email: artplace@iinet.net.au

Age: 55 years
Subsection Skin: Juwurru
Language: Gija
Born: Yunurrl (Spring Creek)
Biography
Patrick Mung Mung, is a senior artist and elder at Warmun Community (Turkey Creek), in the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Patrick paints with natural earth pigments on canvas, which is a significant aspect of his art practice. Through his painting, his knowledge of his country and his cultural memory of family, land and work, are powerfully related. Patrick possesses a quiet wisdom and like his late father George Mung Mung, is a strong cross-cultural communicator. Patricks work is influenced by the previous generation of Warmun artists including Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji, in its raw directness and composition.

Exhibitions

• Munumburra (old Men of Warnum)
• Texas Downs, Jarlarloo & Yunyrrl Country (with Mick Jawalji)

Patrick was born at Spring Creek and worked as a stockman for many years on Texas Downs Station and the nearby stations in the East Kimberley. He was the last worker to leave Texas Downs when it closed down in the 1970s. When his father died in 1991, it fell to Patrick to accompany his father’s carving Mary of Warmun to Canberra for the exhibition "Aboriginal Art and Spirituality", at the High Court of Australia. This occasion marked the beginning of a journey for Patrick, which was to see him take on his father’s role of senior artist, Law and Culture man. Patrick started painting in 1991, shortly before George passed away. Patrick was instrumental in establishing the first artist and community owned art centre at Warmun in 1998, and is currently chairperson of the Warmun Art Centre Committee.

Solo Exhibitions
2003 ARTPLACE, ‘Texas Downs, Jarlarloo & Yunurrl Country’ (with Mick Jawalji) - Perth, WA
2000 GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI, Melbourne, VIC

Group Exhibitions:
2003 GALLERY GONDWANA, 'Masters Show'', Alice Springs, NT
FRAMED GALLERY, Darwin, NT
YIRIBANA GALLERY- ART GALLERY OF NSW, "'True stories- art of the East Kimberley'', Sydney, NSW
COOMALIE CULTURE CENTRE, Artist in Residency Exhibition'', Bachelor, NT
2002 BETT GALLERY- Easter Show, Hobart , TAS
SPAN GALLERY- "Collectors Show- in association with Seva Frangos", Melbourne VIC
FRAMED GALLERY- Group Show, Darwin, NT
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY GALLERY, Warmun Group Show, Adelaide, SA
ARTPLACE- Artplace Group Show 2002
ARTPLACE- Munumburra- ‘Wise old men from Warmun’, Perth, WA
NATIVE TITLE BUSINESS EXHIBITION, Australia wide 2002- 2005
FRAMED GALLERY, Darwin, NT
GALLERY GABRIELLE PIZZI, Melbourne, VIC
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Adelaide, SA
IM LAND IST DAS SEIN (LAND IS LIFE, ART FROM AUSTRALIA), Jagdschloss, Granitz, Binz, Rugan, Germany.
2001 'PAST MODERN, Short Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
19th NATSI ART AWARD, Darwin, NT
DAS VERBORGENE IM SICHTBAREN, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, ( in cooperation with Aboriginal Galerie Baehr, Speyer), Germany.
BETT GALLERY- "Collectors Show", Launceston and Hobart, TAS
CHAPEL OFF CHAPEL- South Melbourne, VIC
FIREWORKS GALLERY "New Paintings from Warmun Art Centre"- Group Show. Brisbane
2000 THIS EARTH FOR US- AUSTRALIAN DREAMING - Commonwealth Institute, London, Bristol and Edinbourgh,UK
BLICKDICHT-AN-UND EINBLICKE. Zeitgenossische, Adelhausermuseum, Freiburg, Germany
TRAUMPFADE ZEITGENOSSISCHE MALEREI AUSTRALISCHER ABORIGINES,
Stadtische Galerie, Traunstein, Germany
KUNST DER ABORIGINES, Galerie Baehr, Germany
HOGARTH GALLERIES, Paddington, NSW
BETT GALLERY, Hobart, TA
CHRYSALIS PUBLISHING, Limited Edition Prints, Melbourne, VIC
THE ART OF PLACE', National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Canberra, ACT. Selected to tour.
TELSTRA NATSIAA AWARD, Darwin, NT
'STATE OF MY COUNTRY', Hogarth Galleries, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
MELBOURNE ART FAIR(Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi)
BEN GRADY GALLERY, Canberra, ACT
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin, NT
East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra, WA
Hale School Annual Art Exhibition, Perth, WA
Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Perth, WA
Hogarth Galleries, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA

Publications:
2002 Philippa O’Brien, “Land, Poetry, Power”, Artlink, Vol. 22 #3

Awards:
2003 Coomalie Culture Centre, Master Artist in Residence Program 2 weeks
1999 Winner of the 1999 East Kimberley Art Awards - Shire Award for Excellence in Art

Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria, The Kerry Stokes Collection, Artbank, National Australia Bank, Nibberluna Collection, TAS, Art Gallery of NSW, Parliament House Collection, Harland Collection, NSW
Broadmeadows Health Service Collection, Bachelor Institute, Coomalie Culture Centre, NT, Kaplan Collection, USA, Strachan Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Ron Whyte Collection, Sydney, NSW