Doreen Reid Nakamarra Pintupi/Ngaanyatjarra language group, circa 1955-2009
Untitled - Marrapinti, 2008
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
72 x 96 inches (183 x 244 cm)
© The Estate of the Artist, by permission of Papunya Tula Artists through the Aboriginal Artists Agency.
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, cat. no. DR0802033
Private Collection, Melbourne, Victoria, acquired from the above in 2008
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York, acquired from the above in 2024
Exhibitions
The 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, August 2008 - Winner of the General Painting Award
Women of the Western Desert, Walungurru and Kiwirrkurra, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 28 August 2025 - 03 October 2025
Publications
Vanessa Merlino, Isabella Wadley, and Luke Scholes, Women of the Western Desert, Walungurru and Kiwirrkurra, D'Lan Contemporary, 2025, p. 54 - 55 (illus.)
“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)
Related artworks
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Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Marrapinti, 2009 -
Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Untitled - Ngaminya, 2005
