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artists' company, had been men, and there was resistance amongst the
Pintupi men of central Australia to women painting. However, there was also a desire amongst many of the women to participate, and in the 1990s large numbers of them began to create paintings. In the western desert communities such
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Australian Indigenous people. These names define kinship relationships that influence preferred marriage partners and may be associated with particular totems. Although they may be used as terms of address, they are not surnames in the sense used by Europeans. Thus 'Sheila Brown' is the
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and Two Women. All are associated with the area around
Kunajarrayi, or Mount Nicker, an important ceremonial site in the Northern Territory near the Western Australian border. Some of these dreaming stories are shared with other prominent artists, including Paddy Japaljarri Sims, one of the
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to work with acrylic paints, Brown painted for
Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu, which she continued to do when living at Mangurrurpa. In October 1985, she was amongst the artists whose works were exhibited at the first exhibition of paintings from Yuendumu, at the
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Brown is one of a group of artists who contributed some major collaborative works. In 1994 she was one of the artists responsible for
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List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives
227:. Marleston, South Australia: J.B. Publishing. p. 212.
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762:Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
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595:Araluen Cultural Precinct
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963:Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula
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