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Internationally Exhibiting Desert Artist

 

Born near Town Bore Creek, east of Papunya in the year the settlement was officially opened - 1960 - Mary Dixon identifies Warlpiri as her language group but nominates the area around Haasts Bluff where she grew up as her country. Mary started painting in the mid 80's when Papunya Tula Artists began making regular trips to Mt Leibig to service the artists living there. She moved to Mt Leibig settlement when it was established, closer to Warlpiri country. The artist Maudie Peterson is her sister.

Mary often paints Witchetty Grub Dreaming, and a Milky Way Dreaming concerning the origins of Venus, Orion and the Pleieades. Mary Dixon Nungurrayi’s works are defined by their vibrancy and lyrical expression.

Her work has been included in exhibitions mounted by the Centre for Aboriginal Artists at the Gauguin Museum, Tahiti in 1988;  Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland (1992); National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo (1992).

Major Collections:

Art Gallery of South Australia,

Art Gallery of Western Australia,

Artbank,

The Kelton Foundation, U.S.A.,

Holmes à Court Collection

Michael Hollow Collection
 

Bibliography:

Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 512

Germaine, Max. A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1991. Page 339

Johnson, Vivien, Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert-A Biographical Dictionary. Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994. Page 85

 

 

 

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