Patrick Mung Mung is a senior artist at Warmun Art Centre and an elder at Warmun Community in the East Kimberley. Painting with natural earth pigments, Mung Mung's knowledge of country and his recollections of family and land are his predominant subject. Like his late father, George Mung Mung, Patrick is a strong crosscultural communicator. In its raw directness and composition, his work is influenced by the previous generation of Warmun artists, which include Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji.
Mung Mung was born at Spring Creek and worked as a stockman for many years on Texas Downs Station and nearby stations in the East Kimberley. He was the last worker to leave Texas Downs when it closed down in the 1970s. In 1991 following his father’s death, it fell to him to accompany his father’s carving ‘Mary of Warmun’ to Canberra for the exhibition ‘Aboriginal Art and Spirituality’ at the High Court of Australia. This occasion marked the beginning of a journey for Mung Mung, which was to see him take on his father’s role of senior artist, law and culture man. He began painting in 1991, and was instrumental in establishing the artist-and-community-owned art centre at Warmun in 1998. Since that time, Mung Mung has led Gija performances of the Gurirr Gurirr around Australia, as well as in Paris and Canada.