Baluk Maymuru
Baluka Maymuru was born in 1947 in North-eastern Arnhemland and is of the Yirritja Moiety. Baluka is Nanyin's (Narritjin's elder brother) son. He is head man of the Mangalili clan and an artist of a pedantic nature who resides at Djarrakpi - the magnificent landscape at the northerly entrance of Blue Mud Bay and a place and subject to the incredibly rich Mangalili mythology first brought to the public fore by his fathers through their art.
Baluka was elected chairman of the Buku-Larrngay Mulka artist committee in June 2000.
Exhibitions
1982, Aboriginal Art at the Top, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1984, The First National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1984, Aboriginal Art, An Exhibition presented by the Aboriginal Institute of Aboriginal and Torres stait Islander Studies, Canberra.
1986, The Third National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT. Darwin
1987, The Fourth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1988, The Fifth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallry of the NT, Darwin.
1990, The Seventh National Aboriginal Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1993/4, ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, Touring: Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf; Hayward Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark.
1994, The 11th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin.
1995, Miny'tji - Paintings from the East, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
1996, The 13th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin.
1997, Native Title, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
1999/2001, 'Saltwater Country - Bark Paintings from Yirrkala' a National Tour - Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, ACT: John Curtin Gallery, Curtin Uni, Perth, WA:
National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW; Museum of Modern Art at Heide,Melbourne, Vic; Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NI; Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld
1999, 'Gapu Miny'tji' - sacred water designs from the Australian Aborigines of north east Arnhem Land, Craft Museum, New Delhi, India.
1999. 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin NT.
2000, Aboriginal Bark Paintings, Sculpture and Hollow Logs, Annandale Galleries Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts festival, Sydney, NSW
2000, 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isalnder Art Awards, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin, NT.
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
National Museum of Australia.
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
JW KLuge Collection, Virginia, USA
The Collection of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Canberra, ACT.
The Collection of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies.
Bibliography
Arnold, J. et al, Nambara Art, promo booklet, 1990, Cole mans Printing Nhulunbuy Luthi, B., ed, 1993/4, ARATJARA, Art of the First Australians, ex cat.
'Copy Rights' television feature documentary 1997 - National Broadcast 2.2.98 SBS Television.
Saltwater - Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka pp58-59, ISBN 0 646 37702 7
Awards
1987, Memorial Award for Mawalan's Eldest Son (Wandjuk) Best Artwork in Open Media - 4th National Aboriginal Art Awards, Museum and Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin.
Provenance text and art: Buku Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala.
