Born 1957 in Yuendumu and a Warlpiri speaker, her country is Wantungurru and her Dreamings are Yankirri (Emu), Ngapa (Water), Pamapardu (Flying Ant). She lives at Yuendumu and though she began painting only at the end of the ’80s, and was one of the youngest artists with Warlukurlangu Artists, Clarise quickly emerged as one of the leading painters at Yuendumu. She developed to a high degree the strong design sense discernible in her earlier work and perfected a distinctive style of highly ornate and detailed background dotting. She sometimes paints with her husband, Michael Japangardi Poulson . She colloborated with others in the SA Museum’s Yuendumu – Paintings out of the Desert and her first solo work was shown in the ANCAA exhibition in Darwin in September 1988. Since then, she has been represented in many exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists. In 1989 her work was seen in Mythscapes at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1990, in Balance 1990 at the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Aboriginal Art Award at the Darwin Performing Arts Centre, and L 'é té Australien at the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, and in 1991 in the Crossroads exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. In 1992 she had her first solo exhibition at Hogarth Gallery in Sydney. She exhibited in Australian Perspecta 1993 , at the Art Gallery of NSW.
- Writers:
- Johnson, Vivien
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
