When she was five, her father Johannes Marakatt died, leaving her mother Anna Maria Nutti to raise nine children by herself.

[2] While Marakatt-Labba works with numerous types of media, it is primarily her narrative embroidery using motifs from the Sámi culture and mythology that she is known for around the world.

[3] In connection with the Álta conflict in the 1970s, Marakatt-Labba created the embroidered narrative Garjját (The Crows), which depicted crows landing downhill from Sámi protestors sitting outside of their goahti and turning into black-clad policemen as they marched up the hill to the protestors.

From 2003 to 2007, Marakatt-Labba created a piece entitled Historjá that tells the history and mythology of the Sámi people.

This epic 23.5 m long textile artwork[5] is normally displayed in the Non-Experimental Sciences building at the University of Tromsø,[1][6] although it has also been exhibited as part of documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany in 2017.