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.
Languages
Luritja, Pintubi
Community
Watiyawanu
Artworks
Women’s Business
Women’s Business – Audrey Top
Women’s Business – Shift Dress – Copper on Petrol (Silk)
Kalipinpa – Water Dreaming
Women’s Business Lampshade – White on Denim (30cm)
Women’s Business Fabric – Cream on Olive (Tencel Linen) 50cm
Kalipinpa – Water Dreaming
Women’s Business – Marsha Pants
Ikuntji Textiles Book
Women’s Business Fabric – Grape on White (Tencel Linen) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – White on Hessian (Linen/Cotton) 50cm
Kalipinpa Fabric – Gold and Silver on Fuschia (Silk) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – Black on Fawn (Linen) 50cm
Kalipinpa Fabric – Grey and Cream on Black (Tencel Linen) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – White on Moose (Tencel Linen) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – Grey on White (Tuscany Linen) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – White on Denim Blue (Tencel Linen) 50cm
Women’s Business Fabric – Blue on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm
Current Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Group
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2024 Tjukurrpa on Fabrics - IOTA 2024, Holmes a Court Gallery, Margaret River WA
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2024 National Indigenous Art Fair, Sydney NSW
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2024 Flying Solo Runway, New York Fashion Week, New York, USA
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2023 Ganbu Marra Runway, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne, VIC
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2023 New Zealand Fashion Week - Auckland, NZ
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2023 Ikuntji Textiles, Central Craft, Alice Springs NT
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2023 Country to Couture 2023, Darwin
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2023 National Indigenous Art Fair, Sydney NSW
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2023 Ikuntji Collection, Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Sydney NSW
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2023 Ikuntji Style, Artisan, Brisbane
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2023 Ikuntji Style, Artisan, Brisbane
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2022 Hazelhurst Ikuntji Artists Printmaking 2022, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney.
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2022 Imagine! – International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles (FITE), Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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2022 2022 Tjunguku Tjukurrpa - Paris, voici nos Rêves !, IDAIA, Paris, France
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2022 Ikuntji Textiles, Central Craft, Alice Springs.
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2022 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
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2022 ‘Nganana Tjungu – This is Us’, Songlines, Darwin.
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2022 NAIDOC MCA Store Exhibition and Activation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
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2022 London Pacific Fashion Week, Dublin Runway Show, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, United Kingdom.
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2022 Weaving Culture II: Ikuntji Artists, IDAIA, Lyon, France., 9 Jun - 9 July
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2022 First Nations Fashion Design - Afterpay Australian Fashion Week, Carriageworks, Sydney.
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2022 Luminous Lampshades 2022, Adelaide, Adelaide Fringe pop up
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2022 Couleurs Australie, IDAIA at BHV Marais, Paris, France
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2021 IDAIA Christmas Exhibition, Lyon, France., 9 – 24 December
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2021 Curiosity and the Cloth - IOTA21 - Boola Bardip, WA Museum, WA
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2021 Weaving Culture - Textiles aborigènes contemporains, IDAIA, Lyon, France
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2020 Country to Couture 2020, Darwin., Ikuntji X Magpie Goose fashion collaboration
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2020 HOME:Made Exhibition and Online Auction, DESIGN Canberra 2020 , Canberra.
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2020 Ikuntji textiles, Central Craft , Alice Springs., 6 Sep- 28 Sep
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2020 Pink Salon Art Projects, Darwin.
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2019 Desert Mob Market Place 2019, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs., 5th, 6th and 7th September
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2019 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2019, Darwin., 9-11 August
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2018 TARNANTHI Art Fair 2018, Adelaide.
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2018 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2018, Darwin.
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2017 11th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
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2017 One Country - Many Stories, Colin Biggers & Paisley Foundation, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
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2016 Ikuntji Artists – Paintings from Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Jaktman Australian Contemporary Art Gallery.
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2015 Racines, Sablon, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels.
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2015 Kaléidoscope millénaire avec les artistes dIkuntji, Aboriginal Signature - Estrangin Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium.
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2015 Tarnanthi Festival Art Fair, Tandanya Institute, Adelaide.
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2015 Spirit Country, Outback Aboriginal Art, Melbourne.
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2015 Art Parade, Whistlewood.
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2014 Artitja: The Gift Collection - Art + Objects, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle.
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2014 8th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
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2010 Art Mob, Hobart.
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2010 Korowa College Exhibiion, Melbourne.
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2009 Gallery Runfurlie, Melbourne.
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2009 Artkelch, Germany.
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2008 Ikuntji meets Brisbane, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane.
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2005 Combined Exhibition with Papunya Artists, Australian Dreaming Art Gallery, Melbourne.
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2005 Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.
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2004 Mother and Daughter, Art Mob, Hobart.
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2004 Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.
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2004 Courtesy Alcaston Gallery, Sydney, Art Sydney, Fox Studios.
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2004 Affordable Art Fair, Courtesy Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
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2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.