After Burn-grass (2006)
Acrylic on canvas
101 x 167 cm

Biography
  Born: 4 May 1981
Language Group: Kuuku 'Ya
Lives: Lockhart River

Solo Exhibitions
2010 My Country ... My Land, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2009 Our Life ... Our Way, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2008 Life is our land ... our culture, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Our life ... is land ... is culture, October Gallery, London, England
Ngayu Aalmana Ngaachi Ngatangku (Growing up with Country), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Modern Day Life, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
From My Country, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2006 Land to Sea, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
2005 From my country ... Land and sea, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Yuma kuyi Pi’i (Fire and Water), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Kalmaa-na Waympa Wimpa (From the Bush to the Sand Beach), Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
Lanthalantha (Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Yuku Untana (Fuel for the Fire), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2001 ‘ee be right ... b’um ‘bye, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2000 From the Top, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane

Group Exhibitions
2009 New 2009: Selected Recent Acquisitions, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Connecting With Country ... Connecting With Community: The Lockhart River Art Gang, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
2008 From Cape to Cape, The Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2007–08 Our Way: Contemporary Art from Queensland’s Lockhart River, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; National University of Singapore, Singapore; Charles Wang Center, Stony Brook University, New York, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2007 Sand : Savannah : Salt, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Arte Indigena dall’Australia: Gruppo Artistico del Fiume Lockhart, Galleria Civica d’arte Moderna, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
Power and Beauty: Indigenous art now, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Lockhart River Art Gang, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Art Gang Returns, Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA 
2006 Uncharted Territory, October Gallery, London, England
Histoires de Terre et Mer: Peintures Aborigènes de Lockhart River, Australie, Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie du Morbihan, Lorient, France
Lockhart River Art Gang, Ewha Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2006: shifting tides, moving sands, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
2005 The Cairns NAIDOC Exhibition 2005: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Crafts from Tropical North Queensland, Tanks Art Centre, Cairns
Kungkay: Lockhart River Art Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Hot, Hotter, Hottest, Booker Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Out of Country, Gallery 1601, Washington DC, USA; The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
The Summer Salon 2004, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Vivien Anderson Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2003 Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings from Lockhart River, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, USA
Kulam Kannga (Beginning): New works by the Lockhart River Art Gang, The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn, Artspace Mackay, Cairns Regional Gallery, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville)
Water: Prints from Lockhart River and the Tiwi Islands, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Artworks from FNQ + Torres Strait Islands, Artworkers Alliance, Brisbane
The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Ngaachi Ngampula (Our Country), Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Lockhart River Gang, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2002 Inaugural Exhibition, Ian Potter Museum of Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Queensland/Berlin Indigenous Art Exhibition, Ludwig Erhard Haus, Berlin, Germany
Lines II, Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Dreamtime: Zeitgenössische Aboriginal Art/The Dark and the Light: 18.05-30.09.2001, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien, Austria
Gatherings, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane
2000 Lockhart River Print Exhibition, Cairns Regional Gallery
Parma Belong Sandbeach: paintings and prints by the Lockhart River Art Gang, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
1999-2001 Message Stick, touring exhibition by the Lockhart River Art Gang, funded by Visions Australia
1999 International Works on Paper Fair, Sydney
Lockhart River Art Gang Exhibition, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane
1998 Message Stick, Queensland Aboriginal Creations, Brisbane

Awards
2001 2nd Prize, Painting, Laura Festival, Queensland
2nd Prize, Works on Paper, Laura Festival, Queensland

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Public Collections
  National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
Queensland Department of Education, Brisbane
Columbus State University, Georgia, USA
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Suncorp, Brisbane