Categories: Mangkaja Arts
Name: Nada Tjigila Rawlins
Language: Wangkajunga
Community: Mindi Rardi
Biography:
I was born in the desert in the bush. My mother never put me in a blanket. I never saw my father. We walked from the desert along the Canning Stock Route. We walked through Billiluna. One kartiya [European] called Len Brown picked us up early in the morning in a truck. He took us to Moola Bulla. I had a sore on my arm and they took me to the clinic.They gave me lots of needles. When my arm was better I went and lived with my family at Moola Bulla. Then we walked alongside the river to Christmas Creek. We walked, we had no motorcar. We carried our own swags on our heads.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009: Mangkaja Artists 60x60 Randell Lane Fine Art, WA
2009: Sharing Difference on Common Ground Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA Kimberley Aboriginal Artists
2009: Celebrating Country: Kinship and Culture Seymour College, Glen Osmond, SA
2009: Waterholes and Dreaming around
the percival lakes of Wirnpa country Cool art, Coolum Beach, QLD
2009: Emerging and Re-emerging Outstation, Darwin, NT
2009: My Country – Paintings from Yiyili Bridget McDonnell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, VIC
2009: Shalom Gamarada Caspary Conference Centre, University of NSW
2009: Senior Artists from Fitzroy Crossing Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008: Bendi Lango The Indigenous Scholarship Fund,
Sydney and Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008: Revealed Central TAFE, Perth, WA
2008: Waterholes and Bush Tucker Bridget McDonald Hampton Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008: Marnintu Maparnana [Women Painting] ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008: Women On Country Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008: Divas of the Desert Gallery Gondwana, Sydney, NSW
2007: Jila, Jilji and Miyi Cool-Art Gallery, Coolum Beach, QLD Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, WA
2007: Living Water Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA
2007: Women Artists of Fitzroy Crossing Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2005: Wangkatjungka Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2005: True Colours Suzanne O’Connell Australian Indigenous Art and Dell Gallery, University Brisbane, QLD
2005: Surprise; Cory & Friends ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2005: Too Much Good Work Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2004: Ngurrara Canvas Perth Concert Hall,
Perth International Arts Festival, WA
2003: Jila, Jumu, Jiwari & Wirrkuja University of Western Australia
2002: Recent works from Mangkaja Arts Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2002: Wangkatjungka Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2002: Short on Size Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2000: Short on Size Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2000: Past modern, Australia Square Short St Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001: Fitzroy Women Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2001: Ngurrara Canvas National Gallery of Australia, ACT
2001: Short on Size Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
1999: Short on Size Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
PUBLIC ART:
2008: Fitzroy Valley Education Centre – panels project
COLLECTIONS:
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales Charles Darwin University Holmes a Court Collection, Perth Fitzroy Crossing High School
PUBLICATIONS:
2005: Exhibition Catalogue: ReDot Gallery, Singapore
Surprise; Cory and Friends
2003: Exhibition Catalogue
Cullity Gallery UWA Perth / Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency
Martuwarra and Jila, Jumu, Jiwari and Wirrkuja
