Pauline Nakamarra Woods

Pauline Nakamarra Woods
Born	1949 (age 75–76) Vaughan Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Nationality	Aboriginal Australian, Mungkururrpa
Other names	Pauleen Nakamarra Woods
Notable work	Yarla Dreaming, Wild Onion Dreaming
Style	Contemporary Aboriginal Australian art

Pauline Nakamarra Woods (born 1949) is an Aboriginal Australian artist.[1][2] Her first name is spelled Pauleen in some sources.[3]

Early life

Woods was born in 1949, Vaughan Springs, west of Yuendumu, and grew up in Yuendumu. She later lived in Alice Springs. She is a speaker of the Pintupi and Warlpiri languages.[2]

Career

Woods began painting in 1986.[2]

Woods was one of the founders, and later vice-president, of the Jukurrpa (meaning The Dreaming) Aboriginal-led collective of women artists.[2]

In 1988 she won first prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her acrylic painting Yarla Dreaming.[3] She was the first woman to win this prize.[2]

In 1993 her work was used on an Australian postage stamp, and she was the first Indigenous Australian woman to do so; the 45-cent stamp showed her painting Wild Onion Dreaming.[4][5]

Her painting Desert Dreaming is on the cover of the School Plan 2015-1017 for Harbord Public School in New South Wales,[6] and her work is held in many private and public art collections.[2]

References

1. "Woods, Pauline Nakamarra (1949-)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
2. "Pauline Nakamarra Woods b. 1949". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
3. "Winners of the Telstra Art Award from 1984 to the present". Indigenous art awards. Art Right Now. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
4. "Pauline Nakamarra Woods: Biography". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
5. ""Wild Onion Dreaming" - Pauline Nakamarra Woods". Stamp Catalog. Colnect. Retrieved 1 August 2017. With illustration of stamp
6. "School Plan 2015-2017" (PDF). Harbord Public School. Retrieved 1 August 2017. Illustration of painting