ANGELINA GEORGE

Angelina George is yet to record the 20 auction records that will prevent her AIAM100 rating being discounted by a factor (access About AIAM100 from home page).In fact, prior to 2012, her works had only appeared 9 times at auction and only 5 of these had sold. In fact her highest price was just $2,160.

In 2012 Mossgreen held the sale of the Ross and Rona Clarke collection which included 6 works by this artist. The Clarke's were devotees of Karen Brown Gallery in Darwin which represented Angelina as well as Regina Wilson (who had 4 works enter her top ten results in 2012 as a consiquence). Only one of Angelina's paintings failed to sell in this sale amongst the six on offer. In fact, the five works that did sell became her 5 highest results to date at public sale. Her new record was set by two works, Limmen Gorge, 2006, and My Imagined Country, 2005, which both achieved $17,080 against presale estimates of $12,000 – $15,000. Furher sales were recorded at $11,590, $9,760 and $9,150 giving her an average price for the year of $12,932 and an 83% success rate. In spite of the fact that Angelina George is yet to be listed in the top 200 artists she was the 27th best performing artist during 2012.

Her works have performed well in the primary market. Angelina creates strong and highly desirable works of art. She has had no less than 10 solo exhibitions,and bee included in dozens of group shows through her primary agent. In 2007 she won the General Painting Prize, at the Telstra NATSIAA art awards. She won the highly prestigious TOGA Art Award in 2009 and was a finalist, in the WA Indigenous Art Award, in 2011.

With a cultural cache of this standing, once Angelina's auction records exceed the 20 work threshold, she is set have a far stronger presence in the list of the most important artists of the movement.