Skin name: Nampinjimpa
Language: Luritja
Date of birth: 5/09/1953
From: Western Arrentre
Current home: Darwin

Marie is the daughter of Arthur and Katie (nee Uburtja) Abbott and grew up at Hermannsburg. Her brother the late Clem Abbott was a highly respected water colourist from the Hermannsburg school.In her earlier work Marie used watercolours to paint the landscape but her brother said that she should paint her own style. From this Marie developed a naturalistic style of landscapes using acrylic paint on canvas, eventually combining dotting into the landscape very successfully.

During the period 1993 to 1996 Marie would detail birds of the region into her landscapes.

Since 1996 the subject of her work has been illustrating bush foods and women gathering using symbolic designs and dotting, although she has begun to paint the landscapes once again.

Marie painted a large mural at the Aboriginal Birthing Centre in Alice Springs.

Marie is a registered Aboriginal Health worker and is studying with Bachelor College in Aboriginal Health.

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2004   Advocate Central Australian Art Award
• 2005  Desert Mob Exhibition , Alice Springs
• 2009 Desert MOb Exhibition, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
• 2009 Real to Surreal, Scenes from the Centre: Journey with the new Generation of Hermannsburg Watercolour artists, Tandanya Adelaide, SA
• 2009 Beyond Batterby, Recent Watercolour by Central Australian Artists, Hobart Tasmania
• 2009 The Watercolourists of Central Australia, Indigenart, Melbourne Vic
• 2010 Barossa Living Gallery, Tanunda, SA