Mitjili Napurrula
Total Ranking: 87
Born at Haasts Bluff in 1945, after her mother’s Pintupi/Luritja family came in from the desert seeking refuge and rations, Mitjili Napurrula grew up in Papunya and later married the artist, Long Tom Tjapanangka. With their extended family, they returned to Haasts Bluff as part of the 1980’s outstation movement and both artists, often in conjunction, proceeded to contribute significantly to the emerging art community there. Under the guidance of art coordinator Marina Strocchi, Ikuntji Art Centre rapidly developed an exciting style of its own, propelled in part by the older women who had been assistants to Geoffrey Bardon’s first painting men at Papunya. Mitjili Napurrula began painting in 1992, encouraged by the opening of the Ikuntji Women’s Centre, the social and artistic hub of...Artwork Review: Uwalki 2000.
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Womens Ceremony
Walangkura Napanangka
Womens Hair String Ceremony
Makinti Napanangka
Womens Ceremony
Naata Nungurrayi
Womens Ceremony
Ningura Naparrula
Womens Ceremony
Walangkura Napanangka
Womens Hair String Ceremony
Makinti Napanangka
Kurrukadji The Emu
Danny Nalorlman
Awelye-Atnwengerrp
Galya Pwerle
Travelling Women
Sabrina Robertson Nangala
Artetyerre
Billy Benn
Body Paint - Daiwal
Phyllis Thomas
Untitled
Nangala Yinarupa
Untitled
Sammy Buttler
Untitled
Martin Jackson Tjampitjinpa
Untitled
Jeannie Mills Pwerle
Uwalki 2000
Mitjili Napurrula
Art Lover's Vote: 2
Karrinyarra Mt Wedge
Emma Daniel Nungarayi
Art Lover's Vote: 2
Untitled
Minnie Pwerle
Art Lover's Vote: 2
Untitled
Jeannie Mills Pwerle
Art Lover's Vote: 2
Awelye - Womens Body Paint
Galya Pwerle
Art Lover's Vote: 1
My Country
Sally Gabori
Art Lover's Vote: 77
No longer a Mirage
Nyree Reynolds
Art Lover's Vote: 66
The Bush Leaf Dreaming
Abie Loy Kemarre
Art Lover's Vote: 60
Dreamtime Sisters
Colleen Wallace Nungari
Art Lover's Vote: 40
Fire Dreaming
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Art Lover's Vote: 40
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