• Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Untitled, 2008, acrylic on linen.
  Courtesy the artist and Papunya Tula Artists.
  Installation view at the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay.
  Photograph: Jenni Carter.
  

Doreen Reid Nakamarra was born in the Warburton Ranges, in far eastern Western Australia. As a young girl, she walked with her parents and other family members to Haasts Bluff, an Aboriginal settlement in Central Australia. The family later moved to Papunya. Nakamarra travelled to Kintore, about 500 kilometres west of Alice Springs, in the early 1980s and later settled in Kiwirrkura, occasionally travelling south to Warakurna and Warburton to visit relatives. She completed her first paintings in 1996. For the Biennale, Doreen Reid Nakamarra has produced a large painting depicting designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. Her pictorial style is based on repeated gestures and lines that build up a three dimensional optical field suggestive of specific stories associated with her land, but possibly also of movement generally – immaterial waves that move the world continuously.

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