MurrumurruDick Dick Ngulei-Ngulei Murrumurru Dick Ngulei-Ngulei Murrumurru 1920 - 1988 Dick Nguleingulei Murrumurru lived most of his life on the Liverpool River plateau in West Arnhem Land, where he was born around 1920. His country was Yayminjdji, a Yirridjdja moiety clan estate in the stone country west of the Liverpool river. He briefly attended school at Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) in the 1930s and later worked as a crocodile shooter and at a timber camp in the Jim Jim area (present day Kakadu National Park). He also spent a short time at Pine Creek and Goodparla station. From 1965 he spent more time at the Gunbalanya township, dedicating himself to painting. Here he married a woman from the Naborlhborlh family but did not have any children. Nevertheless, a number of later Gunbalanya artists (such as Reuben Manakgu) have direct lineage to his family and regard him as an artistic forebear. Murrumurru was a versatile, inventive and eclectic bark painter. Stylistically his works range from finely detailed, naturalistic animals to more simply painted quirky figures, though there is much work in-between. Employing a range of Kunwinjku painting techniques, he often combined them in single works. For instance, the graceful parallel red and yellow rarrk (cross-hatching) of the classic rock art style, was often combined with the cross-hatching originally associated with painting for the Mardayin ceremony. He experimented with large blocks of infill in single colours and other patterns. He often used curved rarrk in his cross-hatched patterns, and combined blocks of rarrk with hatching at many different and arhythmic angles. His compositions often exhibit natural framing techniques, with figures and landscape features aligning to the rectangular shape of the bark. His works are capable of both refined grace and imaginative, discordant style. Nguleingulei's subject matter is often focused on the Arnhem Plateau stone country of his home. Stone country animals such as kumoken (freshwater crocodile) and ngarrbek (echidna) are painted with a hunter’s attuned sense of proportion, anatomy and personality. He also painted stories and spirits from the stone country, such as the Wardbukarra-wardbukarra from nearby Manmoyi and the Mimih spirits that inhabit the escarpment. From the 1980s he worked primarily at Marlkawo outstation, nearby his own country, often painting alongside Bardayal (Lofty) Nadjamerrek. He died there in 1988 in tragic circumstances. His works have been included in many major exhibitions, including Keepers of the Secrets at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1990, Dreamings in 1988 in New York, Art of the First Australians in Kobe in 1986, Kunwinjku Bim at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1984 and The Art of Aboriginal Australia which toured North America in 1974-76. Profile author: Dan Kennedy Collections: Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, held by the National Museum of Canberra.; Artbank, Sydney.; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.; Australian Museum, Sydney.; Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia.; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Arnotts Collection, Sydney.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.; The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.; The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.; Group Exhibitions: 2008 - Form and Function - A Collection of fine 18th and 19th century Ethnographic Objects and Bark Paintings , featuring works by: David Daymirringu Malangi, Dick Ngulungulei, George Milpurrurru, Jacky Kalakala, January Nongyarri, Jimmy Njiminjuma, Mickey Ganambarr, Daypurryun, Nandabitta, Narritjin, Paddy Compass Namatbarra, Peter Bandjurljurl, Peter Maralalwanga, Philip Gudthaykudthay, Tom Djimpurrpurr, Wally Mandarrk, Wattie Karuwaram, Yama, at Coo-ee Aborignal Art, Sydney. 1990 - Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. 1988 - Yolngu, Aboriginal cultures of north Australia, The Royal Pavillion, Art Gallery & Museums, Brighton, United Kingdom; Dreamings, the art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia Society Galleries, New York; The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally. 1987 - The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1986 - The Art of the First Australians, Kobe City Museum, Japan. 1985 - The Second National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1984/85 - Kunwinjku Bim, Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria. 1984 - The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 1974 to 1976 - Art of Aboriginal Australia, touring Canada, Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd. 1974 - Australian Aboriginal Art from the Louis A. Allen Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1970 - Australian Aboriginal Art, The Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara. 1969, - Australian Aboriginal Art - The Louis A. Allen Collection, R. H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Awards: Commissions: 1982, One of Murrumurru's paintings was used on the Australian 75c stamp issued in 1982. 1988, Completed a frieze of paintings on a fibreglass rock wall for the world rock art conference held in Darwin in 1988. Bibliography: Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council,1979, Oenpelli Bark Painting, Ure Smith, Sydney. (C) ; Allen, L., 1975, Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines, Thomas Crowell Company, New York. ; Berndt, R. M. and Berndt, C. H. with Stanton, J., 1982, Aboriginal Australian Art, a Visual Perspective, Methuen Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney. ; Brody, A., 1984, Kunwinjku Bim: Western Arnhem Land Paintings from the Collection of the Aboriginal Arts Board, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.(C) ; Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New South Wales. ; Mc Donald, J., (comp) 1986, Australian Artist Index, Arts Library Society, Australia and New Zealand, Sydney. ; Norton, F., 1975, Aboriginal Art, Western Australian Art Gallery Board with the assistance of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council. ; O'Ferrall, M., 1990, Keepers of the Secrets, Aboriginal Art from Arnhemland in the Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. (C) ; Taylor, L., 1989, 'Seeing the 'inside': Kunwinjku paintings and the symbol of the divided body.' In Morphy, H. (ed.), 1989, Animals into Art, Unwin Hyman, London. (C) ; Sutton, P. (ed.), 1988, Dreamings: the Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking, Ringwood, Victoria. (C) ; West, M.K.C., (ed.), 1988, The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. ; 1974, Art of Aboriginal Australia, exhib. cat., Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited. (C) Explore our artworks See some of our featured artworks below ANGELINA PWERLE NGAL - UNTITLED ( BUSH RAISIN MAN) Price AU$3,000.00 ALISON (JOJO) PURUNTATAMERI - WINGA (TIDAL MOVEMENT/WAVES) Out of stock LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI - KURLURRNGALINYPA JUKURRPA Price From AU$13,500.00 BRONWYN BANCROFT - UNTITLED Out of stock JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE Price AU$8,500.00 BOOK - KONSTANTINA - GADIGAL NGURA Price From AU$99.00 FREDDIE TIMMS - MOONLIGHT VALLEY Price AU$35,000.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - BURN THERE, DON'T BURN THERE Price AU$7,000.00 SHOP NOW

Artist Profile for Karina Penny Coombes < Back Karina Penny Coombes Karina Penny Coombes ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE KARINA (PENNY) COOMBES - JITAKA (SWORDFISH) Sold AU$5,000.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Karina Penny Coombes ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

Artist Profile for Adolf Inkamala < Back Adolf Inkamala Adolf Inkamala 1914 - 1960 ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS Born in 1914, Adolf Inkamala was a notable figure in the Aboriginal art community, affiliated with the Arunta tribe of Central Australia. He emerged as one of the three artistic brothers and played a foundational role in the Hermannsburg School of watercolour artists. READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE ADOLF INKMALA - UNTITLED SOLD AU$950.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Adolf Inkamala 1914 - 1960 Born in 1914, Adolf Inkamala was a notable figure in the Aboriginal art community, affiliated with the Arunta tribe of Central Australia. He emerged as one of the three artistic brothers and played a foundational role in the Hermannsburg School of watercolour artists. This group operated out of the Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory and became well-known for selling their evocative landscape paintings to tourists in Alice Springs. Inkamala began his artistic journey around 1947, with his first notable exhibition taking place in Alice Springs in 1951. His dual role as both an artist and a cattle rancher, managing a property on the Haasts Bluff Reserve, influenced much of his work. The landscapes he painted predominantly featured the areas west of Hermannsburg and around his Haasts Bluff cattle lease, capturing the unique essence of the Central Australian landscape. The art market has seen a considerable number of Adolf Inkamala's works come up for auction, with records starting from 1980. Out of 99 works offered, 74 have successfully sold, marking a sale rate of 75%. His paintings have resonated well within the art community, evidenced by the highest auction price of $1,688 for the piece titled Central Australian Landscape with Ghost Gum , sold by Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers in November 2003. Despite no recorded sales in the current year, the last sale occurred as recently as 2023. Inkamala's contributions to Australian Aboriginal art have not gone unnoticed by major institutions; his works are held in prestigious collections such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the National Gallery of Australia. His legacy continues to be appreciated by art lovers and collectors alike, maintaining a lasting impact on the Australian art scene. ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

Artist Profile for Thomas Tjapaltjarri < Back Thomas Tjapaltjarri Thomas Tjapaltjarri ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Thomas Tjapaltjarri ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

INSPIRED: COLLECTORS EDITION 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 01 April - 29 April 2023 Viewing Room INSPIRED: COLLECTORS EDITION 01 April - 29 April 2023 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Few areas in Australia, if any, have an artistic history reaching further back than the Western Kimberley. Here, the artistic tradition stems from rock painting, mostly of the deeply important Wandjina Deity, which still forms the basis of contemporary imagery, now painted mostly on bark and canvas. Some Wandjina cave paintings date as far back as 40,000 years. There are few things more deeply rooted in this continent. The artists still use the very marrow of their land – natural earth pigments (ochres) – dug from the soil to relate their Country on canvas. In the East Kimberley however, the artistic practice finds its roots more recently, formed around the founders of the Gija art movement, including Rover Thomas, Paddy Jaminji and Hector Jandany. Queenie McKenzie, under the urging of Rover Thomas, was the first female Kimberley artist to paint and exhibit her own works. Developed most famously by Rover Thomas, the language of landscape is unique to this area, with Country viewed neither from the birds eye perspective prominent in Central and Western Desert art, nor from the standing viewpoint employed by European landscape painters. These paintings can be restrained, using few colours to depict vast swathes of land. Yet artists often populate the landscape, as did Queenie McKenzie and Hector Jandany, both of whom populated their canvases with a mix of traditional Gija and Christian iconography. Many of Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji’s figurative works are built around the important Kril Kril ceremony. Many of these works, now housed in major collections, still bear the handprints from their ceremonial use. HECTOR JANDANY - HOW THE RAINBOW SNAKE DROWNED HECTOR'S GRANDFATHER price AU$3,000.00 DAVID JANGALA COX - UNTITLED price AU$2,000.00 COLLEEN CARTER - SUGARBAG YARD, BOW RIVER price AU$1,800.00 LILY KARADADA - WANDJINA - RAIN SPIRITS Sold AU$0.00 TOMMY CARROLL - UNTITLED (GRANDFATHER'S COUNTRY) Sold AU$0.00 SHIRLEY PURDIE - SANDFROG DREAMING Sold AU$0.00 JACK BRITTEN - GOONDARRINYARRIN – PURNULULU price AU$3,000.00 MABEL WIRINGGOON JULI - KARNGIN NGARRANGKARNI (MOON DREAMING) Sold AU$2,000.00 MABEL WIRINGGOON JULI - UNTITLED Sold AU$0.00 KATIE COX - HILLS OF WARMUN Sold AU$0.00 BEERBEE MUNGNARI - CARLTON RIDGE Sold AU$0.00 PATRICK MUNG MUNG - PURNULULA Sold AU$0.00 HENRY WAMBINY - HILLS OF TICKALARA price AU$2,500.00 KATIE COX - GIMMINBAR, LISSADELL STATION price AU$1,800.00 PATRICK MUNG MUNG - UNTITLED Sold AU$0.00 CLANCY PATRICK - PURNULULU Sold AU$0.00 GORDON BARNEY - BIRMO HILLS Sold AU$0.00 JACK BRITTEN - GURIRR GURIRR Sold AU$0.00 EX INSPIRED

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REDFERN GALLERY LAUNCH | COOEE: COME HERE Cooee Art Redfern From 25 March to 04 April 2021 REDFERN GALLERY LAUNCH | COOEE: COME HERE Group Exhibition From 25 March to 04 April 2021 REDFERN GALLERY LAUNCH | COOEE: COME HERE Group Exhibition From 25 March to 04 April 2021 Cooee Art Redfern COOEE: Come Here features works by some of the most highly renowned artists in Aboriginal art and a strong representation of female painters, with artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Queenie McKenzie, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Dorothy Napangardi, Kitty Napanangka Simon, Minnie Pwerle, Kathleen Petyarre, Regina Wilson, Yariti Young as well as Vincent Namatjira, Freddie Timms, John Mawurndjul, Timothy Cook and a video work by Djon Mundine OAM. VIEW CATALOGUE EX 209

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