Eubena Nampitjin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian painter
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Place of Birth: Western Australia, Australia
About Eubena Nampitjin
- Eubena Nampitjin (July 1, 1921 – March 11, 2013) was an Australian Aboriginal painter.
- Born on the Canning Stock Route in remote Western Australia, she was the third of six children, and was taught to be a traditional healer by her mother; as a result she became one of the primary law women in the community.
- At a young age, she married Purungu Tjakata Tjapaltjarri, and had two daughters with him.
- She remained in the aboriginal community until 1963, when she moved with the community to Balgo, Western Australia.
- After remarrying in the 1970s, she began working on a Kukatja dictionary alongside other Australian linguists; the work was published in 1992.Nampitjin began painting in 1986, and her first works were presented at the Art from the Great Sandy Desert exhibition later that year.
- After the Warlayirti Artists organization was formed, her husband and daughters painted alongside her.
- Her work Kinyu, created in 1991, was noted by art historians as "metaphor for the surface of her country", as well as a transitional period of her work moving from primarily using dots to primarily lines.
- In 1998, she won the Open Painting prize in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.Later in life, she returned to her native desert homeland, using that as a motif for her artwork.
- She continued to paint until her death in 2013.
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