Mawukura is an Australia

Australia

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n Aboriginal

Indigenous Australians

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 artist

Artist

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 and a Walmajarri man. His country is around Wayampajarti, a Jila (a permanent waterhole) in the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert

Great Sandy Desert

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. Ten years after first starting to paint, his works have been sold to overseas collectors and are represented in the National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

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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
• 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
  Cooee
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   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

Publications

• 1994 Playful Air to Dottiness of Bushcapes Rod O’Brien

The West Australian, 19/5

• 1995 Late Starter Tells Desert Story in Bright Acrylics Anna King Murdoch

The Age 3/12

• 1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert

Video Documentary / SBS Television

• 2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art

Oxford University Press & ANU

• 2000 Kaltja Now, Indigenous Arts Australia

Wakefield Press and Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute

Collections

• Levy Kaplan Collection, Seattle USA
• Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam
• National Gallery of Australia
  National Gallery of Australia
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• Art Gallery of Western Australia
  Art Gallery of Western Australia
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• Gabrielle Pizzi
  Gabrielle Pizzi
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• Ian & Sue Bernadt Collections
• Wesfarmers Ltd