Beryline Mung Mung

DOB: 1954
Born: Texas Downs Station, WA
LANGUAGE: Kija
COMMUNITY: Warmun, WA

It should come as no surprise that Beryline is a creditable painter in her own right, although she has only recently taken up the brush. One of the fathers of modern Warmun/Turkey Creek art movement was indeed her father, the late George Mung Mung, who, with lifelong friend, Paddy Jampinji (Jampiny) exerted influence over such artists as Jack Britten, Hector Tjandany, Beryline's own husband Freddie Timms, the late Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie. Beryline resides at the tiny community Frog Hollow, just to the south of Turkey Creek, where she divides her time between her children, her work at the school and her painting.