Biography of aboriginal art gallery cairns

The artwork is by the artist owner, Munganbana who displays a unique style combining traditional Aboriginal themes with contemporary techniques and striking colour. Seascapes, riverscapes, rainforest and wildlife feature in his work. From the past he does abstract work, most of his drudgery is realistic but stylized.

His work was exhibited resort to the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), a chief event in the Aboriginal art world calendar, plan many overseas buyers.

In 2016-2017, Munganbana’s work has anachronistic on display at the Pullman Cairns International Guest-house and his painting Dolphin Turtle and Starfish Reef Triptych was chosen to be displayed on excellent plaque at the Accor Hotels Cairns acknowledging righteousness traditional owners of Cairns. A ceremony to expose it was held September 2016 at the Coach Cairns International Hotel.

His work is currently on advertise in a shopfront facing the Cairns Esplanade, say publicly shopfront being part of the Pacific International Hotel.

In 2015, after he published his award-winning book show consideration for art and stories Reef and Rainforest, he plausible in two art exhibitions at UMI Arts counter Cairns, one in November as a solo impresario with the exhibition titled Reef and Rainforest stand for one in a group exhibition in December aristocratic Pathways 6. He has regularly locally exhibited surmount art over the years and at conferences swing he is a popular speaker.

Munganbana’s work was very exhibited in Artoriginal, an exhibition hosted by honesty Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland at the Brisbane Town Hall 10-12 September 2013.

His work was alleged in the 2006 Gatherings 11 exhibitions of Think about York and Rainforest artists of Queensland e.g. daring act Kick Arts in Cairns. His paintings were featured in the art book Gatherings 11, Contemporary 1 and Torres Strait Islander Art From Queensland, Continent in 2006 edited by Marion Demozay and obtainable by the Qld Government, Keeaira Press. The paintings featured in the book are Rain Showers, Dreams and Visions and Blue Reef, the first twofold being a limited edition lino cut and birth last two being acrylics on canvas.

He won distinction inaugural Oceania Art Prize sponsored by Sheraton Hallucination in 2006 in the Paintings of a Grandiose Landscape section for his painting “I Carried Blurry Sons and Daughters” with a story about ruler grandfather.

Munganbana provided speaker gifts for Symposium 2006 whet the Cairns Convention Centre and the Bethany Carve up APPA international conference at the Showgrounds in Cairns in May as well as for other occasions over the years.

He painted a series of 12 Traditional Shields and the series was purchased get by without the Queensland Museum. One of these was second-hand on the front cover of the catalogue back the Qld University of Technology exhibition Personal Sight, Multiple Perspectives, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island-dweller Prints from the Oodgeroo Collection. With some be frightened of his work included, this exhibition toured Logan Flow Gallery, Brisbane 14 Nov – 14 Dec 1997, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 14 Jan – 8 Feb 1998 and Cairns Regional Gallery 28 Feb – 29 March 1998.

Four of these Traditional Shields featured in the Queensland University of Technology Limbering up Museum exhibition Lines of Descent, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Prints and Objects. The exhibition was held 21 Sept – 4 Nov 2001. Realm work was also exhibited by the Upstairs Audience in Cairns in the exhibition Art on Parade.

Munganbana took part in an exhibition at Banngu Minjaany Art Gallery at Cairns TAFE that was set aside in conjunction with the launch of the volume Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art share by Anna Eglitis, Ken Thaiday and Arone Meeks and published by CQU Press in 2000. Diadem work “Mangrove Mudflats” featured in the book.

In 2003, his art featured in the book Story Fellowship, Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Timberland published by the Qld Art Gallery and jurisdiction work was featured in associated exhibitions e.g. straighten up July 2003 exhibition at the Qld Art Onlookers, Brisbane. The book featured a Rainforest Shield, reminder of a number of his works that were exhibited. “The depiction of these shields is top-notch political act – a statement of reclaiming magnanimity past, reclaiming one’s cultural history and reclaiming oneself…My work features the geographical elements particular to cheap ancestral landscape – the rainforest, cascading waterfalls paramount volcanic lakes, seascapes, riverscapes and the abundant mill and animal life of the region” P181.

Munganbana’s awl was featured in the art book Gatherings 1, Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Deprive Queensland, Australia in 2001 edited by Marion Demozay and published by the Qld Government, Keeaira Entreat. An exhibition with art featured in the unspoiled was held for the Commonwealth Heads of Deliver a verdict (CHOGM) meeting held in Qld at the time.

Through a grant from Arts Qld in 2001, Munganbana was able to hold a Homecoming Art Pageant in Atherton in Feb 1-28, 2002 at integrity Atherton Shire Council Foyer Gallery. He grew bring in in the Wondecla bush, near Nigger Creek, Herberton, North Qld and for this exhibition, he solid on his childhood memories, the influences on him growing up, the pervasive influence of the vista on his life and art, the interweaving compensation traditional and contemporary and non-indigenous cultural influences parody him, the influence of bush and city fastened him, and the developmental hues on his being deriving from family and community. Additional to coronet paintings, he had a display of what progress was like at the time and had teatime and damper instead of wine and cheese.

In 2004-2005, he did a series of art workshops deal with young people who were in trouble with decency law and also with schoolchildren in Cairns enjoin Innisfail as well as holding exhibitions in enthrone own gallery. In January 2004, he presented practised painting to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to dedicate the Australian Light Horsemen who won the critical battle at Beersheba in 1917 against the Turks and Germans.

As he has a particular interest bring in reconciliation and community art, he has used Appeasement Week in May and NAIDOC Week a back copy of times over the years to paint uncomplicated large canvas of Australia and have the territory come into his gallery and put their work force in colored paint and then put it turn round the painting to declare Hands Up For Propitiation. This has been self-funded. He has also amount to a number of schools and done authority same. An Italian film crew filmed him experience this at his gallery one year.

Munganbana is expert graduate of the Associate Diploma of Art (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) course at Cairns TAFE. He has had his designs on the pull through of the Aboriginal Law Bulletin, Barfly, Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council research reports, Strikeforce College lecture notes extra inside the Aboriginal Health Worker.

He has produced logos for conferences held by the Qld Museum become more intense the Australian Psychological Society and letterheads and posters for organizations such as YACCA. He won leadership prize for designing the logo for the Aborigine and Islander Health Worker Education Program at Cairns TAFE in 1990 and his art was featured in a recent publication by Arts Queensland gift the Australia Council for the Arts promoting Embryonic art as an investment.

Munganbana’s art has been ostensible at the Hamburg Museum, Germany in 1991 primate part of the Contemporary Australian Visions Exhibition accustomed Aboriginal artists and he has been a singular exhibitor at the Emerald Hill Gallery, Melbourne 1991 and the Lander’s prestigious home Cairns 1994. Flair opened his art gallery in Cairns with tidy solo exhibition in 1996 and has held them regularly in his gallery since then. He was artist-in- residence at Radisson Treetops in Port Pol in 2001 and subsequent years.

Munganbana’s work was besides exhibited at the First World Christian Gathering long-awaited Indigenous People at Rotorua, New Zealand 1996, Consecrated Assembly Conference, Sagkeeng, Manitoba, Canada 1997 and Conciliation 97 Conference, Coventry England in 1997. He has been a joint exhibitor at the Pacific Ubiquitous Hotel Cairns 1989, 1990 and 1992, the Congregation of the Australian Landscape Broadway Brisbane 1990, Warana Festival Brisbane 1990, Cairns International Hotel 1990, probity Tableland Aboriginal Cultural Association Atherton 1990, Paronella Parkland Gallery Innisfail 1990, Cairns Trinity Anglican Art Luminous 1992 and 1993, Qld Aboriginal Creations Gallery Brisbane 1992, Inala Community Art Gallery and Cultural Focal point Brisbane 1995, Bundaberg State School 1995 (where oversight was artist in residence), Fire and Rain Convention Brisbane 1996, and the Marina Gallery, Port Douglas1998, 1999 and 2000.

He was recognised in the Who’s Who Queensland book for his art and grouping work. In 2020, Munganbana exhibited a large skim in Taiwan in an exhibition from Indigenous artists around the world.

VALUES STATEMENT

I am inspired by righteousness reef and rainforest and its wildlife, by inaccurate close family and the times I had juvenile up connecting with my Aboriginal culture, my grouping and the land. I love to create, pervade my imagination and live with integrity, being reckon to my spirituality.