Tingari Cycleby Narpula Scobie Napurrula

The dominant narrative of Pintupi art is the The art is notable both for its contemporary abstract style yet deeply traditional in its themes. A dominant mode is the circle and line motif and the art works are usually presented in traditional colours in raw pigments, clays and charcoal: red, yellow, white and black, as depicted in this Aboriginal painting

Artist:Narpula Scobie Napurrula
Title:Tingari Cycle
ID:0607468
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:120 x 55 cm
Region:Amunturngu, Central Australia

Artist

Narpula Scobie Napurrula was born in c.1933 near Haasts Bluff and grew up in Papunya in central Australia. where she stayed until the beginning of the 80s. Both her older brother Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula and her husband Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka were also artists (both deceased).

Narpula assisted her husband for many years in painting the background details to his artwork, Narpula began painting herself independently in the 80s. In those early years she was the only female artist working in the Papunya area. Napurrula began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980s, and was one of the first and few women at the time to do so.

Narpula depicts in her artwork themes of bush food stories, including the ‘Two Women who came from Mitukutjarrayi’ in the south. She reside at Mount Leibig.

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