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NINGIE NANGALA (born circa 1937)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
150 x 100 cm

Ningie has painted some of her country located south of Balgo in the Great Sandy
Desert. This country is know as Winturlka and contains many tjurrnu (soakwater),
depicted as circles in this painting. The many parallel lines in the painting depict
floodplains as well as the tali (sandhills) found in this country. This is the
country of Ningie’s youth and is where both her parents were killed when she was a
young girl.

PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2005,
Catalogue Number 125/05

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 she 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, another important Balgo artist, and had
a further five children.

REPRESENTED
Laverty Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA