Dawn is part of the artist cooperative Hermannsburg Potters.
Dawn was born in 1953 in Hermannsburg. She is the daughter of Pastor Peter Buller, a Lutheran missionary of whom she has fond memories of, and recalls learning to make music sticks from him.
Dawn married in 1970 and has two daughters, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. They live at their outstation near Ntaria – Rrirrkathathaka (Red Sand Hill).
Dawn draws on the landscape around her, her love of her father’s country, who’s memory has inspired her to maintain links to her Luritja hertiage through her art practice.
Dawn is a precise and methodical potter, and her sytle has been noted for her considered figurative story telling.
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Collections, florilège / SelectedCollections
- University of Technology Queensland
- University of New South Wales
- Parliament House
- Kerry Stokes Collection
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Gordon Darling Foundation
- National Gallery of Australia
- Queensland Art Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Gallery of Victoria
Expositions, florilège / Selected exhibitions
2021 Painting Now – Peindre aujourd’hui en terres aborigènes, IDAIA, Le Havre, France
Dawn Ngala Wheeler with her work at Desert Mob 2020 – Courtesy Hermannsburg Potters
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SOURCE: Hermannsburg Potters.
