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Nancy Ross Nungurrayi 1935-2010

An ancient culture of 60 thousand years gave the World its most exciting Contemporary Art
 

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Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is a renowned Australian artist recognized around the world are widely exhibited. Nancy created some of the most exciting form of contemporary Australian art based an ancient traditions.

Nancy dynamic artworks are held in major international collections including National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Museum Art Gallery of  Northern Territory, Darwin, Artbank, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Rebecca Hossack, London, Redot Fine Art Stage, Singapore, Michael Reid, Berlin, Rebecca Hossack, New York, Kelton Foundation USA and more.

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Nancy Ross Nungurrayi 1935-2010
NR200112 
Dream Time Tjukurrpa (painted 2006)
 Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 155 cm x 125 cm

Yanda Aboriginal Art Certificate + photos

Price: $22,000 subject to change  Enquire

the story - The concentric circles signify locations used for Aboriginal ceremonies. The parallel lines that connect these circles are ancestral paths called "song lines" created by the mythical ancestors (Tingari) of the Aborigines. The main site is the Rockhole of "Marrapinti also painted by Nancy sister Naata Nungurrayi.

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Nancy Nungurrayi (1935-2010)
Dream Time Tjukurrpa (2006) NR200113
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Size: 152 cm x 48 cm

Yanda Aboriginal Art Certificate + photos

Price: $9,000 subject to change  Enquire

Nancy Nungurrayi (1935-2010)
Dream Time Tjukurrpa (2006) NR200114
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
 Size: 152 cm x 48 cm

Yanda Aboriginal Art Certificate + photos

Price: $9,000 subject to change Enquire

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Nancy Ross Nungurrayi (1935-2010) Biography

the story  

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is an important international modern abstract artist born around 1935 and she died 2010.  

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi has created some of the most exciting form of contemporary Australian Indigenous art, based on an ancient tradition of 60 thousands years.

Nancy work is dynamic and in high demand in the World Art Market keenly sought-after by international buyers. Nancy paintings are exhibited internationally and Australia wide.

Nancy Nungurrayi work is represented in major corporate and public collections throughout the world including Rebecca Hossack, London, Redot Fine Art Stage, Singapore, Michael Reid, Berlin, Germany, Rebecca Hossack, New York, Kelton Foundation USA, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Museum Art Gallery of  Northern Territory, Darwin, Artbank, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Homes a Court Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Nancy took part in the Kiwirrkura Women’s project, the painting was auctioned to raise funds for the Kintore accommodation. The painting is published in the “Papunya Tula".

Nancy is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Naata Nungurrayi, both highly sought after artists. Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is the mother of Marlene Nampitjinpa and Nancy nephew is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa The Collection of Art Gallery of NSW they established themselves as leading painters with Papunya Tula Artists.

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi and Naata Nungurrayi, were among a small group of women in Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula. It was in 1994 that saw the emergence of the Pintupi 'Painting Women' in a Women's painting camp behind the women's mountain at Kintore involving senior ceremonial women from the Kintore region and their kinswomen from the Ikuntji Women's Centre at Haast Bluff.

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi work is represented in important collections in Australian and around the world and in the famous "Kiwirrkura" project. Nancy paintings are in high demand in the World Art Market - exhibited internationally.

Both, Nancy Nungurrai and Naata Nungurrayi are famous for their bold expressive line works and then 'piling on' of paint in a dense and often vibrantly coloured profusion to create some of the most radiant and richly textured surfaces ever to be seen.

About Nancy Nungurrayi paintings

Nancy Ross designs are complex with great attention to details, she creates unique artworks that have the physical presence of the much contemporary ART.

Nancy depict the dreaming sites or “Tjukurrpa Dreaming” relating the traditional homeland of the Kintore country that include Tali (Sand Hills) and Puli (rocky hills) painted as a series of curved linear patterns.

In the Tjukurrpa, the Dreaming, the ancestors created the world and laid down the laws for people’s behaviour. Tjukurrpa refers to origins and powers embodied in country, places, objects, songs and stories. It is a way of seeing and understanding the world and connects people to country and to each other through shared social and knowledge networks.


M
any Nancy Ross Nungurrayi paintings depict women grinding 'wangunu', grass seeds used to make traditional damper. Nancy designs are associated with the Rock-Hole site of "Marrapinti", to the west of the Kiwirrkura Community.

The main site known as “Marrapinti” is the site were women gathered for ceremony during the "Time of Creation" - Dream-Time "Tjukurrpa".

Nancy designs represent various aspects of the landscape such as Sand-dunes and Rock escarpments known as (Tali) and (Puli). Nancy paints “Karrku” story (refers to red ochre).

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

The arcs represent Sand-Hills surrounding the site. The women are depicted as “U” shapes and the background colours and designs represent is the landscape of Sand-Dunes and Rock escarpments.

Apart from the symbols used to represent the women and their activities. Women also gathered “kumparapara” native tomato, the dried fruit was ground to paste and baked in hot coals.

 

STORY

A large group of senior women camped at this rock hole making the nose-bones, also known as Marrapinti, which are worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones were originally won by both men and women but are now only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.

The nose-bones are known as "Marrapinti" after the location, and they are a part of one of the most important Aboriginal ceremonial rites.

The 'nose-bone ceremony' marks an Aboriginal boy's transition to man-hood. The ritual begins with the painting of sacred symbols on the body, followed by piercing the septum. The women later travelled east passing through the Kiwirrkura area.

 

The Tingari cycle is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Mythical Spirits Ancestors moved across the lands, creating the features of the landscape and all aspects of the natural world and laid down the laws for people.

The Tingari Dreaming tells the story about a group of Mythical Spirits who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals, creating waterholes and mountains and shaping particular sites on the Earth.

The Tingari Women usually followed the Tingari Men and were accompanied by novices. Tingari men and Tingari women travels and adventures are preserved in many song cycles, dances and initiation ceremonies. Nancy was allowed permission to paint the stories of the Tingari Dreaming after she went through the initiation ceremony.

 

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.

AWARDS

2001 Finalist Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards NATSIAA

 

COLLECTIONS

Nancy Nungurrayi work is represented in major public collections throughout the world.

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Queensland Art Gallery

Papunya Tula Artists

University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Art Bank Sydney

Art Gallery of South Australia

Flinders Art Museum

Kelton Foundation USA

Flinders University Adelaide

Homes a Court Collection

Art Gallery of Western Australia

 

Selected Bibliography:
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies, Janusz B. Kreczmanski and Margo Birnberg

 

Exhibitions

2017 Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney - Nancy Nungurrayi at Michael Reid

2017 Michael Reid Gallery, Berlin, Germany - Nancy Nungurrayi

2015 Land and Landscape in Aboriginal Art, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London

2015 Fair History on Artsy Redot Fine Art Gallery at Art Stage, Singapore

2015 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, New York City

2011 Papuya Tula Women’s Art, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW.

2010 Tradition and Innovation Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic

2009 Galeria Aniela the world’s local fine art gallery, NSW

2007 NANCY NUNGURRAYI Solo Exhibition, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane

2007 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory

2007 Raft Artspace, Darwin, Northern Territory

2007 Papunya Tula, Short Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia

2006 Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane

2006 Utopia Art Sydney, NSW

2006 Bond Aboriginal Art - Australian Aboriginal Art gallery  Adelaide, SA

2005 Découvrir, Rêver, Investir L'art Aborigène d'Australie Australian Embassy, Paris

2005 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs,, NT

2005 Aboriginal Art, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Vic

2004 Peintres Pintupi, Galerie Dad, Mantes-la-Jolie, 32 rue Thiers, 78200 Mantes-La-Jolie, France

2004 Aboriginal Art 2004, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2003 Kintore and Kiwirrkura Women Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzy, Melbourne

2002 Next Generation Aboriginal Art Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2002 Aboriginal Paintings from Our Country, AP Bond Art Galery, Adelaide

2002 Land of Diversity, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

2002 25 Years Papunya Tula, Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian College of the Arts - University of Tasmania

2002 25 Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane

2002 Papunya Tula Painting, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane

2001 Land of Diversity, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW

2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW

2001 Art of the Pintupi, AP Bond Art Galery, Adelaide, SA

2001 Papunya Tula Women, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic

2001 Papunya Tula Painting, Araluen Centre Galleries, Alice Springs

2001 Indigenart, Mossenson Galleries, Subiaco, WA

2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT

2000 Pintupi Women, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT

2000 Lines, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1999 Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery, Adelaide

1999 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW

1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic

1999 Kintore women's painting Western Desert Dialysis Appeal, Alice Springs


Nancy Nungurrayi, Alice Springs 2006

 

Literature Source & FURTHER REFERENCES

Australian Aboriginal Artist dictionary of biographies Kreczmanski, Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004.

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

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

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody

Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst. Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa. Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst. Kat.; Isaacs, J., Australia´s Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984; Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817; Modern Art - Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), o.O. 1992, ISBN 0646080520; Nangara. The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally, Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ., London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Tjinytjilpa. The Dotted Design. Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1998, Ausst. Kat.; Traumzeit - Tjukurrpa. Kunst der Aborigines der Western Desert. Die Donald Kahn-Sammlung, Danzker, J.B. (Hrsg.), Prestel, München und New York 1994, Ausst. Kat.; Voices of the Earth. Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia. Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954.

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