Until March the Coventry Evening Telegraph building in Corperation Street, Coventry, is hosting a selection of artwork by Len Cattell (aka Lenny Whitefella).
Dating from 1985 to the present day, it includes paintings (aboriginal inspired, contemporary) and decorated furniture. Based on aboriginal artwork, Lens ‘dot’ pictures are as vibrant as the stories they tell, his imagination has no bounds. Now on show, there is a chance to see something unique in this country at this wonderful exhibition.
Biography
I Moved to Australia in the early 1980’s. I became fascinated with Aboriginal art work. I visited many art exhibitions in South Australia and the more I looked the more I became intrigued and my art career was born.
I taught Aboriginal art and culture to students in the local community and exhibited all over South Australia. I worked on varying commissions decorating offices, furniture, clothing, footwear and even Kelvinator fridges and other unusual objects my clients would ask, one of my favourites being a guitar.
I’m still painting as and when inspiration comes and this has come, in recent years, in the transcendence to psychedelic and luminous paintings that can be enjoyed in dim and ambient atmospheres.
I was featured in Interior Design Magazine in 1991 and had won top artist in the Balaklava Court House Gallery Inc art competition. I exhibited in lots of community exhibitions in and around Adelaide and was lucky to win some exhibitions where I exhibited. I also appeared on TV and the radio through an exhibition at Hereward College, Coventry where I born and bred
Awards
Awarded the name of Lenny Whitefella by the elders who came down from the Never Never (outback).
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