Mavis Marks

Mavis Marks

Mavis was born in 1945 at New Haven. She is the sister of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa. Her sisters Yuyuya Nampitjinpa and Gina Nampitjinpa are from the same birth mother and father (Tjangala). She enjoys traveling to Walungurru (Kintore) to visit with her sister Yuyuwa. Gina lives in Alice Springs and Mavis is able to see her regularly. She moved to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) as a teenager with her mother. When she married, she moved to Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) with her husband and began to paint at the art centre there. Mavis returned to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) at the death of her husband, later moving to Papunya. She has raised five children as her own, and her daughter, Sylvana Marks, is also an artist. 

Mavis likes to paint the ceremonial dancing of ladies at Watiyawanu (Mt Liebig) and represents their body painting designs. She also paints the story given to her by her grandfather of Kalipinpa, the Water Dreaming, which comes from her mother’s side. It shows the big rains travelling from West to East across the Western Desert.

She participated in design workshops in 2017 and 2018. Her designs: Women’s Business and Kalinpinpa have been part of collections with Magpie Goose and Publisher Textiles as well as being worn by various celebrities.

Luritja, Pintubi

Watiyawanu

Current Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Group

  • 2024
    Tjukurrpa on Fabrics - IOTA 2024, Holmes a Court Gallery, Margaret River WA
  • 2024
    National Indigenous Art Fair, Sydney NSW
  • 2024
    Flying Solo Runway, New York Fashion Week, New York, USA
  • 2023
    Ganbu Marra Runway, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne, VIC
  • 2023
    New Zealand Fashion Week - Auckland, NZ
  • 2023
    Ikuntji Textiles, Central Craft, Alice Springs NT
  • 2023
    Country to Couture 2023, Darwin
  • 2023
    National Indigenous Art Fair, Sydney NSW
  • 2023
    Ikuntji Collection, Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Sydney NSW
  • 2023
    Ikuntji Style, Artisan, Brisbane
  • 2023
    Ikuntji Style, Artisan, Brisbane
  • 2022
    Hazelhurst Ikuntji Artists Printmaking 2022, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney.
  • 2022
    Imagine! – International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles (FITE), Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
  • 2022
    2022 Tjunguku Tjukurrpa - Paris, voici nos Rêves !, IDAIA, Paris, France
  • 2022
    Ikuntji Textiles, Central Craft, Alice Springs.
  • 2022
    Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
  • 2022
    ‘Nganana Tjungu – This is Us’, Songlines, Darwin.
  • 2022
    NAIDOC MCA Store Exhibition and Activation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
  • 2022
    London Pacific Fashion Week, Dublin Runway Show, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, United Kingdom.
  • 2022
    Weaving Culture II: Ikuntji Artists, IDAIA, Lyon, France., 9 Jun - 9 July
  • 2022
    First Nations Fashion Design - Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Carriageworks, Sydney.
  • 2022
    Luminous Lampshades 2022, Adelaide, Adelaide Fringe pop up
  • 2022
    Couleurs Australie, IDAIA at BHV Marais, Paris, France
  • 2021
    IDAIA Christmas Exhibition, Lyon, France., 9 – 24 December
  • 2021
    Curiosity and the Cloth - IOTA21 - Boola Bardip, WA Museum, WA
  • 2021
    Weaving Culture - Textiles aborigènes contemporains, IDAIA, Lyon, France
  • 2020
    Country to Couture 2020, Darwin., Ikuntji X Magpie Goose fashion collaboration
  • 2020
    HOME:Made Exhibition and Online Auction, DESIGN Canberra 2020 , Canberra.
  • 2020
    Ikuntji textiles, Central Craft , Alice Springs., 6 Sep- 28 Sep
  • 2020
    Pink Salon Art Projects, Darwin.
  • 2019
    Desert Mob Market Place 2019, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs., 5th, 6th and 7th September
  • 2019
    Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2019, Darwin., 9-11 August
  • 2018
    TARNANTHI Art Fair 2018, Adelaide.
  • 2018
    Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2018, Darwin.
  • 2017
    11th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
  • 2017
    One Country - Many Stories, Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
  • 2016
    Ikuntji Artists – Paintings from Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Jaktman Australian Contemporary Art Gallery.
  • 2015
    Racines, Sablon, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels.
  • 2015
    Kaléidoscope millénaire avec les artistes dIkuntji, Aboriginal Signature - Estrangin Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2015
    Tarnanthi Festival Art Fair, Tandanya Institute, Adelaide.
  • 2015
    Spirit Country, Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne.
  • 2015
    Art Parade, Whistlewood.
  • 2014
    Artitja: The Gift Collection - Art + Objects, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle.
  • 2014
    8th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
  • 2010
    Art Mob, Hobart.
  • 2010
    Korowa College Exhibiion, Melbourne.
  • 2009
    Gallery Runfurlie, Melbourne.
  • 2009
    Artkelch, Germany.
  • 2008
    Ikuntji meets Brisbane, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane.
  • 2005
    Combined Exhibition with Papunya Artists, Australian Dreaming Art Gallery, Melbourne.
  • 2005
    Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.
  • 2004
    Mother and Daughter, Art Mob, Hobart.
  • 2004
    Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.
  • 2004
    Courtesy Alcaston Gallery, Sydney, Art Sydney, Fox Studios.
  • 2004
    Affordable Art Fair, Courtesy Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
  • 2003
    Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.