Artist: Ngipi Ward | Title: Untitled | Year: 2014 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Dimensions:
PROVENANCE
Kaltjiti Arts Cat No. 14-103
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Patjarr, WA
LANGUAGE
Ngaanyatjarra
BIOGRAPHY
Born around 1949 at Yirril in Western Australia, Ngipi Ward is a Ngaanyatjarra artist whose early years were marked by a nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering with her family—a way of life she followed until the 1960s. Today, she resides in Patjarr, deep within Western Australia’s Gibson Desert, where she creates paintings for Kayili Artists.
Ngipi Ward’s way of life was also captured on film in People of the Australian Western Desert, a documentary by anthropologist Ian Dunlop produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit.
Her work has been showcased in a number of notable exhibitions. In 2000, the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth featured her work in Ngayulu-latju Palyantja: We Made These Things. Later, in 2007, she was part of the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award exhibition at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and her art was also exhibited in Kayili Canvas, Power & Beauty: Indigenous Art Now at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen, Victoria.
Ngipi Ward’s paintings are included in several prestigious collections, such as the Thomas Vroom Collection in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the Griffith University Art Collection in Brisbane.
PROVENANCE
Kaltjiti Arts Cat No. 14-103
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Patjarr, WA
LANGUAGE
Ngaanyatjarra
BIOGRAPHY
Born around 1949 at Yirril in Western Australia, Ngipi Ward is a Ngaanyatjarra artist whose early years were marked by a nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering with her family—a way of life she followed until the 1960s. Today, she resides in Patjarr, deep within Western Australia’s Gibson Desert, where she creates paintings for Kayili Artists.
Ngipi Ward’s way of life was also captured on film in People of the Australian Western Desert, a documentary by anthropologist Ian Dunlop produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit.
Her work has been showcased in a number of notable exhibitions. In 2000, the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth featured her work in Ngayulu-latju Palyantja: We Made These Things. Later, in 2007, she was part of the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award exhibition at the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and her art was also exhibited in Kayili Canvas, Power & Beauty: Indigenous Art Now at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen, Victoria.
Ngipi Ward’s paintings are included in several prestigious collections, such as the Thomas Vroom Collection in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and the Griffith University Art Collection in Brisbane.