Search or browse the Index to locate biographical information on Australian artists more detailsΒ». First Previous Record 63, β 64, of , Next Last. Address given as Box GPO. The works in Ngarra: The Texta Drawings capture an extraordinary artist's unfolding career. Ngarra c. As a young man, Ngarra began a long and successful career as a cattleman. When station life slackened during the wet season, he would walk the country, attending to the ceremonies of life, death and the afterlife.
Ngarra was the senior lawman for ceremonies throughout a vast swathe of the Kimberley. Turning to art in , Ngarra developed an electrifying and sophisticated style of painting and drawing, producing works in ochre, acrylic and texta.
Soon honoured with a solo exhibition at the Western Australian Museum, he exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally.
A brilliant colourist and a great inventor of form, Ngarra boldly combined his unparalleled cultural knowledge with a unique artistic vision. In his works, Ngarra transforms elements of his traditional culture and the colonial frontier into powerful visual and political statements.
Ngarra: The Texta Drawings is the first monograph on the artist's work, and the first publication by Mossenson Art Foundation. A further book on Ngarra's paintings is forthcoming.
