ABORIGINAL ART PAINTING by NINGURA NAPURRULA - WOMEN'S CEREMONY

Ningura Napurrula - WOMEN'S CEREMONY NN1756

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Ningura Napurrula Women’s Ceremony Australian Aboriginal Art Painting on canvas NN1756

Women’s Ceremony Ningura Napurrula Australian Aboriginal Artwork on canvas NN1756

Aboriginal Art Painting on canvas by Ningura Napurrula Women’s Ceremony NN1756

Aboriginal Artwork on canvas by Ningura Napurrula Women’s Ceremony NN1756

Ningura Napurrula - WOMEN'S CEREMONY NN1756

Artist: Ningura Napurrula

Title: Women's Ceremony

Size: 200 x 197 cm

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

24,995.00 AUD

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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Skin Name: Napurrula
Born: c.1938 - 2013
Region: Kiwirrkura
Language: Pintupi
Subjects and Themes(Dreaming): Travels of her female ancestors, the sites they passed and the bush tucker they collected.

ABOUT ARTIST

Ningura Napurrula was born around 1938 at Watulka, south of Kiwirrkura in Western Australia. She was married to

Pintupi artist Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, a leading figure, who died in 1998. Ningura's blossoming of Aboriginal art famously began at Papunya in 1970`s. Overs years, Ningura observed the senior artists in Papunya working on large paintings and listened to them discussing the importance of the story layout and the meaning behind each peice. The painting syle derives from the artist`s knowledge of traditional body and sand painting associated with ancient ceremonies.
In 2000, Ningura had her first solo exhibition with William Mora Aboriginal Art, and participated in the impressive Kintore Women's Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW.
In 2003, Australia Post celebrated her work by featuring it on stamps. Iin 2006, she gain worldwide attintion when her work was used to decorate a building at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, an art museum specialising in indigenous art from all around the world. Her art is unique because this women grew up in the desert and as a young person had no contact with western civilisation.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006 Papunya Tula Artists - across the board, Utopia Arts Sydney, Sydney
2006 Oceanic Art, Galerie DAD, Paris, France
2005 Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2005 Papunya Tula Artists - new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney
2005 Repetition, Fire - Works Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2004 Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
2003 'Masterpieces from the Western Desert', Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2003 'Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague', Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2003 Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2001 'Aborigena' at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy; Pintupi, Alice Spring

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2000 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

COLLECTIONS:

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Redrock gallery, Melbourne
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne

AWARDS:

2003 Australia Post celebrated her work by featuring it on stamps
2002 32nd Alice Prize, Highly Commended
2001 Finalist 18th Telstra NATSIAA

SOURCE: Birnberg, M & Kreczmanski, JB 2004, Aboriginal artists dictionary of biographies: Western Desert, Central Desert and Kimberley Region, 1st edn., JB Publishing, Marleston.