Mark Nodea / Yagga Yagga (18830)
SKU: 18830
90cm x 120cm Ochre on Canvas
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90cm x 120cm Ochre on Canvas
Artist Profile
Mark was born in Derby in 1968. He resides in Turkey Creek and is Chairperson of Warmun Art Centre. He is a wonderful ambassador for his Community and the traditional ochre art of the area. Mark is well educated and an incredibly talented Traditional ochre artist. His charcoal sketches and figurative acrylic works are testimony of his ability in any sphere / medium of artworks.
He has been taught the stories of his land by his mother, artist Nancy Nodea, and paints her country, Texas Downs, and his father’s country around Cherabun Station. Mark’s father is Hanson Boxer, a Walmajarrie man, and this enables Mark to extend his content to embrace both Kitja land and his father’s country around Yakanarra (an excision of Go Go Station via Fitzroy Crossing) and Cherabun Station. His minimal and sometimes flamboyant style gives him scope for large works. He is undoubtedly one of the most naturally talented Australian artists.
Mark’s design won the 2002 Royal Australian Mint International Award for Pure Silver Collector Coin. The Royal Australian Mint has only released ten such coins since 1983. He has participated in Group Exhibitions and his first Solo in September 2003 at the prestigious Alison Kelly Gallery in Melbourne was a sell out success. In 2013, Mark beat a host of brilliant Western Australian artists to take out first prize in the $20,000 Mid West Art Award for Excellence. In 2020, Mark‘s solo exhibition at Short Street Gallery in Broome sold out on the opening night.
Selected Group & Solo Exhibitions
2020
• Mark Nodea – Balungarr, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
2019
• Desert River Sea – Portraits of the Kimberley, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2014
• Warmun Aboriginal Art – Art Images Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2013
• 5th Annual Belle Arti Prize Exhibition
2008
• East of East Kimberley, ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2007
• Ochre on Board, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
• Back To The Board, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW
• Wolf Creek Crater, AGOG, Melbourne, VIC
2003
· Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
· Group Show, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
· East Kimberley Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome
2002
· Coomalie Culture Centre, Batchelor, NT
· All That Gija Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
· Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
· New Works From Warmun Community, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2001
· In Celebration – The Peter Bailiee Aquisitive Exhibition, Flinders University Art Museum
Awards
2013
• First Prize, $20,000 Mid West Art Award for Excellence
2002
· Kimberley Interpreting Centre, Designer of Image for Medical Poster
· Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Designer of 10th Commemorative Silver Dollar
Selected Collections
· Laverty Collection, Sydney
· Ross Jones Collection, Sydney
· Art Gallery of Queensland
Artwork Description
My father’s country is all around the desert south of Halls Creek. One of the best parts of the country is Yagga Yagga. It’s a good community and the land is better than further down Balgo way. Just near Yagga Yagga is Ngantalarra – now that’s a top place. Freshwater rivers and lakes. Rich soil plains and in the old days people from everywhere would come here, for bush yams and other bush tucker and very good hunting. The people of Yagga Yagga visit this place a lot, and the road is graded and easy for driving. Flat land either side, and when you reach Ngantalarra, it’s like a paradise in the desert.
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