"Women's
Rockhole' by Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri
Born: c.1948
Region: Yamunturrngu (Mt. Liebig) - Northern Territory
Language Group: Warlpiri
Also known as: Ngnoia Pollard
‘Women’s
Rockhole’
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in
Haasts Bluff. She paints her fathers country, which is sacred
Walpiri territory associated with narratives to the ‘water snake’.
The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representations of the
swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada), North West of Mount Liebig,
where Ngoia lives. Ngoia depicts the wet and dry characteristics of the
country. In 2004 Ngoia received First Prize in the Advocate
Central Australian Award and in 2006 she won the National Aboriginal Art
Award. She is represented in the National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra and in many private and corporate collections in Australia and
around the world.
Exhibitions (selected)
2003 - Chapel off Chapel Gallery (Watiwayanu Artists), Melbourne