MARKUSOOH, MAKUSOOH, MARUSOOH

Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre

22 Jun

2024

2024

13 Jul

2024

When Marcus Camphoo arrives to paint, there is a buzz about the Ali Curung painting grounds. The elders, artists and workers who share the grounds are aware of the broad appeal of his curious grids and often offer encouragement for the day’s work. Reverence turns to excitement when he declares that he wants a ‘big one’ and a grand canvas is hauled into the repurposed storage garage which has become his personal studio.

Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre is a Kaytetye and Alywarr man who began painting in 2017 as part of the Tennant Creek Men’s Centre art program which would go onto become the much-acclaimed Tennant Creek Brio. It was only in 2020 that Double O expanded his practice to Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre in Ali Curung.

Double O’s painting practice consists predominantly of a small handful of deceptively simple grid-and-band compositions, seemingly guided by a set of fluid formulas and mental mathematics that he applies to his work. Double O has called his paintings “squares” “windows” or “crosses”, but largely remains tight lipped. At scale, the work forces an intimacy with the viewer and resonate like portals reaching into space, the artist’s psyche or an altogether different dimension. They have been likened to the aesthetic of central desert ceremonial body painting, the structural frames upon which they are painted and window or building shapes of children’s painting – a common remark from the ladies’ painting studio says that he is painting the windows of all the houses he visits as he roams around Ali Curung.

MARKUSOOH, MAKUSOOH, MARUSOOH is Double O’s first solo exhibition and debuts a series of new works on paper. The title arises from the signatures given to the first three pastel on paper drawings that he created in Ali Curung and reflects a truth in his work; there is similarity, but never sameness or predictability. Perhaps informed by the materiality of Double O’s new paper endeavours the companion paintings share a tonal and auratic lightness, a noted departure from the dense, grimy aesthetic of previous work presented alongside the Brio.

Installation View

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Artworks

Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
121
183
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8250
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2023 - Untitled
2023
enamel on canvas
127
194
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9000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
watercolour, pastel and acrylic on paper
144
152
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3000
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2023 - Untitled (MAKUSOO)
2023
pastel on paper
56
76
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1200
For Sale
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled 1
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1200
For Sale
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
182
302
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22000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
152
183
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10000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
183
91
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6000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
153
183
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10000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
211
158
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12500
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel and acrylic on coarse, heavy linen
118
119
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5500
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
enamel on canvas
92
92
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3250
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
watercolour on paper
125
152
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3000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
watercolour on paper
125
152
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3000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
watercolour on paper
152.5
146
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2500
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1000
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled (MAKUSOO)
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1200
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled (MAKUSOOH)
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
pastel and lead pencil on paper
56
76
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1200
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June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled (MARUSOOH)
2024
pastel on paper
76
56
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Marcus Camphoo '00' - 2024 - Untitled
2024
pastel on paper
56
76
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
MC152023 2023
2023
acrylic on canvas
192
248
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20000
For Sale
August 20, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
MC162023 2023
2023
acrylic on linen
198
148
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12500
Sold
August 20, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
183.5
300
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22000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
56
76
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
56
76
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1000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
56
76
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1000
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
56
76
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
Marcus Camphoo '00'
Untitled
2024
56
76
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1200
Sold
June 26, 2024
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Artist Profile/s

Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre

Born
1990
1990

Lives

Ali Curung
Skin
Language
Alyawarr

Born in 1990, Marcus Camphoo Kemarre, aka, ‘Double O’, is a Kaytetyeand Alywarr man living between Ali Curung and Tennant Creek. He paints at both Arlpwe Art and Culture centre in Ali Curung, and at in Tennant Creek at Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre as the youngest member of the men's collective, The Tennant Creek Brio. Known as 00 (“double-o”) he has developed a distinctive minimalism of formal structural grids that resonate with early Western desert practices of body markings. These grids and bands, often rendered with loose and textural qualities evoke the iconography of the Western Desert and the structural frames of painting.

He has had multiple showings, including 20th Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, RAFT Artspace, Desert Mob, The Salon De Refuse 2020, and at the 2022 NGV Design Week at Modern Times. His works have been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, Araluen Arts Centre, as well as several private collections.

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