Details of Marika Patrick
About
Marika Patrick is a young Gija woman who began painting at the Warmun Art Centre in 2005. She has four children and paints the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories of her grandmothers and her grandmother's father: the Willy Willy dreaming as well as Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories associated with rock formations, including the Bungle Bungles (Purnululu) in the country south of Warmun towards Halls Creek, and Chinaman's Garden.
Patrick was asked by her grandfather to paint when he was still alive but she only became interested in painting as she grew older and realised the value of the old people's stories.
Patrick made an immediate impact on the Warmun Art Centre when she started painting in early 2005, and in July of the same year she was voted Chair by the artists' committee. She is one of the rising stars among the Warmun artist group and is also on the board of ANKAAA, the peak advisory and support agency for Aboriginal-owned art centres in the Kimberley and the Top End.
MEDIUM
Natural ochre and pigments on canvas
THEMES
Willy Willy Dreaming
Chinaman's Garden
Rock formations in her grandmother's country
Purnululu (Bungle Bungles)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 'Warmun at Ten', Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin, NT
2008 'Red Centre, Red Dot: Celebrating Indigenous Australia', Australian High Commission, Singapore
2008 'A Stint of Prints: New etchings from Warmun Art Centre', Nomad Art Productions, Darwin, NT
2008 'East of East Kimberley: Warmun in Asia', ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008 'Traces of Country: Indigenous Fine Art Prints', Gecko Gallery, Broome, WA
2008 'Palya Art in Sydney,' Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 'The Women of Warmun: Ten years on', Gadfly Gallery, Perth, WA
2008 'New Voices in Gija Art', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2008 'Mungowum Ngarraknaari Yaarun (Strong Stories, Strong Culture), Short St. Gallery, Broome, WA
2007 'Dog Dreamings', Seva Frangos Art, Perth, WA
2007 'Warmun Artists in New York', Ralph Pucci Gallery, New York, USA
2007 'Greetings from Turkey Creek', Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007 'Warmun Snapshot', Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin, NT
2007 'Ngarrangkarni & Bible Stories', Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2007 'Ochre, Brushes, Canvas: new work from Warmun', Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2006 'Bungle Bungles', Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
2006 'Warmun Art Centre Presents', Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 'Gija: Across the Border', Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT
2005 'Big Country', Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2005 'Warmun Group Show', Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
