Mitjili napurrula biography sample

Mitjili Napurrula is a Pintupi woman from the Haasts Bluff region, located 200 km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Born at Haasts Bluff in 1945, after her mother's Pintupi/Luritja family came in from the desert seeking refuge and rations, Mitjili Napurrula grew up in Papunya.

Mitjili Napurrula was born in 1945 at Papunya, 200 kilometres West of Alice Springs.

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Mitjili Napurrula

1945 – 2019
Mitjili was born at Haasts Bluff, after her mother’s Pintupi/Luritja family came in from the desert seeking refuge and rations, Mitjili Napurrula grew up in Papunya and later married the artist, Long Tom Tjapanangka.

With their extended family, they returned to Haasts Bluff as part of the 1980’s outstation movement and both artists, often in conjunction, proceeded to contribute significantly to the emerging art community there. Under the guidance of art coordinator Marina Strocchi, Ikuntji Art Centre rapidly developed an exciting style of its own, propelled in part by the older women who had been assistants to Geoffrey Bardon’s first painting dock at Papunya.

Mitjili Napurrula began painting in 1992, encouraged by the opening of the Ikuntji Women’s Centre, the social and artistic hub of Haasts Bluff and nearby desert communities.
Coming from a family of distinguished artists, including her mother Tjunkiya Napaltjarri

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Mitjili Napurrula, Uwulkari - Watiya Tjuta, 60x60cm

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