Ningura Napurrula SIZE: 124cm X 182cm

Ningura Napurrula was born in 1938 at Watulka in Central Australia.  She married the renowned Pintupi artist Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, and together with their son Maurice, travelled to the Papunya community in the 1960s, after having encountered a Welfare Patrol.  Ningura and her family lived in Papunya’s Pintupi camp for many years.  Yala Yala was one of the original artists who started the Papunya Tula Art movement in the early 1970’s, he has painted many masterpieces and on some occasion Ningura was apprenticed by Yala Yala and allowed to dot in the background.  Ningura observed the artists in Papunya work on large paintings and listened to them discussing the importance of the story layout. In the early1990’s Ningura started painting her own paintings, remembering the teaching of the old men and the importance of the layout of the story.  Ningura paints the mythological events of her Ancestors. As she paints Ningura will sing the songs for that story, her paintings are focused and depict the travels of her Ancestors and the sacred sites in her country.

Artists:                  Ningura Napurrula  

D.O.B                           C1938, Watulka, Central Australia

Language:            Pintupi

Region:                 Kiwirrkurra,Tjukula

Size:                      182cm by 124cm

THE PAINTING COMES WITH COA & PHOTO'S OF THE ARTISTS HOLDING AND SIGNING THE FINISHED WORK

In 2007, Ningura Napurrula is one of the 50 Australia's most collectable artists by the Australian Art Collector magazine.

Selected exhibitions:

2006 Musee du Quai Branly, Paris. France.

2005 Palais de Tokyo, Paris. France.

         Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

2005 Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.

2004 Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle 

         Pizzi Collection,

         Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne;

         Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD,

         Mantes-la-Jolie, France. 2000- William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, 

         Australia. 

2003 Glen Eira City; Mason Gallery at Japinka WA;

         Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne;

         Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech  

         Republic;

         Masterpieces from the Western Desert,

          Gavin Gallery, London, UK.

2002 Araluen Art Centre.

2001 Telstra Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory;

         Pintupi, Alice Springs; Aborigena,

         Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy.

2000 Gabrielle Pizzie Melbourne; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of

         NSW .

1999 Utopia Art Sydney.

1996 Papunya Tula, Alice Springs. 

  Awards and Important Commissions:

2002 Australian Post - the Stamps (LEFT) $1.10 Ningura Napurrula (Pintupi), Subjects:

         Travels of her female ancestors, the sites they passed and the bush tucker they

         collected. 

2002 Alice Prize.

2001 Finalist 18th Telstra Art Award, Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait

         Islander Telstra Award,

Collections:

Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France.

HOOD Museum of Art, Hanover, MA. USA.

National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, USA)

The Palace of Japan, Tokyo, Japan.

Alice Springs Art Price Collection, Alice Springs, Australia.

Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory Darwin, Australia.

The Harold Mitchell Foundation and the Australia Council

National Gallery of Australia – Canberra, Australia.

National Gallery of Victoria – Melbourne, Australia.

Queensland Art Gallery – Brisbane, Australia.

Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney;

Australian Tourism collection, Adelaide, Australia.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Collection Architecture Australia magazine