Born c. 1924 at Yinjirrimardi, a site near two soakages where Two Dreamtime Women emerged from underground. Daisy Nelson was Warlpiri and lived at Yuendumu with her husband Paddy Jupurrurla Nelson . She painted Warnayarra/Pikilyi (Rainbow Serpent/Vaughan Springs), Watakiyi (Bush Orange) and Yuparli (Bush Banana) Dreamings, the last inherited from her father. Some of these Dreamings she gave permission for her (sister’s) son Michael Jagamara Nelson to paint in his work for the 1986 Sydney Biennale. Daisy Nelson had been part of the group of senior women artists at Yuendumu since the beginnings of the painting enterprise at Yuendumu, showing in the first exhibition of their work at the Araluen Centre in Alice Springs in October 1985. Since then, her work has been included in exhibitions of Warlukurlangu Artists in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, and in shows in Portsmouth UK, Seattle USA, and Madrid Spain. In 1988 she won an award for Best painting at the Victor Harbour Art Show. She was represented in Yuendumu – Paintings out of the Desert at the SA Museum 1988, Windows on the Dreaming Australian National Gallery 1989 and Tigari Lai Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Australia at the Third Eye Centre Glasgow, Scotland in 1990. In 1993 her work was shown in Aratjara: Art of the First Australians , Dusseldorf, Germany, Humleaek, Denmark, and other European cities.
- Writers:
- Johnson, Vivien
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
