Ningura Napurrula

  • Skin Name:Napurrula
  • Language:Pintupi
  • Region:Kintore, Western Desert
  • Dreaming:Ancestral stories

Artist has Passed Away

1938-2013

Out of respect for Aboriginal culture Central Art has removed the artist's photograph.

Bibliography

  • Geoffrey Bardon ; Ryan, Judith; Pizzi, Gabrielle; Stanhope, Zara., Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004.

Collections

  • Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
  • National Gallery of Australia - Canberra, Australia
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney, Australia
  • National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne, Australia
  • Queensland National Art Gallery - Brisbane , Australia
  • Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory Darwin , Australia
  • Alice Springs Art Price Collection , Alice Springs, Central Australia
  • Australian Tourism collection, Adelaide, Australia
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection, Australia
  • Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Collection , Canberra, Australia,
  • Architecture Australia magazine, Australia
  • Aborigena at the Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy; Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Prague, Toskansky Place Prague, Czech Republic; Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery London, United Kingdom
  • HOOD Museum of Art, The Palace of Japan (Tokyo), The Harold Mitchell Foundation and the Australia Council; Art Bank, Sydney; National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington
  • The Palace of Japan Tokyo, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, National Museum of Australia, Homes a Court Collection, Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, HOOD Museum of Art Hanover, The Harold Mitchell Foundation, Kelton Foundation USA, Gavin Graham Gallery London, Donald Kahn Collection USA
  • Architecture Australia magazine, Aborigena the Palazzo Bricherasio Turin Italy, Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art Prague, Toskansky Place Prague, Alice Springs Art Price Collection
  • Australian Tourism collection Adelaide, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Collection
  • Australia Council collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004, Australian Institute Aboriginal Collection Canberra

Exhibitions

  • 2000 - William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Gabrielle Pizzie Melbourne; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of NSW .
  • 2006 - Paris, Musee du Quai Branly.
  • 2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
  • 2004 - Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
  • 2003 - Glen Eira City; Mason Gallery at Japingka WA; Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne; Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague, Czech Republic; Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Gallery, London, UK.
  • 2002 - Araluen Art Centre.
  • 2001 - Telstra Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory; Pintupi, Alice Springs; Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy.
  • 1999 - Utopia Art Sydney.

Awards

  • 2002 - Alice Prize, highly recommended.
  • 2001 - Finalist 18th Telstra Art Award, Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Award,
  • 2002 Australian Post - the Stamps Ningura Napurrula (Pintupi)
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