Born c1938
Title - Women's Dreaming
Size 141cm x 101cm
Acrylic on linen
Offered with this work are a COA, 12 Work in progress photos, 1 photo of the artist with the finished work
SOLD
Ningura has become a very high profile artist who is sought after by galleries and collectors throughout Australia and overseas.
In the Australian Art Collector (Issue 39, Jan-March 2007) Ningura was named in the 50 most collectable Australian artist's list.
The designs in this painting are associated with the rock hole site of Walyuta, south-west of Mantati Outstation, about 70 km west of the Kintore Community. The roundel is the rock hole and the lines are the sand hills surrounding the area. In mythological times, an old woman passed through this site during her travels towards the east. This old woman is said to be a 'bit of a devil-devil' as she kills and eats people.
Born around 1938 at Watulka, south of the modern Kiwirrkura community, Ningura Napurrula was married to the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi with whom she moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement. In 1996, she was part of a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in their own right.
Ningura Napurrula has exhibited extensively within Australia and internationally including in Aborigena at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (2001); Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic (2003); and Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2003).
Ningura's work in included in numerous collections including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Ningura's work has also appeared on an Australian stamp: $1.10 Ningura Napurrula (Pintupi), untitled, 2002.
