Naata Nungurrayi

Naata Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist who was born in 1932 at the site of Kumil, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore in central Australia.

Naata Nungurrayi is one of the senior elders of the Kintore women artist movement.
She is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungurrayi (passed away 2009). Naata Nungurrayi's son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa who are all well known artists.

One of her paintings appeared on Australia Post stamps in a 2003 special edition of Aboriginal art. Naata Nungurrayi was named among the Top 50 of Australia’s Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector January – March, 2004.

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Bibliography:

Mellor D. & Megaw V., ‘Twenty Five Years and Beyond’, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Flinders Press 1999
Papunya Tula ‘Genesis & Genius’ exhibition catalogue Art Gallery of NSW 2000

Collections:

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Artbank, Sydney
Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs

Exhibitions:

1997 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi ‘New Horizons 2000’ Melbourne, Victoria
2000 ‘Lines’, Brisbane, Queensland
2000 Papunya Tula ''Genesis and Genius'', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000 17th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 ''Pintupi Women'', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001 ''Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition'', Canberra, ACT, Australia
2001 ''Pintupi Art’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 18th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 ''Kintore and Kiwirrkura'', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia
2001 ''Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art'', Comunidad de Madrid touring exhibition, Spain
2002 ‘Paintings from our Country’, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2002 ‘Pintupi Men's’ and Women's’ Stories’, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
2002 ''Pintupi Artists'', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2003 ''Pintupi Art 2003'', Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2003 20th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award