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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013

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Ningura Napurrula is a renowned Australian artist, her work is held in the World's important museum Musée du quai Branly Paris, The Palace of Japan Tokyo, HOOD Museum of Art Hanover, National Museum of Women Arts Washington, Artbank, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Architecture Australia Magazine, ABC Broadcasting Corporation, Richard Kelton Foundation Santa Monica, The Harold Mitchell Foundation, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Kerry Stokes, Homes a Court, Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection. Awards: 2001 NATSIAA Art Award, 2002 Alice Prize, 2002 ARCO-Madrid, 2002 International Stamp Series Ningura Napurrula Australia Post, 2006 Musée du quai Branly Paris

Ningura Napurrula works are keenly sought after by internationally Woman at Wirrulnga sold for $113,018 and Women at Wirrulnga 2005 fetch $84,000.

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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0709 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 122 cm x 60 cm
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0751 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 128 cm x 68 cm
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Title: NN0733 (2007)
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0728 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 152 cm x 65 cm
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0730 (2007)
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Title: NN0715 (2007)
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0728 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 152 cm x 65 cm
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN256 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: NN0736 (2007)
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Title: NN0729
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Title: NN0707
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Title: NN0732
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Artist: Ningura Napurrula
Title: Women Ceremony NN802431
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Title: NN0734
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Title: NN0716
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Title: NN0735
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Title: NN0714
Medium: Synthetic Polymer paint on Belgian linen
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Ningura Napurrula BIOGRAPHY 1938-2013

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Galeria Aniela has a long history with Aboriginal artists and we look forward working together for many years to come, bringing to the World Art Market ethically sourced, original museum-quality artworks of impeccable provenance shipping worldwide.

Ningura Napurrula is one of the the most important 21st century contemporary artists from post-WWII up until today.

Ningura Napurrula was one of the eight great Australian artists whose work is featured in the collection of the Europe’s most important public museum Musée du quai Branly in Paris and the most significant public collections throughout the world.

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

Ningura Napurrula was married to Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (1928-1998) a well-known artist represented in National Gallery of Victoria. Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (1928-1998) was one of the founders of Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1970s, and one of the exponents of the classic Tingari painting style that dominated Pintupi men’s painting until the early 1990s.

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

COLLECTIONS

Musée du quai Branly Paris

National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington

Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection Canberra

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Australian Tourism collection Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Palace of Japan Tokyo

Art Gallery of South Australia

National Gallery of Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra

Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Museum de Lyon, France

ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Tourism Adelaide

Art Price Collection Alice Springs

National Museum of Australia

HOOD Museum of Art Hanover

The Harold Mitchell Foundation

Alice Springs Art Price Collection

Queensland National Art Gallery

National Gallery of Victoria

Homes a Court Collection

Architecture Australia magazine collection

Art Bank Sydney, Kelton Foundation USA

Donald Kahn Collection USA

AWARDS

2001 NATSIAA National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award

2002 Alice Springs Art Award

2002 ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair Art Madrid

2002 Australia Post International Stamp Series Ningura Napurrula

2002 Australia Post Stamp Issue Art of Papunya Tula (Pintupi)

2006 Australia’s top 50 most collectible artists

2006 Ningura Napurrula selected for Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France

Exhibitions

1996 Papunya Tula Alice Springs

1999 Utopia Art Sydney

2000 Papunya Tula, Gabrielle Pizzie Melbourne

2000 Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of NSW

2000 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria

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

2001 Pintupi, Alice Springs

2001 Aborigena,Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

2002 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Spring

2003 Glen Eira City Town Hall, Victoria

2003 Mason Gallery at Japinka WA

2003 Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne

2003 Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic

2003 Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Gallery, London, UK

2004 Mythology and Reality Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art, Gabrielle Pizzi Melbourne

2004 Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

2004 Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France

2004 Mantes-la-Jolie, France

2005 Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

2005 Papunya new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney

2005 Fire-Works Gallery, Brisbane

2006 Paris, Musee du Quai Branly Paris, France

2006 Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2006 Papunya Tula Artists across the board, Utopia Arts Sydney, Sydney

2006 Oceanic Art, Galerie DAD, Paris, France

2007 Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art: The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2007 Papunya Tula Artists 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

2007 Big Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney

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:

Ningura Napurrula (Papunya Tula)

Paddy Bedford (Warmun)
John Mawurndjul (Arnhem Land
Lena Nyadbi (Warmun)
Michael Riley (urban)
Judy Watson (urban)
Tommy Watson (Papunya)
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

Ningura Napurrula Gibson was born around 1938 at Watulka in Western Australia, south of the modern Kiwirrkura community, Ningura Napurrula moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement with her husband (now deceased). She is the widow of Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, a highly respected Pintupi elder who held significant knowledge of his countries Dreaming stories. 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 her work is a strong dynamism and rich linear design-compositions created with heavy layers of Acrylic paint.

Ningura Napurrula Australia

Born: Kiwirrkurra, East Gibson Desert, Western Australia, Australia circa 1938

Died: 11 Nov 2013

Alternate name: Ningura Napurrula

Language group Pintupi, Western Desert region

Ningura Napurrula was a young woman in her mid-twenties when she took her first journey out of the Gibson Desert in 1962 to Papunya with the Northern Territory Welfare Branch patrol. After her son received medical treatment at Papunya, Napurrula and her husband Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi were transported by another patrol back to their own country, close to the present day site of Kiwirrkura.

The following year, Napurrula and Tjungurrayi walked back to Papunya with their whole family group as part of a general migration of Pintupi people from their country.

Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi became one of the founders of Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1970s, and one of the exponents of the classic Tingari painting style that dominated Pintupi men’s painting until the early 1990s.

In the 1980s, the family moved back to the newly established Pintupi township of Walungurru (Kintore), then to Muntarti outstation in Western Australia, before returning to Walungurru. Here, Napurrula and Tjungurrayi’s other two wives began assisting Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (1928-1998) in painting his canvases with the meticulous, precisely placed dots that characterised the Tingari style.

Napurrula bold, intricate linework and dense monochrome infilling – as seen in Untitled (Wirrulnga), 2000 – are reminiscent of Tjungurrayi’s earliest works. Wirrulnga is an important women’s rockhole site east of Kiwirrkura. Napurrula’s work is strongly charged with the seriousness of women’s business, echoed in the distinctive paintings of fellow Papunya Tula Artists, Makinti Napanangka and Inyuwa Nampitjinpa. Napurrula and Tjungurrayi’s sons, Morris Gibson Tjapaltjarri (Mawitji) and Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri, now carry on their mother’s and father’s work in their own paintings.

Vivien Johnson in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014

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Ningura Napurrula Gibson Auction Results

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Paris museum one of the Europe’s most important public museum, Musée du quai Branly in Paris features significantly Ningura Napurrula work, and Indigenous art both in the temporary exhibits inside the museum and in the actual building itself. Coinciding with the opening, two auctions of Indigenous art - one in Paris, the other in London, featuring 20 works from central Australia. The events significantly lift the profile of Aboriginal art in Europe and the sales help combating the kidney disease among Aboriginal people.

'In conjunction with Sotheby's, Ningura Napururrula herself, and Papunya Tula artists, donated a work for the Sotheby's auction in Paris - the Oceanic auction on there on the 23 June,' she said. 'The proceeds - yes, 50 per cent of that will got towards staffing the facility and also looking towards getting a second dialysis unit in there.' An exhibition of 20 pieces by Western Desert artists at Hamilton's Gallery in London is also expected to raise more money.

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$113,018	Ningura Napurrula, Woman at Wirrulnga, 2006 Acrylic, Sotheby’s, Paris, Lot No. 68 Estimated: Eu 30,000-50,000 Sold for 66,000 EUR ($113,018)23/06/2006
$84,000	Women at Wirrulnga 2005 Synthetic polymer paint on linen, inscribed verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd catalogue number NN0510101, 244 x 183 cm, Est: $70,000-80,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Inaugural Aboriginal Art Auction, Melbourne, 25/03/2009, Lot No. 63
$60,000	Tingari Cycle 2002 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, inscribed verso: AGOD#9853, inscribed on stretcher: Ningura Napurrula #NN200248, 300 x 182 cm, Est: $50,000-60,000, Lawson-Menzies, Modern, Contemporary Australian and Important Aboriginal art, Sydney, 25/09/2008, Lot No. 233
$38,400	Tjuntulpul Country, 2004 Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 183 x 153 cm, Est: $35,000-45,000, Lawson-Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23/05/2007, Lot No. 88
$38,400	Sandhills of Wirrulnga 2001 Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number NN0105021 on the reverse, 182.5 x 243 cm, Est: $20,000-30,000, Sotheby's Australia, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 31/10/2006, Lot No. 66
$30,000	Tjuntulpul Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears artist's name and Papunya Tula Artists catalogue number NN0410002 on the reverse, 183 x 152 cm, Est: $25,000-35,000, Sotheby's Australia, Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 20/07/2009, Lot No. 126 [more...]

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