Ningura Napurrurla

c.1936 - Present

Biography

NINGURA  NAPURRURLA  c.1936 -
Region: North Western Central Australia
Residence: Watulka
Country: Kintore
Language: Pintupi

Ningura Napurrula was born at Watulka, south of the Kiwirrkura Community, c.1938. She married Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi and together with their young son Morris they went in to the Papunya community after meeting up with Jeremy Long during one of his Welfare Patrols. In 1999 Ningura contributed to the Kintore women's painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. Later in 2003 she was chosen along with four other Papunya Tula Artists to have one of her paintings represented on an Australia Post international stamp. In 2004 Ningura was one of eight Aboriginal artists selected to have an example of their work incorporated into the architecture of the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, due to open early 2006. The museum will house the French collection of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

Exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO
2000
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC

SELECTED GROUP
2006
ArtParis, Modern and Contemporary Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris, FRANCE
Land Marks, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Across the Board, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW

2005
New Works from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Artists, Alice Springs, NT
New Work for a New Space,, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Museum II, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FRANCE
Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Pintupi Women, Indigenart, Perth, WA

2004
Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
Ma Yungu / Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
Papunya Tula Artists 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Depth of Field ¡V Anamorphosis, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW

2003
Christmas Gift Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Pintupi Art from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA
Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Palace, Praha, CZECH REPUBLIC
Recent Paintings by the Women Artists from Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

2002
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
32nd Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT

2001
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
Saluting Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Art Born of the Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
Pintupi Mens' and Women's Stories, Indigenart, Perth, WA
Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, SA
Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, ITALY
Size Doesn't Matter, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
Museum, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
The White Show 2, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Six Painters from Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
Musee des Beaux Arts et d¡¦Archeologie de Vienne, FRANCE

2000
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC

1999
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT

Achievements, Collections & Commissions

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies
Private collections, internationally