Ausstellungen:
Major Exhibitions 2009 2008 2006 2003 Story Place Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Qld Art + Life of the Kokoberrin, Cairns Regional Gallery, Cairns, Qld Australia Awards: 2005 2000 Artistic Concept Commision 2007
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Lisa Michl Ko-manggén
Born in Cairns, Queensland in 1977, Lisa is of the Kokoberrin language group, located on Central West Coast of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. Her traditional homelands, on her Grandmother’s side, are known as Pinnarinch or Mudpaalanjen and stretch between Staaten River National Park and north to Nassau River, including Wyabba Creek and Dorunda Lodge area. Today the Kokoberrin mainly reside in Kowanyama, Normanton and North Queensland communities.
Pinarrinch encompasses several creation places, with Lisa’s totem name Ko-manggén being one of them. Lisa was given her totem name Ko-manggén in 2005 by her grate grandfather whom was the most senior Kokoberrin elder and lore man and named Lisa after his cousin Fannie Bruce.
Visual artist, Lisa Michl said, “For 60,000 years our Australian landscape has been under indigenous land management. We have a special relationship to our land which continues to provide us with our identity”. While Pastoral leases and today’s society has greatly impacted on our people carrying out traditional practices it has not stop us from handing down our cultural management systems”.
“I use colours, texture and design along with my thoughts and feelings to create my works. My fine art paintings express elements of our creation stories, traditional practices and our every day lifestyle which has been transcended to me by my elders. Even today our cultural lifestyle is made up of Art, craft, song, dance, language and lore. Spending time on country with family is what grounds and maintains us. This is when our old ways are transferred onto younger generations of Kokoberrin.
Lisa’s work is known nationally for incorporating beautifully coloured earth tones and intricate marks or lines which form delicate yet sometimes bold design.
Over the past two years she has exhibited with numerous high profile commercial galleries including; Andrew Baker, Brisbane, Hogarth Galleries NSW, Helen Maxwell ACT, Japingka Gallery W.A.
She was the 2006/2007 recipient of the Ivyon Coen Indigenous Youth Art and Leadership Award presented by the Wilin Centre at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria. In 2005 and 2007 her work was selected to be exhibited in the prestigious Telstra Art Award, which remains the nation’s longest-running annual art award that identifies and recognises our country’s most talented Indigenous artists and is held in Northern Territory.
In the last five years Lisa has exhibited in group exhibitions like Story Place: Indigenous Art of the Cape York and Rainforest in 2003 at the Queensland Art Gallery and Out of Country in 2004 in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Washington and New York. Lisa’s fine art paintings have also been acquired my several collections including; The Queensland Art Gallery, The Australian Embassy in German and The Australian Government ArtBank.
Her fine art paintings have taken her to various national locations and it has been during this time many astute national and international art collectors have lined up to invest in Lisa’s work with large paintings going to numerous private collections.
Since 2000 Michl has worked in the Indigenous arts industry within North Queensland holding down positions with TANK Arts Centre in Cairns and as a Board Member of the Indigenous Environment Foundation (IEF) and the National Indigenous Reference Group (NIARG) an advisory board for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board for the Australia Council for the Arts, Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA) and at the time of writing Michl was the Chairperson, Umi Arts Pty Ltd in Cairns.
With this sort of success so early in her career, Lisa Michl is obviously a name to watch out for in the future.
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