About the artist

Language group: Aangkum (Ungkum)

Rosella Namok was born in 1979 and grew up in the community of Lockhart River, Far North Queensland where she learned the traditional cultural ways of her people.

In the late 1990s she gained national recognition as a prominent member of the renowned Lockhart River ‘Art Gang’. In the early 2000s Rosella moved to Cairns where she continues to live and work. Her paintings depict both traditional stories and contemporary themes, as well as candid observations about changing lifestyles and the environment.

Through a technique developed by watching her grandmother drawing in the sand, she often creates patterned, linear arrangements by pulling her fingers through the layers of paint, to capture the building storm clouds and deluging rain of the tropical big Wet.

Rosella has exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas and has been collected by all major state galleries, the National Gallery of Australia and many private collections including The High Court of Australia, Canberra.

Reproduction artwork details

High quality reproduction of an original painting held in the Cairns Art Gallery Collection.
Purchase of a reproduction print directly supports the artist.

Postage

Reproduction prints will be rolled in a PostPak tube for standard shipping.

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* Paper size does not always indicate image size. Original artwork ratio is maintained and is placed to best fit the paper size. Please refer to image as reference.