QUEENIE McKENZIE NAKARRA
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(c.1925 – 1998) UNTITLED (GIDJA COUNTRY), 1991 natural earth pigments and synthetic binders on canvas 60.0 x 80.0 cm bears inscription verso: artist’s name, size and Waringarri Aboriginal Arts cat. AP3580 and S-3370 estimate : $15,000 – 20,000
PROVENANCE Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, Western Australia Private collection, Canberra Sotheby’s, Sydney, 25 July 2005, lot 42 Private collection, New South Wales Private collection, Melbourne
1994
RELATED WORK Limestone hills near Texas Downs, 1991, earth pigments and natural binder on canvas, 95.0 x 89.8 cm, in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, illus. in Ryan, J. and Akerman, K., Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, p. 55
1993
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Queenie McKenzie Nakarra lived and worked in Warmun, Western Australia language group: Gija SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2006 Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2004 North by North-West: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 2004 EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands 2002 Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art, Queensland Museum, Brisbane and touring nationally 2000 Rover & Queenie, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 10th National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 9th National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Aboriginal Women Painters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and touring 8th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
SELECTED LITERATURE Field, J.J., Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie, Melbourne Books, Melbourne, 2008 SELECTED COLLECTIONS AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utrecht, Netherlands Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth British Museum, London, UK National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane