GALLERY  Australian Aboriginal Art

Title: Women's Rockholes
Artist: Debra Young Nakamarra
Painted: 2016
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, unframed
Painting area: 150cm x 150cm
Margin: 4.5-5.0cm
Authenticity: The painting singed by Debra Young . CoA and pictures of Debra holding and signing her work as well as photos in process will be provided.
Story: This artwork depicts symbols associated with Women's Dreaming stories. Women's Dreaming's are an extended knowledge of sacred places, design and ancient dreamtime stories, which are handed down from generation to generation. Debra focuses on the geographical features of the Western Desert around Kiwirrkurra and Papunya, displaying rock holes, sand hills and caves. The traditional iconography represents meeting places and the landscape and encompasses all the important “business” which occurs at these sites.

Artist: Debra Young Nakamarra
Skin Name: Nakamarra
Born:c.1964
Region: Kiwirrkurra, Western Desert
Language: Pintupi
Subjects and Themes(Dreaming): Women's Dreamings.

About artist

Debra Young Nakamarra was born in 1964 in a family of famous Western Desert artists Walangkura Napanangka and Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula represented by Papunya Tula Artists. Debra began painting in 1984 along with her sisters Lorraine Yungut Nakamarra and Katherine Marshall Nakamarra, who are also emerging artists. All three sisters were guided by Walangkura who taught them their Dreaming stories. The importance of traditional Aboriginal iconography which used to depict stories through art was shared with the girls by their mother.

Debra has created her Dreaming her own style by adding her own preferred mostly bright colours such as orange, purple and pink to get a sense of the important stories which are shared through the artwork on multiple levels – through the land and the emotional connection between women as they share stories and participate in ceremonies.

Debra concentrates on the geographical characteristics of the Western Desert around Kiwirrkurra and Papunya, displaying rock holes, sand hills and caves. The traditional iconography represents meeting places and the landscape and encompasses all the important matters which occur at these sites.

Debra’s depictions are culturally significant for Pintupi women.

The women’s stories which Debra is known for share the sacred knowledge of women’s places where Dreamtime stories are shared and handed down through the generations.

Debra’s works have begun to be exhibited more in the recent past with her works being recognised and admired by local Alice Springs galleries and around Australia. She is an emerging artist and the stories that are shared through her artwork are important and sacred for Pintupi people and as such should be included in any collection.

Selected Exhibitions:

• 2009 Papunya Tula Art Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
• 2010 Red Sands Gallery, Eumundi, QLD, Australia
• 2010 Papunya Tula Art Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
• 2010 Harrison Galleries, Paddington, NSW, Australia
• 2011 “Desert Dreamings”, Leslie Smith Gallery, The Netherlands
• 2011 “Passing Down Stories”, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
• 2011 “Black and White and Red All Over”, Gallery 1, Noosa, QLD, Australia

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