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Date of Birth: Circa 1958
Area: Yamunturrngu (Mt Liebig), Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Language: Warlpiri
Born near Town Bore Creek east of Papunya, Mary Dixon commenced painting in the mid 1980s for Papunya Tula Artists. Later, she sold her art through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs. She and her former husband, Colin Dixon Tjapanangka, often collaborated on each other's paintings. Mary Dixon and Goodwin Kingsley Tjapaltjarri (now deceased) lived and produced art in Alice Springs. She paints with great success, the Milky Way, Witchetty Grub and Bush Plum Dreamings. The characteristic trademark of her paintings is lyrical, pure drawing and bright primary colours.
Exhibitions:
1986 Editions Gallery, Fremantle; 1987 Blaxland Galleries, Sydney; 1987 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; 1099 Gauguin Museum, Tahiti; 1988 Chapman Gallery, Sydney; 1992 Basel, Switzerland; 1992 Tingarri Gallery, Melb ourne; 1993 Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; 1998, 1999 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne; 2000 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
Collections:
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Holmes a Court Collection, Perth; City Art Gallery; Wollongong; Artbank.
Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)
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