Marilyn Nakamarra

Marilyn Nakamarra

DOB: 09/03/1958

POB: Alice Springs or Yuendumu

Domain: Yuendumu, NT Australia

Language: Warlpiri

Skin Name: Nakamarra

Marilyn was born in March, 1958, but is unsure as to whether she was delivered in Alice Springs hospital, or on her community, Yuendumu. She has vivid memories of a more traditional way of life that surrounded her as a child – being covered entirely in red ochre when she was sick, seeing babies carried in wooden coolamons and greeting her mother coming home from hunting trips with seeds to grind, calling out “Ngurlu ngurlu ngurlu” (Warlpiri for “seed”).

She also had the opportunity to watch her mother painting traditional stories and later painted and sold her own work through Yuendumu Art Centre.

Marilyn has been living in Katherine for the past 17years. She currently works as an artworker at Mimi Arts and Crafts in Katherine and has been working there since 2005.

Previous to that Marilyn worked as a translator at the Court House and Hospital for the Diwurruwurru Aboriginal Corporation (The Katherine Language Centre).

Marilyn is an emerging artist and her work is very popular. She uses a very meticulous method of putting her dot work down and takes a very long time to finish her work. The background work is talking about her country and the specific vegetation that grows there.

 

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