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Life
Born east of Japingka, an important jila or permanent waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, he grew up as a hunter-gatherer. Like many of his people he drifted north toward the river valleys and the sheep and cattle stations where food was more plentiful. Living as a fringe-dweller around Cherrabun Station he eventually joined relatives at the station camp and worked as a stockman. He was named Jimmy Pike, after Phar Lap's jockey, by a cattle station manager.
Pike learned to use western art materials while in Fremantle Prison. Even before he was released from prison his work was exhibited in major Australian galleries.
In 1989 Pike featured in a documentary The Quest of Jimmy Pike.
He illustrated a book Jimmy and Pat meet the Queen with his wife Pat Lowe. Pike has collaborated on a number of other books with his wife.
He held exhibitions in United Kingdom, Philippines, China, Namibia and Italy. During an exhibition of his paintings in London in 1998, Pike and his wife Pat Lowe attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
He held a joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in the National Gallery of China, Beijing, called "Through the Eyes of Two Cultures". He was the first Australian painter to show there.
1987 The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1987 Galerie Exler, Frankfurt.
1987 Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK.
1988 Addendum Gallery, Fremantle.
1998 Australian Aboriginal Graphics from the Collection of the Flinders University Art Museum.
1989, Prints by Seven Australian Aboriginal Artists, International Touring Exhibition through the Print Council and Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.
1998 Aboriginal Art. The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
1990 i'ete Australien a' Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpeliler, France.
1990 Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Lake Oswego Centre for the Arts, USA.
1990 Tagari Lia. My Family, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK.
1991 Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia.
