WON NATIONAL ATSI ART AWARD NGOIA POLLARD NAPALTJARRI

NGOIA POLLARD NAPALTJARRI (c1948 - )

VALUABLE, COLLECTABLE DESERT 'MASTER'

AWARDS

Collections

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Aboriginal Art Museum (Thomas Vroom Collection), Utrecht, Netherlands

Art Bank, Sydney

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Gene and Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney

THE PAINTING

Certificate of Authenticity

Photo's of Ngoia Working On, Signing & Holding the Painting

Signed on Reverse by Ngoia (verso)

"Swamps at Nyirrpi"

204 x 150cm

Acrylic on Belgian Linen

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in Haasts Bluff, a daughter of Angoona Nangala and Jim Tjungurrayi. Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri's husband (now deceased) Jack Tjampijinpa Pollard was a very important artist painting for  Papunya Tula Artists. Ngoia Pollard was assisting him at the Papunya Tula community. Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri works now for the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation. Ngoia has a special custodianship responsibilities for her country and often flies by helicopter on business with the North Territory Land Council.
She paints her father's country, which is a sacred Warlpiri territory associated with narratives to the 'water snake'. The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representations of the swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada) North West of Mount Liebig where Ngoia lives. She depicts the wet and dry characteristics of the country. This region is changed with the spiritual presence of the 'water snake' which lives beneath the surface. This is the area where her father was hunting in the past.