Mavis Ngallametta
‘The Queensland Art Gallery show will be an eye-opener,’ insists Sydney art dealer, Martin Browne ‘No other Australian painter has had a full third of their output bought by public institutions.’
Browne is talking about the Wik and Kugu cultural leader and Putch clan elder, Mavis Ngallametta, who died a year ago at the age of 74. This star of the western Cape York was 64 before she picked up a paintbrush, but her enforced mission childhood in Aurukun had introduced her
