
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 14 years. She currently works for Kalano’s Community Night Patrol.
Artworks

Black Berries
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Collecting Bush Tucker
Marilyn Nakamarra
$1,100

Pidgeon & Seed Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$475

Women’s Ceremony
Marilyn Nakamarra
$500

Yowaki – Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$300

Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$800

Small Black Berries and Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$6,500

Women’s Dancing
Marilyn Nakamarra
$220

Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$220

Collecting Bush Berries
Marilyn Nakamarra
$1,200

Seed Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$380

Women Collecting Bush Food
Marilyn Nakamarra
$8,000

Women Collecting Bush Tucker
Marilyn Nakamarra
$5,000

Women’s Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$1,200

The Bush Plum
Marilyn Nakamarra
$8,800

Grass Seed Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$1,500

Bush Fruit
Marilyn Nakamarra
$1,500

Resting While Hunting
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Love Story (Yilpinji) and Black Berries
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Pidgeon Seed Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Bush Medicine
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Pidgeon Seed Dreaming
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350

Black Berries
Marilyn Nakamarra
$350