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Selected Exhibitions:
1988
People, Place
and Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia
1988, People,
Place and Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, South
Australia
1991, Aboriginal Art, Australian Embassy, Washington USA
1991, Paint Up Big: Warlpiri Women's Art from Lajamanu, National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia
Canberra, ACT
1991 Aboriginal Art and
Spirituality, High Court of Australia;
1991
Aboriginal Art, Australian
Embassy, Washington, USA;
1991
Paint up Big Warlpiri Women’s Art from
Lajamanu, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
1994, Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek,
Northern Territory
1994
Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu
exhibition, Australian North Territory;
1996, All About Art, Alcaston
Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Rainbow Serpent, Vaucluse, NSW;
1996
All
About Art, Melbourne
1997, Women's
Body Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997, Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
1997, Me Warlpiri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Yumarlpa Stories
exhibition, Original and Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne;
1997
Women’s Body
Paintings from Lajamanu, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
1997
Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997/8, John
McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne
1998, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, Australian
Capital Territory
1998, Yulyulu, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1998, 6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building,
Melbourne
1998, Warnayaka Warlpiri, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
1998
Me Warlpiri
exhibition
Melbourne;
1998
6th Australian
Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne;
1998 John
McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne;
1998, Wild
Warlpiri Women, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1999, Australian Embassy in Washington D.C
1999, United Nations Building New York, USA
1999, Yapa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 St Valentine’s Exhibition, Brisbane;
1999
Tracks Across the Landscape
exhibition, Land Rover Showroom, Sydney
1999
Yapa exhibition, Melbourne
2000, Lajamanu,
Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia
2000, Opening of Yuwayi Art Centre, Yuwayi Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001, Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western
Australia
2001
A Tribute to Lorna Napurrula Fencer,
Original & Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne
2002, Lorna
Napurrula Fencer, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia
2002, Lorna Napurrula Fencer - The Big Picture, Vivien Anderson
Gallery, Melbourne
2002, Lorna Fencer - Inner Spring - New Works from the Tanami,
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2003, 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin.
2003 Yumarlpa
Stories, Original & Authentic Aboriginal
Art Gallery, Melbourne
2004, The
Dancers - Warlpiri Women, Art Mob, Hobart; Colour Power -
Aboriginal Art Post 1984, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia,
Melbourne.21st Telstra National Aborigainal and Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
2005, Lorna Napurrula Fencer: Recent Paintings, Hogarth
Galleries, Sydney; All About Yumarrpa, Vivien Anderson Gallery,
Melbourne
2005, Decouvrir, Rever, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris,
France
2005, Lorna Napurrula Fencer passed away in December 2006.
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Lorna
Fencer Napurrula main stories (Dreamings) she paints are about the gathering and growth of bush foods such as
the
Yarla (Yam),
Wapirti and
Marlujarra. These
Dreamings (stories) entitle her to paint subjects such as the bush
yam (sweet potato),
ngalatji (little white flower), bush tomato, berry,
caterpillar (luju),
wallaby, onion, water and particular men's stories
including boomerangs. The Yarla is an important Dreaming for the
Warlpiri women, and a staple food source in the Western Desert. Here
Lorna renders it in her distinctive expressive style. Along with
visually describing the Yarla, some paintings contain information about
when to gather this food source and how to find it. The use of vibrant
colours and layering creates an exuberance and depth to her work, not
often seen in painting of this region, more typically known for its dot
work.
Medium
- Form:
Chromacryl acrylic,
Reeves Liquicryl on pre-primed unstretched cotton
duck on canvas pre-primed art board,
acrylic paint on Coolamons, Kudurru [fighting stick],
acrylic paint on quartz rock chunks and slate,
bean tree wood acrylic paint on canvas.
Subjects and
Themes:
Yarla, Wapirti and Marlujarra.
Paints:
Sweet potato,"ngalatji" little white flower, bush tomato, bush yam.
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Selected
Bibliography:
Glowczewski, B., 1991, Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et
Lajamanu, Lebon Gallery, Paris, Johnson, V., 1994, The
Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East
Roseville, New South Wales. (C), Ryan, Judith - Paint up Big
Warlpiri Women's Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,
Isaacs, J - Spirit Country - Contemporary Australian Aboriginal
Art, Hardie Grant Books, South Yarra, Victoria, Ryan, Judith.
Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne, 2004.
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