Mawukura (Mulgra) Jimmy Nerrimah
Mawukura (born c. 1924) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and a Walmajarri man.
His country is around Wayampajarti, a jila (a permanent waterhole) in the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert.[1]
10 years after first starting to paint, his works have been sold to overseas collectors and are represented in the National Gallery of Australia.[2]
Exhibition History
Solo Shows
- 1999 Artplace, Perth
- 1994 Artplace, Perth
- 1994 Reflections of the Kimberley Gallery, Derby
- 1993 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
- 2001 Artplace, Perth [3]
- 2003 Cooee Gallery Sydney
- 2003 Artplace, Perth
- 2004 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne
- 2005 Artplace, Perth
- 2005 Raft Artspace, Darwin
Group shows
- 1999 Selected to hang in 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin
- 1999 Aboriginal Kunst aus West Australien, Galerie Gaswerk, Germany
- 1999 Cooee Gallery Sydney with Peter Skipper
- 1994 ACAF-4, Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
- 1994 Eight Western Australian Artists, The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
- 1994 City of Gosnells Art Award, Art Prize
- 2001 Ngurrara Canvas National Gallery of Australia
- 2001 Framed Gallery, Darwin
- 2001 Cooee Gallery Sydney with Peter Skipper
Collections
- Levy Kaplan Collection, Seattle USA
- Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam
- National Gallery of Australia
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Gabrielle Pizzi
- Ian & Sue Bernadt Collections
- Wesfarmers Ltd
References
- ↑ http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/45035/20080930-0134/www.mangkaja.com/artists/artist9c8a.html
- ↑ Crack shot on canvas
- ↑ Ferrier, Evi (2001), Mulgra Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah, Artplace, Perth, 1-25 November 2001, 2001, retrieved 10 March 2015
Further reading
- 1994 Road O'Brien Playful Air to Dottiness of Bushcapes The West Australian19/5/1994
- 1995 Anna King Murdoch Late Starter Tells Desert Story in Bright Acrylics The Age 3/12/199
- 1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert Video Documentary / SBS Television
- Kleinert, Sylvia; Neale, Margo; Bancroft, Robyne (2000), The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-550649-5
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