Barbara Napangarti Reid

DOB: c.1964
Born: TJUKURLA, GIBSON DESERT

About Artist:
Barbara Reid Napangarti was born around 1964 in the Tjukurla region of the Gibson Desert of Western Australia. Her language is Ngaanyatjarra. Barbara began painting in 1987 with the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs.

Barbara Reid depicts her traditional country with a distinctive personal style. Many of her paintings feature the puli (rock formations) and tali (sand hills) of this country and tell women's ceremonial stories related to the formation of the natural environment around Tjukurla. This area is dominated by expansive sand hills and rockholes containing water where bush foods are found.

Essential to Barbara's work is the women's sacred stories (minyma stories) involving the role of the women as healers and providers in Ngaanyatjarra society. Barbara's paintings have been gaining in popularity with galleries and private collectors since 2002.


EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Alliance Francaise de Canberra;
2000 Sand Spinifex & Salt - Leading Central Desert Painters, Japingka Gallery, Perth;
2000 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin;
2000 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, Northern Territory;
2000 Barbara Napangarti Reid, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne

AWARDS:
2000 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (NATSIAA) Telstra Award Winner

COLLECTIONS:
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin