Parara Napaltjarri

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Parara Napaltjarri
Born1944 (1944)
Died2003
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

Parara Napaltjarri (c. 1944–2003) was a

Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings are included in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
.

Life

Parara was born around 1944[1] or 1945.[2] The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Indigenous Australians operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.[3]

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kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people. These names define kinship relationships that influence preferred marriage partners and may be associated with particular totems. Although they may be used as terms of address, they are not surnames in the sense used by Europeans.[4][5]
Thus 'Parara' is the element of the artist's name that is specifically hers.

Parara and her siblings Yakari Napaltjarri, Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri and Payu Napaltjarri were the children of Anmanari Nangala and Kirindji Kuku Tjungurrayi. Parara and Payu were co-wives of Freddy West Tjakamarra,[1] who was also married at one stage to artist Takariya Napaltjarri.[6] Parara moved to Papunya with Freddy West in 1963, and died in 2003.[1]

Art

Background

Contemporary Indigenous art of the western desert began when Indigenous men at

outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.[9]

Career

Parara commenced painting for the famous Papunya Tula artists cooperative in June 1996, with her sister Payu commencing painting for them at the same time.[1] Work by Parara is held by the Art Gallery of New Wales, including 1996 painting Women's Business at Marapinti portraying women's ceremonies at the rockhole site of Marapinti, west of Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia.[2]

Collections

References

  1. ^ a b c d Johnson, Vivien (2008). Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists. Alice Springs, NT: IAD Press. p. 302.
  2. ^ a b c "Parara Napaltjarri – Women's Business at Marapinti". Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art > Paintings. Art Gallery of New South Wales. 1997. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
  3. ISBN 1-876622-47-4
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  4. ^ "Kinship and skin names". People and culture. Central Land Council. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  5. ISBN 978-0-85575-234-7
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  6. ^ Johnson, Vivien (2008). Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists. Alice Springs, NT: IAD Press. p. 303.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Dussart, Francoise (2006). "Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement". Aboriginal History. 30: 156–168.
  9. ^ a b Morphy, Howard (1999). Aboriginal Art. London: Phaidon. pp. 261–316.
  10. ^ Strocchi, Marina (2006). "Minyma Tjukurrpa: Kintore / Haasts Bluff Canvas Project: Dancing women to famous painters". Artlink. 26 (4).
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