Petra Nampijinpa Marshall
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Petra Nampijinpa Marshall

Australia • 1973

Biography

Petra Nampijinpa Marshall is a painter, she was born in 1973 in a little aboriginal community, 240 km from Alice Springs in Australia.

The artist paints "dreams" of her community, stories from from ancient oral traditions. Closely connected to Earth, they talk about plants and animals. She mainly likes to depict Ngapa Jukurrpa, the water dream, and Karnta Jukurrpa, the dream of women, through a modern interpretation of aboriginal pictorial traditions.
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When was Petra Nampijinpa Marshall born?
The year of birth of the artist is: 1973