Narpula Scobie Napurrula

Narpula Scobie Napurrula was born at Haarts Bluff (Northern Territory) on 17th of February 1950. She started to paint in the early 1980s and was one of the first women to do so in Walungurru. She was married to Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka (now deceased), a Pintupi artist who was involved at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya. Narpula Scobie's art is still evolving and she finds new ways of depicting the traditional stories of her Dreamings.

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Collections:

Australian Museum, Sydney
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Holmes a Court Collections, Perth
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Artbank, Sydney
Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide
Kelton Collection, USA

Exhibitions:

1987 "Art and Aboriginality", Portsmouth
1988 "Australian Art", touring exhibition in China
1995, 1998, 2000, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
1999, Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide
2003, Chapel off Chapel Gallery, (Watiyawanu Artists), Melbourne

Awards:

2001, Finalist in 18th Telstra NATSIAA

Central Art Exhibitions:

Pintupi: Womens Ceremony by Narpula Scobie Napurrula

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

Artist: Narpula Scobie Napurrula

Skin Name: Napurrula

Language: Pintupi

Region: Kintore

Vendor: Central Art

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