Details of Boxer Milner
About
Media
Professional acrylic on canvas and linen
Themes
Flooding and seasonal influences on country
Sturt Creek environs
Rainbow snakes
Rain Dreaming
Small bird - tjintapirrinyi
Biography
Boxer is a senior Law man who, along with his two brothers, is a custodian for the country Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) stories and songs of the Sturt Creek area. Boxer's paintings depict different physical and mythological aspects of the middle and upper stretches of Sturt Creek. He often depicts the flooding of the creek, and the changes to the country this brings, both during the flooding, and after the water starts to recede.
The area of Milnga-Milnga is a major flood plain for Sturt Creek and is inundated every summer after the rains. This is important for all nature, including people and Boxer's family, who have always lived here and maintain the area by continuing the associated Law and ceremonies. The portrayal of the water in Boxer's paintings of Sturt Creek is white, depicting the 'milk water' that runs after rain has fallen in the clay soils upstream of Billiluna. His work includes the depiction of rainbows, rain clouds and the temporary creeks that are formed during the wet season. As a younger man Boxer worked around this area as a stockman, effectively utilising his intimate knowledge of the country.
Boxer began painting is the mid 1990s and his unique style has seen him emerge as one of Warlayirti Artists' most recognised and sought after artists.
Solo Exhibitions
2005 Boxer Milner, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2003 Boxer Milner, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW
2000 Boxer Milner, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
Group Exhibitions
2004 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for Arts, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
2004 21st NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin
2004 Balgo 4-04, Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, WA
2003 Eight by Three, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
2003 20th NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin
2003 Purtatjanirri Kamu Warrmala, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2003 Palya Minyirri, Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2002 30th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2002 Balgo Hills, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2002 19th NATSIAA, Museum and Art Gallery of NT, Darwin, NT
2002 Balgo Hills Artists 2002, Art Mob, Aboriginal Fine Art, Tas
2002 Art from Balgo, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2002 Big Colour My Country, Thornquest Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2002 Balgo Hills: an artist's survey, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2001 Opening Exhibition, Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2001 Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
2001 Balgo Men, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2001 Aborigena Arte, Australiana Contemporuneu, Torino, Palazzo Bricherasio, Italy
2001 Desert Mob, Arulen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Kutjungka, Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tas
2001 Recent Works by Artists from Balgo Hills, Ochre Gallery, Collingwood, Vic
2001 Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Alcaston Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2001 Past Modern: an exhibition of Kimberley Landscapes, Short Street Gallery @ Australia
Square, Sydney, NSW
2000 The Westside: Images in Ochre and Colour, Coo-ee II Exhibiting Gallery, Yuwayi Art
Precinct, World Square, Sydney, NSW
2000 Olympic Exhibition, Coo-ee Exhibiting Gallery, Yuwayi Art Precinct, World Square, Sydney
2000 Balgo Hills, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2000 Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Vic
2000 Dreaming in Colour: Australian Aboriginal Art from Balgo, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art
Collection, Virginia, USA
2000 H2O A Miscellany: Works from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Gallery,
University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
1999 24th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle, WA
1999 30th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1999 Mularrpa (True) Balgo, Framed, the Gallery, Darwin, NT
1999 Miliynyin, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1999 Miliynyin, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
1998 Ngurrara: My Own Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1998 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of
the Northern Territory, Darwin
1997 Balgo Men, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
1995 New Works By the Artists of Balgo Hills, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1992 Warlayirti Artists' Homelands, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 A Focus on Western Australia, Crafts Council of NSW, The Rocks, Sydney
1991 Papunya, Yuendumu, Balgo: Art from the Central and Western Deserts, Coo-ee Aboriginal
Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991 Warlayirti Artists from Balgo Hills, WA, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1991 Paintings from Balgo, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of South Australia
Kerry Stokes Collection
Laverty Collection
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia
Helen Read Collection
Bibliography
1994 Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, NSW
1994 Dream Journeys Calendar, image reproduction
