Naata Nungurrayi
selected biography
| Description: | Born:c.1932
Country: Walungurru (Kintore)-NT
Language group: Pintupi
Naata Nungurrayi was born at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia around 1932. Her brother is well-known artist George Tjungurrayi, and her sister is Nancy Nungurrayi.
She was a participant in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project in 1994. A member of Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd. She has become an extremely popular artists whose work is in numerous galleries around Australia.
Nungurrayi's paintings is characterised by luminous reds, yellows, pinks and oranges, often outlined in small segments spread all over the canvas surface or spiralling inwards to represent a central site of the Tingari ancestral women's stories which are the basis of her paintings.
Naata Nungurrayi was named among the Top 50 of Australia's Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector, issue 27, January-March 2004
Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Artbank
Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide
Papunya Tula Artists
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Selected exhibitions:
1997 Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1997 Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra
1999 Utopia Art Sydney
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park
1999 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
1999 Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
1999 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2000 'Lines', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Papunya Tula 'Genesis and Genius',AGNSW, Sydney
2000 'Aboriginal Art 2000', Scott Livesay, Melbourne
2000 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin
2000 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2000 'Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2000 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A
2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney
2001 'Art of the Pintupi', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art, SA
2001 'Aboriginal Art 2001', Scott Liversay, Melbourne
2001 'Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition', Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2001 Indiginart, Subiaco, Western Australia
2001 'Pintupi Exhibition', Papunya Tula, Alice Springs
2001 18th National Aborignal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2001 'Kintore and Kiwirrkurra', Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2001 'Museum', Utopia Art Sydney
2001 Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art', Comunidad de Madrid touring exhibition, Spain
2002 Art House Gallery, Sydney
2002 Paintings from Our Country', Tony Bond, Adelaide
2002 'Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories', Indigenart,WA
2002 'Art Born of the Western Desert', Framed Gallery, NT
2002 'Saluting Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2002 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2003 'Pintupi Art 2003', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
2003 'Recent Paintings by the Women Artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkurra', Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2003 'Papunya Tula Selected Paintings', William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
2003 'Aboriginal Art 2003', Scott Liversay Art Dealer, Melbourne
2003 'Pintupi Art from the Western Desert', Indigenart, Subiaco, SA
2003 'Masterpieces from the Western Desert', Gavin Graham Gallery, London, U.K
2004 'Depth Of Field-Anamorphosis', Utopia Art Sydney
2004 'All About Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2004 Scott Liversay Art Dealer, Melbourne
2004 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2005 'Papunya Tula Artists', Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2005 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2005 Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2005 'Strong and Stately', Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 'New Work for A New Space', Utopia Art Sydney
2006 'Papunya Tula Artists 2006', Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
2006 'Aboriginal Art 2006', Scott Liversay Galleries, Melbourne
2006 'Pintupi', Hamiltons Gallery, London, U.K
2006 'Papunya Tula Artists-Recent Paintings', Harriet Place, Darwin
2006 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2006 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney
2007 TogArt Contemporary Art Awards, Parliament House, Darwin
2007 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin
2007 'Recent Paintings 2007', Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin |
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