A senior artist offering his paintings for sale through his local community Art Centre at Warmun, (Warrmun), in East Kimberley, Beerbee Jangala was a steady figure of knowledge and authority. Beerbee’s application of finely crushed natural ochres are distinctive in character and content. Text: Helen Read
Short Street Gallery states: “Beerbee Mungnari was born at Waterloo Station, Northern Territory in 1933. His parents ‘belong to Rosewood’ and this is where he was brought up on a diet, he recalls, of ‘kangaroo soup and goats milk’. He has lived and worked most of his life as a stockman, working on various stations in the East Kimberley region.