Doreen Reid Nakamarra

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Doreen Reid Nakamarra
Bornc.1955[1]
Mummine near Warburton, Western Australia[1]
Died(2009-10-20)20 October 2009
Adelaide, South Australia
NationalityAustralian
AwardsNational Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (2008)[1]

Doreen Reid Nakamarra (c.1955 – 20 October 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter.[2] Reid was considered an important artist within the Western Desert cultural bloc.[2] She was a leading painter at the Papunya Tula artist cooperative in Central Australia.[2]

Personal life[edit]

Reid was born in Mummine near Mirlirrtjarra / Warburton, Western Australia in the mid-1950s.[1] In 1984, Reid and her husband George Tjampu Tjapaltjarri, who subsequently established himself as a Papunya Tula painter, settled at the new community of Kiwirrkurra, to be closer to her husband's country.[2][3][4] In 2007, Reid's work was displayed at the National Gallery of Australia's inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors exhibition. The exhibit, including Reid's pieces, toured Australia state galleries before opening at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington D.C. in September 2009.[2]

Additionally, Reid's work was featured at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2009.[2] She was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award general painting prize in 2008 for an untitled work.[1][2] The work depicts designs associated with the Marrapinti rockhole site, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia.[5]

In September 2009, Reid travelled to New York City for the opening of a Papunya Tula art exhibition which included her work.[2] The New York exhibition was opened by Hetti Perkins, the curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.[2]

Death[edit]

Reid died a few weeks after returning from a major exhibition in the United States of America (USA). On 18 October 2009, Reid was admitted to the hospital for treatment of pneumonia.[2] She was flown from Alice Springs to Adelaide, where she died in the hospital on 20 October 2009, at the age of 50.[2]

Paul Sweeney, the general manager of Papunya Tula, praised Reid as an important artist and spokesperson.[2]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • 2007 National Indigenous Art Triennial '07:Culture Warriors - 13 October 2007 - 10 February 2008 - The National Gallery of Australia.
  • 2009 National Indigenous Art Triennial '07:Culture Warriors. The National Gallery of Australia - Katzen Arts Centre, Washington, USA
  • 2009 Icons of the Desert - Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya - 1 September - 5 December, New York University Grey Art Gallery, USA, 2009[6]
  • 2009 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
  • 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - Before and After Science - Art Gallery of South Australia - 27 February - 2 May 2010

Prizes[edit]

  • 2008 - Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - $4,000 general painting award - for an untitled work about a rockhole - Marrapinti.

Collections[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Doreen Reid Nakamarra". The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Wilson, Ashleigh (30 October 2009). "Celebrated Aboriginal artist dead at 50". The Australian. Archived from the original on 12 April 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
  3. ^ "art+soul". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  4. ^ Sweeney, Paul. "NAKAMARRA, Doreen Reid". National Indigenous Art Triennial '07:Culture Warriors. The National Gallery of Australia.
  5. ^ "25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA)". Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Archived from the original on 30 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya". Grey Art Gallery. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Doreen Reid Nakamarra – Artists – eMuseum". localhost.
  8. ^ "Marrapinti". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Untitled, (2007) by Doreen Reid Nakamarra".
  10. ^ "Women's ceremonies at Marrapinti". emuseum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2 January 2021.

External links[edit]

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