Lorna Fencer "Boomerangs" Cat No. 1485 Size = 91 x 126 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1486 Size = 127 x 127 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1602 Size = 134 x 147 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Kangaroo tucker" Cat No. 1600 Size = 134 x 147 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1240 Size = 122 x 171 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1603 Size = 134 x 147 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1601 Size = 134 x 147 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 7225 Size = 120 x 170 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 7230 Size = 127 x 175 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 1262 Size = 134 x 147 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Kangaroo tucker" Cat No. 7232 Size = 120 x 170 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Lorna Fencer "Yam Dreaming" Cat No. 7231 Size = 120 x 170 cm. Acrylic on Linen

Born:               	c.1920, or 1927
Died:               	December, 2006
Region:	        	Tanami Desert
Community Centre:   	Lajamanu
Art Centre or Agency:	Warnayaka Art Centre
Outstation or Country:	Yumurrpa, near Yuendumu
Language Bloc:      	Ngarrkic
Language:           	Warlpiri
Social Affiliations:	Napurrurla subsection

Medium/ Form:	
Chromacryl students acrylic, Reeves Liquicryl on pre-primed 
unstretched cotton duck, on canvas pre-primed art board, 
acrylic paint on Coolamons, Kudurru [fighting stick], acrylic 
paint on quartz rock chunks and slate, bean tree wood acrylic 
paint on canvas.

Subjects and Themes:   
Yarla, Wapirti and Marlujarra. 
paints: Sweet potato,"ngalatji" little white flower, bush tomato, bush yam. 



Awards:
1997 Lorna was granted the Gold Coast City Art Award.
Commissions:
1997- John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria 



Collections Held: 
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands. 
Christensen Collection, held by Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Australian Heritage Commission Collection, Canberra
Holmes a Court Collection of Western Australia;
Museum & Art Galleries of the NT, Darwin 
Artbank, Sydney 
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD 
Laverty Collection, Sydney 
Gantner Myer Collection of Aboriginal Art 
Margaret Carnegie Collection 
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth 
Leewuin Estate 


Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions: 
2005, Lorna Napurrula Fencer: Recent Paintings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; 
      All About Yumarrpa, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne. 

Group Exhibitions: 
1988, People, Place and Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia 
1991, Aboriginal Art, Australian Embassy, Washington USA 
1991, Paint Up Big: Warlpiri Women's Art from Lajamanu, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia Canberra, ACT
1994, Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory 
1996, All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 
1997, Women's Body Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
1997, Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
1997, Me Warlpiri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 
1997/8, John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
1998, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 
1998, Yulyulu, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 
1998, 6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne 
1998, Warnayaka Warlpiri, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin 
1998, Wild Warlpiri Women, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney 
1999, Australian Embassy in Washington D.C
1999, United Nations Building New York, USA
1999, Yapa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne  
2000, Lajamanu, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 
2000, Opening of Yuwayi Art Centre, Yuwayi Gallery, Sydney, NSW 
2001, Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 
2002, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 
2002, Lorna Napurrula Fencer - The Big Picture, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 
2002, Lorna Fencer - Inner Spring - New Works from the Tanami, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney 
2003, 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery 
      of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 
2004, The Dancers - Warlpiri Women, Art Mob, Hobart; Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, 
      The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne.21st Telstra National Aborigainal and Torres Strait 
      Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 
2005, Decouvrir, Rever, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris, France. 


Selected Bibliography: 
Glowczewski, B., 1991, Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Lebon Gallery, Paris 

Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, 
New South Wales. (C)

Ryan, Judith - Paint up Big Warlpiri Women's Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 

Isaacs, J - Spirit Country - Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, 
South Yarra, Victoria 

Ryan, Judith. Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004.



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