Beerbee Mungnari

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About the Artist

C. 1931 - 2011

Beerbee Mungnari was born on Waterloo Station, Northern Territory in c. 1931.  Like so many of the Kimberley painters of his generation, he was a stockman and drover, working on many stations including Argyle, Hahn Springs, Lissadell, Texas and Rosewood.

Beerbee (pronounced Birribee) grew up on Rosewood, but recalls the family’s trips to Waterloo Station for holidays at Christmas.  After retiring from stock work, he lived for a time at Wyndham, then located to Turkey Creek, where he and his late wife worked in the school and taught the kids – “it was just a bow shed then, that school”. He has six children –  Denise Mung is an Emerging Artist and often paints in her father’s strong style, whilst his youngest daughter Marika is producing precise and delicately executed works still accompanied by the Dreaming Stories of the country that Beerbee has passed on to his family.

Beerbee lived for many years at Frog Hollow Community with his friends, senior artists Jack Britten and Henry Wambini but moved to Turkey Creek after they passed away. Beerbee painted his country where he was born and worked in a distinctive style. Until his death in December 2011, Beerbee was the Senior male ochre artist in the Kimberley Region and the last of the first generation male ochre artists.

He is represented in Corporate and Private Collections worldwide including the National Gallery and his works are much sort after by collectors. A true gentleman, his passing leaves an indelible hole in the ochre art movement.

Solo Exhibitions

2004 • Beerbee Mungnari, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010• Beerbee Mungnari and Churchill Cann, Seva Frangos Art, Perth

2009 • Bardungel: The youngest one, Chapman Gallery, Canberra

2008 • Aboriginal Masterworks: Gala Opening, Gallery Sydney-East, Virginia, USA

2007 • From the ground up: Ochre work from the Kimberley, Chapman Gallery, ACT • Warda-wurrarrem (all kinds of stars), Raft Artspace, NT

2006 • Gentlemen of Warmun (with Patrick Mung Mung, Churchill Cann, Gordon Barney, Tommy Carroll and Clancy Patrick), Seva Frangos Art, Perth

2005 • Waterhole Country, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA

2004 • Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT • Tibet Meets Warmun, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA

2003 • 3 Old Men, Span Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

2002 • Warmun Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA • New Works from Warmun, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC • Recent Works from Warmun, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT • Munumburra: Wise Men of Warmun, Artplace, Perth, WA

2001 • Short on Size, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA

Selected Collections • National Gallery of Victoria • Kerry Stokes Collection • Prominent Private & Corporate Collections Worldwide

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