Ningura Napurrula

E350108

Australian Aboriginal artist painter person

Ningura Napurrula was a prominent Australian Aboriginal artist associated with the Papunya Tula movement, renowned for her distinctive Western Desert dot paintings that depict women’s ceremonial stories and ancestral landscapes.

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Label	Occurrences
Ningura Napurrula canonical	2

Statements (37)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Australian Aboriginal artist ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ
artisticMovement	Western Desert art ⓘ
artMarket	highly collected ⓘ
associatedArtCentre	Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula Artists
associatedWith	Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula Artists cooperative
countryOfCitizenship	Australia ⓘ
culturalContext	women’s law and ceremony ⓘ
culture	Western Desert Aboriginal culture ⓘ
ethnicity	Australian Aboriginal ⓘ Pintupi NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	contemporary Indigenous Australian art ⓘ
genre	dot painting ⓘ
hasWorkType	acrylic painting on canvas ⓘ
heritage	Indigenous Australian ⓘ
influencedBy	Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula painting tradition
languageGroup	Pintupi NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainSubject	Dreaming stories ⓘ ancestral country ⓘ women’s ceremonies ⓘ
movement	Papunya ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula
notableFor	Western Desert art ⓘ surface form: Western Desert dot paintings depicting ancestral landscapes ⓘ depicting women’s ceremonial stories ⓘ
notableWorkCharacteristic	dense fields of dots ⓘ organic, flowing line work ⓘ representation of women’s body paint designs ⓘ
occupation	artist ⓘ painter ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Western Desert region ⓘ
region	Central Desert ⓘ Western Desert region ⓘ surface form: Western Desert
style	abstract iconography ⓘ dot technique ⓘ
subjectOf	exhibitions of Western Desert art ⓘ scholarly writing on Indigenous Australian art ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Papunya Tula paintings → notableArtist → Ningura Napurrula ⓘ

Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd → hasNotableArtist → Ningura Napurrula ⓘ