Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1936 – 2002)

Ngak Ngak Announces the Exhibition, 1996

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Bears Alcaston Gallery catalogue number AK3409 on the reverse and the NGV exhibition label on the reverse of the stretcher

200 x 219 cm

Provenance:
Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria and painted Melbourne in 1996 for the artist’s retrospective exhibition;
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne (AK3409)
Private collection

Cf. For an early, related example see Ngak Ngak, Sea Eagle, 1988 in in The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illustrated in Judith Ryan, Mother in Mind: The Art of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997, p. 45.

Solo Exhibitions:

Artist’s Retrospective: Mother in Mind: The Art of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, 17 July – 22 September 1997

The Boss of Colour, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Castlemaine, VIC, 15 January – 8 March, 2015

Group Exhibition:
Beyond the Pale, 2000 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Literature:

Judith Ryan, Mother in Mind: The Art of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 1997, p. 3 and p. 32 (colour illus.).

Ginger Riley: The Boss of Colour, Castlemaine: Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 2015, exhibition catalogue, plate. 23. (colour illus).