Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa

Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa was born on the 13th August 1959 in the bush at Mount Barkley cattle station. Today, the cattle station is called Yuelamu and is aboriginal owned. Maureen attended school at the Yuendumu settlement in the 1960's she returned to Mount Allan and worked as a school teacher's assistant.

Maureen began painting in 1981. She is an accomplished artist and is a respected member of her community. Her first love is painting in which she refers to this, as culture art. Maureen's artworks depict traditional Warlpiri Dreamtime stories. Her painting's originate from Warlukulongu - her father's and grandfather's country. Her ancestral Dreaming's include emu, fire,and women's ceremonies, which have been passed down from her mother's involvement in traditional ceremony.

Maureen has been an Artist in Residence at the Mulgara Gallery in Yulara (Uluru- Ayers Rock)

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Collections:

Artbank

Exhibitions:

2010 Women's Ceremony, Central Art, Alice Springs, Central Australia
2009, Fire Dreaming and My Country, Central Art, Alice Springs, Central Australia
2008 My Country,Fire Dreaming Central Art, Alice Springs, Central Australia
2007 My Country, Central Art, Alice Springs, Central Australia
2005 Across Skin-Women Artists of the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2005 "Works by Maureen Nampijinpa Hudson", Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2005 " Maureen Nampijinpa" Tineriba Gallery, Hahndorf, South Australia
2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
2002,2001,2000, 1998, Artist in Residence, Mulgara Gallery, Yulara, Uluru, Central Australia
1998 Boulder Colorado, USA
1997 "Gallery 47" London, United Kingdom
1997 Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, USA
1997 Tandanya, Adelaide
1995 Uluru Gallery, Yulara, Uluru, Central Australia
1994, Tribal Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1993 The Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
1992 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1991 Tribal Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1990 Art Dock Show, Vanuatu

Central Art Exhibitions:

Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)

Artist: Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa

Skin Name: Nampijinpa/ Nampitjinpa

Language: Warlpiri

Region: Mt Allan (Yuelamu)

Vendor: Central Art

Dreaming: Emu, Fire, Women's Ceremony

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