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Born c. 1932. Known for: Symbolic aboriginal painting, nature forms.
Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As... Read full biography
Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As Luke Scholes observes, Naata first ‘worked slowly on small compositions of lines and roundels that... Read full biography
Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As Luke Scholes observes, Naata first ‘worked slowly on small compositions of lines and roundels that loosely reflected the classic Tingari paintings made famous by the male painters of Papunya Tula… As Naata’s confidence grew, so did her presence among the painters. She developed a unique iconography,... Read full biography
Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As Luke Scholes observes, Naata first ‘worked slowly on small compositions of lines and roundels that loosely reflected the classic Tingari paintings made famous by the male painters of Papunya Tula… As Naata’s confidence grew, so did her presence among the painters. She developed a unique iconography, teeming with giant ‘U’ shape, mollusc-like forms depicted rocky outcrops and deep-etched lines representing the surrounding sandhills which bulge like the scars on arm or cleavage’. 1 . Naata’s paintings possess an irrepressible, unbounded energy. In a... Read full biography
Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As Luke Scholes observes, Naata first ‘worked slowly on small compositions of lines and roundels that loosely reflected the classic Tingari paintings made famous by the male painters of Papunya Tula… As Naata’s confidence grew, so did her presence among the painters. She developed a unique iconography, teeming with giant ‘U’ shape, mollusc-like forms depicted rocky outcrops and deep-etched lines representing the surrounding sandhills which bulge like the scars on arm or cleavage’. 1 . Naata’s paintings possess an irrepressible, unbounded energy. In a similar vein to the western technique of ‘action painting’, the surfaces of her canvases arise from unrestrained gesture and the visceral memory... Read full biography
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Naata Nungarrayi is a singular figure among senior Pintupi women. Initially reticent as an artist, Naata emerged as the boldest of the women who commenced painting at Kintore in the mid 1990s. As Luke Scholes observes, Naata first ‘worked slowly on small compositions of lines and roundels that loosely reflected the classic Tingari paintings made famous by the male painters of Papunya Tula… As Naata’s confidence grew, so did her presence among the painters. She developed a unique iconography, teeming with giant ‘U’ shape, mollusc-like forms depicted rocky outcrops and deep-etched lines representing the surrounding sandhills which bulge like the scars on arm or cleavage’. 1
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