Glen NAMUNDJA - Kinga Crocodile

Glen NAMUNDJA - Kinga Crocodile

1997, 63 x 21cm ADG:1101

ADG: 1101

Description

ADG:1101
Glen NAMUNDJA
Kinga - Crocodile, 1997

63 x 21cm
Ochre (natural earth pigments) on bark (stringybark - Eucalyptus tetradonta)

Glen Namundja - Biography
Born
1954
Language
Kunwinjku
Country
Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Western Arnhem Land, NT
Medium
Ochre (natural earth pigments) on eucalyptus bark, ochres on arches paper.

Glen Namundja comes from an important lineage of unique and talented artists. Glen’s earliest artistic influences came from his father, the great artist Peter Marralwanga. Peter had three wives and nine children, including the renowned artists Samuel Namundja, Ivan Namirrkki and Johnson Namundja.

As young men, Glen and Samuel grew up on the outstation of Markolidjban, where they learnt to paint under the tutelage of their father. Marralwanga taught the young men the important creation stories of the Kunwinjku, and how to depict them in the exquisite cross-hatching or rarrk of the Mardayin ceremony. This shimmering rarrk has become a defining feature of both Samuel and Glen Namundja’s work.

Glen lives and works at Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) and has painted at Injalak Arts and Crafts since its foundation in 1989. Glen has remained a faithful practitioner of the narrative/figurative style synonymous with the region’s rock art heritage. In recent years, he has proven himself to be one of the finest innovators of this style, through works that demonstrate a complex synthesis of figurative and abstract elements.

In 2007, Glen was highly commended in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award and in 2010 he won the Telstra Bark Painting Award, 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. His works have been exhibited to acclaim throughout Australia, as well as in Italy and the Netherlands.

Awards
2010 Winner, Bark Painting Award, 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2009 Winner, Work on Paper Award, 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2007 Highly Commended, Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Lineage in Linear, Indigenart, Perth

Group Exhibitions
2010 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2009 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2009 Togart Contemporary Art Award exhibition
2007 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

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