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Continue ShoppingDorothy Milinti May
Date of Birth: c.1950
Language: Walmajarri
Country: Cherrabun
"I was born at old Cherrabun Station along the Fitzroy River. At an early age my mother and father took me on a wagon all around Yakanarra, this is my country too. When I grow up big I went to work at the old Cherrabun station for kartiya, washing and cleaning. Sometimes I would go bush to get away. This is where I learnt to make damper and tea. This was when I was single girl. After this time I met my husband Tommy May, we were friends first. We have six children I work at Karrayili Adult Education Centre learning to read and write. I have been painting for a long time."
Exhibition History
1996 Broken Promises Tandanya, Adelaide
1995 National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the NT
1996 Heritage Commission Art Award Selected to hang Old Parliament House, Canberra
2000 Heritage Commission Art Award Selected to hang Old Parliament House, Canberra
2001 Ngurrara Canvas National Gallery of Australia
2001 Mangkaja Arts Ten Years On Mangkaja’s 10 year Anniversary Show Tandanya, Adelaide
2002 Group Show Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Group Show Short Street Gallery, Broome
2003 Ten Mangkaja Women Raft Artspace, Darwin
2004 7 Artists, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
2009 Brigitte Braun Gallery, Melbourne, Luka (Mud), a joint exhibition by husband and wife, Tommy and Dorothy May.
Awards
1995 Winner Telstra Prize, best work on paper National Aboriginal Art Award Publications
Publications
1995 12th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition Catalogue
1998 Jila Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert Video Documentary / SBS Television
2000 Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art Oxford University Press & ANU
2000 Karrayili The history of Karrayili Adult Education Centre IATSIS Canberra
2001 Painting Up Big, The Ngurrara Canvas Kaltja Now National Aboriginal Cultural Institute – Tandanya