Tatali Napurrula

Tatali Napurrula was born in Haasts Bluff in October 1957. She stayed there and attended school until her family moved west with other Pintupi people, camping west of Panunya at Yai Yai for a short while before settling in Kintore.

Tatali Napurrula is associated with the Papunya Tula (Western Desert) Artists and began painting there in the late 1990's.

Tatali has enjoyed career success as one of the more innovative of the emerging Western Desert painters. Tatali's paintings depict women's ceremonies at Desert Bore, north of Kintore and Rockhole sights at Pinpirri.

In 1999, Tatali contributed to the Kintore women's paintings as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. Tatali has been broadly exhibited and is widely collected.

Group Exhibitions

 1999            ‘Twenty Five Years and Beyond – Papunya Tula Painting’, Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia

1999            Gallery Gabrieele Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2000            ‘Aboriginal Art Select Works’, Kozminsky Gallery and Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne,VIC, Australia

2000            Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia

2001            Musee des Beaux Arts at d’Archeologie de Vienne, France

2001            ‘Twenty Five Years and Beyond – Papunya Tula Painting’,The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

2001            ‘Pintupi Women from Kintorre’, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2002            ‘Twenty Five Years and Beyond – Papunya Tula Painting’, Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2004            ‘All About Papunya’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2004            ‘Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists,Alice Springs, NT, Autralia

2005            Papunya Tula – The Next Generation, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney,NSW, Australia

2006            ‘Paintings by Papunya Tula Artists’, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2006 'Josephine Nangala and Tatali Napurrula', Birrung Gallery, Sydney

2006 Cicada Trading in Abu Dhabi, UAE

2007            ‘Papunya Tula Women’,Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

2007            ‘Turning 20’, Utopia Art Sydbey, NSW, Australia

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

2009            Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, The Chan Building, Bennett Park Darwin, NT, Australia

2010            ‘Summer Show 2010’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

Collections

Tatali Napurrula's work is found in the collections of Artbank and Flinders University Museum as well private collections in Australia and overseas.