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 Nancy
Ross Nungurrayi (1935-2010) Biography
the story
Nancy
Ross Nungurrayi is an important international
modern
abstract
artist
born around 1935 and she died 2010.
Nancy
Ross Nungurrayi
has
created some of the
most exciting form of
contemporary Australian Indigenous art,
based on an ancient tradition of 60 thousands years.
Nancy
work is dynamic and in high demand
in the
World Art Market
keenly sought-after
by international buyers.
Nancy paintings are
exhibited
internationally
and Australia wide.
Nancy
Nungurrayi work is represented in major corporate and public
collections
throughout the world including
Rebecca Hossack, London,
Redot Fine Art Stage, Singapore,
Michael Reid, Berlin,
Germany,
Rebecca Hossack, New York,
Kelton Foundation USA,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Art Gallery of NSW,
Sydney,
Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane,
Museum Art Gallery of Northern Territory,
Darwin,
Artbank, Sydney,
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide,
Homes a Court Collection,
Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Nancy took part in the Kiwirrkura Women’s project, the painting was
auctioned to raise funds for the Kintore accommodation. The
painting is published in the “Papunya Tula".
Nancy is the sister of
George
Tjungurrayi
and
Naata Nungurrayi,
both highly sought after artists.
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is the mother of Marlene Nampitjinpa
and Nancy
nephew is
Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa The
Collection of Art Gallery of NSW
they established themselves as leading painters with
Papunya Tula Artists.
Nancy Ross
Nungurrayi
and
Naata Nungurrayi,
were among a small group of women in Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began
painting for
Papunya Tula.
It was in 1994 that saw the emergence of the Pintupi
'Painting Women' in a Women's painting camp behind the
women's mountain at Kintore involving senior ceremonial
women from the Kintore region and their kinswomen from the
Ikuntji Women's Centre at Haast Bluff.
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi work is
represented in
important
collections
in Australian and around the world
and in the famous "Kiwirrkura" project.
Nancy
paintings
are in high demand in the World Art Market
-
exhibited
internationally.
Both, Nancy Nungurrai
and
Naata
Nungurrayi
are famous for their bold expressive line works and then
'piling on' of paint in a dense and often vibrantly coloured
profusion to create some of the most radiant and richly
textured surfaces ever to be seen.
About Nancy
Nungurrayi
paintings
Nancy Ross designs are complex with great attention to
details, she creates unique artworks that have the physical
presence of the much contemporary ART.
Nancy
depict the dreaming sites or “Tjukurrpa
Dreaming”
relating the traditional homeland of the
Kintore
country that include Tali (Sand Hills) and Puli (rocky
hills) painted as a series of curved linear patterns.
In the Tjukurrpa, the Dreaming, the ancestors created
the world and laid down the laws for people’s behaviour.
Tjukurrpa refers to origins and powers embodied in
country, places, objects, songs and stories. It is a way of
seeing and understanding the world and connects people to
country and to each other through shared social and
knowledge networks.
Many
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi paintings depict women grinding 'wangunu',
grass seeds used to make traditional damper. Nancy designs
are associated with the Rock-Hole site of "Marrapinti", to
the west of the Kiwirrkura Community.
The main site known as “Marrapinti” is the site were women
gathered for ceremony during the "Time of Creation" -
Dream-Time "Tjukurrpa".
Nancy designs represent various aspects of the landscape
such as Sand-dunes and Rock escarpments known as (Tali) and
(Puli). Nancy paints “Karrku” story (refers to red ochre).
The concentric circles signify the locations used for
ceremonies. The parallel lines that connect each of these
sites are 'song' lines established during ancestral
activities that are used during the movement from one site
to the next and provide evidence of the presence of
ancestral beings.
The arcs represent Sand-Hills surrounding the site. The
women are depicted as “U” shapes and the background colours
and designs represent is the landscape of Sand-Dunes and
Rock escarpments.
Apart from the symbols used to represent the women and their
activities. Women also gathered “kumparapara” native tomato,
the dried fruit was ground to paste and baked in hot coals.
STORY
A large group of senior women camped at this rock hole
making the nose-bones, also known as Marrapinti, which are
worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones were
originally won by both men and women but are now only worn
by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.
The nose-bones are known as "Marrapinti" after the location,
and they are a part of one of the most important Aboriginal
ceremonial rites.
The 'nose-bone ceremony' marks an Aboriginal boy's
transition to man-hood. The ritual begins with the painting
of sacred symbols on the body, followed by piercing the
septum. The women later travelled east passing through the
Kiwirrkura area.
The
Tingari cycle is the
Creation era when the Dreamtime Mythical
Spirits
Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of
the landscape and all aspects of the natural world and
laid down the laws for people.
The Tingari Dreaming tells the story about a group of
Mythical Spirits who travelled over vast stretches of the
country, performing rituals, creating waterholes and
mountains and shaping particular sites on the Earth.
The Tingari Women usually followed the Tingari Men and were
accompanied by novices. Tingari men and Tingari women
travels and adventures are preserved in many song cycles,
dances and
initiation ceremonies.
Nancy was allowed permission to paint the stories of the
Tingari Dreaming after she went
through the
initiation ceremony.
Nancy’s stories include; “Mantarrkurra”,
“Tunitjarra”- kunkga tjuta or “many women”, “Marrapinti” –
women’s business. “Mamuttjulku” – Nancy’s (Tjapaltjarri) father’s site.
Also she paints “Mantjintjalkara” area located in the Karrku area and
“Wirunya” story about a ceremonial skirt worn by women.
AWARDS
2001
Finalist
Telstra Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Art Awards NATSIAA
COLLECTIONS
Nancy Nungurrayi work is
represented in major public collections
throughout the world.
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Queensland Art Gallery
Papunya Tula Artists
University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Art Bank Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia
Flinders Art Museum
Kelton Foundation USA
Flinders University Adelaide
Homes a Court Collection
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Selected Bibliography:
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies, Janusz B.
Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg
Exhibitions
2017
Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
-
Nancy Nungurrayi at Michael Reid
2017
Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin,
Germany
-
Nancy Nungurrayi
2015
Land and Landscape in
Aboriginal Art,
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery,
London
2015 Fair History on Artsy
Redot Fine Art Gallery at Art
Stage, Singapore
2015
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery,
New York City
2011 Papuya Tula Women’s Art,
Maitland Regional Art Gallery,
NSW.
2010 Tradition and Innovation
Gallery Gabrielle
Pizzi, Melbourne,
Vic
2009
Galeria Aniela the world’s
local fine art gallery, NSW
2007
NANCY NUNGURRAYI Solo Exhibition,
Suzanne O'Connell
Gallery, Brisbane
2007
Papunya Tula Artists,
Alice Springs,
Northern Territory
2007
Raft Artspace, Darwin,
Northern Territory
2007 Papunya Tula,
Short Street Gallery,
Broome,
Western Australia
2006
Suzanne O'Connell
Gallery, Brisbane
2006
Utopia Art Sydney,
NSW
2006
Bond Aboriginal Art -
Australian Aboriginal Art gallery Adelaide, SA
2005
Découvrir, Rêver, Investir
L'art Aborigène d'Australie Australian Embassy,
Paris
2005 Pintupi Artists,
Papunya Tula Artists,
Alice Springs,,
NT
2005 Aboriginal Art,
Scott Livesey
Galleries,
Melbourne, Vic
2004 Peintres Pintupi,
Galerie Dad, Mantes-la-Jolie,
32 rue Thiers, 78200 Mantes-La-Jolie, France
2004 Aboriginal Art 2004,
Scott Livesey
Galleries,
Melbourne
2003 Kintore and Kiwirrkura Women Artists,
Gallery Gabrielle
Pizzy,
Melbourne
2002 Next Generation Aboriginal Art
Art House Gallery,
Sydney,
NSW
2002 Aboriginal Paintings from Our Country,
AP Bond Art Galery,
Adelaide
2002 Land of Diversity,
Hogarth Galleries,
Sydney, NSW
2002 25 Years Papunya Tula,
Academy of the Arts,
University of Tasmania,
Tasmanian College of the Arts -
University of Tasmania
2002 25 Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula,
Museum of Brisbane,
Brisbane
2002 Papunya Tula Painting,
Brisbane City Gallery,
Brisbane
2001 Land of Diversity,
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney,
NSW
2001
Art House Gallery,
Sydney,
NSW
2001 Art of the Pintupi,
AP Bond Art Galery,
Adelaide,
SA
2001 Papunya Tula Women,
William Mora
Galleries, Melbourne,
Vic
2001 Papunya Tula Painting,
Araluen Centre
Galleries, Alice Springs
2001 Indigenart,
Mossenson
Galleries,
Subiaco,
WA
2000
Framed Gallery,
Darwin,
NT
2000 Pintupi Women,
Papunya Tula Artists,
Alice Springs,
NT
2000 Lines,
Fireworks Gallery,
Brisbane,
QLD
1999 Papunya Tula Painting,
Flinders University
Art Museum & City Gallery,
Adelaide
1999
Utopia Art, Sydney,
NSW
1999
Gallery Gabrielle
Pizzi, Melbourne,
Vic
1999 Kintore women's painting
Western Desert
Dialysis Appeal,
Alice Springs
Nancy Nungurrayi, Alice Springs 2006
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Literature
Source
& FURTHER
REFERENCES
Australian Aboriginal Artist dictionary of
biographies
Kreczmanski, Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.):
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region
JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004.
Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A
Biographical Dictionary by Vivien Johnson, published
by Craftsman House 1994
The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published
by OUP 2000
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region JB
Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004
Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First
Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib.
Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody
A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from
the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery
Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD
database, Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD
Press, Alice Springs
Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First
Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib.
Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody
Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming.
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Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst.
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Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954. |
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