Mark was born in Derby in 1968. He currently resides in Kununurra and is former Chairperson of the Warmun Art Centre. Mark is well educated and an incredibly talented Traditional ochre artist. His charcoal sketches and figurative acrylic works are testimony of his ability in any sphere/medium of artworks.
He has been taught the stories of his land by his mother, artist Nancy Nodea, and paints her country, Texas Downs, and his father’s country around Cherabun Station. Mark’s father is Hanson Boxer, a Walmajarrie man, and this enables Mark to extend his content to embrace both Kitja land and his father’s country around Yakanarra (an excision of Go Go Station via Fitzroy Crossing) and Cherabun Station. His minimal and sometimes flamboyant style gives him scope for large works. He is undoubtedly one of the most naturally talented Australian artists.
Mark’s design won the 2002 Royal Australian Mint International Award for Pure Silver Collector Coin. The Royal Australian Mint has only released ten such coins since 1983. He has participated in Group Exhibitions and his first Solo in September 2003 at the prestigious Alison Kelly Gallery in Melbourne was a sell out success.
Selected Exhibitions
2007
Ochre on Board, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
Back To The Board, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Wolf Creek Crater, Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, VIC
2003
Mark Nodea, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Group Show, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
East Kimberley Show, Short Street Gallery, Broome
2002
Coomalie Culture Centre, Batchelor, NT
All That Gija Country, Flinders University Museum, SA
Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
New Works From Warmun, Framed, Darwin, NT
2001
In Celebration – The Peter Bailiee Aquisitive Exhibition, Flinders University Art Museum
Awards
2002
Kimberley Interpreting Centre, Designer of Image for Medical Poster
Royal Australian Mint, Canberra, Designer of 10th Commemorative Silver Dollar
Selected Collections
Laverty Collection, Sydney
Ross Jones Collection, Sydney
Art Gallery of Queensland