Naata Nungurrayi

Naata Nungurrayi

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