ANMANARI BROWN
Anmanari Brown was born at Purpurna in the early 1930s, secret country of the water snake, a big rock hole with lots of water. She travelled around with her family in the bush of the Western Desert before whitefellas came to the lands. She settled at Warburton mission in Western Australia where she attended school. She now lives in Irrunytju with her husband Nyakul Dawson and her daughters, and began painting with Irrunytju Arts soon after 2000.
Exhibitions
2006 Irrunytju Arts: Senior artists from Irrunytju WA, Raft Artspace, Darwin
2006 Tjukurpa Mulapa: True Story – Senior Irrunytju Artists, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Colour Power: Aboriginal Art post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2003 Nganampa Tjukurpa Kunpu, Nganampa Tjukurpa Mulapa, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2003 Minyma Pampa Tjutaku Tjukurpa Artplace, Perth
2002 Nganampa Tjukurpa Kunpu, Nganampa Tjukurpa Mulapa, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
Boundless, Art Gallery of W.A. and Country Arts, 2001 Minyma Pampa Tjukurpa (Stories from the old women) Artplace, Perth
collections
Art Gallery of Western Australia
City of Joondalup Council W.A.
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Wagner collection, USA