Susan Marawarr

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Born: 1967

Skin: Belinj

Language: Kuninjku

Location: Manangrida

Biography

Kuninjku artist Susan Marawarr was born in 1967 into a strong artistic family. She is the daughter of Anchor
Kulunba and Mary Wurrdjedje, and the sister of acclaimed bark painters James Iyuna and John Mawurndjul.
Marawarr is an accomplished printmaker, sculptor, weaver and bark painter. Common subjects of her work
include the powerful djang of wak wak, ngalyod and yawkyawk mythologies alongside the imagery of popular
everyday items like dilly bags, fish-traps, mats and baskets. She is known for her striking black and white palette.
This combined with her use of deep perspective often creates graphic optical effects, movement and energy
in her idiosyncratic works.
In 2000, she collaborated with the Waanyi artist Judy Watson in the development of Watson’s public art
commission of fish fences and dilly bags cast in bronze for Sydney International Airport. Marawarr toured the
United States in 2001 with the exhibition Bush Colour promoting the work of female printmakers as well as
supervising bark painting workshops.
Over the last decade Marawarr’s artwork has been shown at numerous galleries and cultural institutions
including, Gabrielle Pizzi, Annandale Galleries, JGM (London) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her work
is held in many national collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Museum of Victoria and National Gallery of Australia.

Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions

2018 May, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC Mandjabu Bark Painting
2009 January, Suzanne OConnell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD Susan Marawarr

Group Exhibitions

2022 May, Outstation Gallery Legacy — the influence of Balang John Mawurndjul
2021 May, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield NSW Lineage
2020 December Lot Fourteen, Adelaide SA Tarnanthi Art Fair
2020 September Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Fine Art RESILIENCE: The power of the past today – Maningrida
2020 August Online Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2020
2020 May Outstation Gallery, Parap, NT 0820 Legacy – the influence of Balang John Mawurndjul
2018 November ARTKELCH @ ST-ART 2018, Strasbourg, France ST-ART 2018
2018 September ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany Mardayin – Aboriginal Art von Maningrida Arts
2018 September Art Kelch Mardayin – Aboriginal Art von Maningrida Arts
2018 July Michael Reid, Sydney, NSW From Coast to Escarpment: Spirit Worlds of Maningrida
2018 June IDAIA, Paris, France Ngaldjorlhbo | Mother of Everything | Mère de Toute Création
2018 May The Crossart Projects, Sydney, NSW Karrang Kunred / Mother-Land
2017 October FORM, Perth, Australia White Ochre
2017 August Nomad Art, Darwin, NT Karridjowkke Kunronj (Crossing Streams)
2016 August Cairns Regional Gallery, QLD Beyond the Surface
2016 March Art Atrium, Bondi, NSW Maningrida Arts
2016 March Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT Maningrida Arts
2015 March Aboriginal Cultural Centre, NSW Maningrida Works on Paper
2013 March Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK Australia: Prints
2011 January Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia The Dreaming Changes Shape
2010 February Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC Maningrida: Mimih, Fibres and Feathers
2008 January Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC Weaving around the Traps
2008 January Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA Maningrida Survey
2008 January Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Maningrida Arts
2008 January Mary Place, Sydney, NSW Palya Art at Mary Place
2007 January Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Spirit in Variation Part II
2007 January Maningrida Arts & Culture, Darwin Selected new works from Maningrida
2007 January Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW Maningrida group show
2007 January Maningrida Arts & Culture, Darwin, NT After the Wet
2005 January Maningrida Arts & Culture, Darwin, NT Paris-Djinkarr-Milmilngkan
2004 January AGNSW, Sydney, NSW Crossing Country – The alchemy of Western Arnhem Land art
2004 January Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT Divas of the Desert:Maningrida, Minymaku
2004 January Maningrida recent works, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC Maningrida recent works
2003 January Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW Maningrida Threads
2003 January Burrinja gallery, Upwey, VIC Threads of time
2003 January NTU Gallery, Darwin, NT Weave
2003 January Federation Centre for the Arts, Bundoora Homestead, VIC Weave
2003 January Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, Slovenia Dreamtime, Contemporary Aboriginal Art
2003 January Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC SistaActs
2002 January Utrecht, The Netherlands Barks in the spotlight
2001 January Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Outside in: Research Engagements with Arnhem Land Art 2001 January Musée del l’Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie, France In the Heart of Arnhem Land. Myth and the making of contemporary Aboriginal art
2001 January Raft Artspace, Darwin Good Colour : prints from Maningrida Womens Centre
2000 January University of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Touring regional centres Land mark : mirror mark
1999 January Annandale Galleries, Sydney, NSW Young Kuninjku Artists
1999 January Northern Territory University Northern Territory University Gallery, Darwin, NT Art and Place: Collecting Contemporary Art
1999 JanuaryNorthern Territory University Gallery, Darwin, NT Bushcolour: Works on paper by female artists from the Maningrida region
1999 January Touring exhibition Claiming Title: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art and the Land