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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri 1947-2022

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A renowned Australian artist, Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (1947-2022) began her artistic career in Papunya Tula in the 90's. In 2004 Ngoia won the 1^st prize Australian painting competition. In 2006 Ngoia Pollard won 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at Museum Gallery of the Northern Territory and Danish Artist Residency in Copenhagen.

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri work is in Europe's most significant Thomas Vroom collection and collections around the World including ArtBank, National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, HOOD Museum of Art Hanover, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Corrigan Collection London,  National Gallery of Victoria,Centraal Museum Utrecht, Kelton Foundation USA, Donald Kahn Collection USA,  Galerie Arts d'australie Stéphane Jacob Paris. Ngoia Pollard work is highly praised in the World Art market by international collectors, Swamps West of Nyirripi 2010 sold for $27,000, Swamps West of Nyirripi 2006 $36,000. Biography page 219 Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (1948-2022)

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Ngoia Pollard Napaljarri Australian Aboriginal 1948-2022

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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri Biography:

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (1947-2022) also known as Ngnoia), was a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri won in 2006 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Ngoia Pollard was awarded $40,000 to the work considered by judges to be the most outstanding work in the exhibition at Museum Gallery of the Northern Territory.

Ngoia Pollard biography: page 219 Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in Haasts Bluff, a daughter of Angoona Nangala and Jim Tjungurrayi, went to school in Papunya.

Ngoia Pollard moved on to Kintore when she married Jack Tjampitjinpa, an artist working with the Papunya Tula Artists company, and they had five children.

Ngoia assisted her husband during the time he painted for Papunya Tula Artists comunity, he was a well-known artist Jack Tjampijinpa Pollard (now deceased). She paints for the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation.

Ngoia Pollard works are often characterised by the use of oval shapes representing swamps and lakes. Her palette is usually black and white, though red may be used to highlight oval forms. The dotted forms represent the ground cracking as water dries up. Other themes in her work include the sand hills of the desert country.

Western Desert artists such as Ngoia Pollard frequently paint particular Dreaming (stories) for which they have personal responsibility or rights. Many of Ngoia's works relate to the region of Yamunturrngu, or Mount Liebig, in the country to the west of Haasts Bluff; this is her father's country: infused with the spiritual power of the narrative of the Water-Snake.

According to the Dreaming, the Water Snake lives in the swamps and lakes near Nyrippi (Talarada), territory, north west of Mt. Liebig.

Ngoia Pollard depicts the wet and dry characteristics of the country. The region changed with the spiritual presence of the Water-Snake which lies beneath the surface. This is the area where Ngoia Pollard father was hunting in the past. The transcendental calm of Ngoia Pollard paintings, with their drifts of monochrome clouds of dots, belie the danger of the land and its creatures that they depict.

The oval shapes are iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada), North West of Mount Liebig where Ngoia lives. The dots represent the water drying up and the cracks in the ground forming.

Ngoia Pollard Artistic Career

Ngoia Pollard began her contemporary artistic career by assisting her husband, who painted with Papunya Tula artists for several years prior to his death.

1997, Ngoia Pollard began painting independently, Ngoia Pollard has had number of solo exhibitions with private galleries in Sydney and Perth.

2004 Ngoia won the 1^st prize in a central Australian painting competition supported by the region's major newspaper, the Centralian Advocate. 

2006, Ngoia Pollard won the painting prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, with her work Swamps west of Nyirripi. Another of her works painted in the same year, and carrying the same title, was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

2006 Ngoia Pollard won Danish Art Residency in Copenhagen, Denmark, shared with fellow Indigenous artist Lilly Kelly Napangardi, whom she had known since they attended school together in the 1960s.

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri worked for the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation.

Ngoia has a special custodianship responsibilities for her country and often fly by helicopter on business with the North Territory Land Council.

Ngoia has a special custodianship responsibilities for this country and often fly by helicopter on business with the North Territory Land Council. In 2004 Ngoia received First Prize in the he Advocate Central Australian Award. Ngoia painted her father country, which is a sacred Walpiri territory associated with narratives to the 'water snake'. The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada) North West of Mount Liebig where Ngoia lives.

Ngoia depicted the wet and dry characteristics of the country. This region is changed with the spiritual presence of the 'water snake' which lives beneath the surface. This is the area where her father was hunting in the past.

 

Exhibitions

2011 – Papunya Tula artists Community III, featuring the work of Jaqueline Nakamarra, Maureen Nakamarra, Winnie Nakamarra, Kawayi Nampitjinpa, Rosie Nampitjinpa, Yuyuya Nampitjinpa, Edith Namptjinpa, Kaylene Nangala, Nanu Nangala, Brenda Napaltjarri, Eileen Napaltjarri, Joy Napaltjarri, Leonie Napaltjarri, Monica Napaltjarri, Ngoia Napaltjarri, Payu Napaltjarri, Renata Napaltjarri, Takariya Napaltjarri, Kutungka Napanangka, Lorna Napanangka, Lorna Brown Napanangka, Bombatu Napangati, Nanyuma Napangati, Wintjilya Napltjarri, Josephine Napurrula, Lisa Napurrula, Ningura Napurrula, Rubilee Napurrula, Donna Nungurrayi, Pantjiya Nungurrayi, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Mervyn Tjangala, Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri, George Tjampu Tjapaltjarri, Hilary Tjapaltjarri, Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, Sam Tjapanangka, Charlie Tjapangati, Kanya Tjapangati, Nyilyari Tjapangati, George Tjungurrayi, George Ward Tjungurrayi, Willy TJungurrayi, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula at Utopia Art Sydney. 

2011 – Parcours des Mondes, featuring the work of Abie Loy Kemarre, Crusoe Kurddal, Djambawa Marawili, Ngoia Napaltjarri, Walter Brown Napanangka, Dorothy Napangardi, Dennis Nona, Andrea Martin Nungarrayi, Alick Tipoti, Paddy Stewart Tjapaltjarri, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris, France. 

2010 – Papunya Tula Artists Community, featuring the work of Makinti Napanangka,Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Kawayi Nampitjinpa, Ray James Tjangala,Jake Tjapaltjarri,Kutungka Napanangka,Patrick Tjungurrayi, Joey West Tjupurrula,Kim Napurrula,Yuyuya Nampitjinpa, Tatali Napurrula,Ningura Napurrula,Pantjiya Nungurrayi,Kayi Kayi Nampitjinpa,Josephine Nangala, Brenda Napaltjarri,Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, Willy Tjungurrayi,Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri,Michael Reid Tjapanangka,Lorna Brown Napanangka,Naata Nungurrayi,Wintjiya Napaltjarra,George Tjungurrayi,Yalti Napangati,Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra,Rosie Nampitjinpa,Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri,Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri,Debra Nakamarra,Rubilee Napurrula,Valmayi Nampitjinpa,Wyntjiya Napaltjarri,Payu Napaltjarri,Nyilyari Tjapangati,Bombatu Napangati,Ngoia Napaltjarri,Josephine Napurrula,Yukultji Napangati,Takariya Napaltjarri,Eileen Napaltjarri,Lorna Napanangka,Leonie Napaltjarri,Nanyuma Napangati,Hazel Nakamarra, Utopia Art, Sydney. 

2010 – Art Elysees, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris, France. 

2010 – Emerging Elders, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 

2008 – Lineart, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Gens, Belgium. 

2008 – Parcours des Mondes, Artists displayed:, Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri, John Wilson, Dorothy Napangardi, Abie Loy Kemarre, Julie Robinson Nangala, Peggy Rockman Napaljarri, Jimmy An.Gunguna, Bob Burrawal, Alice Nampitjinpa, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre, Arthur Tjatitjarra Robertson, Alick Tipoti, Nawurapu Wunungmurra, Dymphna Kerinauia, Immaculata Tipiloura, Pantjiya Nungurrayi, Roy Wiggan, Lena Nyadbi, Michael Boiyool Anning, Ken Thaiday, Dennis Nona, Sam Tjampitjin, Thomas Rice Jangala, Ningie Nangala, Eva Nargoodah, Boliny Wanambi, Milminya Dhamarrandji, Galuma Maymuru, Yuyuya Nampitjinpa, Josephine Napurrula, Judy Mengil, Susie Hunter Petyarre, Sarah Morton, Nandabitta, Paul Nabulumo Namarinjmak, Terry Ngamandara, Marina Mardilanj, Arts d Australie Stephane Jacob, Paris, France. 

2006 – 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; New works by Wentja Napaltjarri and Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri, Neil Murphy Indigenous Art in Association with Watiyawanu Artists, Mt. Liebig present on exhibition at Depot II Gallery, Sydney.

AWARDS

2006 1st Prize of the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award - Winner 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

2006 won Danish Art Residency Copenhagen Denmark
 
2004 1st Prize in the he Advocate Central Australian Award - Winner

2002 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award

2003 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award

http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/magnt/natsiaa/index.html
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Collections

Corrigan Collection London

Centraal Museum Utrecht, Holland

Thomas Vroom, Europe's most significant private collection, The Netherlands

Galerie Arts d'australie, Stéphane Jacob, Paris France

Australian High Commission Papua New Guinea

Private and cooperate collections in Australia, Denmark and Germany

Contemporary Indigenous art of the western desert began when Indigenous men at Papunya began painting in 1971, assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon. Their work, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983.  By the 1980s and 1990s, such work was being exhibited internationally.  The first artists, including all of the founders of the Papunya Tula artists' company, had been men, and there was resistance amongst the Pintupi men of central Australia to women painting.

However, there was a desire among many women to participate, and in the 1990s large numbers of them began to create paintings. In the western desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.

Ngoia Pollard began her contemporary artistic career by assisting her husband, who painted with Papunya Tula artists for several years prior to his death. In 1997, Ngoia Pollard began painting independently, and in 2004 won the first prize in a central Australian painting competition supported by the region's major newspaper, the Centralian Advocate.

In 2006, Ngoia Pollard won the painting prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, with her work Swamps west of Nyirripi. Another of her works painted in the same year, and carrying the same title, was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

2006 was also marked by an artist's residency in Copenhagen, shared with fellow Indigenous artist Lilly Kelly Napangardi, whom she had known since they attended school together in the 1960s.

Collections holding her works include the National Gallery of Australia. She has had solo exhibitions with private galleries in Sydney and Perth.^[7]

Western Desert artists such as Ngoia Pollard frequently paint particular 'dreamings', or stories, for which they have personal responsibility or rights. Many of Ngoia's works relate to the region of Yamunturrngu, or Mount Liebig, in the country to the west of Haasts Bluff this is her father's country, Infused with the spiritual power of the narrative of the water-snake lives in the swamps and lakes near Nyrippi (Talarada), unoccupied 'dangerous territory' north west of Mt. Liebig. The transcendental calm of her paintings, with their drifts of monochrome clouds of dots, belie the danger of the land and its creatures that they depict.

Her works are often characterised by the use of oval shapes representing swamps and lakes. Her palette is usually black and white, though red may be used to highlight oval forms. The dotted forms represent the ground cracking as water dries up.  Other themes in her work include the sand hills of the desert country.

Background of Aboriginal Art

Contemporary Indigenous art of the western desert began when Indigenous men at Papunya began painting in 1971, assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon. Their work, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983. By the 1980s and 1990s, such work was being exhibited internationally. The first artists, including all of the founders of the Papunya Tula artists' company, had been men, and there was resistance amongst the Pintupi men of central Australia to women painting.

However, there was a desire among many women to participate, and in the 1990s large numbers of them began to create paintings. In the western desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.

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