Nancy Ross Nungurrayi
Born: 1935
- 2009
People: Pintupi
Language: Pintupi
Area: Walungurru (Kintore)- Northern Territory
Nancy Nungurrayi was born in the Pollock Hills area, circa 1935. As a small child she lived with her parents at Wala Wala, west of the Kiwirrkura Community. She lived in this area after she was married and when her husband passed away she walked to Mt. Liebig carrying her first child, Marlene Nampitjinpa.
Comencing painting for Papunya Tula artists in 1996, Nancy and her older sister, Naata Nungurrayi, with eight other women from Walungurru, took part in a collaborative painting, which was exhitibted at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999
Awards:
2001 – Telstra Art Awards Finalist
Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of N.S.W, Sydney
Papunya Tula Artists
Group Exhibitions:
2011 – Papuya Tula Women’s Art, featuring, Nancy Nungurrayi, at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
2010 – Tradition and Innovation ? Papunya Tula 2010, featuring Nancy Nungurrayi, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2007 – Papunya Tula Women, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane.
2006 – Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane; A Particular Collection, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; Pintupi Art
2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
2005 Decouvrir, Rever, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris France.
2004 Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France,
2003 – Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2001 – 2002 Land of Diversity, The Northern Territory, at Hogarth Galleries, Paddington