“Born in the Warburton Ranges in Western Australia, over 400 miles from the community of Kiwirrkurra, where she lived and painted, Doreen Reid Nakamarra was one of Papunya Tula Artists’ most devoted and meticulous artists. Given the rights of her artist husband, Doreen painted the sites of the great ancestral Kana Puta women’s songline that traversed across his Country and their community. From her first modest canvas painted in 1996, Doreen steadily and consistently developed and refined her style until achieving a breakthrough work in 2005 that first embodied the rolling sandhills of the desert in a pulsating zigzag design.This highly polished representation of Country inspired further innovation, with the paintings being laid flat in several major institutional exhibitions to emphasise the three-dimensional effect of the work.” (Vanessa Merlino and Luke Scholes, 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, 2023, p. 24)