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Marietta Bray has established herself as a significant artist with a distinctive style. The content of her works focuses on her familys traditional country of Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) and she presents both the iconography and the Dreamtime stories of this region with accuracy and passion, with an obvious determination to carry on the legacy of her Elders. Her works are strong, neat with great attention to detail. Marietta was encouraged to paint by her Uncle, the late Jack Britten who until he passed away in July 2002 was Traditional Custodian of Purnululu and a wonderful teacher of ochre technique. She is the daughter of the late Shirley Bray who was a Traditional Elder of this beautiful region of the East Kimberley of Western Australia, now listed as a World Heritage site. Mariettas mother was well educated, an interpreter and linguist, and has passed the stories and knowledge of her country to her daughter. Marietta favours the thick bush ochre medium, and paints the country of her heritage with particular attention to colour and form. She has participated in many group exhibitions with Senior Ochre Artists over the last ten years. Marietta paints both for the Warmun Art Centre and as an Independent Artist. Selected Exhibitions 2007 Greetings from Turkey Creek, Mary Place Gallery Ten Warmun Works, Father John Therry School 2006 Warmun Art Centre Presents, Mary Place Gallery 2005 Across the Border, Raft Artspace, Darwin New Work from Warmun, Gadfly Gallery, Perth Snapshots from Turkey Creek, photography exhibition, Melbourne Warmun Group Show, Framed Gallery, Darwin Women from Warmun, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2004 Jack Britten & the Third Generation of Artists from Warmun, Span Galleries, Melbourne The Next Generation - Balgo and Warmun, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne Big Country, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs Tibet meets Warmun, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth 2003 East Kimberley Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome 2002 Garmerrun: All Our Country, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide 2001 Short on size, Short Street Gallery, Broome Grammar School Art Exhibition, Perth Selected Collections FTB Group Collection, Sydney Laverty Collection, Sydney |
One of the unique skills Artists from the Kimberely region possess is the ability to mix the natural ochre pigments to create truly spectacular colours, shadings and effects that give ochre artworks a uniqueness unseen in any other style of art anywhere in the world.
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