Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
PROFILE
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Ginger Riley was born c near Maria Lagoon by the Limmen Bight River in Southern Arnhem Land. A ‘salt-water’ man Riley grew up in the bush, until the death of his mother when the family moved to the Roper River Mission, where Ginger attended school. Roper River was renamed Ngukurr in when control reverted to the Aboriginal community. As a young man Riley sought adventure and independence, traveling the Northern Territory working as a stockman and laborer on Nutwood Downs Station and elsewhere. During these travels he met and watched Albert Namatjira painting his country and admired the nice paint and 'saw my colour country' (cited in Ryan 31). It was not until work became scarce in the 's and Riley returned to Ngukurr that he began to paint himself.
At an Adult Education Centre printmaking course that he attended in , he worked alongside Djambu Barra Barra with printing inks on cotton, which they unsuccessfully tried to sell as curtain material in the council office. The following year John Nelson brought canvas and paints to Ngukurr and Riley produced his first painting, a naturalistic landscape
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
Biography
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala painted his mother’s country, focusing on the weather-worn rock formations known as the Four Archers near the mouth of the Limmen Bight River in south-east Arnhem Land. Using bright, luminous and often contrasting colours and strong flattened forms, Riley depicted this landscape and its ancestral beings: Garimala the snake, who created the Four Archers; Ngak Ngak the white-breasted sea-eagle and guardian figure; the ceremonial shark’s liver tree; the Four Archers themselves; and the Limmen Bight River. Riley’s extraordinary creativity allowed him to reinvent this subject matter again and again, expressing in his work his vision of physical geography, creation knowledge and ancestral sites. His strong sense of place enabled this overview, and he painted, he has said, as if he was, ‘ … on a cloud, on top of the world, looking down … From the top I can see country right down to where I come from.’
Riley saw the work of western Aranda watercolourist Albert Namatjira as a young man in the s. This meeting with Namatjira made a lasting impression, and much later inspired Riley to pursue painting in acrylics when the No
biography of Ginger Riley MUNDUWALAWALA (c)
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
ACAF 7 &#; Australian Contemporary Art Fair / Melbourne Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Building &#; Melbourne VIC, Australia
10/04/ &#; 10/08/
Represented by : Alcaston Gallery &#; Suite 4, Spring Street Entrance 2 Collins Street &#; Melbourne VIC, Australia
ACAF 6 &#; Australian Contemporary Art Fair / Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne VIC, Australia
10/01/ &#; 10/04/
Represented by : Alcaston Gallery &#; Suite 4, Spring Street Entrance 2 Collins Street &#; Melbourne VIC, Australia
Contests
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory &#; Darwin NT, Australia
Group exhibitions
Biennale of Sydney , n° 12
Sydney NSW, Australia
05/26/ &#; 07/30/
Beyond the Pale &#; Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Art Gallery of South Australia North Terrace &#; Adelaide SA, Australia
03/03/ &#; 03/19/
Spirit Country : Australia Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art &#; San Francisco CA, United States
Ngundungunya : Art for Everyone
National Gallery of Victoria &#
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
Nyamiyukanji, the river country
In Nyamiyukanji, the river country , Ginger Riley Munduwalawala depicts the dramatic rock formations known as the Ruined City that rear up out of the Gulf region landscape. This is Riley’s grandfather’s Country, near the Nathan River. As in many of his works, Riley has painted the rocky outcrops and surrounding land in bands across the painting, while the river winds diagonally up to the sea.
At the top of the painting, the bright blue sky, which is not differentiated from the sea at the mouth of the river, has large wet-season clouds raining on the landscape. In Riley’s work, clouds or the sun usually represent his mother. Ngak Ngak appears in the foreground and, on the right, Garimala travels across the Country. This place exists in Riley’s creation knowledge as much as it does in the landscape.
Riley was influenced by the Central Australian watercolour painter Albert Namatjira, who Riley met briefly in the s when droving around Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Riley went on to emulate Namatjira, not in style, but in the forging of an idiosyncratic vision of his beloved Country.
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