Categories: Mangkaja Arts
Name: Dorothy Milinti May
Language: Walmajarri
Community: Mindi Rardi
Biography:
I was born at old Cherrabun Station along the Fitzroy River. At an early age my mother and father took me on a wagon all around Yakanarra. This is my country. When I grew up big I went to work at the old Cherrabun station for kartiya [Europeans], washing and cleaning. Sometimes I would go bush to get away. This is where I learnt to make damper and tea. This was when I was single girl. After this time I met my husband Ngarralja Tommy May. We were friends first and now we have six children. I work at Karrayili Adult Education Centre learning to read and write. I have been painting for a long time.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 | Sharing Difference on Common Ground | Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth and Kimberley Aboriginal Artists |
2009 | Senior Artists from Fitzroy Crossing | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2009 | Luka [Mud] | Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2009 | Mangkaja Survey Show | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2008 | Mangkaja Arts | A P Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA |
| 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery, NT |
| Waterholes and Bush Tucker | Bridget McDonald Hampton Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| Mangkaja Artists WA | Randell Lane Fine Arts, Perth, WA |
| Women on Country | Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD |
2007 | Tommy and Dorothy May | Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2006 | Group Show | Broome Six Gallery, Broome, WA |
2005 | True Colours - Recent works from Fitzroy Crossing | Queensland College of Art Gallery, Grif?th University, QLD |
2005 | Group Show | Australian Indigenous Art Gallery |
2004 | Ngurrara Canvas | Perth Concert Hall, Perth International Arts Festival, WA |
2004 | Seven Mangkaja Artists | Gad?y Gallery, WA |
2004/ 2005 | Colour Power: Aboriginal Art Post 1984 | National Gallery of Victoria |
2003 | Mangkaja Women | Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT |
2002 | Group Show | Short St Gallery, Broome, WA |
2002 | Group Show | Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
2001 | Ngurrara Canvas | National Gallery of Australia |
2001 | Mangkaja Arts Ten Years On Mangkaja’s 10 year Anniversary Show | Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
2000 | Heritage Commission Art Award | Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT |
1999 | Ngurrara | Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA |
1996 | Heritage Commission Art Award | Old Parliament House, Canberra, ACT |
1996 | Broken Promises | Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
1995 | Telstra 12th National Aboriginal Art Award | Museum and Art Gallery of the NT |
PUBLIC ART:
2008 | Fitzroy Valley Education Centre – panels project |
2008 | Fitzroy Crossing Hospital - paintings on canvas |
COLLECTIONS:
Fitzroy Crossing High School
AWARDS:
1995 | National Aboriginal Art Award. Winner Telstra Prize, Best work on paper |
PUBLICATIONS:
2009 | Kimberley Aboriginal Artists Sharing Difference on Common Ground |
2004 | National Gallery of Victoria Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984 |
2001 | National Aboriginal Cultural Institute - Tandanya Painting Up Big, The Ngurrara Canvas, Kaltja Now |
2000 | Oxford University Press & ANU Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art |
2000 | IATSIS Canberra Karrayili: The history of Karrayili Adult Education Centre |
2000 | Exhibition Catalogue The Art of Place: The Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award |
1998 | Video Documentary / SBS Television Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert |
1995 | Exhibition Catalogue 12th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award |
