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NINGURA NAPURRULA (born circa 1938)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
153 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Nyilla, north of
Jupiter Well. The circles represent a number of rockholes in the area and the arcs
are the sandhills surrounding the site. A group of women gathered at this site to
perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. They later
continued their travels further east. During their travels they gathered the edible
berries and seeds growing in the country though which they passed.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2005,
Certificate number NN0501025

Ningura Napurrula was born at Watulka, south of the Kiwirrkura Community. She
married Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi and together with their young son Morris they
went to the Papunya Tula Community after meeting up with Jeremy Long during
one of his welfare patrols. In 1999 Ningura contributed to the Kintore womens’
painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. Later in 2003 she was
chosen along with four other Papunya Tula artists to have one of her paintings
represented on an Australia Post international stamp. In 2004 she was one of eight
Aboriginal artists selected to have an example of their work incorporated into the
architecture of the Musee du quai Branly in Paris. This museum is due to open
early in 2006, and will house the French collection of art from Africa, Asia,
Oceania and the Americas.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Darwin
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin