PATSY MARFURA

Patsy Marfura was born in 1942 at Daly River Mission, Northern Territory, and belongs to the Ngen’giwumirri language group. In the late 1960s Marfura moved her family, including six children, to Peppimenarti. She began painting in 2001, alongside her sisters and cousins (artists Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Margaret Kundu). Today she is one of Durrmu Arts’ most dedicated artists.


Patsy makes large painted canvases with bold stripes and dotted markings that reflect ceremonial body painting and three-dimensional woven forms. She is also an accomplished warrgadi (dilly bag) weaver.


In 2008, Patsy was selected as a finalist, one of nine, in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery.


See video of Patsy’s show at Michael Reid Gallery, 2010, here:

Patsy Marfura and Tjanpi Weavers




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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS


2011 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

2010 Patsy Marfura & Tjanpi Weavers, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney

2010 Prints and Pandanus, Nomad Art, Darwin

2010 Tunbridge Gallery, Margaret River

2009 Close at Hand, Caruana & Reid Fine Art, Sydney

2009 Yewirr, Raft Artspace, Darwin

2008 Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

2008 Weaveworlds, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

2008 Ancient Culture. Modern Art, Club 21 Gallery, Four Seasons Hotel, Sin-gapore
2007 Peppimenarti, Chalk Horse Gallery, Surry Hills
2006 Solo exhibition, Agathon Gallery, Sydney

2006 My Country, The Noosa Longweekend

2003 Awa Yedi I Falmi Warrim Pek Durrimu, Peppimenarti Community, 2003
2002 4th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Conference, Adelaide

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