Ginger riley munduwalawala biography sample

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The Story of Contemporary First Nations' Art: Part 3

Clifford Possum’s ‘Warlugulong,’1977,synthetic polymer paint, oil and natural earth pigments on canvas. Bought by the National Gallery of Australia for a record-breaking $2.4million. Courtesy of NGA, 2020.

Hossack has been instrumental in providing many First Nations artists with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to build their profiles and reach an international audience. For example, the art dealer works closely with public institutions and galleries to further promote Aboriginal art, arranging exhibitions in public spaces, and making sales to world-renowned museums, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Gallery of Modern Art, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco.

The majority of the artists Hossack has worked with have been invited to London for their exhibitions, and in 1990, she memorably brought Clifford Possum to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen where he presented Her Majesty with one of his paintings. In 1988 and 1990, Clifford came to London for his solo exhibitions, and in 1997 he provided a design for the tail-fins of the re-branded British Airways fleet. Eight years later, when Hossack arranged for Spinifex artists Jimmy Pike and his wife Pat Lowe to visit London, Jimmy insist

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Ginger Riley at the Limmen River, Northern Territory

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c. 1937–2002), stockman and artist, was born in south-eastern Arnhem Land, in the coastal saltwater Country of the Mara people. He grew up in the bush, attending school from time to time at the Roper River Mission (later the Ngukurr Aboriginal community). He worked as a stockman and labourer in the Northern Territory for many years before moving back to the Gulf country and to Ngukurr. He began to paint in about 1986, quickly establishing a distinctive style of large-scale landscape painting in brilliant colour. In 1993 he won the First National Heritage Commission Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. After visiting London for the Aratjara: Art of the First Australians exhibition, he began to sign his paintings, following the example of European artists whose work he had seen. He was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for 1997–98 and a major retrospective of his work was held at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1997. He lived to see the Federal Court rule in mid-2000 that substantial native title rights existed on his traditional lands around the Roper, Cox and Limmen Bight Rivers near the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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