Narbula Scobie

DOB: c.1958
Born: KINTORE

About Artist:
Narbula Napurrula Scobie was born in 1958 near Haasts Bluff and grew up in Papunya. Her parents were forcefully transported there together with 400 other Aborigines as part of the official assimilation policy. Narbula Napurrula Scobie stayed there until the beginning of the 1980s.

Both her older brother Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula and her husband Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka are artists. She assisted her husband for many years in painting the background details to his paintings, but first began working independently in 1980. In those early years she was the only female artist working in the Pintupi area. She is also the step sister to Mitjili Napurrula.

Collections:
2001 Museé des Beaux Arts et d´Archeologie de Vienne
2001 Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark
2001 Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Australia
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1997 Geschichtenbilder, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer
1997 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs
1994 Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1991 The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1990 Friendly Country - Friendly People, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia
1988 Wanderausstellung in China
1988 Recent Aboriginal Paintings. Incorporating the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize Purchase Awards, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1988 Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
1987 Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth,
1984: Papunya and Beyond Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs.
1984: Alice Springs Art Award, Alice Springs
1885: Two Worlds Collide: Cultural Convergences in Aboriginal and White Australian Art, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Exhibitions:
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Australian Museum, Sydney
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Robert Holmes of Court-Sammlung, Perth
South Australian Museum, Adelaide