Mitjili Naparrula with 'Watiya Tjuta'
Awards
Born:
c. 1945
Region: Western Desert
Community: Haasts Bluff
Language: Pintupi
Area: Kintore
Social Affiliation: Napurrulla subsection
Subjects: Bloom, Mitukatjarrila
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
'Mitjili Naparrula was born at Haasts Bluff in 1945 and started painting for the Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1993. She is the daughter of Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, a painter at Kintore. Her Brother, Turkey Tolsen Tjupurrula, is the chairman of Papunya Tula Artists, and she is married to Long Tom Tjapanangka. She has exhibited throughout Australia since 1994 and has held several solo exhibitions. Her work is in major Australian collections including the National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; and Flinders University Art Museum, South Australia.' (Taken from "Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Artists" by Jennifer Isaacs, published by Hardie Grant Books, 1999, p. 70)
1998 - Mitjili Napurrula, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996
- Mitjili Napurrula, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Group
Exhibitions
2005
Summer in the Desert, Hogarth
Galleries, Sydney
2003
Big Country. Works from the Flinders University Art Museum
collection, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide
2001-2002
Erzählungen über die Dinge des Lebens. Kunst aus Australien
2001
Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Dänemark
2000
Beyond the Pale, 2000
Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
Niagara Galleries, Sydney
1999
Aboriginal Art, IHK Würzburg,
Deutschland (in Kooperation mit Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer)
Desert Mob ´99, Araluen
Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
Ikuntji Tjuta, Campbelltown
City Art Gallery, Campbelltown
Ikuntji Walka, Hogarth
Galleries, Sydney
Spirit Country: Australian
Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco, USA
1998
15th National Aboriginal Art
Award Exhibition, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Darwin
29th Alice Springs Art Prize,
Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
Adelaide Fringe Festival,
Desart Exhibition, Adelaide
Culture Store, Art Gallery,
Rotterdam. Niederlande
Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florenz, Italien
Hilton Hotel Art Gallery,
Rotterdam, Niederlande
Ikuntji Paintings from Haasts
Bluff, Framed - The Darwin Gallery, Darwin
Ikuntji Paintings, Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Ikuntji, Gallery Gondwana,
Alice Springs
Kate Challis RAKA Award, Ian
Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
My Country. Indigenous Art
throughout Australia, Fairfield Regional Heritage Centre, Fairfield
The Desert Mob Show, Araluen
Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
The Fourth National Heritage
Art Award, Canberra
1997
14th National Aboriginal Art
Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
28th Alice Springs Art Prize, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice
Springs
Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Deutschland
Aboriginal Art, Goteborgs Konstforening, Göteborg, Schweden
Dreamings, Arnhem,
Niederlande
Festival of Drawing Prize,
Mornington Peninsula Gallery
Ikuntji Tjuta in Adelaide,
Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Ikuntji Tjuta in Canberra,
Alliance Francaise, Canberra
Ikuntji Tjuta in Sydney,
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
The Desert Mob Art Show,
Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
1996-97
13th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum & Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Gold Coast, City Art Gallery;
Drill Hall, Canberra; Tandanya, Adelaide; Campbelltown Gallery; Westpac
Gallery, Melbourne
1996
3rd National Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition. The Art of Place, Old
Parliament House, Canberra
Adelaide Fringe Festival
Desart Exhibition, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
Adelaide Fringe Festival,
Desert Exhibition, Adelaide
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
Australian Heritage
Commission. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Exhibition, Canberra
1995-1996
12th National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum &
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Westpac Gallery, Melbourne;
Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Tandanya,
Adelaide
1995
Ikuntji: New Art from the
Western Desert, Framed - The Darwin Gallery, Darwin
Mitjili Napurrula and Marlee Napurrula, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Northern Territory Art Award,
Alice Springs
Paintings from Haasts Bluff,
Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Works on Paper, Hogarth
Galleries, Sydney
1994
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
Australian High Commission
und Hotel Shangri-la, Singapore
Ikuntji: Paintings from
Haasts Bluff 1992-1994, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Northern Territory Art Award,
Alice Springs
The 2nd National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House,
Canberra
Yiribana, Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney
1993
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
Australian Heritage
Commission. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1992
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
1991
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
1986
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
1985
Araluen Centre for the Arts,
Alice Springs
1999 - Alice Springs Art Prize
Alice
Springs Art Foundations, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Campbelltown
Edith Cowan University Art-Sammlung, Perth
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Gantner Myer-Sammlung, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Mornington
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne