Ormay Nangala Gallagher               CV

Ormay Nangala Gallagher was born in Alice Springs hospital. Her upbringing was mainly in Yuendumu where she attended the local Yuendumu school. In 1978 she attended Yirara College and in between 1978 -1979 she attended Sadadeen College. She then moved to Nyirripi where she worked at the Nyirrpi store between 1986-1994. Between 1995 and 2004 she worked at the Nyirrpi school as a teacher. She did her teachers training through Batchelor College. “ I have started painting in 1980’s and I am still painting today. I do dot painting and the dreaming that I paint is about Emu and Water, that dreaming is at Mikanji and that is my fathers dreaming I also paint Pama-pardu and Emu, that dreaming is North of Nyirrrpi a place call Waylka and wantungurru that is also another of my fathers dreaming.” Ormay travelled to Bahrain in 2008 and Delhi, India in 2009 with Warlukurlangu Artists. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 Les artistes Warlpiri : l’expression de la terre, The Art Floor, Geneva, Switzerland 2008 Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT 2008 Artists of Nyirripi & Yuendumu, Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA 2008 A Tribute to Darby Jampijinpa Ross, Watch This Space, Alice Springs, NT 2008 Warlukurlangu Artists, the art of Yuendumu, La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Bahrain UAE 2008 Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu, The April Painted Door, Petaluma CA, USA 2008 Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime, ReDot Gallery, Singapore 2008 Dreamings Past & Present, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide SA 2008 Warkukurlangu Artists, Established & Emerging Artists, Hogarth Galleries,NSW 2008 Otto Jungarrayi Sims & Ormay Nangala Gallagher, Husband & Wife Act,Birrung Gallery, Sydney NSW 2008 Yuendumu, Emerging Artists, Better World Arts, Port Adelaide, SA 2009 Nyirripi & Yuendumu Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA 2009 Men at Work, ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany 2010 Crossing Paths, Flinders Lane Gallery