Susannah Nelson Nakamarra

Susan first learnt how to paint acrylic in the small mission school (the Bangalow) just outside of Alice Springs where she spent her years as a young girl. Pastor Long gave the children their posters depicting Christian scenes in basic outline. The illustrations were colored in by the children who thereby learnt the story of the Bible pictorially. Here began Susan’s love of paint and fascination with God’s story. Every Wednesday and Sunday night in Tennant Creek, Susan takes these paintings to church for sharing . Here she stands out front with one of these several rolled canvases, whose story she sings out to the congregation, sometimes with great theatrics. Sharing paintings are often completed in haste – taken home from the studio to be finished in her Mulga Camp home.

Language: Warlmanpa, Waramungu

Skin:  Nakamarra

Community: Tennant Creek : NT

Birth Date: c. 1943

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Merry Susannah Nelson Christmas - Northern Centre for Contemporary Arts

Group Exhibitions

2018 God Talk, My Culture - Presbyterian Church, Springwood (NSW)

2018 Parrtjima Light Festival - Alice Springs, NT

2018 Art Naif Festiwal - - Katowice (Poland)

2018 Easter Exhibition 2018 - Barkly Regional Art Gallery Studio

2017 Biennale Hors Normes, - Mairie du 3e, Lyon (France)

2017 Desert Mob 2017 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2017 Dreams and dreaming exhibition - Nyinkka Nyunyu, Tennant Creek

2017 Rendez-Vous des Artistes - Saint Cyr au Mont dOr (France)

2015 Desert Mob 2015 - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

2014 One Last Time, - Sheffer Gallery, Sydney

2014 The Final Round-Up, - Sheffer Gallery, Darlington, Sydney .Curated by Peter Fay

2013 Solidarity For Love: Gday from Aussie Minjung - Monkey-Wrenching Art Centre, Taiwan

2012 Twenty Years on - Paul Keatings Redfern Park Speech - Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

2011 Desert Mob 2011, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs -