Details of Nora Nungabar
About
Nora Nungabar was born near Lipuru, also known as Well 37 on the Canning Stock Route, and remembers her mother looking after her in a hollow in the side of a sandhill. She grew up in the country that became Wells 33-38 on the Canning Stock Route.
As a young woman she travelled north with the drovers to Balgo where she settled and raised a family. She eventually relocated to her homelands at Kunawarritji but continues to travel regularly between Kunawarritji, Balgo and Mulan today. She paints for both Warlayirti and Martumilli Artists, and many younger artists describe having learnt to paint by watching her example. She is a custodian of a great deal of cultural knowledge about the Kunawarritji area, some of which is referred to in her paintings.
MEDIUM
Weaving - grass and wool baskets
Professional acrylic on canvas and linen
THEMES
Pikarrdi
Irrindi
Kinyu
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Nora Nangapa, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 - Living Water - National Gallery of Victoria
2010 - Warla Tjartrjal - Edge of the Lake, Short St. Gallery, Broome
2009 - Warranpalampaju Kayili Yaninpa (Our Country Travelling North), RAFT Artspace, Darwin
2009 - Wangka-Lampaju (Our Story), Randell Lane Art Gallery, Perth
2009 - Nintijunu (Teaching), Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2009 - Yankuni Laju Karnkani Kukungka (We Are Travelling Together By Air), ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2008 - Jitirangu (Rainbow), Randell Lane Gallery, Perth
2008 - Ngurra Waltja Wakarni (We Are Painting Country), Short St Gallery, Broome
2008 - Laltu Tujuparaku, Yulpalpa Yirnaparaku (Lots of Women, Little Bit Men), Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney
2007 Nora Nangapa/ Eubena Nampitjin, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2007 Women with Sticks, Suzanne O'Connell, Brisbane
2007 Warlayirti Survey, They might Be Giants, Alcaston Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Recent Works, Raft Art Space, Darwin, NT
2006 Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2006 Survey, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria (Felton Bequest)
Bibliography
2006 Survey, Short St Gallery, Broome.
