COLLECTIONS:
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin;
Art Bank, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
Flinders Art Museum,
Flinders University, Adelaide;
Homes a Court Collection, Perth;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
 

Title:       NR200114-9437
Medium:  Acrylic on Belgian linen circa 2006
Image Size: 151.5 x 46.5 cm

Title:       NR200113-9436
Medium:  Acrylic on Belgian linen circa 2006
Image Size: 151.5 x 46.5 cm

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Biography:
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi 1935-2010

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi was born around 1935. Nancy work is represented in corporate and private collectors in Australia and throughout the world. She was included in the famous "Kiwirrkura" project, paintings were published in “Papunya Tula" and auctioned to raise funds for the "Kintore" home.

Birthsite: “Karrku”, a large hill south of Kiwirrkura approximately 800km West of Alice Springs.

Language/Tribal Group: Ngaatjatjarra and Pintupi/Luritja.

Historical:
Nancy and her family walked into Papunya from Wala Wala in the Gibson Desert, prior to the last group of traditional people being brought in by Native Welfare patrols under Jeremy Long. Nancy came in with her late Tjampitjinpa husband and two other co-wives. She is the sister of Naata Nungurrayi
 and George Tjungarrayi and now she lives at Kintore with her family.

Painting:
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi paints a complex series of designs that depict the dreaming sites or “Tjukurrpa” that relate to Nancy’ traditional homelands.

The concentric circles refer to the locations used for ceremony. The parallel lines that connect each of these sites are song lines established during ancestral activity. These are used during the movement from one site to the next and provide evidence of the presence of ancestral beings.

The main site is known as “Marrapinti” and it is here the women gathered for ceremony during the time of creation. They gathered “kumparapara” native tomato. The dried fruit was ground to paste and baked in hot coals. The women can be seen depicted as “U” shapes and the background colours and designs represent various aspects of the landscape such as sand dunes and rock escarpments known as “tali” and “puli” respectively. Nancy paints her “Karrku” story. The word karrku refers to red ochre.

Many of Nancy’s paintings depict women grinding wangunu, a grass seed used to make traditional damper. Apart from the symbols used to represent the women and their activities, Nancy depicts sand hills, (tali) and the rocky hills (puli) as a series of curved linear patterns.

Nancy was included in the Kiwirrkura Women’s project the result of which was a large painting auctioned to raise funds for the Kintore renal unit. This painting is published in the “Papunya Tula". 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.

COLLECTIONS:
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland;
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin;
Art Bank, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
Flinders Art Museum,
Flinders University, Adelaide;
Homes a Court Collection, Perth;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi work is represented by corporate and private collectors in Australia and throughout the world.