C1938
Region: Kiwirrkurra, Tjukula - Western Australian
Ningura Napurrula was born ca.1938 in Watulka south of Kiwirrkura community in West Australia. Napurrula was married to the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi. In the 1960’s Yala Yala and his family endured on a journey to Yininti. Wili, Illpili, Wirrinpili and finally arriving in Papunya. Ningura and her family lived in Papunya’s Pintupi camp for many years. Yala Yala was one of the original artists who started the Papunya Tula Art movement in the early Ningura observed the artists in Papunya work on large paintings and listened to them discussing the importance of the story layout. In the early1990’s Ningura started painting her own paintings, remembering the teaching of the old men and the importance of the layout of the story. Ningura paints the mythological events of her Ancestors. As she paints Ningura will sing the songs for that story, her paintings are focused and depict the travels of her Ancestors and the sacred sites in her country. Her painting was used a sw a motif on an Australian stamp in 2003. |
