Women's Ceremonyby Narpula Scobie Napurrula

This painting depicts a body adornment associated with women's ceremonies.The ceremony begins with the Aboriginal women painting each others' bodies in designs relating to a particular women's Dreaming and in accordance with their skin name and tribal hierarchy. The body paint designs represent a range of Dreamings including animals and plants, healing and law.

Artist:Narpula Scobie Napurrula
Title:Women's Ceremony
ID:0606456
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:44 x 69 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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