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:

• 2001 Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney;
• 1999 Coo-ee Aboriginal Art 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