
Ningura Napurrula is
one of the most important Australian artists of the 21st century.
Musée
du quai Branly in Paris,
the Europe's most important public museum
museum
features
significantly Ningura Napurrula
work.
Ningura work
is held in World's important
collections including
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 Gallery Northern Territory,
Kerry Stokes,
Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection.
Awards:
2006
Musée du quai Branly Paris,
2002 International Stamp Series Australia Post,
2002
ARCO-Madrid,
2002
Alice Prize,
2001
NATSIAA Art Award,
Ningura Napurrula work is keenly sought after by international an Australian
collectors i.e.
Woman at Wirrulnga
sold for $113,018 and
Women at Wirrulnga 2005
$84,000. |
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NN0736
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NN0728 (2007)
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NN0728
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NN0734
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NN0716
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NN0735
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NN0713
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NN0714
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NN200032
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Ningura
Napurrula BIOGRAPHY
1938-2013
Ningura Napurrula is one of the most important Australian artists of the 21st
century.
Ningura Napurrula
Gibson
1938 - 2013
Region:
Western Desert
Community:
Kintore
Outstation:
Lake McKay
Language:
Pintupi
Local group:
Pintupi, Western Desert region
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 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

Ningura
Napurrula,
NN0710,
Synthetic Polymer paint on linen
122
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Price:
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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
is
one of the most important and
Australia's most collectable artists (Australian Art Collector no. 37).
Ningura Napurrula work has
the
physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.
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.
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 the Europe
most important
public museum, Musee Quai Branly,
Paris
works of eight great Australian artists
:
-
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.
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
Portrait of Ningura Napurrula, by Paul Sweeney © Paul Sweeney.
Source: Papunya Tula Artists
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.
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Ningura
Napurrula Gibson
Musée
du quai Branly in Paris,
the Europe's most important public museum aris
museum
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. |
Price excl. GST |
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113,018
EUR 66,000 |
Ningura Napurrula,
Woman at Wirrulnga, 2006
Acrylic, Sotheby’s, Paris, Lot No. 68
Estimated: Eu 30,000-50,000
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
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$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 |
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