Name

Cecil King Wungi

Culture

Papua New Guinean

Gender

Male

Birth date

1952

Birth place

Bundi, Madang province, Papua New Guinea View on map Close map

Death date

1984

Death Place

Papua New Guinea View on map Close map

Occupations

Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Papua New Guinea. Screenprints

NGA IRN

13351

Context

Australia | Papua New Guinea

Biography

Cecil King Wungi

Cecil King Wungi was born in 1952 in Bundi Village in Madang Province. In 1976 he was awarded a three year scholarship to the National Arts School, in Papua New Guinea. Five exhibitions of his work were held there between 1978 and 1982. Wungi worked in his own distinctive style in the non-traditional media of screenprinting, depicting his inner world rather than his external environment and presenting personal stories and reflections that related to the traditional myths and stories of his village.  He died in 1984.

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