death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality birth_date article_title name bgcolour
20 october 2009 adelaide , south australia mummine near warburton , western australia national 2008 -rrb- aboriginal & torres strait islander art award -lrb- australian c. 1955 doreen reid nakamarra
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doreen reid nakamarra

doreen reid nakamarra -lrb- c. 1955 - 20 october 2009 -rrb- was an australian aboriginal artist and painter .
reid was considered an important artist within the western desert cultural bloc .
she was a leading painter at the papunya tula artist cooperative in central australia .
reid was born in mummine near warburton , western australia in the mid-1950s .
in 1984 , reid and her husband george tjampu tjapaltjarri , who subsequently established himself as a papunya tula painter , settled at the new community of kiwirrkurra , to be closer to her husband 's country .
in 2007 , reid 's work was displayed at the national gallery of australia 's `` culture warriors '' exhibition .
the exhibit , including reid 's pieces , toured australia state galleries before opening at the katzen arts center in washington d.c. in september 2009 .
additionally , reid 's work was featured at the moscow biennale of contemporary art in 2009 .
she was awarded the telstra national aboriginal and torres strait islander art award general painting prize in 2008 for an untitled work .
the work depicts designs associated with the marrapinti rockhole site , west of the pollock hills in western australia .
in september 2009 , reid travelled to new york city for the opening of a papunya tula art exhibition which included her work .
the new york exhibition was opened by hetti perkins , the curator of aboriginal and torres strait islander art at the art gallery of new south wales in sydney .
on 18 october 2009 , reid was admitted to the hospital for treatment of pneumonia .
she was flown from alice springs to adelaide , where she died in the hospital on 20 october 2009 , at the age of 50 .
paul sweeney , the general manager of papunya tula , praised reid as an important artist and spokesperson .
