Details of Nora Nagarra
About
Nora was born and grew up in Rijal Country, which is known as Turner Station. Turner Station lies in Western Australia near the Northern Territory border. Joorrum Country is also Nora country, and both Joorrum and Rijal are the subject of Nora paintings.
As a young girl Nora worked on the station doing domestic work like washing clothes, milking cows and making butter. When she grew older she worked as a cook in the stock camps, and says this was very hard work. Nora moved to Halls Creek with her family "when government bin come and take all the country". This was when equal pay for Aboriginal workers was introduced in the late 1960s and many Aboriginal people were forced to leave the stations.
Nora started painting when she was living in Halls Creek, where she did some work with the Halls Creek School. Nora moved to Warmun and now paints with the Warmun Art Centre. Nagarra's paintings are compositions made up of dots of varying ochre colours. She captures the contours of her country in rhythmic patterns made up of these small marks.
Themes
Rijal Country
Life on Turner River station
Crocodile Hole - Rugan Country
Purnululu - Bungle Bungles
Group Exihibitions
2008 Warmun at Ten, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin, NT
2008 East of East Kimberley: Warmun in Asia, ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008 The Woman of Warmun: Ten years on, Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA
2008 Mungowum Ngarraknaari Yaarun (Strong Stories, Strong Culture) Short St Gallery Broome, WA
2007 Warmun Snapshot, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin, NT
2007 Greetings from Turkey Creek, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007 Ochre, Brushes, Canvas: new work from Warmun, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2006 Bungle Bungles, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2006 Warmun Art Centre Presents, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington. NSW
2006 Warmun Art, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2005 New Work from Warmun, Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA
2005 Waterhole Country, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2005 Warmun Women's Show, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2005 Art Mob, Hobart, Tas.
2005 Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA
1999 Japingka Gallery, Desert Designs. Fremantle, W.A.
1999 Hogarth Galleries, Paddington, Sydney, NSW
1999 Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
Artworks of Nora Nagarra
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