Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa - Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)

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Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (aka, Mrs. Bennett) born around 1935, is an important artist represented by Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney, Artbank Sydney; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne and corporate and private collections in Australia and around the world. Nyurapayia was a major participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project  titled "Minyma Tjukurrpa" in 1994 and the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1995.

 

Artist:     Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)
Title:
      Cat. no. MRSB200611-9529
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 151 x
46 cm

Signed:  on reverse

Price (inc. GST): $8,500  - sold with a Certificate

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Artist:     Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)
Title:
      Cat. no. MRSB200612-9532
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size:  151 x 46
cm
Signed:  on reverse
Price (inc. GST): $8,500  - sold with a Certificate

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Artist:     Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)
Title:
      Cat. no. MRSB200615
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 185.5 x
152.5 cm

Signed:  on reverse - sold with a Certificate

Price (inc. GST):  $55,000

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NOTES: Aboriginal art is the most important contemporary art to come out of this ancient land.  Every painting tells a story as well as having an imposing decorative element to the art work. These powerful works of art look superb in modern buildings and they signify, for the people who display them a connection with the present as well as the past. You now have an opportunity to purchase the work of the mature, established artists who have had an original traditional aboriginal upbringing. Aboriginal art is part of a living tradition and as the culture goes through a transition, major changes are taking place in the aboriginal communities and people move to the towns learning western ways. The artist’s age thus it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet can buy such authentic indigenous work of art.  

 
 

Artist:     Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)
Title:
      Cat. no. MRSB200614-9568
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 91 x 76
cm
Price (inc. GST): $8,500  - sold with a Certificate

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Artist:     Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett (B.1935-)
Title:
      Cat. no. MRSB200613- 9580
Medium: 
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 91 x 76
cm
Price (inc. GST): $8,500  - sold with a Certificate

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NOTES:
This painting depicts a series of locations associated with Nyurapayia’s traditional homeland. The concentric circles represent sacred waterholes which are not only a reliable source of water but also significant ceremony sites used for the purpose of initiation. It is here that the senior women associated with the location referred to as “Punkilpirri” prepared for ceremonial rituals. The delineation of carious aspects of the land is represented by a series of parallel and oblique lines. These include the sand country referred to as “tali” and the rocky outcrops known as “puli” Both of these environments provide a unique source of bush foods and medicinal plants associated with ancestral activity.

 

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Biography :
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (aka, Mrs. Bennett) born around 1935, is an important artist represented by
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney, Artbank Sydney; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin; National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne as well as many corporate and private collections in Australia and around the world. Nyurapayia was a participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project in 1994. This resulted in an exhibition titled Minyma Tjukurrpa and was held at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1995. Other exhibitions of her works include ‘Twenty-five Years and Beyond’ (1999) and Australia Perspective (1999). Nyurapayia favors the use of strong contrasts using blacks and pale yellows/creams set in relief against a red ground. Her designs are based on the stories relating to women’s ceremony and often depict the gathering of traditional bush foods and the rituals that are connected with their preparation. The depictions of the sand dune country and surrounding rocky outcrops bear a relationship to the designs used for body painting during the ceremonial dance referred to as “inma”.

Birthsite: Yumara which is to the north of Docker River in Western Australia.

Language/Tribal Group: Pintupi/Pitjantjatjara.

Historical:
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett is married to the late John John Tjapangati Bennett, a Pintupi speaker from Mukulurru, also north of Docker River.

Painting:
Nyurapayia was a participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project in 1994. This resulted in an exhibition titled Minyma Tjukurrpa and was held at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1995. Other exhibitions of her works include ‘Twenty-five Years and Beyond’ (1999) and Australia Perspecta (1999). Nyurapayia favours the use of strong contrasts using blacks and pale yellows/creams set in relief against a red ground. Her designs are based on the stories relating to women’s ceremony and often depict the gathering of traditional bush foods and the rituals that are connected with their preparation. The depictions of the sand dune country and surrounding rocky outcrops bear a relationship to the designs used for body painting during the ceremonial dance referred to as “inma".

    


Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa born around 1935,  lives in Kintore and has developed a very free and original style in contrast to artists in Kintore who prefer the very precise dot-painting method. Her painting shows often women camped at the rockhole site of Yumarra, near Tjukula in Western Australia. The roundels show the camp sites of the women who had travelled from Punkilpirri, a large permanent water site, north-west of Docker River in the Walter James Range. They later continued their travels to the north through Tjukula and Tjalili. While at Yumarra the women performed the ceremonies associated with the area. They also gathered the edible berries and seeds growing in the vicinity. The "U" shapes in this painting show women camped at the rockhole site of Yumarra, south of the large permanent warter site of Punkilpirri, north of Docker River. The women later travelled north to Punkilpirri and Tjukula. As they travelled they gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale. The roundels show the camp sites of the women who had travelled from Punkilpirri, a large permanent water site, north-west of Docker River in the Walter James Range. They continued their travels to the north through Tjukula and Tjalili. While at Yumarra the women performed the ceremonies associated with the area. They also gathered the edible berries and seeds growing in the vicinity.

COLLECTIONS:
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa aka, Mrs Bennett work is represented by the Australian National Gallery of Victoria; Flinders University Art Museum Victoria; Art Gallery of New South Wales  in Sydney as well as important private and corporate collection around the world.
 



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