 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10363 Size = 120 x 180 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1804 Size = 120 x 148 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1859 Size = 72 x 213 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1853 Size = 120 x 120 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10451 Size = 60 x 118 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10448 Size = 60 x 150 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1858 Size = 90 x 120 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1857 Size = 91 x 117 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1860 Size = 122 x 208 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10250 Size = 120 x 180 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10505 Size = 154 x 190 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10506 Size = 205 x 205 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10532 Size = 204 x 235 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 1854 Size = 92 x 150 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Ningura Naparrula "Women's Ceremony" Cat No. 10507 Size = 180 x 302 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
Born: 1938 Region: Western Desert Community: Kintore Outstation: Lake McKay Language: Pintupi Local group: Pintupi Subjects and Themes: Travels of her female ancestors, the sites they passed and the bush tucker they collected Collections: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Individual Exhibitions: 2000 - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Exhibitions: 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. 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. Select Bibliography: Bardon, Geoffrey; Ryan, Judith; Pizzi, Gabrielle; Stanhope, Zara., Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004. © Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander StudiesThe Stamps: $1.10 Ningura Napurrula (Pintupi), untitled, 2002 The designs in this painting are associated with the rock hole site of Walyuta, south-west of Mantati Outstation, about 70 km west of the Kintore Community. The roundel is the rock hole and the lines are the sand hills surrounding the area. In mythological times, an old woman passed through this site during her travels towards the east. This old woman is said to be a 'bit of a devil-devil' as she kills and eats people. Notes: Born around 1938 at Watulka, south of the modern Kiwirrkura community, Ningura Napurrula was married to the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi with whom she moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement. In 1996 she was part of a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in their own right. Characteristic of Ningara's work is a strong dynamism and rich linear design-compositions created with heavy layers of acrylic paint. She participated in an initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996 and featured in several group shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin in 1999. She had her first solo exhibition with William Mora Aboriginal Art in 2000, and participated in the impressive Kintore Women's Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW. Native titles honoured half a world away National pride ... Ningura Napurrula is among eight Aboriginal artists whose work has been selected for an exhibition at the new Musee du Quai Branly, in Paris. Photo: Bob Pearce The Sydney Morning Herald May 31, 2006 By Sunanda Creagh CLAD in red shoes, pink socks and a beanie, the Pintupi artist Ningura Napurrula is pleased and proud. The 68-year-old is among eight artists whose work has been selected for the new Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, making her a standard bearer for Aboriginal art in Europe. The Australian Indigenous Art Commission, to be opened at the museum on June 20, will showcase work by leading Aboriginal artists including Napurrula, Lena Nyadbi, Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford, Judy Watson, Gulumbu Yunupingu, John Mawurndjul, Tommy Watson and the late Michael Riley. More than 2500 square metres of work will adorn ceilings and walls over four levels in one of the museum's buildings, making it the largest ever commission of indigenous Australian artwork. Napurrula's work, Untitled (Wirrulnga), tells the story of travelling women who stop at special sites to give birth, but she has no travel plans herself. "I don't want to go to the opening in Paris because it's too far and I've got grandchildren to look after," she said through an interpreter at yesterday's preview of the project. The Arnhem Land artist Gulumbu Yunupingu had no such inhibitions, saying she wanted to go to Paris to "make friends and look around". "I am happy to give my paintings to France," she said. "I represent Australia. Here we are; we come together. I am part of you and you are part of me and we need each other because we are Australian." The works were selected by the Aboriginal art curator of the National Gallery of Australia, Brenda L. Croft, and the Aboriginal art curator of the Art Gallery of NSW, Hetti Perkins, both of Aboriginal descent. The women welcomed the chance to show Aboriginal art to the world, but condemned the conditions indigenous people endure at home. "We have been abandoned by the present government," Perkins said, pointing to Australia's Aboriginal health and poverty crisis. Croft said Aboriginal people "don't have a voice except through art and culture" and criticised the Government for abandoning plans for a resale royalty scheme, by which artists could collect royalties when their work is resold at auction. "They should have brought it in." The eight artists would not benefit from the increase in value of their work on the secondary market, she said.
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