Mitjili Napurrula

Born at Haasts Bluff c. 1945, Mitjili Napurrula (known as Mitjili Naparrula) is the daughter of Tupa Tjakamarra (now deceased) and Tjunkiya Napaltjarri. She is married to Long Tom Tjapanangka, a very well known artist from Haasts Bluff. Mitjili commenced painting in 1993 and at first followed the style of painting of the Papunya Tula artists from Papunya; she then developed her own style, a simplified design in striking colours.

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Collections:

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artbank
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Edith Cowan University Art Collection, Perth
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Exhibitions:

1993, 1994, 1996, 1998 Australian Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1994, 1997, 1998, 1999 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1994 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1994 Hotel Shangri-la and Australian High Commision, Singapore
1994, 1998 Adelaide Fringe Festival
1994 Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin
1995 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
1995, 1997, 1999 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1996 Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1996 "The Meeting Place" - touring exhibition, Australia
1996, 1998, 2000 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany
1997 Goteborgs Konstforening, Goteborg, Sweden
1997 Arnhem Land, The Netherlands
1997 Alliance Francaise, Canberra
1998 Art Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998 Spazio Pitti Arte Florence, Italy
1998 Framed Gallery, Darwin
1998 Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1998 Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
1998 Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
1998 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Flinders Art Museum Flinders University, Adelaide
1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A.
2000 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2001 Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark

Awards:

1997, finalist 14th Telstra NATSIAA
1999 Alice Prize (Central Australian Art Award), Alice Springs

Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)

Artist: Mitjili Napurrula

Skin Name: Napurrula (Naparrula)

Language: Pintupi

Region: Ikuntji

Vendor: Central Art

Dreaming: Spear Dreaming Uwalki (her fathers land) Watiya Tjuta (trees) Wangunu or Portulaca (small black seeds- ground and used for damper) Arkatjirri (fruit similar to sultana)

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