Ningura Naparulla

DOB: c.1938
Born: KINTORE

About Artist:
Ningura Napurrula was born around 1938 at Watulka, south of the Kiwirrkura Community, near Alice Springs. Ningura moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement with her husband Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi.

Ningura participated in an initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996, a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in their own right and featured in several group shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin in 1999. She had her first solo exhibition with William Mora Aboriginal Art in 2000 and participated in the impressive Kintore Women's Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Characteristic of her work is a strong dynamism and rich linear design-compositions created with heavy layers of acrylic paint. According to Australian Art Collector No.37, Ningura Napurrula is one of the most important and Australia's most collectable artists.


Exhibitions
2001 - 'Aborigena' at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
2003 - 'Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague', Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 - 'Masterpieces from the Western Desert', Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Collections
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney