Title

No ordinary place: The art of David Malangi

Venues

National Gallery Of Australia (31 July 2004 – 7 November 2004)

Date

(2004)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia ACT). Paintings

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

David Malangi (1927–1999) of the Manharrngu people was a leading figure in the development of the Central Arnhem Land bark painting movement and holds a prominent place in Australian Aboriginal art. Made famous by his design used on the Australian one dollar note when Australia converted to decimal currency in 1966, Malangi painted over a period of four decades. He was a major instigator of Gallery's Aboriginal Memorial, contributing ten magnificent hollow logs to the project. The exhibition traces the development of Malangi’s work from the early bark paintings of the 1960s that record his patrilineally inherited land and ceremonies, to the masterful dedications to his mother’s land and culture for which he was also responsible and where he spent the last thirty years of his life. [Gallery media, 2004].