Doreen Reid Nakamarra
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Doreen Reid Nakamarra (c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1955 – 20 October 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter.[1] Reid was considered an important artist within the Western Desert cultural bloc.[1] She was a leading painter at the Papunya Tula artist cooperative in Central Australia.[1]
Personal life
Reid was born in Mummine near Mirlirrtjarra / Warburton, Western Australia in the mid-1950s.[2] 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.[1][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.[1]
Additionally, Reid's work was featured at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2009.[1] She was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award general painting prize in 2008 for an untitled work.[2][1] 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.[1] 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.[1]
Death
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.[1] She was flown from Alice Springs to Adelaide, where she died in the hospital on 20 October 2009, at the age of 50.[1]
Paul Sweeney, the general manager of Papunya Tula, praised Reid as an important artist and spokesperson.[1]
Exhibitions
- 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
- 2008 - Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - $4,000 general painting award - for an untitled work about a rockhole - Marrapinti.
Collections
- Seattle Art Museum[7]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art[8]
- Art Gallery of New South Wales[9]
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art[10]
References
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External links
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- Year of birth uncertain
- 1950s births
- 2009 deaths
- Australian Aboriginal artists
- Artists from the Northern Territory
- 20th-century Australian women artists
- 20th-century Australian painters
- 21st-century Australian women artists
- 21st-century Australian painters
- Indigenous Australians from Western Australia