Title

Thomas, Madigan.

Author

The Australian Art Print Network.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2001

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Madigan Thomas

Madigan Thomas is a member of the Warmun community from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She began painting in the mid 1980s, along with well known artist Queenie McKenzie and other Warmun women.

She has a clearly defined style and uses silhouetted landforms outlined in fine dots. She was a finalist in the 1994 National Aboriginal Art Award, the most prestigious indigenous art award in Australia held annually at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. She also showed in a group exhibition of Warmun women held in 1995 at Canberra’s Australian Girls Own Gallery.

She first began printmaking in 1995 in collaboration with printmaker Theo Tremblay.

Biography courtesy of The Australian Art Print Network, 2001.
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