Miriam Napanangka

Miriam was born north – west of Kiwirrkura near Lake Mackay in country called Winpurrlura.  Her first contact with white people was with a mining exploration team who flew over her family group in a helicopter.  They stopped and offered food but her family ran in fright.

Miriam and her family eventually walked into Balgo, where they lived for some time. Miriam is married to Patrick Tjungurrayi and lives in Kiwirrkura.

In 1999 Miriam contributed to the Kiwirrkura women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.  Miriam paints for Papunya Tula Artists.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1996            Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia

1999            Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia

1999            Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

2001            ‘Pintupi Women from Kintore’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2001            Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

2002            ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia

2003            Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2004            ‘Ma Yunga/Passit On’, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory

2004            ‘The Desert Mob Art Show’, Araluen art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia

2004            ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia

2005            ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005            ‘Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert’, Anima Mundi gallery, Lyons, Colarado, USA

2005            ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia

2005            ‘New Works from the Western Desert’, Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2006             ‘Papunya Tula Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2007            ‘Gifted: Contemporary Aboriginal Art’, The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2007            ‘Kiwirrkura Women’, Utopia art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2008            ‘Marrkangku Yara Palyantjaku Ngurrangka – Making Strong Paintings at Home’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia

Collections:

Art gallery Of New South Wales

Flinders University Art Collection