Details of Baluka Maymuru
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MEDIUM AND THEME
Bark painting
Carved and painted wooden figures
Material cultural items
BIOGRAPHY
Baluka is Nanyin's (Narritjin's elder brother) son. He is head man of the Mangalili clan and an artist who resides at Djarrakpi, the magnificent landscape at the northerly entrance of Blue Mud Bay and a place and subject of the incredibly rich Mangalili mythology first brought to the public fore by his fathers through their art.
Baluka was elected chairman of the Buku-Larrngay Mulka artist committee in June 2000. He ehld this positin until his resignation in 2003.
Although steeped in art and its production and one of the earliest proponents of the current generation of senior artists, Baluka's taxing schedule of ceremonial duties and his painstaking work practices mean that he produces only a few works every year.
EXHIBITIONS
2008, Galuku Gallery, Berndt Prints, Darwin Festival, Botanical Gardens, Darwin, NT
2008, Galuku Gallery, Berndt Prints, Garma Festival SIte, Gulkula, NT
2008, Togart Contemporary Art Award, NT
2008, Bitpit Yirrkala Sculpture, RAFT Artspace, Darwin, NT
2007, Some Men I have Met by Steve Fox, Mogo Raw Art, Mogo, NSW
2006, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2004, Circle, Line, Column, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2000, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2000, Aboriginal Bark Paintings, Sculpture and Hollow Logs, Annandale Galleries, Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival
1999, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1999, Sacred Water Designs from the Australian Aborigines of North East Arnhem Land, Craft Museum, New Delhi, India
1999/2001, Saltwater Country - Bark Paintings from Yirrkala, National Tour, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University Perth, National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Museum of Modern Art Melbourne, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
1997, Native Title, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1996, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1995, Miny'tji, Paintings from the East, Natonal Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1994, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1993/1994, ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1990 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1988 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1987 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1986 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1984 Aboriginal Art, An Exhibition presented bu the Aboriginal institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, ACT
1982 Aboriginal Art at the Top, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin, NT
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Natonal Museum of Australia, Canberra
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
JW Kluge COllection, Virginia, USA
The Collection of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, ACT
The Collection of the AUstralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Washington, USA
Kerry Stokes Larrakitj Collection, Perth
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, UWA, Perth
Bibliography
The Pilot's Funeral, ABC TV 2004
Saltwater - Yirrikala Bark Paintings of Sea Country, Buku-:arrjggay Mulka
Copy Rights, television feature documentary, 1997, National Broadcast, 2.2.98, SBS Television
Luthi, B. Ed, 1993/4, ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, ex cat.
Arnold, J et al, Nambara Art, promo booklet, 1990, Colemans Printing Nhulunbuy
AWARDS
2006, Winner of the Wandjuk Marika Memorial Award for 3-Dimensional Artwork, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
1987, Memorial Award for Mawalan's Eldest Son (Wandjuk) Best Artwork in Open Media, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
Artworks of Baluka Maymuru
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