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Bessie Sims Nakamarra
Born: 1932
Died: 2012
State: NT
region: Tanami Desert
Community: Yuendumu
Language: Warlpiri
Social Affiliation: Nakamarra subsection
Subjects: Ngarlajiyi (Small Yam), Janganpa (Possum), Pamapardu (Flying Ant), Karntajarra (Two Women), Yarla (Bush Potato), Bush Plum (Mukaki).
Collections:
Artbank, Sydney.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra.
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
Museum and Art Gallery of N.T.
Awards:
1988, South Australian Museum Mural; one of five artists.
Collection:
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.
Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland.
Australian Museum, Sydney.
Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra.
Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.
Flinders University Collection, Adelaide.
Gordon Darling Foundation, Canberra.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Newmont Mining, USA.
South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Shell, USA.
Exhibitions:
2006-2007 - Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 - Open Doors, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands.
2005 - Warlukurlangu Artists from Yuendumu, NT, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; WAAA Collection, Flinders Museum, Adelaide, SA; Warlukurlangu Collection, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, NT; Jukurrpa Wiri - Important Dreaming Stories, Araluen Galleries, Alice Sprints, NT; Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT; Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA; Luminous, Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT; Warlukurlangu Group Show, Beaver Gallery, Canberra, ACT; Desert Mob, Araluen Art and Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, NT; Land of Diversity, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, Collectors' Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne.
2004 - Warlukurlangu Artists: Recent Works from Yuendumu, NT, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; Kurruwarri Pipangka - Designs on Paper, CDU Gallery, Charles Darwin University, NT; Little Warlu, Big Stories, Hot Little Paintings by Big Artists of Yuendumu, Australia's NT and Outback Centre, Sydney; Dreaming Stories, Indigenart, Perth; New Works for Yuendumu, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2001 - 2002 - Land of Diversity, The Northern Territory, at Hogarth Galleries, Paddington
2000 - World Baptist Conference, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne; Print exhibition, Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Paintings and Prints, Northern Territory University, Darwin; Kurawari, Desart Gallery, Sydney; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Wayuta, The Desart Janganpa Gallery, Alice Springs; Marking the Paper, Desart Gallery, Sydney; L'art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Marie d' Allonnes, France; jangku yinyi, Carey Baptist Grammar School, Melbourne; Hot Press, Beaver Galleries, Canberra; Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1999 - Desert Mob Show, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs; National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Mina Mina Show, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; L'art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Theatre de Narbonnes France
1998 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Framed Gallery, Darwin; Desert Designs, W.A.; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1997 - Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Art Gallery NSW, Festival of the Dreaming,
1996 - World Vision, Sydney; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1995 - Kloosterkazerne, Breda; INMA Foundation, Amsterdam; Cultureel Centrum Berchem, Antwerp; Cleveland Centre for Contempoary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
1994 - The Assembly Hall of the Territorial Parliament, Tahiti, French Polynesia; Interamerican Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, U.S.A; Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide (in conjunction with The Adelaide Festival); Dreamings - Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert; The Donald Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich;
1994, Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs; Desertracks, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1993 - Sutton Gallery, Melbourne; CINAFE (Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition), U.S.A.; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane; Alice Prize Exhibition, Araleun, Alice Springs; Adelaide Town Hall, (in association with the Pacific Arts Symposium), Adelaide; Jukurrpa, Desert Dreamings - a survey of central desert art 1971- 1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Dreaming the World, St. Mungo's Museum, Glasgow; Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs; Aratjara, Hayward Gallery, London; Aratjara - Art Of The First Australians, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
1992, - Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs; Women's Gallery, Melbourne; The Long Gallery, Hobart; The Haven Gallery, Melbourne; Manyuku, Melbourne; Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Dreamtime Gallery, Gold Coast; Chapman Gallery, Canberra; Alliance Francais, Canberra
1991 - The Womens Gallery, Melbourne; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; Darwin Performing Arts Centre, Darwin; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Albert Hall, Canberra; Te Whare Taonga o Aotearoa National Art Gallery & Museum, New Zealand; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA;
1991, Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1990 - South Australian Museum Shop, Adelaide Festival; Arts Centre, Darwin; I.U.N.C. (showing at Hilton Hotel), Perth; Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne; Women's Exhibition, The Women's Gallery, Melbourne; The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; National Aboriginal Art Award,
1989 - Hogarth Gallery of Dreams, Sydney; A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne; Design Warehouse Sydney [through Lauraine Diggins Fine Art]; Victor Harbour Art Show, South Australia; F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne; Chesser Gallery, Adelaide
1988 - Lewis-Wara Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A; Caz Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.; The Inspired Dream, Life as art in Aboriginal Australia, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and touring internationally; Hilton Hotel (Nadoc Week), Adelaide; F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne; F.O.E. Community Art Space, Melbourne; Dreamtime Gallery, Perth; Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1987 - Blaxland Gallery, Sydney; Achille Lauro, Perth; Yuendumu at the Opera House; Roar Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Opera House Gallery, Sydney; Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1986 - R.S.A.S.A. Gallery, Adelaide; Editions Gallery, Perth; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Selected Bibliography:
Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, 1991, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA
Birnie Danzker, J. Dreamings. Tjukurrpa Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert The Donald Kahn
Collection, Prestel, Munich, New York,1994
Caruana, W Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson (World of Art),London, 1993
Diggins, L. (ed.) A Myriad of Dreaming Malakoff Fine Art Press, Melbourne, 1989
Johnstone, C (Dir) The Painted Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings From Tim And Vivien
Johnson Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland New Zealand, 1990
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C)
O'Ferrall, M Jukurrpa Desert Dreamings - a survey of central desert art 1971 - 1993, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1993
West, M. (ed.) The Inspired Dream, Queensland Art Gallery , Brisbane, 1988
Morphy, H. Aboriginal Art, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1998
Morphy, H. and Boles, M.S. (eds.) Art from the land, University of Virginia Press, Virginia, U.S.A., 1999
Riley, M., 1988, Dreamings, video for Dreamings exhibition.
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