Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra - Artist Info

About Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra

Name variants

Elizabeth Marks, Elisabeth Marks Nakamara
  • Biography

    Elizabeth was born in Papunya at the end of the 1950s. Pro-set to Old Mick Namarrari, she married him in 1980. She has several children from this marriage, 2 sons and 1 daughter.

    In 1980 Mick was already a renowned artist and a highly respected personality in the West of the Central Desert. It was also in the early 1980s, after new laws allowing Aborigines to return to their ancestral lands, that Mick joined Kintore with all his family. A little later he established himself in Nyunmanu, an oustation (a camp where 1 or more families live).

    In 1998, Mick died. It is now up to her to provide for her family. She then begins to paint seriously. His style will gradually assert itself. Elizabeth likes to paint with only a few...

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