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NAATA NUNGURRAYI
Artist Name : Naata
Nungurrayi
Tribe : Kintore
Born : Born
c. 1932
State : Western
Australia
Community : Kintore
Area : Central
and Western Desert
Outstation : Kiwirrkura,
Lake Mackay, Karkun, Kilpiny
Language : Pintupi
Social affiliation :
Nungurrayi subsection
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Naata Nunigurrayi was born at the site of Kumil,
which is west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia, c.1932.
She came into Papunya with her family on one of Jeremy Long's government
patrols. Naata began painting for the compamy in early 1996, her
son is Kenny Williams Tjampitinpa also a well known artist. In 1999,
Naata contributed to the Kintore women's painting as part of the
Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.
Naata is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungurrayi,
both highly sought after artists. It was in 1994 that saw the emergence
of the Pintupi "painting women" in a "women's painting
camp hehind the women's mountain at Kintore involving senior ceremonial
women from the Kintore region and their kinswomen from the Ikuntji
Women's Centre at Haast Bluff.
They are famous for their bold expressive line works and then "piling
on" of paint in a dense and often vibrantly coloured profusion
to create some of the most radiant and richly textured surfaces
ever to be seen. Naata Nungurrayi from the Pintipi Language group
from Kintore is one of the leading Kintore women artists and is
in her 70's. A respected senior elder whose artwork is sought aafter
by collectors worldwide. All her works are associated with women's
concerns and women's Law (Tingari cycle). She paints traditional
designs depicting sacred women's sites and women performing sacred
women's ceremonies in the Kintore area as well as the designs that
thy paint on their bodies when performing ceremonies.
Generally, the Tingari are a group of mythical characters of the
Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing
rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari women
usually followed the Tingarri men and were accompanied by novices.
It is the Tingari men and women's travels and adventures that are
enshrined in a number of song cycles. It is only through initiation
ceremony that Nancy has permission to paint the stories that she
does.
NAATA
EXHIBITIONS / NAATA GALLERY
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