2002 Australia Post International Stamp Series Ningura Napurrula

2006 Australia’s top 50 most collectible artists

Exhibitions

1996 Papunya Tula Alice Springs

1999 Utopia Art Sydney

2000 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria

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

Ningura Napurrula signature work in black and white motif, is superimposed eternally on the ceiling of Musée du quai Branly to be appreciated by the future generations, like the famous Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Ningura Napurrula work has the physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.

Ningura Napurrula is one of the most important and Australia's most collectable artists (Australian Art Collector no. 37). Ningura's work is in very high demand by international collectors. Ningura Naparrula quality paintings are dynamic, abounding strong lines with good composition and powerful colour.

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Ningura has exhibited extensively within Australia and around the world including in Aborigena at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (2001); Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic (2003); Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2003).

The Harold Mitchell Foundation and the Australia Council showcasing in the permanent collection of one of the Europe’s most important public museum, Musee Quai Branly works of eight great Australian artists in Paris:

1. Ningura Napurrula (Papunya Tula)

2. Paddy Bedford (Warmun)

3. John Mawurndjul (Arnhem Land

4. Lena Nyadbi (Warmun)

5. Michael Riley (urban)

6. Judy Watson (urban)

7. Tommy Watson (Papunya)

8. Gulumbu Yunupingu (Yirrkala)

View:  http://www.artaborigene.fr/documents/PRESS-RELEASE-Feb2006.pdf.

Ningura was part of the original group of the higher-ranking women from “Kintore” and “Kiwirrkura” who began painting for the famous Papunya Tula Artists which founded the Aboriginal Art Movement in 1971. The Papunya Tula Aboriginal Art Movement began in 1971 when Geoffrey Bardon a white school teacher encouraged few higher-ranking Aboriginal people, who held vitally important tribal positions and were instrumental in the instruction of young Aboriginals, to paint their Dreamings. Without European philosophy of perspective, using the aboriginal colors and traditional iconography, the artists depict the “Dreamings” and their relationship with the land. This was an experiment which had staggering results and the Aboriginal Art Movement has began.

Bibliography: Geoffrey Bardon ; 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.

Ningura Napurrula Gibson
Born:                    1938
Region:                 Western Desert
Community:           Kintore
Outstation:             Lake McKay
Language:             Pintupi
Local group:           Pintupi