Ormay Nangala Gallagher
- Skin Name:Nangala
- Language:Warlpiri
- Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia
- Dreaming:Emu, Ngapa & Pama-Pardu
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Biography
Ormay Nangala Gallagher comes from Yuendumu Community, approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Ormay is a Warlpiri artist who completed her teachers training and worked at the Nyirripi School.
She began painting in the 1980’s and continues to paint today for Warlukurlangu Artists at Yuendumu. She typically paints her father’s Dreaming Emu and Ngapa featured at Mikanji as well as Pama-Pardu at Waylka and Wantungurru.
In 2008 Ormay travelled with Warlukurlangu Artists to Bahrain and in 2009 to Delhi, India. Her paintings have been featured in a number of group exhibitions.
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Exhibitions
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
- 2008, "Les Artistes Warlpiri", L'Expression de la Terre, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2008, "Desert Mob", Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
- 2008, "A Tribute to Darby Jampijinpa Ross", Watch This Space, Alice Springs.
- 2008, "Warlukurlangu Artists - The Art of Yuendumu", La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Bahrain, UAE.
- 2008, "Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu", The April Painted Door, Petaluma CA, USA.
- 2008, "Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime", ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
- 2008, "Dreamings Past & Present", Nexus Gallery, Adelaide.
- 2008, "Warlukurlangu Artists - Established & Emerging Artists", Hogarth Galleries, NSW.
- 2008, "Otto Jungarrayi Sims & Ormay Nangala Gallagher: Husband & Wife Act", Birrung Gallery, Sydney.
- 2008, "Yuendumu: Emerging Artists", Better World Arts, Adelaide.
- 2009, "Nyirripi & Yuendumu Artists", Japingka Gallery, Fremantle.
- 2009, "Men at Work", ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.
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