Post by Australiart Aboriginal Art

Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra Titled: Lightning Bolt Born at Walungurru, (Kintore, NT) C:1959, Elizabeth is the daughter of Frank Tjupurrula and Mary Napanangka. She is a member of Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., one of the later generation of women artists to join this important, Aboriginal owned and operated cooperative. Her father died when she was an infant and Elizabeth was raised by her step father Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula and uncle Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, both esteemed artists of the Papunya Tula art movement. Elizabeth began painting in 1998 and began painting her father’s (Tjupurrula) stories from the area of Kalipinya. Elizabeth’s paintings revolve around the subject of the Dream Time when a huge storm caused lightning to flash and the water torrent formed the landscape creating rock holes and creeks. Her paintings incorporate, elements of the storm, lightening, flash flooding, important rock holes, soaks and creeks. She is known for her Escher-like paintings, which use one colour, with a contrasting lighter hue, on a black background. The straight lines are made up of dragged dots, and are drawn at ninety degrees to each other to build retreating and advancing line-tunnels. #women #aboriginal #fineart