Maureen Hudson Nampajimpa
Maureen's painting shows an aerial view of her country, incorporating the fire dreaming of Warlukurlongu, and the water dreaming of Mikanji. The country is marked by rugged rock outcrops, interspersed with mulga bushland, and it is these features Maureen has depicted.
Both of these sites involve ancestral figures whose adventures served to create the landscape. They also suffered great travails, which were to form the basis of the lore which underpins Aboriginal society to this very day. The country depicted also incorporates Mount Allan Station, Maureen's childhood home, and where she still spends much of her time.
Both of these sites involve ancestral figures whose adventures served to create the landscape. They also suffered great travails, which were to form the basis of the lore which underpins Aboriginal society to this very day. The country depicted also incorporates Mount Allan Station, Maureen's childhood home, and where she still spends much of her time.
Born at Mt. Allanof Anmatyerre / Warlpiri descent, her country is Mt. Wedge and Mt. Allan (Kerrinyarra). Maureen's father had 2 wives, Rosie and Lena who were sisters. Rosie had 2 children, Allan Norman and Jean Nampajinpa. Lena had 4 children, Maureen, Micha, Emily and Judith.
Maureen's father passed away in 1972 when Maureen was 12 years old. Her mother (Lena) re-married to Peter Brown Jungala and had another 5 children. Maureen was educated at Yuendumu Settlement and latter returned to Mt. Allan and worked as a teacher's aid for three years and has 4 children, Michael, Jillian, Gwenda and Anderson Turner. Began painting in 1981 and was encouraged to pursue a full time career as an artist after observing the work of senior artists for years, and like her older sister, JEAN HUDSON Nampajinpa, began to paint regularly for herself. The demand for her art work has steadily increased over the years and she has now fully emerged as a painter in her own right.
Exhibitions
1990 Art Dock Show, Vanuatu
1992 "Central Australian Art" held at the Art Dock in Noumea
1992 Sand Paintings of the Central Desert held at the Centre for Aboriginal Art in Alice.
1993 "Commitments" held at the Museum of Modern Art in Brisbane Qld.
1994 "Dreamings" held at Tribal Art Gallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria. This was a joint exhibition of Hudson and Clifford Possum paintings.
1994 An exhibition was held at a regional Winery/Gallery in Mt Atkin in Victoria.
1995 "Dreamings of the Desert" held at lJluru Gallery, Ayers Rock, NT.
1997 "Desert Dreams" held at tlle National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide SA.
1997 "Women Dreaming" Gallery 47 London UK "Songlines"
1998 London Boulder Colorado
2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia
2005 Melbourne " Maureen Nampijinpa" Tineriba Gallery
2005 South Australia "Works by Maureen Nampijinpa Hudson" Japingka Gallery
2005 Across Skin-Women Artists of the Western Desert
Selected Collections:
- Tribal Art Gallery, Melbourne.
- Museum of Modern Art Brisbane.
- Alice Springs Galleries and private collections.
Bibliography:
Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)