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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013

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Ningura Napurrula work is held in the permanent collection of the Europe's most important public museum, Musée du quai Branly Paris.

Australia's National pride, Ningura Gibson Napurrula (1938-2013) is one of the most important artists of the 21st century. Europe's most important public museum, Musée du quai Branly Paris, commissioned Ningura Napurrula to paint the Museum ceiling (Michelangelo) for future generations.

Ningura Napurrula paintings are highly appreciated in the World Art market. Her Woman at Wirrulnga 2006 sold for $113,018, Wirrulnga Woman 2005 $91,500 and Birth's Side sold for $154,644.

Ningura work is held in important collections including 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 Gallery Northern Territory, Kerry Stokes, Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection. Awards: 2006 Musée du quai Branly Paris, 2002 International Stamp, 2002 ARCO-Madrid, 2002 Alice Prize, 2001 NATSIAA Art Award.

Awards	Auctions	Biography	collections	exhibitions

Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0751 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
128 x 68 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0733 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0750 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
122 x 60 cm

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NN0715 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
152 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0728 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
152 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0709 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0707 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0730 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
152 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0732 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
150 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0752 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
150 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0736 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
NN0729 (2007)
Synthetic Polymer on linen
152 x 65 cm

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Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013
Women Ceremony NN802431 (2006)
Synthetic Polymer paint on linen
185 cm x 215 cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN0734
Acrylic on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN0716
Acrylic on linen
122 x 60cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN0735
Acrylic on linen
122 x 55 cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN0713
Acrylic on linen
122 x 60 cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN0714
Acrylic on linen
122 cm x 95 cm

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Ningura Napurrula
NN200032
Acrylic on linen
215 cm x 125 cm

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Auction Results

Ningura Napurrula Gibson 1938-2013

Musée du quai Branly in Paris, the Europe's most important public museum Paris museum features significantly Ningura Napurrula work, and Indigenous art 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 Napurrula , and Papunya Tula artists, herself 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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	Woman at Wirrulnga, 2006 Acrylic, Sotheby’s Paris, Est: Eur 30,000-50,000 - Est: $51,372-85,620, 23/06/2006, Sotheby’s Paris, Sundries, 23/06/2006, Lot No. 68.	$113,018 EUR 66,000
	*Woman's Birth Site at the Rockhole Site of Wirrulnga* Synthetic polymer paint on Belgien linen, 244 x 183 cm, Est: GBP35,000-50,000, Sotheby's, Aboriginal Art - Thomas Vroom Collection, London, 10/06/2015, Lot No. 75	£77,500 (A$154,644)
	Women at Wirrulnga 2005 Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears inscription verso artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. NN0510101, 183 x 244 cm, Est: $80,000-100,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art Auction, Melbourne, 25/05/2016, Lot No. 36	$91,500
	*Women at Ngaminya, 2005* Synthetic polymer paint on linen, bears inscription verso: artist's name, size and Papunya Tula Artists cat. NN0504019, 210 x 280 cm, Est: $80,000-120,000, Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian Aboriginal Art,, Melbourne, 18/03/2020, Lot No. 21	$85,400
	*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 (now trading as Menzies), Modern, Contemporary Australian and Important Abor, Sydney, 25/09/2008, Lot No. 233	$60,000

Ningura Napurrula BIOGRAPHY

Musée du quai Branly, Paris - Musée du quai Branly Paris

Australia's National pride, Ningura Napurrula 1938-2013 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.

Ningura 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

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

Musée du quai Branly, Paris - Musée du quai Branly Paris

Musée des Confluences, Lyon

ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

HOOD Museum of Art Hanover

Queensland National Art Gallery

National Gallery of Victoria

National Gallery of Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Australian Tourism collection Adelaide

Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Palace of Japan Tokyo

Australian Tourism Adelaide

Art Price Collection Alice Springs

National Museum of Australia

The Harold Mitchell Foundation

Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane

Charles Darwin University, Darwin

The University of Western Sydney Art Collection

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra

National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington

Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection Canberra

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection

Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne

Museum de Lyon, France

Alice Springs Art Price Collection

Homes a Court Collection

Architecture Australia magazine collection

ArtBank 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

NINGURA NAPURRULA Credits: Stéphane Jacob Gallery, Paris

2014 Art Paris, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Paris

2013

• Crossing Cultures – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, Etats-Unis

• Parcours des Mondes, Arts d’Australie

• Stéphane Jacob, Paris

• Art Elysées, Arts d’Australie

• Stéphane Jacob, Paris

• All-Over Country, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Painting Now – Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney

• Language Of The Land, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin

2012

• Ancestral Modern – Australian Aboriginal Art The Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington

• Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, Harvey Art Projects USA, Sun Valley, Idaho, Etats-Unis

• Crossing Cultures – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, Etats-Unis

• Desert Mob 2012, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

• Classic Works From Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney

• Tjukurrpa Ngaatjanya Maru Kamu Tjulkura - Dreaming In Black And White, ReDot Gallery, Singapour ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 2 / 7

• Unique Perspectives – Papunya Tula Artists And The Alice Springs Community, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs

• Community IV – Celebrating Forty Years Of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney

• Papunya Tula Artists: Women Painters from Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong, Australie

• Papunya Tula: Works On Paper, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney

2011

• Art Karlsruhe 2011, Karlsruhe, Allemagne

• Revival in Small, Artkelch, Fribourg, Allemagne

• Papunya Tula Artists: Paintings from the Western Desert, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong

• 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin

• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin

• Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle

• Pintupi Trails 2011, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Australia in Two Colours, Artkelch Collectors Lounge, Schorndorf, Allemagne

• Recent Pintupi Works, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

2010

• Grand Nord Grand Sud, Abbaye de Daoulas & Musée des Confluences, Daoulas

• Emerging Elders, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

• Papunya Tula Artists: Art of the Western Desert, Harvey Art Projects USA, Sun Valley, Idaho

• Summer Show 2010, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Papunya Tula Women's Art, Maitland Regional Gallery, New South Wales

• Small Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging To One Country, ReDot Gallery, Singapour • Tradition & Innovation - Papunya Tula 2010, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin

• Wilkinkarralakutu - Journeys To Lake Mackay, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin

• Ngurrakutu - Going Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• Nyakula Kanyini Piintapalyalpayi Kamu Walytja Tjanampa Lurrtju - Caring For Artists And Their Families, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• Recent Paintings, Chapman Gallery, Canberra

• Community, Utopia Art Sydney

2009

• All About Country: Aboriginal Art from the Central and Western Desert, Artkelch, Fribourg

• Créations contemporaines aborigènes, Musée des Confluences, Lyon

• Stockroom Show, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

• Papunya 2009, Senior Pintupi Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Landscape Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

• Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, Kunstwerk, Ebergingen-Nussdorf, Allemagne

• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, The Chan Building, Bennett Park, Darwin

• Painting the Country, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin

• TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 3 / 7

• Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintintjakitja - We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York

• Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, ArtBar71, Berlin

• Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, VDMA, Frankfurt

• Pro Community – Papunya Tula Artists, Artkelch, Fribourg

• Community - The Heart Of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney

• Nganampatju Kanpatja Winki, Nganampatju Yara Winkii – All Our Paintings, All Our Stories, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya – Same Stories, A New Way, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

2008

• Paintings from remote communities: Indigenous Australian art from the Laverty collection, Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle

• 20 years of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney

• Papunya Tula Artists 2008, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Aboriginal Art – Window to Culture, Artkelch, Australian Embassy, Berlin

• New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, Chapman Gallery, Canberra

• Papunya Tula – Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome

• Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre

• Ngurra yurru kulintjaku - Always remembering country, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin

• Aboriginal Art 2008, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

• The Other Thing - a survey show, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin

• Kintore to Kiwirrkura - Papunya Tula Artists, Red Dot Gallery, Singapour

• Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka - Making Strong Paintings At Home, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

2007

• Papunya Tula 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• TogArt Contemporary Art Award, Parliament House, Darwin

• Group Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

• Big Paintings, Utopia Art Sydney • Aboriginal Art 2007, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

• Recent Paintings 2007, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin

• The Black And White Show, Red Dot Gallery, Singapour

• Wonderful World, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide

• Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide

• Pintupi – Mixed Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

2006

• Dreaming Their Way, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

• Pintupi, Hamiltons Gallery, Londres

• Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane

• Across The Board, Utopia Art Sydney

• Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

• Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

• PTA, Utopia Art Sydney • Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

• Papunya Tula Artists - Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin

• Pintupi Art 2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide

• A Particular Collection, Utopia Art Sydney

• Pintupi Dreamtime, Red Dot Gallery, Singapour ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 4 / 7

• Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane

• Yawulyurru kapalilu palyara nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• Australian Aboriginal Art 2006/2007, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

2005 • Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne

• New Work For a New Space, Utopia Art Sydney

• Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• New Works From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth

• Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

• Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Pintupi Women, Indigenart, Perth

• Museum II, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney

• Papunya Tula Artists - new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney

2004

• Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

• Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• Papunya Tula – Selected Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

• Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide

• Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne

• Depth Of Field – Anamorphosis, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney

• Ma Yungu/Pass it on, Framed Gallery, Darwin

• Papunya Tula Artists – 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Melbourne art Fair, Melbourne

2003

• Christmas Gift Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

• Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula artists, Alice Springs

• Australian Contemporary Aboriginal art in Prague, Toskanky Palace, Prague

• Recent paintings by the women artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth

• Mason Gallery at Japinka, Australie Occidentale

• Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne

• Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague

• Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, Londres

2002 • Araluen Art Centre

• Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

• Paintings from our country, Tony Bond Aboriginal art Dealer, Adelaide

• Next Generation – aboriginal art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney

• 32nd Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs

• Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

• The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Nouvelle Galle du Sud, Australie

• Saluting Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra

• Aboriginal Art 2002, Scott Livesey art Dealer, Melbourne

• Art born of the Western Desert, Framde Gallery, Darwin

• Pintupi Mens’ and Womens’ stories

• William Mora Galleries, Melbourne ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 5 / 7

2001

• 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

• Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne

• Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide

• Papunya Tula 2001, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

• Musée des Beaux Arts et d’Archéologie de Vienne, France

• The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs

• Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Canberra

• Six painters from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney

• Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne

• Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Bedford Park, Australie Méridionale • Pintupi, Alice Springs

• Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin

2000

• 17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin

• Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

• Ningura Napurrula, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

• Spring Exhibition, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne

• Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales

• William Mora Galleries, Melbourne

1999

• Utopia Art Sydney

• New Horizons 2000, Gallery Gabrielle Prizzi, Melbourne

• Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery, Darwin

1996

• Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 6 / 7

Ningura Napurrula is one of the most important Australia's artists of the 21st century - most collectable 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

Literature BIBLIOGRAPHY Source & FURTHER REFERENCES

• JACOB (Stéphane), GRUNDMAN (Pierre), PONSONNET (Maia), La peinture aborigène, Nouvelles Editions Scala, 2012

• JACOB (Stéphane), RAFFAN (Jane), Ningura Napurrula, éditions Arts d’Australie

• Stéphane Jacob, 2014

• CARUANA (Wally), GLOWCZEWSKI (Barbara), GRUNDMANN (Pierre), JACOB (Stéphane), LARGY HEALY (Jessica de), MORVAN (Arnaud). Aborigènes, Collections australiennes contemporaines du Musée des Confluences, Musée des Confluences & Fage éditions, Lyon, 2008

• MORPHY (Howard), OWEN (Will), WATERLOW (Nick), RYAN (Judith), Beyond Sacred. Recent painting from Australia’s remote Aboriginal Communities, the Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 2008

• BARDON (Geoffrey), RYAN (Judith), PIZZI (Gabrielle), STANHOPE (Zara)., Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004

• CÔTÉ (Michel), Le Roux (Géraldine), MORVAN (Arnaud), PELAUDEIX (Cécile), Grand Nord Grand Sud : Artistes Inuit et Aborigènes, Editions Palantines, 2010

• Heide Museum of Modern Art, Mythology and Reality, catalogue d’exposition, Melbourne, 2004

• JOHNSON (Vivien), Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, IAD Press, 2008

• CAPON (Edmund), TRADITION TODAY. Indigenous Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales

• RYAN (Jenifer), Land Marks, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2006

• Hood Museum of Art, Crossing Cultures – The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, exhibition catalogue, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

• National Museum of Women in the Arts, Dreaming Their Way, exhibition catalogue, Washington, DC, USA, 2006

• ROTHWELL (Nicolas), Pintupi, Hamiltons, Londres, 2006

• Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2000, catalogue d’exposition, Melbourne, 2000

• Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2001, catalogue d’exposition, Melbourne, 2001 ARTS D’AUSTRALIE

• STEPHANE JACOB, PARIS Biographie de Ningura Napurrula 18/03/14 7 / 7

• Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2002, catalogue d’exposition, Melbourne, 2002

• Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2005, catalogue d’exposition, Melbourne, 2005

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.

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

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Jamie Boyd (1948–2025): We deeply mourn the passing of Jamie Boyd, the son of Arthur and Yvonne Boyd. We continue to celebrate Jamie Boyd legacy as one of the family's most important international artists, honoring him as a paramount figure in their history.
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