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Mona Byrnes

Layer: DAOO Artists with known birth places and birth years
Type: Other

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Latitude: -19.8516101
Longitude: 133.2303375
Start Date: 1923-01-01
End Date: 1923-01-01

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DAAO URL: https://www.daao.org.au/bio/mona-byrnes
Birth Place: Hermannsburg Mission Station, NT, Australia
Biography: painter and photographer, was born in 1923 on the Hermannsburg Mission Station in the Northern Territory, home of the Aranda Aboriginal painters such as Cordula Ebatarinja . Based in Alice Springs for most of her life, she has been a photographer, painter, arts administrator, housewife and caravan park proprietor. In the 1950s her photographs appeared in magazines such as Walkabout and Pix , but unfortunately much of her photographic work of this period was later damaged in a house fire. It was after this fire that Margaret Preston encouraged Mona Byrnes to paint, which she continues to do. She has been involved with several art foundations in Central Australia and organised the Alice Prize for one of them, the Alice Springs Art Foundation. A retrospective of her work was held at the Darwin Museum and Art Gallery in 1983 and her work was included in a show of the Northern Territory’s pioneer women artists at the Araluen Art Foundation early in 1994. This entry is a stub. You can help DAAO by submitting a biography. Writers: Riddler, Eric Date written: 1995 Last updated: 2011
Born: b. 1923
Summary: Painter and photographer, was born in 1923 on the Hermannsburg Mission Station in the Northern Territory, home of the Aranda Aboriginal painters.
Gender: Female
Died: None listed
Age at death: None listed