Clan
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Artist Dates
Born 1964
Marrnyula Munuŋgurr
Over the last three decades, Marrnyula Munuŋgurr has been a driving force at the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre as an art worker, print space manager and artist. In the early 1990s, she pioneered a documentary style of painting, depicting elements of contemporary daily life at Yirrkala. More recently, she has received acclaim for her large-scale assemblage paintings. In 2020, she was awarded the bark painting prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Collections Represented
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Australian Museum, Sydney
Australian National Maritime Museum
Flinders University Museum of Art
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia
Monash University Museum of Art
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
National Gallery Singapore
National Library of Australia
National Museum of Australia
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Sydney Opera House Collection
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery