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photo by Roy Ryan (copyright). Mick Namarri dec'd 1996
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One of the best aspects of art dealing is meeting the artists and meeting Mick in the outback and at my gallery was always a pleasure. He was only a small man but had a great sense of presence and I admired his ease and down to earth knowledge. He could look into your eyes with his own dark piecing eyes and seemingly delve right into your soul, I am honoured to have known him.
Born around 1926, at Marnpi in the sandhill country south west of Mt Rennie. Mick lived a traditional nomadic lifestyle first seeing white man around the age of 6.
For the next ten years his family settled around Hermannsburg /Haasts Bluff .
Mick was initiated at Areyonga and later worked as a stockman at various stations including Tempe Downs and Areyonga. He was one of the original group of painters when Geoffrey Bardon arrived at Papunya in the early seventies, and would paint on anything he could lay his hands on - his passion to paint was so strong.
Mick traveled to Sydney with Geoffrey Bardon for the making of his film Mick and the moon, which was about the life of Old Mick and his artwork. When Kintore was established in the eighties, Mick was one of the few Pintupi men who stayed on at Papunya. Later Mick established an outstation on his traditional lands named Nyunmanu.
He once confided in me that his country was "number one".
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The famous mouse story.
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This particular painting shows us the travels of two ( Dingo ) men from a place called Mt Allan (Yuelamu) to Kirwirkurra. This is a journey that is both over time as well as space. The two squares show us specific events that are of spiritual importance to these men and the travel lines show the journey, as well as the fact that these places or events are of an archaic nature in that they have been experienced over many, many years. TWO WOMEN This painting depicts two women preparing for ceremony at a site of Walukirri, to the south of kintore ranges. The women will sit and chant while painting up each other for Ceremony. Due to the sacred elements of this design, no more information was given by the artist.
This painting depicts design elements associated with the site of Nyumanu South of Kintore. In Mythological times the Dingo men came to this site to camp and forage for food.
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dingo dreaming
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