Nyukana Baker b. 1943

Also known as Baker Nyukana
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer
Pitjantjatjara artist from Ernabella who began painting, designing and weaving in 1963 and producing batik in 1971. Her work is widely exhibited in Australia and overseas and is represented within a number of major art collections.
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Citations

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’94/260/1 Textile length, silk batik, Nyukana (Daisy) Baker, Ernabella, South Australia, Australia, 1994’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/141124

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Textle length by Nyukana (Daisy) Baker’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/147768

  • Powerhouse Museum, 'Jar made by Nyukana Baker, Australia’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/357127

  • Powerhouse Museum, ’95/319/3 Textile length, 'Puti’ (Bush), cotton, designed by Nyukana (Daisy) Baker and Nyuwara (Kanngitja) Tapaya, printed by Marie Warren, Ernabella, South Australia, 1989-1995’, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.

    http://from.ph/147773

  • Information sourced from Race, Kate.

  • Information sourced from Dudley, Jenny.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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Portrait images
  • Untitled, from the series Keeping up Appearances
Periods active
  • c.1971 -
  • c.1963 -
  • c.1971-
  • c.1963-
Trainings
  • 1975 Batik Institute, Jogjakata, Indonesia
  • 1990 Tandanya, Adelaide, SA (Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute)
  • - Ernabella school, Ernabella, SA
  • 1989 Cultural exchange at Tiwi Designs, Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, NT
  • 1982 Darwin, NT
  • 1975 Ernabella, SA
  • 1975 Batik Institute, Jogjakata, Indonesia
  • 1974 Darwin, NT
  • 1971 Ernabella, SA
  • c.1963 Craftroom, Ernabella mission, SA
  • 1975 Batik Institute, Jogjakata, Indonesia
  • 1990 Tandanya, Adelaide, SA (Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute)
  • Ernabella school, Ernabella, SA
  • 1989 Cultural exchange at Tiwi Designs, Bathurst Island, Tiwi Islands, NT
  • 1982 Darwin, NT
  • 1975 Ernabella, SA
  • 1975 Batik Institute, Jogjakata, Indonesia
  • 1974 Darwin, NT
  • 1971 Ernabella, SA
  • c.1963 Craftroom, Ernabella mission, SA