Nanyuma Napangardi
Minymar Tingari at Umari, 2005
Acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 121.9 cm (36 x 48 in)
NANA-PT-1
Language Group: Pintupi Born: c1944at Umari WA Nanyuma lives at Kintore; she is George Tjungurrayi’s mother in law. She started painting for Papunya Tula artists in 1990. In 1999, Nanyuma...
Language Group: Pintupi
Born: c1944at Umari WA
Nanyuma lives at Kintore; she is George Tjungurrayi’s mother in law. She started painting for Papunya Tula artists in 1990. In 1999, Nanyuma was one of the artists involved in the Kiwirrkurra Women's Painting project, which was auctioned to raise money for the Renal Unit at Kintore, an Aboriginal Community in the Western Desert.
Nanyuma Napangardi is a Pintupi senior law woman and depicts designs associated with women's Ceremony. Nanyuma is the sister to Charlie Tjapangati and Bambatu Napangardi both are recognized artists.
About the painting - Minymar Tingari at Umari
This is the story of four women involved in a very secret Women’s Ceremony. The story is set in her mother’s country near Umari. Due to the nature of the ceremony she could not expand on the story. The concentric circles are rock holes with water flowing between them. The lines are the sand hills that dominate this country and the small circles are rock formations. The black objects are rock formations.
Born: c1944at Umari WA
Nanyuma lives at Kintore; she is George Tjungurrayi’s mother in law. She started painting for Papunya Tula artists in 1990. In 1999, Nanyuma was one of the artists involved in the Kiwirrkurra Women's Painting project, which was auctioned to raise money for the Renal Unit at Kintore, an Aboriginal Community in the Western Desert.
Nanyuma Napangardi is a Pintupi senior law woman and depicts designs associated with women's Ceremony. Nanyuma is the sister to Charlie Tjapangati and Bambatu Napangardi both are recognized artists.
About the painting - Minymar Tingari at Umari
This is the story of four women involved in a very secret Women’s Ceremony. The story is set in her mother’s country near Umari. Due to the nature of the ceremony she could not expand on the story. The concentric circles are rock holes with water flowing between them. The lines are the sand hills that dominate this country and the small circles are rock formations. The black objects are rock formations.