Pauline Nakamarra Woods
Pauline Nakamarra Woods | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) Vaughan Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Nationality | Aboriginal Australian, Mungkururrpa |
| Other names | Pauleen Nakamarra Woods |
| Notable work | Yarla Dreaming, Wild Onion Dreaming |
| Style | Contemporary Aboriginal Australian art |
Pauline Nakamarra Woods (born 1949) is an Aboriginal Australian artist.[1][2] Her first name is spelled Pauleen in some sources.[3]
Early life
[edit]Woods was born in 1949, Vaughan Springs, west of Yuendumu, and grew up in Yuendumu. She later lived in Alice Springs. She is a speaker of the Pintupi and Warlpiri languages.[2]
Career
[edit]Woods began painting in 1986.[2]
Woods was one of the founders, and later vice-president, of the Jukurrpa (meaning The Dreaming) Aboriginal-led collective of women artists.[2]
In 1988 she won first prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her acrylic painting Yarla Dreaming.[3] She was the first woman to win this prize.[2]
In 1993 her work was used on an Australian postage stamp, and she was the first Indigenous Australian woman to do so; the 45-cent stamp showed her painting Wild Onion Dreaming.[4][5]
Her painting Desert Dreaming is on the cover of the School Plan 2015-1017 for Harbord Public School in New South Wales,[6] and her work is held in many private and public art collections.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Woods, Pauline Nakamarra (1949-)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Pauline Nakamarra Woods b. 1949". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ a b "Winners of the Telstra Art Award from 1984 to the present". Indigenous art awards. Art Right Now. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Pauline Nakamarra Woods: Biography". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ ""Wild Onion Dreaming" - Pauline Nakamarra Woods". Stamp Catalog. Colnect. Retrieved 1 August 2017. With illustration of stamp
- ^ "School Plan 2015-2017" (PDF). Harbord Public School. Retrieved 1 August 2017. Illustration of painting
