MICK WIKILYIRI
b. 1940, AustraliaBefore painting became central to his practice, Mick Wikilyiri worked as a ringer at Curtin Springs, Timber Creek, Kenmore Park, Kalka and Musgrave Park Station—the property that later became Amata. He was among the first senior men to paint at Minymaku Arts when a men’s painting room was established in 2003. Wikilyiri described his paintings as “maps, biographies and histories”, reflecting the way personal experience and ancestral narrative coexist within his representations of Country.
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