Details of Marika Mung
About
Marika Mung is a young Warmun painter; she lives in Frog Hollow with her sisters and father. She is the youngest daughter of renowned Warmun artist Beerbee Mungnari.Mungnari is Mung's teacher and mentor and she paints country her father mustered cattle through as a young man.
Mung's traditional country on her mother's side is Texas Downs which she often visits. She knows many Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories from Texas country which she takes as subjects for her paintings. Mung also paints country around Warmun community.
Mung is one of Warmun's talented emerging artists.
MEDIUM
Ochres and natural pigments on canvas
THEMES
Stories of Texas Downs, her mother's country
Country where her father, Beerbee Mungnari mustered
Warmun area
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 ' The Youngest One', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2008 'Warmun at Ten: a decade of Warmun Art', Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2008 'Mungowum Ngarraknaari Yaarun (Strong Stories, Strong Culture), Short St. Gallery, Broome, WA
2008 'Ten Years of Warmun Ochres', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2008 'Divas of the Desert', Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2008 'East of East Kimberley: Warmun in Asia', ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008 'New Voices in Gija Art', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2007 'Dog Dreamings', Seva Frangos Art, Perth, WA
2007 'Christmas in the Desert', ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2006 "Bungle Bungles', Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
COLLECTIONS
Edith Cowan University Collection, WA
Dallas Price-van Breda COllection, Los Angeles USA
Artworks of Marika Mung
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