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Mawukura (Mulgra) Jimmy Nerrimah
Wili
Private Collection, London
Language: Walmajarri
Skin: Jakarra
Date of birth: 1924
| Mawukura is a Walmajarri man. His country is around Wayampajarti, a Jila (a permanent waterhole) in the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert. He was born near a waterhole called Wili, at a swamp called Miyitinynanguwu. He calls the names of places such as Tapu, Kurrjalpartu, Kayalijarti, Kurraly Kurraly, Walypa, Wayampajarti, Kumpujarti and Witikarrijarti as the main waterholes in his country. He grew up in the desert moving around these waterholes. Mawukura was ‘nearly a man’ when his father brought him to the station country to escape a very large fire that was burning in his country around Tapu. He went through law at Lumpu Lumpu and then went back to the desert with his father in law, where he lived for around five more years. The police came around there once, he says, but they did not pick him up, they gave him food. The police continued on but they were frightened by kalpurtu so they kept going, straight back to town. The same police picked up Huey Bent and took him to Cherrabun Station not long after. Mawukura eventually left the bush, possibly in the early sixties. After coming in from the desert, Jimmy spent most of his time working on Nerrimah Station. |
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| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2005 | ‘Mawukura’ Artplace Perth | |
| 2004 | ‘Ngurrala Marna Kitpungani - Walking Through Country’, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne | |
| 2003 | ‘Jilawarnti’ Artplace, Perth | |
| 2001 | ‘Jila wanti, Jumu wanti & Pirntirri’ Artplace, Perth |
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| 1999 | Kumpujarti Jila, Artplace, Perth | |
| 1994 | Artplace, Perth Reflections of the Kimberley Gallery, Derby |
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| 1993 | Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne | |
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2002 | Melbourne Art Fair 2002 (Artplace stand) | |
| 2001 | ‘Ngurrara Canvas’ National Gallery of Australia Framed Gallery, Darwin Cooee Gallery, Sydney |
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| 1999 | 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin Aboriginal Kunst aus West Australian, Galerie Gaswerk, Germany Cooee Gallery, Sydney with Peter Skipper |
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| 1994 | ACAF-4, Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne (Artplace stand) Eight Western Australian Artists, Artplace @ The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney City of Gosnells Art Award |
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| Publications & Reviews | ||
| 2005 |
Ric Spencer, “Nerrimah’s ripples a lush desertoasis” The West Australian, 20. August |
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| 2003 | Simon Blond, “Salt, sand and waterholes”, In the picture, The West Australian, 29 March | |
| 2001 | Australian Painting 1788 - 2000; Oxford University Press; p585; 2001 Neville Weston “Intuition from the outside”, In the Big Picture, The West Australian, 17 November |
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| 2000 | Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art, Oxford University Press & ANU Kaltja Now, indigenous Arts Australia, Wakefield Press & Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute |
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| 1999 | David Bromfield, “Utopian visions” , The Big Weekend section,The West Australian, 23 October | |
| 1998 | “Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert”, Video Documentary, SBS Television | |
| 1995 | Anna King Murdoch, “Late Starter Tells Desert story in Bright Acrylics”, The Age, 3rd December |
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| 1994 | Rod O’Brien, “Playful air to dottiness of bushscapes”, The West Australian, 19 May | |
| 1993 | Anna King Murdoch “Late starter tells desert story in bright acrylics” The Age, 3 December |
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| Awards, Commissions | ||
| 1994 | City of Gosnells Art Award, Aboriginal Art Prize | |
| Collections |
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National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of WA, Sir James and Lady Cruthers, Artbank, Hyphema collection, Royal Perth Hospital, Gabrielle Pizzi, Ian & Sue Bernadt, Wesfarmers, Berndt Museum, Levy Kaplan Collection- Seattle USA, Thomas Vroom Collection- Amsterdam, private collections in Germany, England, America and Australia |
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