Portfolio | Professional Experience

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2025 – Solo Exhibition – Judith wright art Centre

  • 2025 – Shine on Gimmuy – Cairns Esplanade

  • 2024 – First nations Art Award Flying arts – Flying arts Brisbane

  • 2024 – Light scape Brisbane Festival – Botanical Gardans

  • 2023 – Shine on Gimmuy – Cairns Esplanade

  • 2022 - Book launch (Etching past & present) – Fireworks Art gallery

  • 2021 - Premiers Award (Annastacia Palaszczuk) - CIAF

  • 2021 - NITV Interview – Going places with Erni Dingo

  • 2016 - Fairfax Syndication National Museum Australia Canberra

  • 2016 - Canberra Times

  • 2016 - The Australian Newspaper.

  • 2016 - ABC Tv – Behind the shield.

  • 2015 - National Museum Canberra.

  • 2015 - Creative Cowboy Films.

  • 2003 - Were, Ian, Paul Bong (Bindur-Bullin)”in Seear, Gunning, Judy, Were, Ian, (eds).” story Place; Indigenous art of cape York and the rainforest” Queensland art Gallery, Brisbane, 2003 p.176.

Paul sitting on a beige couch in front of abstract artwork in a gallery, wearing a colorful abstract-patterned shirt.
Three people standing together during an award ceremony. Paul stands in the middle, holding an award, accompanied by a woman in a red cardigan and dark dress, and a man wearing a black blazer and white trousers.
Paul standing in front of large Aboriginal shields at Lightscape event at night.
Paul with 2 other men standing in front of his artwork, smiling and making friendly hand gestures, in an art gallery.
Four people standing outdoors in front of an art gallery. Paul is holding a painted aboriginal shield.
A close up of Paul painting a shield design on paper at the museum.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Shine on Gimmuy, Cairns Esplanade

2024 – Brisbane Light scape, Brisbane festival

2024 – Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane Qld

2023 – Shine on Mundu Gimuy, Cairns pier, Cairns CBD

2020 - ‘Lore to Law’ Cairns courthouse, Cairns

2018 - ‘Punch the clock’ Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane

2015 - Cairns Regional Gallery, Umi Art, Cairns Indigenous Art fair,

2014 – ‘stories from Home; Looking back’ Canopy art Centre, Cairns’ Murriefactive shield studies’ Umi art Cairns.

2013 – INKFEST Ink Masters Cairns Inc. Print Biennale, Tanks art Centre Cairns.

2013 – ‘Inside / outside; Mapping Personal Journey’ Ink masters touring Exhibition, artslink Queensland to selected Queensland Galleries.

2011 – 12/ artist Cooperative gallery orchid plaza, Cairns with, Seith Fourmile, Billy missi.

2004 – Brothers in art, collaboration with John Mast at Banggu Minjaari with FNQ TAFE, Cairns.

2003 – Story Place; Indigenous art of cape York and the Rainforest’ Queensland art gallery, Brisbane.

1998/99 – International gift fair touring selected collaborative glass works with Judith Bohm-parr of studio8 Innisfail FNQ Australia.

1994 – Graduating student Exhibition, Banggu Minjaani Art gallery, Cairns TAFE, Student Exhibition, pacific Hotel Cairns, and Marina mirage Port Douglas.

Paul holding a traditional Aboriginal shield in a museum display room with other similar artifacts in the background.
Paul painting a large, Aboriginal shield artwork on a canvas in a studio, with two other similar artworks hanging on the wall behind him.

COMMISSIONS

           

2017 – Rainforest shields’ public art commission (5 Shields) Cairns Regional Council.

1999 – Air New Zealand Collaborative glass presentations slump/moulded dish with studio8

glass workshop fishery Qld.

1994/95 – Rainforest shield sculptures from north Queensland’ (8 shields 1 sword), International Airport Departure Concourse, Brisbane airport Corporation Limited

An Aboriginal shield artwork on an oval canvas featuring a large red oval in the center, surrounded by various small colored shapes and lines, with a predominantly earthy and beige background.
A decorative Aboriginal shield artwork, featuring a large brown oval in the center and a background with a cracked, colorful pattern featuring yellow, red, orange, and purple paint splashes on a white surface.
Paul with an elder and two other men, standing in front of a blue wall with five colorful, patterned Aboriginal shields.
Paul with an elder and two other men standing and talking in an airport terminal, some smiling, with artwork on the wall and airport sign in the background.

COLLECTORS

Australian War Memorial

National Museum of Australia, Canberra

  Parliament House, Canberra

Queensland University of Technology

International Airport Brisbane

The Queensland Museum

Queensland state Library

Painting of three traditional Aboriginal woven vessels and a spear.
Sequence of five side-by-side illustrations of Aboriginal shields, gradually transitioning from a plain shield to being more and more covered by the British flag.

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