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Biography
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Courtesy by gallery "Niagara Galleries, Richmond (AU)"
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18.8.1981
Born in Lockhart River, QLD (AU)
Fiona Omeenyo CV as pdf-File 32,5 KB
Language group: Umpila
Collections
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commission, Canberra
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
Department of Native Title Services, Queensland
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Northern Territory University, Darwin
Thomas Vroom Collection, Netherlands
Woolongong University, New South Wales
Awards
1999
1st Prize, Works on Paper, Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Queensland
2001
1st Prize, Painting,Cape York Art Awards, Laura Festival, Queensland
2001
Shortlisted for an artwork commission for the new State Government Office Building in Cairns, Queensland
Fiona Omeenyo is a young artist working in the Lockhart River Region on the east coast of Cape York in Far North Queensland. Her paintings are based on the story of her home country given to her by her Uncle Blade.
'A very long time ago this man named Miiku lived and roamed all his life at a place called Pathaco - Chester River Region. One night this man Pama ... carried a message stick uku and gave it to Miiku ... this message was carved on the uku. Miiku carefully read the message ... it was an invitation from the chief of the Parrot tribe Tinta... an invitation for Miiku to attend the wedding ceremony for the chief's twin daughters to marry the son of the Sea Eagle Kuchuutu... the wedding will take place in two days time ... when it's full moon. Anyway this man Miiku ... think to himself ... 'the chief promise them girls for me'. Then he became very, very angry ... so he got up and started to dance corroboree mulkarri. He dance and dance until it began to rain ... it rained so heavily that the tide came up and started to flood. The chief of the Tinta tribe knows that Miiku is doing this ... so he called everyone to move to higher ground so that the wedding will carry on. Well anyway ... before the night of the wedding ... this man Miiku packed up his stuff and put them in his dugout canoe and paddled to the wedding ground. But when he got there ... no one was there ... he couldn't see anyone around. He then thought to himself 'Oh yes ... they must have gone up to higher ground'... so he started to travel along. As he came near the place he could hear the sound of clapping sticks. While everyone was busy ... he called out to the parrot sisters... and they came towards him ... he stole the two parrot sisters and took them back to Pathaco. When he got there ... his humpy was washed away. He then took his canoe and paddled to the island called Me-chuthii ... Hay Island. He made a grass hut there and hid the twin sisters. Whenever you go to Me-chuthii you can see that grass mound where he hid the chief's daughters. If you poke the mound ... see Miiku come out. From that day ... till today you can see the Sea Eagle ... Kuchuutu ... hovering from coast to coast searching for the parrot twins ... Tinta twins. This is a true story ...this thing really happened ... at Pathaco ... before time.'
Lives and works
in Lockhart River, Queensland
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Public exhibitions 3 
Solo shows 1
2007
Fiona Omeenyo - New Life
 Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Group shows 2
2004
Euan Macleod / Fiona Omeenyo
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
2002
HELEN WRIGHT - FUTURE PERFECT / FIONA OMEENYO
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Dealer Directory 2
Australia
Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
Niagara Galleries, Richmond, VIC
Catalogs
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