Namok studied art at high school and when Fran and Geoff Barker—one a former teacher, the other with experience in design and manufacturing—set up an art program for school-leavers at Lockhart River, Namok was amongst the first to learn printmaking with them in 1995.
Namok was taught art at high school and learned printmaking and other techniques through a community art project in 1997 that led to the formation of a group of artists known as the Lockhart River Art Gang. By 2007 she had held eighteen solo exhibitions in Australia and overseas. In 1997, the Barkers and artists including Namok took some of the prints to an exhibition in Canberra, where they were seen by prominent curators Betty Churcher and Margo Neale, who bought some for the and the.
lieutenant was an extraordinary start for what became known as the Lockhart River Art Gang.
The contrast between Namok"s works and those of the central desert artists has highlighted the diversity of contemporary Indigenous art The painting was described by the judges as marking "a fleeting, inspired moment, capturing it in a permanent patterning".
In October 2003, Namok"s nine-panel painting Today Now. Described by Justice Gleeson of the court as a "bold, beautiful, confident and contemporary" work, it portrayed the emergence of modern law from Aboriginal pre-history.
Later that same month, The Bulletin with Newsweek named Namok as amongst its ten "brightest, most creative" people in Australian arts and entertainment.
Namok is a prolific artist, and by 2007, aged 28, had held eighteen solo exhibitions, both in Australia and overseas, in locations including New York and Berlin. She is regarded as an important contemporary Australian artist whose works attract high prices in the art market.
The Art Gang, of which Namok is a leading member, is distinctive for being a successful Indigenous art movement made up of young members of the community. This contrasts with movements such as Papunya Tula, which emerged from amongst a community"s traditional elders.
