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 Daniel Goodwin was born at Kenmore Park Station
(Ernabella, South Australia) in 1947. He was taken away
from his family at the age of 5 and sent to a home in
Port Augusta where he went to school until he was 15
years old.
He then came back to the Centre to look for his
mother, and it took him 4 years to find her. He had two
brothers and one sister, but never saw or met his
father. Both of Danny’s children, Dana (son) and Norisha
(daughter) who live in Dubbo, also paint.
Moving to Alice Springs, Danny lived with the
Namatjira family for 3 years, where he was taught to paint by the sons of Albert
Namatjira, Enos, Keith and Ewald. Danny then went on to
develop his own unique style.
Danny went to work on a number of cattle stations in
South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory,
where his closeness to the land and the spectacular
scenery saw him capture the essence of the outback in a
number of evocative and wonderful paintings. In his own
words, ‘I wanted to show others how beautiful it was’.
One of his first awards was the 1968 ‘Adelaide
Aboriginal Artist Award’ for his watercolour ‘Paterson
Ranges, Western Australia’. Danny has had numerous
exhibitions in NSW and won a number of awards, including
the ‘Best Aboriginal Painter of the Year’. Included among his award
winning paintings were a number of landscape works and
‘Goanna Laying Eggs’ (a painting depicted in the
Aboriginal dot-style).
In 1992, an exhibition was held in Alice Springs
where Danny’s paintings were sold by auction to raise
funds to send school children on holiday.
Over the years Danny has travelled widely about
Australia, selling his paintings and spreading the
knowledge of his artwork. Danny’s paintings have been sold
to people from all around the world.
Exhibition included:
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Danny was also one of the guests at the opening of
the Yankirri Aboriginal Art Exhibition on the 8 November
20062.
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An exhibition of Danny’s works was held in Melbourne in
2004. The exhibition was opened by the Governor General,
Major General Michael Jeffrey1.
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Over the years Danny has had exhibitions in: the
Queen Victoria Building (NSW), Australian Museum (NSW),
Parramatta (NSW), Blacktown (NSW), Singleton (NSW),
Tamworth (NSW), Moree (NSW), Canberra (ACT), Melbourne
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His Dreaming include:
Brinkin Man Dreaming
Budgerigar Dreaming
Bush Fire Dreaming
Bush Tucker Dreaming
Crocodile Dreaming
Goanna Dreaming
Goanna and the Possum
Dreaming
Wandums Dream and Wandumar Dream
Waterhole Dreaming
Other works include:
Daniel has done many landscapes including
the regions around Alice Springs (NT), Mount Olgas (NT), Uluru, Emily
Gap (NT), Petermann Range (SA), Myall Creek (SA), Mount Davy (Mount
Davies) (SA), Hartz
Range (NT), Docker River Country (NT), Mount Sonder (NT).
He has also done a number of works about the ‘Stolen Generation’.
Source:
Travel Australia with AusEmade - Daniel Goodwin |
