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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.!
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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
Australian artist
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1936 – 1 September 2002) was an Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist. He was born in South East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia in the Limmen Bight area, 45 kilometers inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria coast.[4] His first language was Marra,[5] now critically endangered.
Riley was known for his distinctive landscape style and daring use of bright acrylic colors to paint the land surrounding the Limmen Bight River, situated along the Gulf of Carpentaria coast southeast of Arnhem Land[6]—and the mythological figures who created the region.[3] This region is Riley's mother's land, of which he served as its guardian/custodian.[6] Adhering to Marra customs, Riley was not allowed to portray the Dreamings, or ancestral stories from his father's Marra land and therefore stuck to the song lines on his matrilineal side.[7] The