[11], Warmun (Turkey Creek), East Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia, removal by the government to an institution, "Queenie McKenzie Nakarra - East Kimberley Artist", "Level of arts activity in Kimberley region impressive", "Queenie McKenzie's 'Mistake Creek Massacre' displayed by National Museum after years of controversy", "State Living Treasures' publication honouring WA artists unveiled", "Launch of program focusing on indigenous arts & culture on CD-ROM", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Queenie_McKenzie&oldid=975406951, Indigenous Australians from Western Australia, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2020, All Wikipedia articles in need of updating, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Garagarag, Mingmarriya, Queenie Nakarra, Gara-garag, This page was last edited on 28 August 2020, at 09:58. Queenie McKenzie’s first solo exhibition Gara-Garag: My Life Longa Texas was presented in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at William Mora Galleries in 1995. Queenie had sewn his scalp back on so well that doctors were amazed that a novice was so skilled. Later Queenie used the story as a subject for some of her paintings. Source: Art Gallery of NSW Research Library and Archive. McKenzie’s mother was a Malngin/Gurindji woman and her father was white. The police came several times and attempted to take her away but she stayed on the station, being rubbed with charcoal and strongly defended by her mother on separate occasions. In little more than a decade of active painting, Queenie McKenzie emerged as a prominent and compelling commentator on the Aboriginal experience. Queenie McKenzie was born around1930 at the Old Texas station on the Ord River in the north west of Western Australia. [7] McKenzie has also been consistently included within the Australian Indigenous Art Market top 100 index, ranking 21st in 2014. Local stories tell that Queenie’s mother rubbed her with charcoal so that her light skin would not be noticed. The daughter of an Aboriginal woman and a gardiya (white-fella) father, in her youth McKenzie was at the centre of a series of tense encounters between her mother and local government authorities. From July 2020 it was put on display as part of a new exhibition titled "Talking Blak to History" at the Museum. Queenie McKenzie Balinji 1997 57.2005. Queenie McKenzie was born, raised and later married on the old Texas Downs station on the Ord River, in the eastern Kimberley region of Western Australia. Limestone hills near Texas Downs Queenie McKenzie Old couple hunting for bush tucker Queenie McKenzie Blackfellas in bush country Queenie McKenzie God sending the Holy Spirit Queenie McKenzie Gimiyarriny country Queenie McKenzie Texas country, other side Queenie McKenzie Old people looking for goanna and emu Queenie McKenzie Moses and the Ten Commandments Queenie McKenzie … Indeed, she lived there all her life until the respected manager, with whom a close knit group of Aboriginal people ran the cattle station for many years, retired. In the mid 1980s, she made and painted a coolamon, which was much admired and then began to make pictures of her country, mostly with coloured pencils and occasionally with ochre on canvas board. He had been thrown from a horse and had scalped himself. Join Facebook to connect with Queenie Mckenzie and others you may know.