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Mona Ramsey |
 Mona was born at Old Greenvale Station 1938. Her language is Kitja and she is the eldest daughter of the late Timmy Timms, a celebrated Elder and International Artist. When everyone from Old Greenvale Station relocated to the new Bow River Homestead which Sam and Maggie Lilly had built, combining Adavale and Greenvale Stations, Mona carried out household duties. Monas father Timmy was Head Stockman and right hand man for Sam. Mona grew up (raised/looked after) the three Lilly children whilst Maggie was assisting her husband to build the mighty Bow River Station (a million acre cattle empire) from the grass roots. Read the biography Pioneers of the Kimberley the Maggie Lilly Story and you will see how Mona and her family feature in the life of these early Settlers. The Bow was granted to the Timms family (some time after Sam and Maggie onsold it) by the Government, with Timmy as Chairperson. At Tims funeral, Maggie, then 90 plus, proudly said to the mourners Your family is my family, and mine is yours. After the death of her father, the full responsibility of running Bow River Station was put firmly on Monas shoulders. Mona commenced painting in 1996. Her painting centres on Bow River, Bedford Downs station and surrounding areas. Renowned artist Paddy Bedford (dcsd.) was her uncle Mona was very close to her uncle Paddy, and depicts the stories of the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) told by Paddy in flowing landscape style. SELECTED COLLECTIONS Argyle Diamonds Artbank Kerry Stokes Collection SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2002 Land is Life Jagdschloss Granitz, Binz, Rügen, Germany, Gallery Bähr, Speyer, Germany 2001 The Unseen in Scene Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany, Gallery Bähr, Speyer Recounting the Essence of Life, Kunstforum HDZ, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, Galerie Bähr, Speyer 2000 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra Adelhausermuseum, Freiburg, Germany Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Germany Leverkusen and Dormagen, Germany Out there - Currents in the Landscape Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth 1999 Aboriginal Art, IHK Würzburg, Germany, Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Germany Bush Garden, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle East Kimberley Art Awards, Kununurra Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Hale School Annual Art Exhibition, Perth Hogarth Galleries, Sydney Japingka Gallery, Fremantle Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin Short Street Gallery, Broome |
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