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NINGIE NANGALA (born circa 1937)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
180 x 120 cm

Ningie has painted some of her country located south west of Balgo in the Great
Sandy Desert. This country is known as Wartamura, named after the two tjurnnu
(soakwater) depicted in this painting. Ningie would use this tjurnnu during the
hot times in the desert. 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 for goanna.

PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2005,
Certificate number 625/05

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
Artbank Collection
Laverty Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam