S IMON GENDE G ILAS BILONG LUKIM PAPA GRAUN (MIRROR TO THE WORLD)
I SEE NO END TO TRAVELLING 2018 74 112 cm
C APTAIN COOK IN PNG 2018 74 109 cm
C APTAIN COOK IN AUSTRALIA 2018 74 109 cm
A SARO MUDMEN READY FOR GOROKA SHOW 2017 74 109 cm
A BROOM TO BRUSH KAWAGLE MATHIAS PNG NO 1 ARTIST 2018 74 107 cm
TWO BIRDS OF THE KUAWAGLANE CLAN 2018 74 107 cm
B E TRUE TO YOUR PARTNER 2018 71 109 cm
A SYLUM SEEKERS, MANUS ISLAND PNG 2018 71 107 cm
H OW THE COCONUT CAME TO DARU WESTERN PROVINCE PNG 2018 71 107 cm
APEC IN PNG 2018 71 107 cm
A USTRALIA PRAISES ISRAELI TIES 2017 71 107 cm
T HE GEMBOGL VILLAGE BOY NAMED AUSTRALIAN PLANE 2018 71 107 cm
P LASTICMAN TRAFFIC OFFICER OF GOROKA PNG 2018 71 107 cm
P OLITICS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA GIVE AND TAKE 2018 71 107 cm
O SAMA BIN LADEN IS NOW FISH FOOD 2017 71 104 cm
PM ELECT MAINTAINS OFFER TO TAKE REFUGEES 2017 71 104 cm
P HONE PROBLEMS 2018 71 104 cm
S EARCHING FOR FLIGHT MH370 2018 104 71 cm
H ELICOPTER TAKING PEOPLE TO PORT MORESBY 2017 71 104 cm
K OKODA CUP 2018 71 102 cm
C HRISTMAS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2017 71 100 cm
M ALALA YOUSAFZAI IN LONDON 2017 71 86 cm
P OSTCARD FROM KAWAGLE MATHIAS 2018 71 77 cm
F ATHER JOHN NILLES FATHER OF THE CHIMBU 2018 71 76 cm
S IMON GENDE 1969 Born Gere, Gembogl District, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea B IOGRAPHY My name is Simon Gende. I was born on the 17th of September 1969. I was born in the village called Gere in the Gembogl District, Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. My Language is Kuman. I am married with three wives and twelve children and have twenty-four pigs and also I m a village leader. I start doing painting in 1989. I don t get any training but I just paint on what I think. Most of my ideas I get from famous late Kawagle Mathias founder of the contemporary arts in PNG. In PNG we don t have any gallery only one in Port Moresby but I live in the village so I sell my paintings during show events, sometimes when tourist boat comes to Madang and Lae and most of my time in front of Bird of Paradise Hotel in Goroka. In PNG it is expensive to buy canvas so I just use other cloth materials. I don t have special brushes I just buy them from the school supplies shop and when they are old I throw them away. Most of my paintings are about big new stories in the world because most of people like to buy them because they want to keep the stories of what they heard over the news. It s something like keeping history on the painting. S OLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Gilas bilong lukim papa graun (Mirror to the world), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane 2014 Wan year bilong mi (My year), Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney Simon Gende: History Paintings, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra 2013 I hope you get me clear, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2012 Wol long lukluk bilong mi (How I see the world), Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney G ROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 Signature Art Prize, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Permanent display, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK 2017 10 Years of Collecting at the ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, Acton, ACT 2016 No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966 2016, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2015 Death, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney 2013 Kauage and objects and bilums from the m+m collection, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Victoria Chimbu, Collegiate Church Saint-Pierre-la-Cour, Le Mans, France 2007 Chimbu: peintres contemporains papous, Musée d Art et d Histoire de Rochefort, France The Beyond Time: Crossing the Ocean South Island Contemporary Art, Gaomi Pavilion, Shandong, China B IBLIOGRAPHY Anon. ANU s art on parade, City News, 21 April 2017 Boulay, Roger (editor). La peinture des Papous, Éditions Parenthèses, Marseille, 1993
McDougall, Ruth. No.1 Neighbour: art in Papua New Guinea 1966 2016, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2016 Oates, Tony. Current Affairs Simon Gende s view from the Highlands, Simon Gende: History Paintings [ex. cat.], Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 2014 Pickles, Anthony J. To excel at bridewealth, or ceremonies of office, Anthropology Today, Vol 33 No 1, February 2017 Terradillos, Jean-Luc. Chimbu: peintres papous, Actualité Poitou-Charente, No 76, April 2007 Watson, Bronwyn. Simon Gende offers a PNG perspective on 9/11 with Twin Towers painting, The Australian, 13 September 2014 C OLLECTIONS The British Museum, London, UK Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK Australian War Memorial, Canberra Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Australian National University, Canberra Andrew Baker Art Dealer 26 Brookes Street Bowen Hills Qld 4006 07 3252 2292 0412 990 356 info@andrew-baker.com www.andrew-baker.com