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Nellie Marks Nakamarra / Women’s Ceremony (NM668)
SKU: NM668
60cm x 30cm Acrylic on Canvas
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60cm x 30cm Acrylic on Canvas
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Artist Profile
Nellie Marks Nakamarra was born in 1962 and is the younger sister of the renowned Central Australian artist Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra. Growing up with the same artistic influences they share a similar style and many of the same dreamings. Nellie was taught to paint by many of the founders of the desert art movement. Born in Papunya and growing up in the Western Desert, Nellie’s greatest artistic influences included Old Mick Namarrari, her step-father Turkey Tolson, Uta Uta and many others.Women’s Dreaming stories from the Western Desert form the basis of Nellie’s work. Showing her family as they move through the country collecting Medicines, water and Bush Tucker, Nellie portrays a fruitful land. The women travel through the bush teaching the children where to go to find these foods and medicines.
Painting in earthy tones she depicts women’s Lightning Dreaming, women’s ceremonies and women’s Tingari. One of Nellies better known stories is Kalimpinpa, which is the area she grew up in. The large rock hole at Kalimpinpa is a really deep rock hole. The men form a chain down to the water and scoop it up with a Coolamon and pass it up along the chain. This rock hole runs down under the ground and is difficult to access the water when there has been very little rain and the water level has dropped. Women’s body paint designs also feature heavily throughout Nellie’s artistic practice. Nellie enjoys experimenting with different colour palettes and has become incredibly confident in mixing colours for her works.
Nellie is naturally a quiet and shy woman, however her association with other famous artists has given her the confidence to enter into wider society so that she may now show the world her culture and her Dreamings as a successful artist.
Artwork Description
In her paintings, Nellie Marks Nakamarra depicts her father’s Country at Kalipinypa, near Kintore. Kalipinypa is an important Water Dreaming and storm site associated with lightning, rain and the replenishment of rockholes, claypans and creeks. Nellie combines Women’s Ceremony, Country and Tingari stories connected to this culturally significant place.
Concentric circles often represent important sites and ceremonial places, while lines extending between them may indicate pathways and connections across Country. Depending on the individual painting, other forms may relate to women gathering, waterholes, rocky outcrops, sandhills, bush foods, medicines or designs used during ceremony. The precise meaning of the imagery varies from painting to painting and remains connected to Nellie’s cultural knowledge.
Nellie creates rhythm and movement through repeated dots, flowing lines and clearly defined areas of colour. Her palettes vary from warm earth tones to brighter combinations, while the balance between detailed patterning and open space gives her work a distinctive sense of spaciousness. Through colour, form and traditional imagery, Nellie creates powerful interpretations of Kalipinypa and the stories held within her father’s Country.
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