Click to enlargec.1938 – 2013
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Kintore (Walungurru)
- Language group
- Ngaatjatjarra; Pintupi
Women's Dreaming, 2007
synthetic polymer paint on linen
120 x 90 cm
$3,500
- Provenance
- Grasstree Gallery, Alice Springs, WA, Cat No. NN061GTG Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Grasstree Gallery and 3 photographs of the artist
- Artwork story
- Ningura is a Pintupi woman, born around 1938 at Watulka, South of the Kiwirrkurra Community. She married Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi (now deceased) and together with their son Maurice they went into the Papunya Community where they started to paint, before moving to Kintore, where she now lives She was part of an initial Papunya Tula Artists exhibition in 1996 and featured in several group shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin in 1999. She had her first solo exhibition with William Mora Aboriginal Art in 2000 and participated in the impressive Kintore Women's Painting for the Papunya Tula retrospective at the Art Gallery of NSW. Ningura's paintings depict mythological events of her female ancestors, the sacred sites that they passed and the bush tucker that they collected. The designs are associated with the rockhole sites of Palturunya and Wirrulnga, east of the Kiwirrkura Community (Mt. Webb) in Western Australia. The concentric circles represent rockholes and the arcs represent rock outcrops near the site. The lines coming from the rockholes represent water. The U shapes represent women camped at the site. One of Ningura's works was depicted on an Australia Post postage stamp in 2003. More recently Ningura was flown to Paris, France to paint a portion of the ceiling of the newly opened Indigenous museum, Musée du Quai Branly.