Martin Morububuna
Artist Statement
Martin Morububuna is one of Papua New Guinea’s
most accomplished and graphic artists, renowned as a
painter, printmaker, and muralist.
Martin was born in 1957 in Kwebwaga Village in
the Trobriand Islands. After high school, he joined
the Creative Arts Centre, then attended Papua New
Guinea’s National Arts School and began participating
in group exhibitions. His first solo show followed there
in 1977. Since then, he’s had frequent exhibitions in
PNG and Australia, and has worked on major public
and private commissions for clients worldwide.
Screenprints, woodcuts, and lithographs composed
most of Martin’s early work. Later he concentrated on
painting, experimenting to see how Western art styles,
including impressionism and cubism, could be used to
interpret Papua New Guinean themes.
His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of
Australia.