Narpula Napurrula Scobie

Born:        1958

People:     Pintupi

Language: Pintupi

Area:          Kintore

Narpula Napurrula Scobie

Narpula Napurrula Scobie was born near Haasts Bluff and grew up in Papunya. Her parents were forcefully transported there together with 400 other aborigines as part of the official assimilation policy. Narpula Napurrula Scobie stayed there until the beginning of the 80s. Both her older brother Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula her husband Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka are artists. She assisted her husband for many years in painting the background details to his paintings, but first began working independently in the 80s. In those early years she was the only female artist working in the Pintupi area. She is also the step sister to Mitjili Napurrula.

Collections:

1984   Alice Springs Art Award, Alice Springs 

1984   Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs.

1985   Two Worlds Collide: Cultural Convergences in Aboriginal and White Australian Art, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

1987   Art and Aboriginality, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth,

1988   Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia

1988  Recent Aboriginal Paintings. Incorporating the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize Purchase Awards, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

1988   Wanderausstellung in China

1990   Friendly Country - Friendly People, Araluen Centre for the Arts, Alice Springs, Australia

1991   The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1994   Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australia

1996   Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs.

1997   Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

1997   Geschichtenbilder, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer,

1999   Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

2001   Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Australia

2001   Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark

2001   Museé des Beaux Arts et d´Archeologie de Vienne.

Exhibitions of her work include:

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Australian Museum, Sydney

Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide

Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Robert Holmes of Court-Sammlung, Perth

South Australian Museum, Adelaide