Ningura Napurrula, one of the most important Australian artists

Ningura Napurrula (b. 1938-) unwell and almost blind - Biography

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Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0735 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: $8,500	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0709 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: $9,500	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0730 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 65cm Price: $9,500	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0732 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 65cm Price: $9,500	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0752 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 65cm Price: $11,000	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0728 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 65cm Price: $12,500
Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0715 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 60 cm Price: $9,500	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: Women Ceremony NN200032 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen Size: 215 x 125 cm Price : $22,000		Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: Women Ceremony NN802431 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen image size: 215 x 185 cm Price: SOLD		Ningura Napurrula (b.1938-) is one of Australians most important artists represented around the world including Europe’s most important museum Musée du quai Branly.
Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0729 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 150 x 65cm Price: NFS GA collection	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0733 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: NFS GA collection	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0707 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: NFS GA collection	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN256 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: NFS GA collection	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0736 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: NFS GA collection	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: N0714 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 95cm Price: SOLD
Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0716 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60 cm Price: SOLD	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0710 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60cm Price: SOLD	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0713 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60 cm Price: SOLD	Artist: Ningura Napurrula Title: NN0734 ENLARGE Medium: Acrylic on linen Size: 120 x 60 cm Price: SOLD	Ningura Napurrula painted Musée du quai Branly ceiling resembling a contemporary image of Michelangelo Sistine Chapel ceiling - see RIGHT

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COLLECTIONS:
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Art Bank, Sydney
National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington
The Palace of Japan Tokyo
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Australia
Homes a Court Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
HOOD Museum of Art Hanover
The Harold Mitchell Foundation
Kelton Foundation USA
Gavin Graham Gallery London
Donald Kahn Collection USA
Architecture Australia magazine
Aborigena the Palazzo Bricherasio Turin Italy
Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art Prague
Toskansky Place Prague
Alice Springs Art Price Collection
Australian Tourism collection Adelaide
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection
Australia Council collection
Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection Canberra
Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne

Title: NN0709
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Image Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0735
Medium : Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 6ocm

TITLE: NN0730
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 65cm

TITLE: NN0732
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 65cm

Title: NN0715
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 65 cm

Title: NN0728
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 60cm

Title: NN0752
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 65cm

Title: NN0707
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0729
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 150 x 60cm

Title: NN256
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0736
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0733
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0714
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 95cm

Woman's Ceremony cat. no. NN200032
Acrylic on Belgian linen
124.5 x 214.5 cm

Title NN0734
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60 cm

Title: NN0713
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120cm x 60cm

Title: NN0716
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Title: NN0710
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Size: 120 x 60cm

Ningura Napurrula ceiling in the Europe’s most important public museum in Paris Musée du quai Branly is as important as Michelangelo Sistine Chapel ceiling for generations to be seen and centuries to be enjoyed.

Woman's Ceremony cat. no. NN802431
Acrylic on Belgian linen
image size: 185.5 x 215.5 cm

Ningura Napurrula BIOGRAPHY
Ningura Napurrula is one of the most important and Australia's most collectable artists (Australian Art Collector no. 37). 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. Ningura Napurrula work is represented in all Australian National galleries and in the collection of the Europe’s most important public museum Paris in Musée du quai Branly. Her ceiling Musée du quai Branly is to be seen for the centuries and is as important as the world famous Michelangelo Sistine Chapel ceiling though now she is unwell and almost blind.

Ningura work is represented in Canberra National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of NSW (Sydney), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Queensland National Art Gallery (Brisbane), Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin), Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide) and important collections around the world.

Ningura Napurrula is of 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 http://www.quaibranly.fr/. (Musée du quai Branly encyclopedia http://Musée du quai Branly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Her work is superimposed eternally on the ceiling of Musée du quai Branly for the future generations alike famous Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling (an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer) click Under Pope Julius II in Rome: the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Ningura Napurrula work is represented in National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), Art Gallery of NSW (Sydney), National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Queensland National Art Gallery (Brisbane), Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin) , museums and important public collections and private around the world. Ningura Napurrula is one of the 50 Australia's most collectable artists (the prestigious Australian Art Collector magazine, no. 37 ) click http://www.artaborigene.fr/documents/PRESS-RELEASE-Feb2006.pdf). Ningura Napurrula work is in very high demand by international as well as Australian collectors. She 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).

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. Ningura Napurrula work is dynamic, abounding strong lines with powerful colour and composition and she was part of the original group of the higher-ranking women from “Kintore” and “Kiwirrkura” who began painting for the famous Papunya Tula Artists. 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.

Awards and Important Commissions:
2002 - Alice Prize, highly recommended.
2001 - Finalist 18th Telstra Art Award, Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Award,
2002 Australian Post - the Stamps Ningura Napurrula (Pintupi),

Subjects:
Travels of her female ancestors, the sites they passed and the bush tucker they collected.

ABOUT Ningura Napurrula designs
Ningura Napurrula depicts the mythological events of her ancestors. Her artworks focuses on the travels of her female ancestors, the sacred sites that they passed, and the mythological significance of the bush tucker that they collected. Ningura Napurrula designs are associated with the rock hole sites of Palturunya and Wirrulnga, east of the Kiwirrkura Community (Mount Webb) in Western Australia. The concentric circles represent rock holes and the arcs represent the higher rocky outcrops near the site. The U shapes represent women camped at the site. Ningura depicts the mythological events of her ancestors. Her artworks focuses on the travels of her female ancestors, the sacred sites that they passed, and the mythological significance of the bush tucker that they collected. In mythological times, one old woman, Kutunga Napanangka, passed through this site during her travels towards the east. She passed through numerous sites along the way before arriving at the permanent water site of Muruntji, south west of Mt. Leibig. These travels and rituals help to explain the current customs and the ceremonial lives of these Pintupi women.

Selected MAJOR exhibitions:
2000 - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2006 – Paris, Musee du Quai Branly.
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2004 - Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection,
           Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne;
           Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD,
           Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
2003 - Glen Eira City; Mason Gallery at Japinka WA;
           Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne;
           Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic;
           Masterpieces from the Western Desert,
           Gavin Gallery, London, UK.
2002 - Araluen Art Centre.
2001 - Telstra Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory;
           Pintupi, Alice Springs; Aborigena,
           Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy.
2000 - Gabrielle Pizzie Melbourne; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of NSW .
1999 - Utopia Art Sydney.
1996 - Papunya Tula, Alice Springs.

Bibliography:
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.

Ningura Napurrula Gibson
Born:                    1938
Region:                 Western Desert
Community:           Kintore
Outstation:             Lake McKay
Language:             Pintupi
Local group:           Pintupi

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 participated in an initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996 and she has been featured in several group shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin in 1999. She had her first solo exhibition with William Mora Aboriginal Art in 2000, and participated in the impressive Kintore Women's Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Harold Mitchell Foundation and the Australia Council showcasing works of 8 great Australian artists in Paris in the permanent collection of one of the Europe’s most important public museum, Musee Quai Branly. The 8 great Australian artists include Ningura Napurrula (Papunya Tula), Paddy Bedford (Warmun), John Mawurndjul (Arnhem Land), Lena Nyadbi (Warmun), Michael Riley (urban), Judy Watson (urban), Tommy Watson (Papunya) and Gulumbu Yunupingu (Yirrkala). Ningura Napurrula signature work (in black and white motif see the picture above) is superimposed eternally on the ceiling of the Paris museum's building "Musée du quai Branly" for the future generations to see. Press http://www.artaborigene.fr/documents/PRESS-RELEASE-Feb2006.pdf.

Collections:
Ningura Napurrula work is represented around the world in numerous important collections including: Musée du quai Branly (Paris) http://www.quaibranly.fr/
National Gallery of Australia - Canberra (Australia)
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney (Australia)
National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne (Australia)
Queensland National Art Gallery - Brisbane (Australia)
Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory Darwin (Australia)
Alice Springs Art Price Collection (Alice Springs, Australian Northern Territory (Australia) http://www.aliceprize.com/2002prize.html/
Australian Tourism collection (Adelaide, Australia) http://www.tourism.australia.com/NewsCentre.asp?sub=0315&al=2271
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection (Australia) http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1665278.htm;
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Collection (Canberra, Australia)
Architecture Australia magazine (Australia) http://www.architectureaustralia.com/aa/aaissue.php?issueid=200609&article=15&typeon=2;
Senator CROSSIN (Australian Northern Territory) http://www.trishcrossin.com.au/html/speech_2006_06_21.html; 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)
HOOD Museum of Art (Hanover http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/dreaming/artists.html/;
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, USA) http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/artists.asp?exhibitid=141/
The Palace of Japan (Tokyo) http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/presse/communiques/translation/comtranslationen.html/
The Harold Mitchell Foundation and the Australia Council http://www.haroldmitchellfoundation.com.au/har_news.asp.

COLLECTIONS:
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Art Bank, Sydney
National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington
The Palace of Japan Tokyo
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Australia
Homes a Court Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
HOOD Museum of Art Hanover
The Harold Mitchell Foundation
Kelton Foundation USA
Gavin Graham Gallery London
Donald Kahn Collection USA
Architecture Australia magazine
Aborigena the Palazzo Bricherasio Turin Italy
Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art Prague
Toskansky Place Prague
Alice Springs Art Price Collection
Australian Tourism collection Adelaide
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection
Australia Council collection
Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004
Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection Canberra

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