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Billinjara Nabegeyo BIOGRAPHY
Born c.1913. Known for: Aboriginal art.
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,... Read full 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... Read full 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,... Read full 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.
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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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.