Narbula Scobie - inactive record

Narbula Napurrula Scobie was born near Haasts Bluff and grew up in Papunya. Narbula stayed in Papunya 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. Narbula only began working independently in the 1980s. 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