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NINGIE NANGALA (born circa 1937)
‘Jaluyarnoo’
Acrylic on Belgian linen
100 x 100 cm

Ningie has painted some of her country, located south-west of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is known as Jalunyarnoo named after the large tjurnnu (soakwater) depicted as the large circle inn the centre of this painting. Surrounding the tjurnnu and
dominating the country are tali (sandhills). This is the country of Ningie’s youth and is a place she would often hunt goanna.

PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2004,
Certificate number 429/04

Ningie was born in the Pippar/Kiwirrkura area. Her mother and father died when she was very young and she came to Balgo Mission on the invitation of Aboriginal people living there when her family group was camped at Lirrwati close to Balgo. Like many people at the time, she returned to her own country before settling more permanently at the old mission, first at Tjalywarn, then at its present site at Warrumanu from 1962. As a young girl Ningie tended the mission goats, gathering bush food for them to eat. She married and had four children. After her first husband passed away, she married Tjumpo Tjapanangka, another important Balgo artist, together they had a further five children.

REPRESENTED
Laverty Collection, Sydney
The Kluge-Rhue Collection, University of West Virginia, USA
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam