Bessie Nakamarra Sims b. c.1940

  • Artist (Painter)
Warlpiri speaker and leading Yuendumu artist who has painted for and exhibited with Warlukurlangu Artists since 1986. She collaborated on a mural for the South Australian Museum, and her paintings are held in other major public and private collections.

Citations

  • (1988), 'Dreamings [videorecording] : the Art of Aboriginal Australia’, Lindfield, NSW : Film Australia.

  • Diggins, L. (1989), 'Myriad of Dreamings: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art’, Melbourne, VIC : Malakoff.

  • West, M. (1988), 'The Inspired Dream: Life as Art in Aboriginal Australia’, South Brisbane, QLD : Queensland Art Gallery.

  • Johnson, V. (1991), 'The Painted Dream’, Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland City Art Gallery.

  • Sutton, P. (1988), 'Dreamings: Art Of Aboriginal Australia’, Ringwood, VIC; Viking (in association with the Asia Society Galleries, New York).

  • (1991), 'Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn’, Miami, USA : Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.

  • Information sourced from James, Glenn.

  • Information sourced from Tyson, Geraldine.

  • Information sourced from Lennard, Christine.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary