Doreen Reid Nakamarra

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Doreen Reid Nakamarra (* approx. 1955 in Mummine near Warburton ; † October 20, 2009 in Adelaide ) was an Australian Aboriginal painter .

life and work

Doreen Reid Nakamarra came into contact with the artists' colony in Haasts Bluff as a child . Later she went to school in Papunya and saw the honey pot ant mural and also the paintings on canvas by the Papunya Tula Artist Cooperative , which she joined in 1996. In 1980 Doreen Reid Nakamarra met her second husband George Tjampu Tjapaltjarri in Kintore . They lived in Kiwirrkura , where Doreen Reid Nakamarra stayed even after the death of her husband (2005) and performed as an independent artist.

The fine zigzag compositions of her two-tone paintings do not refer to the myths of the dream time . They are symbolic representations of Marrapinti, a holy place for women, the undulating shapes of the wide plains and the sand hills in their surroundings overgrown with sweet grasses.

In 2009 Doreen Reid Nakamarra traveled to the opening of the exhibition of the Papunya Tula Artist Cooperative ( curator : Hetti Perkins) in New York and died after her return of pneumonia in the hospital of Adelaide.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 2008 25th Telstra General Painting Award

Individual evidence

  1. Art Gallery-Doreen Reid Nakamarra ( Memento from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Doreen Reid Nakamarra , accessed on March 18, 2015 (English).
  3. dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 112, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  4. ^ The Australian, Ashleigh Wilson Celebrated Aboriginal artist dead at 50 , accessed March 18, 2015.