Ningura Napurrula is one of the eight artists whose work is now part of the largest international commission of contemporary Indigenous art from Australia at a major new museum in Paris, the Musée du quai Branly.
Ningura Napurrula / Artist biography
Ningura Napurrula was born around 1938 at Watulka in Western Australia, south of the modern Kiwirrkura community. Napurrula moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement with her husband, the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi. In 1996 she was part of a group of elderly women from Kintore and Kiwirrkura who began painting for Papunya Tula Artists. Characteristic of her work is a strong dynamism and rich linear design-compositions created with heavy layers of acrylic paint.
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Selected exhibitions include: Wonderful World, The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2007; Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, 2005; Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2005; Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Toskansky Place, Prague, 2003 and Masterpieces from the Western Desert, Gavin Gallery, London, 2003. As well as in major public collections Australia wide, Napurrula's work is held in collections in Paris, Hanover and Tokyo. In 2007, Napurrula was named as one of Australia's 50 most collectable artists by the prestigious Australian Art Collector magazine.
