Subjects: water, rain, clouds, thunder

Collections:

• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.;
• Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.;
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.;
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.;
• The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.;
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.

Individual Exhibition:

• 1993, Abie Jungala - Boss of the Water - Rain - Clouds and Thunder Dreaming, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW;

Group Exhibitions:

• 1983, D'un autre continent: l'Australie le reve et le reel, ARC, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France;
• 1987, Australian Made, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW;
• 1989, Lajamanu Painters, Dreamtime Gallery, Perth, WA;
• 1989, Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria;
• 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Lake Oswego Center for the Arts, United States of America;
• 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra;
• 1991, Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia;
• 1991, Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris;
• 1992, Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo;
• 1993, Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA;
• 1993, The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin;
• 1995, Stories, Eine Reise zu den grossen Dingen, touring, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Museum fur Volkerkunde Leipzig, Haus der Kulteren der Welt Berlin, Ludwig-Forum fur Internationale Kunst Aachen;

Bibliography:

Brody, A., Krempel, U., Bahr, E., (eds.), 1995, Stories, Eine Reise zu den grossen Dingen, exhib. cat., Landeshauptstadt Hannover Der Oberstadtdirektor Sprengel Museum Hannover and Autoren. ; Monty, S., 1990, 'Abie Jangala,' Special Double Issue Artlink 10(1&2), 15. (C) ; Caruana, W., 1993, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, London. (C) ; Crumlin, R., (ed.), 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, Collins Dove, North Blackburn, Victoria. (C) ; Glowczewski, B., 1991, Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Lebon Gallery, Paris ; Johnson, V,. 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House ; NT Department of Education, 1985, Stories from Lajamanu ; Ryan, J., 1989, Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery of Victoria, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (C) ; Ryan, J, 1990, Paint up Big, Warlpiri Women's Art of Lajamanu, National Gallery of Victoria. ; Wallace, D., Desmond, M., Caruana, W., 1991, Flash Pictures, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. ; 1990, Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Robert Holmes a Court Collection, exhib. cat., Heytesbury Holdings Ltd., Perth.; 1993, Tjukurrpa Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), exhib. cat., Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. (C)

Stories:

Mawukura is a Walmajarri man. His country is around Wayampajarti a Jila (a permanent waterhole) in north western area of the Great Sandy Desert. He was born near a waterhole called Wili at a swamp called Itinyinangu. He calls the names of places such as Tapu, Kurrjalpartu, Kayalijarti, Kurraly Kurraly, Walpa, Wayampajarti, Kumpujarti, and Witikarrijarti, as the main waterholes, in his country. He grew up in the desert moving around these waterholes.

Mawukura was 'nearly a man' when his father brought him to the station country to escape a very large fire that was burning in his country around Tapu. He went through law at Lumpu Lumpu and then went back to the desert with his father in law where he lived for around five more years. The police came around there once he says but they did not pick him up - they gave him food. The police continued on but they were frightened by kalputru so they kept going, straight back to town. The same police picked up Huey Bent and took him to Cherrabun Station not long after. Mawukura eventually left bush possibly in the early sixties. After coming in from the desert, Jimmy spent most of his time working on Nerrima Station.

Collections:

• National Gallery of Australia;
• Art Gallery of Western Australie;
• Levy/Caplin Collection, Seattle Art Museum;
• Ian and Sue Bernadt Collections;
• Westfarmers Ltd.;
• Thomas Vroom Collection, Amstrdam;

Individual Exhibitions:

• 1999 Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney;
• 1999 Artplace, Perth;
• 1994 Artplace, Perth;
• 1994 Reflections of the Kimberley Gallery, Derby;
• 1993 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne;

Group Exhibitions:

• 1999 Selected to hang in 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin
• 1999 Aboriginal Kunst aus West Australien, Galerie Gaswerk, Germany
• 1994 ACAF - Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
• 1994 Eight Western Australian Artists, The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
• 1994 City of Gosnells Art Award, Art Prize