Betty Bundamurra Ngarinyin, Worrora, Wunamba, b. 1960
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Betty BundamurraChindi River - Wildlife, 2019ochres on paper56 x 76 cm (image size)$ 1,900.00
22 1/8 x 29 7/8 in
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Betty BundamurraChindi River, 2016natural ochres & pigment on paper56 x 76 cm (unframed)$ 1,700.00
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Betty BundamurraTwo Brolgas and the flood, 2014natural ochres on paper (framed)49 x 68 cm$ 1,800.00
19 1/4 x 26 3/4 in
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H O M E
Opening exhibition of Everywhen Art at Whistlewood 6 Jan - 25 Feb 2024The exhibition H O M E launches the new home of Everywhen Art at Whistlewood - the McCulloch family's historic house gallery on the Mornington Peninsula. This richly explorative exhibition...Read more -
For the Elders
29 Jun - 17 Jul 2023An exhibition in celebration of the theme of NAIDOC Week 2023 with barks, works on paper and paintings in ochre and acrylic by senior artists from Arnhem Land, Mornington Island,...Read more -
Kimberley Ochres
Leading and next gen ochre painters from Warmun, Kununurra and the Dampier Peninsula. Featuring new works from Warmun Art Centre 10 - 27 Feb 2022Read more -
Wildlife!
A celebration of Australia's Indigenous wildlife 4 - 15 Dec 2020From extensive, complex ancestral stories that relate the creation of the world according to Aboriginal mythology, to quirky secular depictions of birds and animals, Australia’s Indigenous artists have long depicted...Read more
Betty was born at Karunji station where her father was a stockman. She was born in the bush while her parents were on a walkabout. At the age of three, after the death of her mother, Betty came to Kalumburu Mission Convent where she was looked after by Ignatia Ganwalla and the nuns. She worked in the mission baking bread and at the Kalumburu school as a teaching aid. Betty has five children and eleven grandchildren, and lives happily with her family in Kalumburu.
Along with other Kalumburu community elder, she established the Kira Kiro Artists centre in 2009. Betty is a prolific artist with a unique visual expression, a storyteller and a poet. She has also held the position of senior arts worker at Kira Kiro Artists from 2012 to 2019.
She is a graduate of the ANKA Arts-worker Extension Program and the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Desert River Sea Visual Arts Leadership program.
