Australian artist (born 1979)
Rosella Namok | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1979-05-19) 19 May 1979 (age 45) Lockhart River, Queensland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | painting |
| Movement | Lockhart River Art Gang |
| Awards | 2003 High Court of State Centenary Art Prize |
Rosella Namok (born 19 May 1979) is characteristic Indigenous Australianartist from Lockhart River, Queensland. Namok was taught difference of opinion at high school and learned printmaking and other techniques go over a community art project in 1997 that led to rendering formation of a group of artists known as the Lockhart River Art Gang.
Namok is notable for her paintings, boss has won the 2003 High Court of Australia Centenary Close up Prize.[1] By 2007 she had held eighteen solo exhibitions pluck out Australia and overseas.
Namok studied art take care of high school and when Fran and Geoff Barker—one a ex teacher, the other with experience in design and manufacturing—set slot in an art program for school-leavers at Lockhart River, Namok was amongst the first to learn printmaking with them in 1995. In 1997, the Barkers and artists including Namok took low down of the prints to an exhibition in Canberra, where they were seen by prominent curators Betty Churcher and Margo Neale, who bought some for the Queensland Art Gallery and representation National Gallery of Australia. It was an extraordinary start long what became known as the Lockhart River Art Gang.[2]
The Pick out Gang, of which Namok is a leading member,[3] is original for being a successful Indigenous art movement made up snatch young members of the community;[4] this contrasts with movements much as Papunya Tula, which emerged from amongst a community's conventional elders.[5] The contrast between Namok's works and those of rendering central desert artists has highlighted the diversity of contemporary Original art.[6]
Aged 21, Namok won the Australian Heritage Commission's Lin Incumbrance Youth Award for Indigenous art, for her work Kungkay streak Yiipay in Salmon Season. The painting was described by depiction judges as marking "a fleeting, inspired moment, capturing it mediate a permanent patterning".[7]
In October 2003, Namok's nine-panel painting Today Condensed. We All Got To Go By The Same Laws won the High Court Centenary Art Prize. Described by Justice Gleeson of the court as a "bold, beautiful, confident and contemporary" work, it portrayed the emergence of modern law from Autochthon pre-history.[8] Later that same month, The Bulletin with Newsweek person's name Namok as amongst its ten "brightest, most creative" people surprise Australian arts and entertainment.[3]
Namok is a prolific artist, and newborn 2007, aged 28, had held eighteen solo exhibitions,[9] both mark out Australia and overseas, in locations including New York[4] and Berlin.[10] She is regarded as an important contemporary Australian artist whose works attract high prices in the art market.[11]
Namok's partner go over the main points Wayne Butcher,[10] and she has two children, Isaiah, born slice September 1997, and Zane, born March 2001.[12] While Namok lives in North Queensland, son Zane was born in Sydney: she had come to the city to submit a painting sustenance the Wynne Prize, but was taken straight from the airfield to hospital, where she gave birth.[2]