Joanne Currie Nalingu (born 1964) is an

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artist based in

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. Her painting ''The River is Calm'' won the 2008

Wynne Prize The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. As one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne. Now held concurrently with the Sir John Sulman Prize ...

Early life

Currie is a descendant of the

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and was born at the Mitchell Yumba's Aboriginal mission. She grew up in Amby and

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Art

Currie is a self-taught artist. She began painting in 1989 and started exhibiting in 1991. By 1994, she had received an Arts Queensland grant. In 2008, her painting ''The River is Calm'' won the

. That painting is in the collection of the

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

. In 2009, she was a finalist for the Sunshine Coast Art Prize.

Lin Onus Lin Onus (4 December 1948 – 23 October 1996), born William McLintock Onus and also known as Lin Burralung McLintock Onus, was an Australian artist of Scottish- Aboriginal origins. He was the son of activist Bill Onus. Early life Willia ...

was a mentor of hers.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Currie held solo exhibitions at: * Give 'em Currie exhibition at the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery from December 2003 till March 2004. This expansive exhibition included sixty paintings filling three art gallery spaces. * The Jewellery and Art Gallery @ Carrington's at Noosa Junction in October 2011.

Group exhibitions

Currie's paintings were shown at FireWorks gallery alongside paintings by Vincent Serico in August 2008. These exhibitions were viewed by

Quentin Bryce Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th governor-general of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the ...

(then-

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) that same month. Currie's work was again co-exhibited with paintings by the late Vincent Serico in Riverdays, held in April 2012 at Gympie Regional Gallery. The exhibition focused on the artists' stories of living by rivers in their early lives, and featured Currie's painted shield designs. These works were based on water forms from her home territory, Maranoa.

References

External links

Currie's works at FireWorks Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Currie Nalingu, Joanne Australian Aboriginal artists Australian women artists Living people Wynne Prize winners 1964 births People from Mitchell, Queensland