Works
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Untitled, 2025
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Untitled, 2025
    Acrylic On Canvas
    160 x 155 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Untitled, 2025
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Untitled, 2025
    Acrylic On Canvas
    160 x 155 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Geo NN1, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Geo NN1, 2024
    Acrylic On Paper
    59.5 x 84 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Geo NN2, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Geo NN2, 2024
    Acrylic On Paper
    59.5 x 84 cm
    $ 1,100.00
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Geo NN3, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Geo NN3, 2024
    Acrylic On Paper
    59.5 x 84 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *00, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *00, 2024
    Acrylic On Masonite Board
    109 x 109 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *44, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *44, 2024
    Acrylic On Linen
    60.5 x 60.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *60, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *60, 2024
    Acrylic On Masonite Board
    109 x 109 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *65, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *65, 2024
    Acrylic On Canvas
    165.5 x 206 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *79, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *79, 2024
    Acrylic On Canvas
    178.5 x 206.5 cm
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *99, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *99, 2024
    Acrylic On Linen
    100 x 108.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series * 10, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series * 10, 2024
    Acrylic On Canvas
    104 x 207 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series * 11, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series * 11, 2024
    Acrylic On Canvas
    100.5 x 206.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series * 53, 2024
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series * 53, 2024
    Acrylic On Linen
    110 x 203 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *13, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *13, 2023
    Acrylic On Canvas
    60.5 x 60.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *84, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *84, 2023
    Acrylic On Masonite Board
    109 x 109 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurramarla Series *89, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurramarla Series *89, 2023
    Acrylic On Masonite Board
    109 x 109 cm
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *34, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *34, 2023
    Acrylic On Linen
    140 x 193 cm
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *39, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *39, 2023
    Acrylic On Canvas
    150 x 210 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *58, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *58, 2023
    Acrylic On Canvas
    132.5 x 208 cm
  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *67, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *67, 2023
    Acrylic On Linen
    138 x 197.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *77, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *77, 2023
    Acrylic On Coarse Linen
    116 x 143.5 cm
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  • Arthur Jalyirri Dixon, Ngurrmarla Series *87, 2023
    Arthur Jalyirri Dixon
    Ngurrmarla Series *87, 2023
    Acrylic On Canvas
    95 x 187.5 cm
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Biography

Mudburra artist Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon (b. 1994) grew up in the remote Northern Territory community of Marlinja, near Elliott, around 700 km from both Alice Springs and Darwin. He grew up in a creative family, using music for storytelling and a vehicle for keeping Mudburra, one of the world’s oldest languages, alive. Both his father Ray Dimakarri Dixon and sister Eleanor Dixon are accomplished singer/songwriters.

 

Arthur employs gestural mark-making in evocative abstract paintings which are both large and small-scale. He generally paints off-stretcher and his work features both subtle tonal shifts and contrasting pigments, some areas of canvas left raw.

 

Arthur uses the Mudburra word "ngurramarla" to describe his work, a term which refers to ancestral connection and the channeling of creativity through this connection. It’s a term which reflects the heightened state of Arthur’s expressive act of painting and, in turn, his underlying inspiration to connect with and care for Country. Arthur’s paintings are mostly untitled and highly intuitive rather than literal in their expression of ngurramarla. Ngurramarla was the title given to his first two paintings to be publicly exhibited, as part of the 2023 DesertMob exhibition in Alice Springs – an indication of his emerging status and remarkable freedom and confidence as a painter.

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