< Back June McInerney ​ June McInerney ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE June McInerney ​ 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 .

< Back Patrick Mung Mung ​ Patrick Mung Mung ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Patrick Mung Mung ​ 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 .

A COOEE CHRISTMAS | NEXT GEN 21 ​ From 27 November to 31 December 2021 A COOEE CHRISTMAS | NEXT GEN 21 ​ From 27 November to 31 December 2021 ​ Our selected artists from 2021 will deck the walls with Christmas jolly, their artworks spanning sizes small and large within any price range. Discover the bold colours and powerful gestural brushstrokes by some of Australia’s most interesting contemporary Aboriginal artists. ​

< Back Rosie Tarku King ​ Rosie Tarku King ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Rosie Tarku King ​ 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 .

< Back Hilary Wirri ​ Hilary Wirri ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Hilary Wirri ​ 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 .

< Back Josie Kemarre Petrick ​ Josie Kemarre Petrick ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Josie Kemarre Petrick ​ 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 .

< Back Peter Mondjinju ​ Peter Mondjinju ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Peter Mondjinju ​ 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 .

< Back Colin Bird ​ Colin Bird ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Colin Bird ​ 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 .

< Back Charlie Nangukwirrk ​ Charlie Nangukwirrk ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Charlie Nangukwirrk ​ 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 .

< Back Mitjili Napurrula ​ Mitjili Napurrula ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Mitjili Napurrula ​ Viewed during her lifetime as one of the brightest stars of the Haasts Bluff art movement, Mitjili Napurrula was deeply involved in the formative years and ongoing development of modern desert art. Her mother, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri - herself later becoming an artist of public repute - was forced from her drought-stricken Pintupi/Lurjita country. She arrived in the remote community of Haasts Bluff seeking refuge. Along with her extended family, she was settled at Papunya, where Mitjili was born in 1945. Mitjili grew up in Papunya and later married the artist, Long Tom Tjapanangka. The couple returned to Haast’s Bluff as part of the 1980’s outstation movement and both artists, often in conjunction, proceeded to contribute significantly to the emerging art community there. Mitjili began painting in 1992, encouraged by the opening of the Ikuntji Women’s Centre, the social and artistic hub of Haast’s Bluff and nearby desert communities. Under the guidance of art coordinator Marina Strocchi, Ikuntji rapidly developed an exciting style of its own, propelled in part by the older women who had been assistants to Geoffrey Bardon’s first painting men. As a member of a family of distinguished artists, including her brother Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Mitjili grew up watching artists paint. Her mother became one of the foundation group of female artists that formed after the Kintore/Haasts Bluff painting project in 1994. Mitjili learned the symbolic language of her tradition from her mother who would relate the mythic stories to her and draw them in the sand. While it took years before she developed her own mature style, Mitjili gained an international following after winning the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1999. By then, she had confidently embraced her own naturalistic approach to painting. Her individualistic style conveys a personal vision, anchored always in the country of her ancestors. By gradually reducing the complexity of her imagery, Mitjili worked towards creating a tapestry of repeated shapes and symbols. Her distinctive iconography is often highlighted by dazzling combinations of strong, complimentary tones. Contrasting colours may also be starkly juxtaposed, jumping from the canvas in vibratory shapes and patterns. The beautiful desert oak, Watiya Tjuta, is one of Mitili’s familiar motifs, originating from her father’s country at Uwalki, where red sand hills, native grasses and wirt trees stretch to the horizon’s edge. Like her famous brother, Turkey Tolson, Mitjili inherited the right to paint her Ilyingaungau, a site in the Gibson desert where the ancestors prepared their spears (kulata). Turkey’s iconic Spear Straightening paintings should be seen as the complimentary balance to his sister’s more flowing rendition of the plants and places associated with the cutting of wood and assembling of spears. ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Mitjili’s record price at auction was achieved in November 2004, when a large three metre canvas originally commissioned by Mason Gallery in Darwin sold for $26,400. Entitled Uwalki: Watiya Tjuta, 2004 it had justified the $25,000 - 30,000 presale estimate placed on it by Lawson~Menzies specialists. Interestingly, not one single work in the artist’s top ten results has been achieved by market leader Sotheby’s. In fact Sotheby’s have offered only two minor works, which both failed to find a buyer. This is doubtless due to the fact that since the mid 1990’s Mitjili has increasingly painted for dealers outside of art centre patronage. Mitjili’s results at auction are dominated by small and minor works and this has resulted in an average price at auction of just $2,475 for works on canvas and $873 for works on paper. In 2015 for instance, no less than 17 works appeared for sale at public auction and although 13 of these sold, the highest price acheiveed was only $1200. Nevertheless, due principally to the large number of works that have appeared at auction since she began painting, Mitjili’s Aboriginal Art Market Rating ranks her amongst the top 100 living artists. Her works are generally bold, with a strong decorative design appeal. Collectors should seek out good works, with a preference for larger pieces with a strong contemporary aesthetic. These should continue to satisfy and find a ready market when offered for resale in the future. 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 .

< Back Virginia Galarla ​ Virginia Galarla ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Virginia Galarla ​ 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 .

< Back Lena Pwerle ​ Lena Pwerle ​ ​ ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Lena Pwerle ​ 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 .