first Aboriginal artist to win the prestigious Australian landscape painting prize Wynne Prize.
In 2021 Hubert and Mervyn Rubuntja win the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award (NATSIAA).

Besides, Hubert belongs to the new generation of watercolour artists who seek to give the Hermannsburg painting tradition new momentum through an innovative direction. They apply the techniques inherited from their elders to new media and forms, notably circular skirts and silk scarves, thus conferring a new dimension upon their creations. Their art, which has become wearable art, comes to occupy the audience’s everyday life in a different way, while allowing their tradition to stay alive and be circulated.

Hubert is part of the art centre Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre.

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Collections, florilège / Selected Collections

• Queensland Art Gallery│Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
• National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra
• Northern Territory Museum & Art Gallery, Darwin
• Mornington Regional Council, Regional Gallery collection
• Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), SA
• Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs

Prix / Awards

Expositions, florilège / Selected exhibitions

• 2021  Painting Now – Peindre aujourd’hui en terres aborigènes, IDAIA, Le Havre, France
• 2020  Homeless on my Homeland, NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
• 2017  Tjuritja Nana Mara to Paris / From the good Tjuritja (West MacDonnell Ranges) to Paris, IDAIA, Paris, France
• 2017 What if this photograph is by Albert Namatjira? TARNANTHI, Art Gallery of SA (AGSA), Adelaide
• 2017  Hubert Pareroultja, Orbital Landscapes, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
• 2017  National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Awards, finaliste / NATSIAA, finalist
• 2016  Abducted!, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
• 2015  Hermannsburg Horizons, Wooloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
• 2014  The Men Arsts of the Hermannsburg School of Art, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs
• 2014  Namatjira to Now, Parliament House, Canberra
• 2013  The Namatjira Legacy, Tali Gallery, Sydney
• 2012  Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs
• 2012  Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
• 2012  Art Mob, Hobart & Launceston
• 2012  Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
• 2011  Chapman Gallery, Canberra
• 2010  Namatjira: The Next Generation, Birrung Gallery / Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
• 2010  Hubert Pareroultja and Ngurratjuta Artists, CCAE, Darwin
• 2010  Finaliste aux Telstra Art Awards / Telstra Art Awards Finalist
• 2009  The Watercolourists of Central Australia, Indigenart, Melbourne
• 2009  Beyond Batterby, Recent Watercolour by Central Australian Artists, Hobart
• 2009  Real to Surreal, Scenes from the Centre: Journey with the new Generation of Hermannsburg watercolour artists, Tandanya Adelaide
• 2009  Telstra Art Awards
• 2009  Togart Awards
• 2008  Solo Exhibition, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour
• 2008  Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs
• 2006  Hermannsburg School of Art – Watercolour Exhibition, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs

SOURCE: Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre.