Mawukura (Mulgra) Jimmy Nerrimah

Mawukura (born c. 1924) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and a Walmadjari man. His country is around Wayampajarti, a jila (a permanent waterhole) in the north-western area of the Great Sandy Desert.[1] Ten 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
  • 2016 Billabong Dreams, Seattle Art Museum[4]

Collections

References
  1. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/45035/20080930-0134/www.mangkaja.com/artists/artist9c8a.html
  2. Crack shot on canvas
  3. Ferrier, Evi (2001), Mulgra Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah, Artplace, Perth, 1-25 November 2001, 2001, retrieved 10 March 2015
  4. "Billabong Dreams". Seattle Art Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

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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