Artist: Naata Nungurrayi

Size: 1010mm x 1110mm

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Area: Kintore

Language: Pintupi

Naata Nungurrayi was named among the Top 50 of Australia’s Most Collectable Artists in Australian Art Collector (Issue 27 January  March, 2004). Naata Nungarrayi was born in 1932 at the site of Kumil, which is west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. Naata is from the Pintupi Language group located in Kintore and is one of the leading senior elders of the Kintore women artist movement. Her works are sought after by collectors worldwide. Naata is the sister of George Tjungurrayi and Nancy Nungarrayi, and her son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa, all extremely well known artists. It was in 1994 that saw the emergence of the Pintupi painting women in a women’s painting camp behind the women’s mountain at Kintore. This involved senior women from the Kintore region and their kinswomen from the Ikuntji Women’s Centre at Haast Bluff. All of her works are associated with women’s concerns and Women’s Law (Tingari Cycle). She paints traditional designs depicting sacred women’s sites and women performing sacred women’s ceremonies in the Kintore area as well as the designs that they paint on their bodies when performing ceremonies. Naata’s artworks have been entered into the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Awards. To be selected for the Telstra Award is an enormous recognition of her work. In 2003 she was chosen along with four other Papunya Tula Artists to have one of her paintings represented on an Australia Post international stamp. Her work has featured in major exhibitions and her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museums and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.