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Language group: Aangkum (Ungkum)
Rosella Namok was born in 1979 and grew up in the community of Lockhart River, Far North Queensland where she learned the traditional cultural ways of her people.
In the late 1990s she gained national recognition as a prominent member of the renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. In the early 2000s Rosella moved to Cairns where she continues to live and work. Her paintings depict both traditional stories and contemporary themes, as well as candid observations about changing lifestyles and the environment.
Through a technique developed by watching her grandmother drawing in the sand, she often creates patterned, linear arrangements by pulling her fingers through the layers of paint, to capture the building storm clouds and deluging rain of the tropical big Wet.
Rosella has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and has been collected by all major state galleries, the National Gallery of Australia and many private collections including The High Court of Australia, Canberra.
Carving Country: Indigenous Prints from the Collection
20 Jan - 29 Feb 2024
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Rosella NAMOK, Wiimumu paampaanyya, Mayi. screenprint, 56.7 x 76.3 cm, Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Reimagining:
between tradition and innovation
17 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021
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Rosella Namok, AWU woman, 1999, collagraph, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Freshwater turtle, 1997, etching, ed. 6/10, aquatint, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Body paint . . . all those aunties, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Northern Landscapes: six viewpoints
17 Oct – 6 Dec 2020
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Rosella Namok, Soudees rain, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Stormy night, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Stormy rain . . . wet season, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Storm at Sea, 1998, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Queen's Land: Blak Portraiture
17 May – 11 Aug 2019
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Rosella Namok, Myself, 2004, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
ARTNOW FNQ 2017
1 Dec 2017 – 18 Feb 2018
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Rosella Namok, New villages, 2017, acrylic on canvas, Courtesy of the artist and Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
Rosella Namok, Myself, 2004, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Sandmarks were Quintel, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Kungkay: after low tide, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Untitled [One person], 2000, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Family . . . B'long me, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Family one, 2001, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Untitled [Two People Together], 2001, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Leaving the community, 1998, screen print, ed. 26/29, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Many generations, 1999, screen print, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Going and coming, 1998, screen print, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, My relations many generations, 1998, screen print, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Wiimumu Paampaanyya Mayi, 1997, screenprint, ed. 13/15, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Lockhart River, 1998, screenprint, ed. 1/7, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Talipata, 1997, woodblock print, ed. 3/15, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Clan groups around Lockhart River, 1998, screenprint, ed. 40/45, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Kaapay and Kuyan, 1999, etching, collagraph, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, AWU woman, 1999, collagraph, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Freshwater turtle, 1997, etching, ed. 6/10, aquatint, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Stingrays, 1996, linoprint, ed. 5/6, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, Two way from before time, 1999, screenprint, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2000
Rosella Namok, King tide at Quintel Beach, 1998, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Ngaachi Kincha, 2001, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Body paint . . . all those aunties, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Soudees rain, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Stormy night, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Stormy rain . . . wet season, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Burn tree, 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Mangroves . . . smokey sky, 2003, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Old girls . . . they talk in the sand, 2004, acrylic on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Bubba. . . he cries . . .I can't think, 1997, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Gift of the Lockhart River Art Gang, 2005
Rosella Namok, Storm at Sea, 1998, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Sydney, 1999, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
Rosella Namok, Mangroves, 2001, synthetic polymer on canvas, Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter & Gail Sawyer, 2011
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