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152 x 183 cm
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122 x 152 cm
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Kalipinypa 2023
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Kalipinypa2023
acrylic on linen
152 x 152 cm
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Kalipinypa Candy Nelson Nakamarra Candy Nelson Nakamarra - Kalipinypa
Kalipinypa 2023
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Kalipinypa 2023
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Kalipinypa2023
acrylic on linen
152 x 183 cm
Cat 176 23 
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Candy Nelson Nakamarra 'Kalipinypa'

LURITJA, Born 1964

Born in Yuendumu, at the edge of the Tanami Desert roughly 350kms from Alice Springs, Candy Nelson Nakamarra was first introduced to art making as a child by her father Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula(1925-2001), a renowned artist at the forefront of the Papunya art movement in the 1970s and 80s.

Candy learned to paint while being handed down family stories of Kalipinypa, the sacred Water Dreaming site north east of Kintore, and continues to be inspired by this cultural inheritance. An instinctive colourist, her primary consideration when approaching a new work is the selection of seven or eight colours that will make up the lacelike layers for which her paintings have become known, and she will often revisit her archive to analyse favourite combinations. Working on the ground, she begins each canvas with a coat of drips and washes in a handful of watered down colours. Once dry, she uses fine brushes to paint intricate designs in high contrasting colour, then adds a third layer of design in the original base colours.

Throughout this process Candy seeks feedback from her peers and mentors, discussing ideas and approaches as she pushes the canvas towards the moment it feels finished. Each painting transforms multiple times as she reinterprets her father’s stories, the tali (sandhills), rock formations, waterholes and running water of her country during storm season, and the water birds, bush foods, and plant life that erupt after rain has reinvigorated the landscape.

Candy Nelson Nakamarra began painting professionally in 2009 and won the Interrelate Prize of the Wollotuka Acquisitive Art Prize, University of Newcastle, in 2012. Her work is held in public and corporate art collections including Parliament House Canberra, Macquarie Bank, and the Hassall Collection, and has been included in notable exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally such as Salon des Refusés, Sydney (2021, 2018, 2016, 2015); Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia (2020); Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, NT (2020, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009); Art Karlsruhe, Germany (2018, 2017); Papunya Tjupi: New Work, JGM Art, London UK (2018); Papunya Tjupi Arts, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby NSW (2017, 2016); START2017, Straßburg, France (2017); Another Country: Art Aborigene Contemporain, IDAIA: International Development For Australian Indigenous Art, Paris, France (2016); Nampatjunanyi: Paint & Draw​, Redot Gallery, Singapore (2016); Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair; Darwin (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010); Streets of Papunya: The Reinvention of Papunya Painting, touring RMIT Gallery, Melbourne (2016), Flinders University Gallery, Adelaide (2016), Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra (2016), UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2015); Papunya Tjupi Artists, IDAIA: International Development For Australian Indigenous Art and Galerie Karin Carton, Paris, France (2012); Papunya Tjupi Arts, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide (2011); Introducing Papunya Tjupi and Ampilatawatja, Gallery Gondwanna, Alice Springs (2009); and Building Papunya Tjupi, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Art, University of NSW, Sydney (2009).

Carrie McCarthy 2022

Candy Nelson Nakamarra

Born 1964, Yuendumu

Papunya, NT Community

SOLO EXHIBITION

2023

  • 'Kalipinypa', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, EDWINA CORLETTE
  • 'Common Ground', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'THE SUMMER SHOW', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2020

  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Ngurrangka palyanu – Making From Home, Outstation Gallery, Darwin
  • Every Painting has Tjukurrpa: Contemporary Paintings by Women of the Desert, Michael Reid, Berlin, Germany
  • Tjupi Taanu Revisited, RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs
  • Papunya Tjupi Arts, Honey Ant Gallery, Sydney
  • The Magic of Black & White, Art Kelch, Germany

2019

  • Kuwarritja – Now / Newness, Outstation Gallery, Darwin
  • Back To The Desert — Neue Werke Von Papunya Tjupi Arts, ARTKELCH - Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Germany
  • Stories from the Beginning, Honey Ant Gallery, Sydney
  • Colours of My Country, EVERYWHEN Artspace, McCulloch & McCulloch, Flinders, VIC

2018

  • Tjupi Boards: Kulinyi Tjilpi Tjutanya, RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs
  • Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Salon des Refuses, Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin
  • Inyani Mantakutu – Light Becomes Sand, Outstation Gallery, Darwin
  • Water, Water, Love, Artitja Fine Art, Freemantle
  • Ngayuku: Belonging, Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
  • Papunya Tjupi Works, Honey Ant Gallery with Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
  • Papunya Tjupi, New Work, JGM Art, London UK
  • A Sense of Place : McCulloch & McCulloch Whistlewood Gallery, Shoreham VIC

2017

  • Twelve: Contemporary Aboriginal Works on paper, Koskela, Sydney NSW
  • Continuing Culture, Artitja Fine Art, South Fremantle, WA
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs NT
  • Tjupi Taanu (When the Honey Ant Bursts), Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
  • Puri: New Shade, Outstation Gallery, Darwin
  • ArtKelch presents Papunya Tjupi at Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Trade Fair Centre, Germany
  • Papunya Tjupi Arts, The Incinerator, Willoughby, Sydney

2016

  • NAMPATJUNANYI: PAINT & DRAW​, Redot Gallery, Singapore
  • The Power of Naivity, Art Kelch, Collectors Lounge, Schorndorf, Germany
  • Dont you tell me..., Art Kelch, Freiburg, Germany
  • Salon des Refuses, CDU Gallery, Darwin
  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
  • Streets of Papunya, The Reinvention of Papunya Painting : Drill Hall Gallery, ANU, Canberra
  • Another Country – Art Aborigene Contemporain, IDAIA at 8 Passage du Grand Cerf, Paris
  • Keepers of Place: New Works from Papunya Tjupi, McCulloch & McCulloch, 45Downstairs, Melbourne
  • Streets of Papunya: The Reinvention of Papunya Painting, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
  • Papunya Tjupi Arts, The Incinerator, Willoughby, Sydney
  • Streets of Papunya, The Reinvention of Papunya Painting : Flinders University Gallery, Adelaide
  • Rising Stars, Outstation Gallery, Darwin

2015

  • Streets of Papunya, The Reinvention of Papunya Painting : UNSW Galleries, Sydney, NSW
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Salon des Refuses, Stokes Hill Warf, Darwin
  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
  • cKungka Tjupi, New work from the women of Papunya Tjupi : Outstation Gallery, Darwin
  • Desert Dreaming, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide

2014

  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre
  • Kungka Tjutaku Wititjanku: Women Keeping Culture Strong, Mossenson Galleries
  • Ngurra Nganampa (Community), Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane

2013

  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair : Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin

2012

  • Papunya Tjupi Artists, IDAIA and Galerie Karin Carton, Versailes, Paris, France
  • Wollotuka Acquisitive Art Prize (WAAP), The University Gallery, Newcastle
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
  • Kapi Tjukurrpa - Water Dreaming, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
  • Desert Rhythm - Papunya Tjupi Arts, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin

2011

  • Papunya Tjupi: Generations, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
  • Papunya Tjupi Arts, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
  • New Prints from Papunya Tjupi Arts, Nomad Arts, Canberra and Darwin
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2010

  • Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
  • Desert Stories Papunya Tjupi Now, Gecko Gallery, Broome

2009

  • Papunya Tjupi Group Show, Gecko Gallery, Broome
  • Building Papunya Tjupi, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
  • Papunya Power, ArtMob, Hobart
  • Introducing Papunya Tjupi and Ampilatawatja, Gallery Gondwanna, Alice Springs
  • Papunya Tjupi, Honey Ant Gallery, Sydney
  • Kalipinypa, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
  • Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

AWARDS

2012

  • Winner of the Interrelate Acquisitive Prize as part of the Wollotuka Acquisitive Art Prize (WAAP)

COLLECTIONS

  • Macquarie Bank Collection
  • Parliament House, Canberra
  • The Hassall Collection
CANDY NELSON NAKAMARRA
CANDY NELSON NAKAMARRA PAINTING AT PAPUNYA TJUPI

3 – 24 September 2024
THE SPRING SHOW

19 December 2023 – 30 January 2024
THE SUMMER SHOW

25 October 2023 – 15 December 2023
Candy Nelson Nakamarra ‘Kalipinypa’

29 November 2022 – 28 February 2023
THE SUMMER SHOW

8 – 11 September 2022
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY