Nabula Scobie Naparrula is one of the leading Australian artists, she won the Alice Prize and in 2001 she won the prestigious 18th NATSIAA Telstra Award Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Prize finalist. View Nabula Scobie biography page 266 the Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies, Nabula Scobie Naparrula Biography.

Scobie Naparrula is one of the leading Australian artists. Scobie commenced painting for the famous Papunya Tula artists Community in the early 80's. Scobie won Alice Prize in 1984 as well as  the prestigious Australian National Aboriginal &  Torres Strait Islander Telstra Award (1st Prize) in 2001. Being sought by international collectors, Scobie is represented in the Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection; National Gallery of Australia (Canberra); Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney); Australian Museum Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide);  National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne); Artbank Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth), Powerhouse Museum Sydney; Museum of Victoria; Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin); Flinders Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); Kelton Collection, Miami, USA and  collections in America, China, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Indonesia and much, much more.

Artist:    Scobie Naparrula (B.1950-)
Title:      Body Paint 77-340
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 183 x 120 cm  - stretched
Price:  $15,000

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AWARDS:
the Alice Prize
2001 the prestigious 18th NATSIAA Telstra Award Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Prize finalist

NOTES
Scobie work, which depicts body paint and other women’s stories, is highly sought by art collectors. Her work has a multi-dimensional nature and sheer physical presence of much contemporary artwork with many intricate details and subtle shades of colour. The powerful and moving multi dimensionality of Scobie work is hard to see on the website as even quality images do not allow for the accuracy and the physicality of art.

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Nabula Scobie Naparrula Biography:

Awards and Major international exhibitions:
1984     Alice Prize Alice Springs Art Award, Alice Springs
1984     Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1985     Two Worlds Collide: Cultural Convergences in Aboriginal and White Australian Art, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
1987     Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1988     Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
1988     Recent Aboriginal Paintings incorporating the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize Purchase Awards, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1988     Wanderausstellung in China
1990     Friendly Country Friendly People, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia
1991     The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1994     Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1996     Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs
1997     Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997     Geschichtenbilder, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer
1999     Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
2001     Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Australia
2001     Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark
2001     Museé des Beaux Arts et d´Archeologie de Vienne

Nabula Scobie Naparrula is one of the leading Australian artists, won the 18th prestigious NATSIAA TELSTRA award. She commenced her painting for Papunya Tula artists in the early 80's and was one of the first women to start painting in Walungurru. Scobie Naparrula has held numerous exhibitions within Australia and overseas and her work is highly sought by collectors.  She was married to well known artist Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka (now deceased) a well-known Pintupi artist who was involved at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya in the early 70's. She worked with her husband for many years in painting the background details to his paintings. Narpulla is the younger sister of the great painter Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula. Scobie’s work, which depicts body paint and other women’s stories, is highly sought by art collectors. Scobie’s work is powerful and has a multi-dimensional nature and sheer physical presence of much contemporary artwork with many intricate details and subtle shades of colour. In 2006 the highest price for Scobie painting sold was $9,020 Lot No. 15, Windbreak Rockhole and Women's Body Paint, acrylic on canvas, Elder Fine Art Adelaide 06/08/2006.

Scobie’s work is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Australian Museum, Robert Holmes a’ Court Collection, Flinders University Art Museum and The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA.

Nabula Scobie Naparrula is one of the leading Australian artists, won Alice Prize and the 18th prestigious NATSIAA TELSTRA award.  She commenced her painting for Papunya Tula artists in the early 80's and was one of the first women to start painting in Walungurru.  View Nabula Scobie Curriculum Vitae page 266 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. Scobie Naparrula work is highly sought by collectors held exhibitions within Australia and overseas.

Scobie has held several exhibitions within Australia and overseas. She was married to well known artist Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka (now deceased) a well-known Pintupi artist who was involved at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya in the early 70's. She worked with her husband for many years in painting the background details to his paintings. Scobie Naparrula is a genuine artist who enjoys painting and sharing the stories of her country. She has been working independently for almost three decades. In those early years she was the only female artist working in the Pintupi area. Narpulla is the younger sister of the great painter Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula. Scobie Naparrula work, which depicts body paint, bush tucker and other women’s stories, is highly sought by collectors and she has held several exhibitions within Australia and overseas.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Scobie Narpula Nabula Naparrula has held several exhibitions within Australia and overseas. Her work, which depicts body paint and other women’s stories, is highly sought by international art collectors. 1987 Art and Aboriginality, Portsmouth; 1988 Australian Art Exhibition touring China; 1995, 1998, 2000 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; 1999 Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide; 2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne; Flinders Art Museum Flinders University, Adelaide

AWARDS:
Alice Prize and 2001 Prize - the Finalist the prestigious 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Award

COLLECTIONS:
the Powerhouse Museum Sydney;
Australian Museum, Sydney
Artbank Sydney;
Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection;
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra);
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney);
Australian Museum Sydney;
Museum of Victoria;
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide);  
National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne);
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth),
Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin);
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane);
Kelton Collection, Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide also private and cooperate collections in USA, Miami, USA; China, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Indonesia and more

Source & FURTHER REFERENCES:
         "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,
         “Australian Aboriginal Artist Encyclopedia” – dictionary of biographies” Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004).
        Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody, A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database;  Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs.