Mary Nungarrayi Dixon b. 1960

  • Artist (Painter)
Mary started painting in the mid '80s when Papunya Tula Artists made regular trips to Mt Liebig to service the artists living there. Mary often painted Witchetty Grub Dreaming and a Milky Way Dreaming and sometimes collaboratively with her husband Colin Dixon.
Name
Mary Nungarrayi Dixon
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
1960
Birth place
Bore Creek, Anatye, Northern Territory, Australia, Town Bore Creek, east of Papunya
Birth note
east of Papunya
Active Period
  • 1985
Residence
  • Mt Liebig, NT
  • Haasts Bluff NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Haasts Bluff, NT
Dreaming
  • Milky Way
  • Witchetty Grub
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Warlpiri
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary