Details of Nura Rupert
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BIOGRAPHY
As a young teenage girl, Nura learnt weaving at the craft room and also made hooked floor rugs. She knitted jumpers for the men at work. She learnt wood carving (punu) and pokerwork making snakes, birds, tingka, wira and rabbits. It is thought she may have dabbled in batik in her early days as an artist.
When Ernabella Arts became involved in the Beanie Festival around 2000, Nura came back to the art centre to make mukata (beanies), but also became involved in the exploration of painting with acrylics on canvas or paper. Now an elderly, senior woma, Nura began expressing stories from her childhood, particularly concerning mamu (spooky spirits or monsters), which soon became her signature, and has escalated her into becoming one of the regions best-known artists. She has applied her naive, quirky style successfully to the mediums of painting, printmaking and occasionally ceramic decoration, endearing herself to art-lovers and collectors everywhere.
MEDIUMS
Painting
Printmaking
Punu
THEMES
Mamu (spirits/monsters)
Dogs
Animals - dogs, rabbits, donkeys
Kids
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 - 'From the desert to the sea: Nura Rupert - A Remarkable and Joyous Mind', Mogo Raw Art and Blues, NSW
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 - 'Milpatjunanyi', Araluen, Alice Springs and Flinders University Art Museum Touring Show
2000 - 'This Earth for Us', Commonwealth Institute London, Bristol, UK and Edinburgh City Gallery
2002 - 'Mina Wala', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2004 - 'Inuntji (Fresh like Flowers After Rain)', Jam Factory, Adelaide
2004 - 'Manta Atunmangkuntja/Looking After Country', Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2005 - 'Inuntji', Walkabout Gallery, Sydney
2006 - 'Senior Pitjanjatjara Artists', Raft Artspace, Darwin
2006 - 'Artist in Residence', Sails in the Desert, Yulara, NT
2006 - 'The Second Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition', University of New South Wales
2006 - 'Desert Mob', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2006 - 'Homeland Heartland', Jam Factory, Adelaide
2006 - 'Our Mob', Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
2007 - 'Anangu Backyard', Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
2007 - 'Ernabella - Recent Paintings and Ceramics', Birrung Gallery, Sydney
2007 - 'APY Grandeur', Art Mob, Hobart
2007 - 'Divas of the Desert', Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT
2007 - 'Desert Diversity', Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007 - 'Skin to Skin', Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra
2007 - 'Visions of Country', Seymour College, Adelaide
2007 - 'Nganampa Ngura', Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
2007 - 'Best of the Best', Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2007 - 'Desert Mob', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2008 - 'A Way of Seeing', Gallery Gondwana, Sydney
2008 - 'Anangu Backyard', Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
2008 - 'Nganampa Tjukurpa (Our Stories)', Indigenart (Mossenson Galleries), Perth
2008 - 'Etched in the Sun: Prints by Indigenous Artists in Collaboration with Basil Hall and Printers', Anu Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
2008 - 'SA Impressions', Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
2009 - 'Our Mob', Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
2009 - 'Etched in the Sun: Prints by Indigenous Artists in Collaboration with Basil Hall and Printers', Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK
2009 - 'Replacements: Other Drawing Reveries of the Everday', Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2010 - 'Ara irititja munu ara kuwaritja Ernabella-la', Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2010 - 'Recent Paintings', Chapman Gallery, Manuka, ACT
2010 - 'APY & NPY Lands Survey Exhibition', RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
2010 - 'Tjukurpa Pulkatjara', South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
2010 - 'Ngura Nganampa (our Country), Outstation, Darwin, NT
2010 - 'Kayili & Ernabella 2010', Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2010 - 'Melbourne Art Fair', with Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW
2010 - 'Desert Mob', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2011 - 'Ngura Kutju, Tjukurpa Pulkatjara, Short St Gallery, Broome
COLLECTIONS
Dreamtime Gallery, Florida USA
The Lagerberg-Swift Collection
Marshall Collection
Flinders University Art Museum
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
Merenda Collection
Parliament House Collection
Harriet & Richard England Collection
Art Gallery of South Australia
V & W McGeoch Collection
Artbank
AWARDS
2006 - Finalist, NATSIAA Awards
2007 - Finalist, NATSIAA Awards
2007 - Finalist Fremantle Print Award
2010 - Western Australian Indigenous Art Award
Artworks of Nura Rupert
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