Marie Young
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BiographyMarie Young was born on the 15th April in 1962. Her country is Yamba Station area in Central Australia. Marie Young is one of an extraordinarily talented group of sibling, brother Johnny is a bush toy masker, and sister Camilla and Leonie are fine painters. All the Young siblings have been added to fine art collections, public and private in Australia and overseas. Marie has been painting with Keringke since 1995. About her art Marie says: " I like to use the desert colours, the orange and the ochre colours. I particularly like the use really bright colours on silk and ceramics. Sometimes I go out bush with my brother and I look at all those colours, the desert colours are bright and vibrant where we live. I like to paint around a centre or I get lost in the pattern. I always start in the middle, just like if I go out bush and I walk away from the camp, if I don't keep looking back there. I would be lost. I put down the big painted shapes first, and the bit in the middle and then I go fro there. I use the own designs that have come to me from years of painting. I use my own colour ideas to. Next I fill in the larger sections with motifs that I recognise, but that don't have other meaning. Last thing is to look over the whole painting and to put all the really fine dots in, making the whole surface be together, like it looks I my country. I like to paint neat and detailed work, it represents what I like in life. Before people used to match sticks to paint, but now we have these little bottles and brushes. |
ExhibitionsGroup Exhibtions: 2012 From 2011 to 2014 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs, NT Australia 2006 Gallery Gondwana, Divas of the Desert, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 2006 Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2006 Jungara Aboriginal Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD, Australia 2005 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs, NT Australia 2005 Aboriginal and Tribal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2005 Meeniyan Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia 2005 Tuggeranong Art Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia 2005 Jungara Aboriginal Art Gallery, Cairns and Port Douglas, QLD, Australia 2004 True Blue, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia 2004 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 1998 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT Australia 1998 Design of the Desert, Hogarth Galleries Aboriginal Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 1997 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 1997 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia 1996 Anwernekenhe Tyepetye - telling Our Story, Rainbow Serpent Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1996 Arm Load of Art Exhibition, Woods St gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia 1996 National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia 1996 Central Australia Aboriginal Art & Craft Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 1996 Alice Craft Acquisition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia 1996 National Fringe 96, Inbarendi Fringe Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
Awards1997 Painting commissioned for reproduction designer rugs by Dreamweaver Concepts Pty.Ltd |
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