Marcus Camphoo

Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre was born at Murray Downs in 1992. He is a Kaytetye and Alywarr man who lives and works between Ali Curung (Kaytetye Country) and Tennant Creek (Warumungu Country). Double O began painting in 2017 as part of the Tennant Creek Men’s Centre art program which would go on to become the much-acclaimed Tennant Creek Brio and has painted with Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre since 2020.
Double O has has become known for his signature minimalist style of action painting. The small handful of deceptively simple grid-and-band compositions that he paints are seemingly guided by a set of fluid formulae and mental mathematics. They are acts of compulsion or stereotypy, taking the same form as sketches that he makes on pieces of scrap paper and is rumoured to have drawn since childhood. The paintings resonate like portals reaching into space, the artist’s psyche or an altogether different dimension.
Marcus has shown with the Tennant Creek Brio at the 20th Biennale of Sydney Nirin, NGV Melbourne Design Week 2022, in a recent survey show of the groups work, Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and at other shows in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Alice Springs, Darwin and New Zealand. In 2024 Marcus had his debut solo exhibition, MARKUSOOH, MAKASOOH, MARUSOOH,  at 8 Hele gallery, Alice Springs. In February 2025 he exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair with 8 Hele gallery and cbOne gallery.
Marcus’ work has been acquired in Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Australian National University’s Drill Hall Gallery and Araluen Art Centre, as well as the Fondation Opale in Switzerland. His work has also belongs to various important private collections in Australia.