Artist | LENIE NAMATJIRA

Artist | LENIE NAMATJIRA


Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LENIE NAMATJIRA of Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands). The title is West MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs, NT. [24-15] (Watercolour on Paper)

LENIE NAMATJIRA

West MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs, NT

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by LENIE NAMATJIRA of Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands). The title is Rutjipma (Mt. Sonder), NT. [75-15] (Watercolour on Paper)

LENIE NAMATJIRA

Rutjipma (Mt. Sonder), NT

Lenie is Albert Namatjira's granddaughter, daughter to Oscar Namatjira.

After an absence from Hermannsburg to attend the mission school and complete three years of service in the Army Labor gang, Oscar returned to his family at the Hermannsburg Mission and took up painting like his father. For a period of twelve months, Oscar became Albert’s truck driver, driving Albert and his supplies to different painting locations. Oscar learnt how to paint from his father and became a skilled practitioner in his own right. Oscar raised a large family, Lenie being one of ten children. Lenie and her siblings (Euphrene, Reginald, Saleen, Wallace, Albert Jnr, Marcia, Donald, Rosabelle, Gwenda and Bessie) were all raised at Hermannsburg.

Lenie paints in the tradition of her father and grandfather. Her watercolour paintings focus on the landscape west of Hermannsburg. Many of her paintings are drawn from childhood memories of her country.

Lenie's paintings are held in collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT).



Lenie is Albert Namatjira's granddaughter, daughter to Oscar Namatjira.

After an absence from Hermannsburg to attend the mission school and complete three years of service in the Army Labor gang, Oscar returned to his family at the Hermannsburg Mission and took up painting like his father. For a period of twelve months, Oscar became Albert’s truck driver, driving Albert and his supplies to different painting locations. Oscar learnt how to paint from his father and became a skilled practitioner in his own right. Oscar raised a large family, Lenie being one of ten children. Lenie and her siblings (Euphrene, Reginald, Saleen, Wallace, Albert Jnr, Marcia, Donald, Rosabelle, Gwenda and Bessie) were all raised at Hermannsburg.

Lenie paints in the tradition of her father and grandfather. Her watercolour paintings focus on the landscape west of Hermannsburg. Many of her paintings are drawn from childhood memories of her country.

Lenie's paintings are held in collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT).



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