Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri | |
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Born | c.1948 Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia |
Died | 17 November 2022 | (aged 73–74)
Nationality | Australian |
Known for | Painting |
Notable work | Swamps west of Nyirripi |
Awards | painting prize, 2006 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award |
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948; died 17 November 2022,
Having commenced painting in 1997, Ngoia Pollard won a major regional art prize in 2004. She went on to win the painting prize in the 2006 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Her works are held in major private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia.
Life
Daughter of Angoona Nangala and Jim Tjungurrayi, Ngoia Pollard was born circa 1948
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Ngoia Pollard attended school at
Art
Background
Contemporary Indigenous art of the western desert began when Indigenous men at Papunya began painting in 1971, assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon.[9] Their work, which used acrylic paints to create designs representing body painting and ground sculptures, rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983.[10] By the 1980s and 1990s, such work was being exhibited internationally.[11] The first artists, including all of the founders of the Papunya Tula artists' company, had been men, and there was resistance amongst the Pintupi men of central Australia to women painting.[12]
However, there was a desire among many women to participate, and in the 1990s large numbers of them began to create paintings. In the western desert communities such as Kintore,
Career
Ngoia Pollard began her contemporary artistic career by assisting her husband, who painted with Papunya Tula artists for several years prior to his death. In 1997, Ngoia Pollard began painting independently, and in 2004 won the first prize in a central Australian painting competition supported by the region's major newspaper, the Centralian Advocate.[8] In 2006, Ngoia Pollard won the painting prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, with her work Swamps west of Nyirripi.[13] Another of her works painted in the same year, and carrying the same title, was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia.[14] 2006 was also marked by an artist's residency in Copenhagen, shared with fellow Indigenous artist Lilly Kelly Napangardi, whom she had known since they attended school together in the 1960s.[14]
Collections holding her works include the National Gallery of Australia. She has had solo exhibitions with private galleries in Sydney and Perth.[8]
Western Desert artists such as Ngoia Pollard frequently paint particular '
...infused with the spiritual power of the narrative of the watersnake. This snake lives in the swamps and lakes near Nyrippi (Talarada), unoccupied 'dangerous territory' north west of Mt. Liebig. The transcendental calm of her paintings, with their drifts of monochrome clouds of dots, belie the danger of the land and its creatures that they depict.[8]
Her works are often characterised by the use of oval shapes representing swamps and lakes. Her palette is usually black and white, though red may be used to highlight oval forms. The dotted forms represent the ground cracking as water dries up.[14] Other themes in her work include the sand hills of the desert country.[8]
Collections
- National Gallery of Australia[8]
- Corrigan Collection[8]
References
- ^ "Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri - Artist Biography". www.kateowengallery.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
- ^ ISBN 1-876622-47-4.
- ISBN 1-876622-47-4.
- ^ "Kinship and skin names". People and culture. Central Land Council. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
- ISBN 978-0-85575-234-7.
- ^ a b "Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri 'Swamp Near Nyrripi'". The Artery: Contemporary Aboriginal Art. 2007–2009. Archived from the original on 18 January 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ISBN 0-520-07411-4.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9804494-4-0.
- ^ Bardon, Geoffrey; James Bardon (2006). Papunya – A place made after the story: The beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement. University of Melbourne: Miegunyah Press.
- ^ Dussart, Francoise (2006). "Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement". Aboriginal History. 30: 156–168.
- ^ a b Morphy, Howard (1999). Aboriginal Art. London: Phaidon. pp. 261–316.
- ^ Strocchi, Marina (2006). "Minyma Tjukurrpa: Kintore / Haasts Bluff Canvas Project: Dancing women to famous painters". Artlink. 26 (4).
- ^ "Winner Telstra Award". 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. 2006. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-921668-04-3.
- ^ Johnson, Vivien (1994). "Introduction". Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary. Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House. pp. 7–12.
External links
- Image of Ngoia Pollard's work Swamps west of Nyirripi (2006), from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory web site.