Details of Ngipi Ward
About
Ngipi lives in the small and very remote community of Patjarr also known as Karilwara, in the Gibson Desert, WA. She was born not far from Lake Blair or Yunpalara at Yirril - meaning to sharpen a stick - around 1949 where she lived a nomad life of hunting and gathering with her family well into the 1960's. Her way of life was documented in "People of the Australian Western Desert", a documentary by anthropologist, Ian Dunlop, produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. Ngipi ward is a painter of growing reknown and a skilled hunter.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Western Desert Mob, Kutju - One, Lawernce Wilson Art Gallery, UWa, P{erth.
2007 24th NATSIAA, MAGNT, Darwin, NT
2007 Darwin Art Fair, Darwin
2007 Kayili Artists 2007, Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2007 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2007 Patjarr PAinters: Kayili Art Centre, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2007 Kayili Canvas - Perth International Arts Festival, Lawerence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA, Perth, WA
2007 Kayili Canvas - Power & Beauty, Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
2006 Kayili Artists - New Works, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Patjarr, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2005 Senior Artists from Blackstone and Patjarr, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2005 Big Red Country, Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie, WA
2005 Kayili Artists, Walkumunu, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2005 Desert Mob, Aralueun Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2005 Senior Artists from the communities of Blackstone and Patjarr, Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2004 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Beyond Beyond, Accent Fine Art Gallery, Perth, WA
2000 Ngayulu-latju Palyantja (We Made These Things), Art Gallery of Western Australia
1999 Ngayulu-latju Palyantja (We Made These Things), Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie
1999 Ngayulu-latju Palyantja (We Made These Things), Djamu Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1999 Ngayulu-latju Palyantja (We Made These Things), Casula Power House Arts Centre,
Sydney, NSW
1998 Ngayulu-latju Palyantja (We Made These Things), Australian High Commission, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
1993 Yarnangu Ngaanya: Our Land our Body, Perth Insitute of Contemporary Art, WA
1991 Yarnangu Ngaanya: Our Land our Body, Goldfields Art Board, Kalgoorlie, WA
COLLECTIONS
Warburton Acrylic Community Collection
Araluen Centre Collection
Lagerburg-Swift Collection
The Marshall Collection
Vrooom collection, The Netherlands
Rectus Collection, Germany
National Gallery of Victoria
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane
QLD Art GAllery
The Luczo Collection San Francisco, California
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2008 Jukurpa Diary
