Billinjara Nabegeyo - Artist Info

About Billinjara Nabegeyo

  • Biography

    Bilinyarra (Biliyeyhkga) Nabegeyo was born in about 1920. He was a Kunwinjku speaker, belonging to the Djalama clan and the Yirritja moiety whose country was Mandilbareng. Renowned as a bark painter, Nabegeyo remembered the 1948 expedition on which Mountford collected numerous paintings at Oenpelli.

    He belonged to a family of painters, having taught his sons Bruce and Mukguddu to paint. He died in the early 1990s. The artist's work was represented in Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia, The Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1988 and is represented in most of the Australian public collections.

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