Jeannie Nakamarra Brown b. c.1950

Also known as Jeannie Brown
  • Artist (Painter)
A Luritja artist, Jeannie Brown was one of the first women to begin painting in her own right at Papunya, independently of her husband Theo Brown. Her Dreamings lie around Haasts Bluff (NT) where she was born.
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A Luritja speaker, Jeannie Brown was born at Haasts Bluff in the late ’40s, and later lived at Papunya. Unlike most of the early women painters who first worked on their husband’s or other male relatives’ paintings, Jeannie taught herself to paint in about 1980, after watching other artists painting at the settlement, some years before her husband, Theo Brown , began painting. Her Dreamings lie around the Haasts Bluff area and include Napaltjarri Women Dancing and the Munni Munni story. The couple had a son, Edward.

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Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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