Charmaine Papertalk-Green Charmaine Papertalk-Green i(A3104 works by) (a.k.a. Charmaine Green)
Born: Established: 1963 Eradu, Northampton area, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Wajarri ; Aboriginal Bardimaya ; Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Poet Charmaine Papertalk-Green grew up in Mullewa and lives in Geraldton. She won the 2006 National NAIDOC Poster Competition for her work entitled Life Circle. The description of her work on that winning entry is: 'Our past and our future are interconnected. In the circle of life as we move from the past to the future we must always remember and respect everything in the past. Our history, our culture, our traditions, our ancestors and our own experiences. This way we can walk into the future with respect and confidence.'

She has worked as a programs officer for the Department of Information, Communication,Technology and the Arts (2004-2009), as development officer and coordinator for Yamaji Art Centre (Mara Art Aboriginal Corporation), Geraldton, Western Australia, and as Chairperson of Mara Art Aboriginal Corporation.

She also writes and works in the visual arts and in the social science research (Aboriginal health) fields under the name Charmaine Green.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 winner Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2021 joint winner Magabala Fellowships and Scholarships Magabala Fellowship
2016 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to undertake a unique mentorship opportunity with Rolande Souliere a First Nation Canadian artist, where Charmaine will explore new ways of combining her practice in a contemporary space.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Art Broome : Magabala Books , 2022 24959053 2022 selected work poetry

'ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidable call and response piece that builds on the stunning dialogue the two authors began on paper in False Claims of Colonial Thieves (2018). While ART is a collaborative work, each poet’s contributions are presented independently. They showcase their talents in a dynamic exchange, working innovatively to present a poetic response to artworks.

'The focus of their attention is a series of paintings by the late Nyoongar painter Shane Pickett. Pickett’s work provides provocation for both poets to reflect on their own lives and histories on Nyoongar country. Their interwoven dialogue examines the politics of the contemporary art world, of museums, archives, and galleries.

'The book also features a conversation between Charmaine and Shane’s son Trevor Pickett, which discusses Shane’s life, influences and the significance of his painting and worldviews, along with a selection of visual works by Charmaine.' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
y separately published work icon Nganajungu Yagu Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2019 16924590 2019 selected work poetry

'Forty years ago, letters, words and feelings flowed between a teenage daughter and her mother. Letters writen by that teenage daughter – me – handed around family back home, disappeared. Yet letters from that mother to her teenage daughter – me – remained protected in my red life-journey suitcase. I carried them across time and landscapes as a mother would carry her baby in a thaga.

'In 1978–79, I was living in an Aboriginal girls’ hostel in the Bentley suburb of Perth, attending senior high school. Mum and I sent handwritten letters to each other. I was a small-town teenager stepping outside of all things I had ever known. Mum remained in the only world she had ever known.

'Nganajungu Yagu was inspired by Mother’s letters, her life and the love she instilled in me for my people and my culture. A substantial part of that culture is language, and I missed out on so much language interaction having moved away. I talk with my ancestors’ language – Badimaya and Wajarri – to honour ancestors, language centres, language workers and those Yamaji who have been and remain generous in passing on cultural knowledge.

'–Charmain Papertalk Green'  (Publication summary) 

2020 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Poetry
2020 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
2020 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award
2020 winner ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
2020 commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writer's Prize
We Can! We Do! We Will! 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , November vol. 6 no. 2 2018; (p. 130-131)
2018 second place University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize
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