Naata Nungurrayi
- Skin Name:Nungurrayi (Ngata Nungurryi)
- Language:Pintupi
- Region:Kintore, Western Desert
- Dreaming:Sacred womens business
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Biography
Naata Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born in 1932 at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore in central Australia.
Naata Nungurrayi is one of the senior elders of the Kintore women artist movement.
She is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungurrayi (passed away 2009). Naata Nungurrayi's son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa who are all well known artists.
One of her paintings appeared on Australia Post stamps in a 2003 special edition of Aboriginal art. Naata Nungurrayi was named among the Top 50 of Australia’s Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector January – March, 2004.
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Bibliography
- Mellor D. & Megaw V., 'Twenty Five Years and Beyond', Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Flinders Press 1999
- Papunya Tula 'Genesis & Genius' exhibition catalogue Art Gallery of NSW 2000
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Collections
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
- Artbank, Sydney
- Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide
- Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
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Exhibitions
- 1997 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- 1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
- 1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi 'New Horizons 2000' Melbourne, Victoria
- 2000 'Lines', Brisbane, Queensland
- 2000 Papunya Tula ''Genesis and Genius'', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 2000 17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
- 2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2000 'Pintupi Women'', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
- 2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- 2001 'Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition', Canberra, ACT, Australia
- 2001 'Pintupi Art', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- 2001 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- 2001 'Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 'Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art', Comunidad de Madrid touring exhibition, Spain
- 2002 'Paintings from our Country', Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- 2002 'Pintupi Men's' and Women's' Stories', Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
- 2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
- 2002 ''Pintupi Artists'', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- 2003 ''Pintupi Art 2003'', Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- 2003 20th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
- 2010 " Tradition to Modernity " Central Art, showcasing in Tasmania
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Awards
- 2001, Finalist in 19th Telstra NATSIAA
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