Beerbee Mungnari

Who is Beerbee Mungnari?

Beerbee Mungnari is an Australian aboriginal artist born on Waterloo Station in 1931.

He was a stockman and drover. He grew up in Rosewood . After retiring from stock work, he lived at Wyndham then at Turkey Creek where he taught at a school, where he started painting in 1982, learning from Jack Brittan He has six children, two of them also artists, and a wife. He then lived at Frog Hollow Creek with friends Jack Britten and Henry Wambini, who have died. He now spends most of his time at Frog Hollow and in Kununurra. He has a very distinctive style in his paintings. Since the death in 2006 of Hector Jandany he is now the oldest male ochre artist in the Kimberly Region. His works are much sought after and he is represented in corporate and private collections.