Nyapanyapa Yunupingu

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (born c.1945) is an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker who lives and works in the community at Yirrkala, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
Borncirca 1945
Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia
Known forPainting, contemporary Indigenous Australian art
Parent(s)Mungurrawuy Yunupingu (father)

Biography

Yunupingu is a Yolngu woman of the Gumatj clan who was born in Arnhem Land in about 1945.[1] She is the daughter of Indigenous artist and cultural leader Munggurrawuy Yunupingu (c.1905–1979) who taught her to paint.[2]

Widowed, she was a wife of the late Djapu clan leader Djiriny Mununggurr who died in 1977. She is the sister of Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Gulumbu Yunupingu and Barrupu Yunupingu.[2]

Career

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu works through the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre at Yirrkala.

She had her first solo exhibition of bark paintings in 2008 in Sydney's Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney in 2012 and 2016.[3]

In 2008, Yunupingu won the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Prize in Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards with a piece that combined painting on eucalyptus bark with video to narrate a biographic event with in which she was gored by a buffalo in 1975. Her paintings of being gored by a buffalo were the inspiration and backdrop for Nyapanyapa, a dance choreographed by Stephen Page for Bangarra Dance Theatre which toured the United States.[4]

In 2017, her abstract painting Lines was awarded the bark painting prize at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. The work was subsequently acquired by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), in Darwin.[5]

She was selected as one of the featured artists for the 2020 Australia-wide Know My Name initiative of the National Gallery of Australia.[6]

Starting on 23 May 2020 (later than scheduled owing to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia) and due to run until 25 October 2020,[7] a comprehensive solo exhibition of Yunupingu's work, the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu was mounted at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The exhibition features more than 60 works, and it is the first solo exhibition at MAGNT to feature work by an Aboriginal Australian artist.[8] A catalogue to accompany the exhibition was published.[9]

Collections

Significant exhibitions

References
  1. "Nyapanyapa Yunupingu :: Yirrkala drawings :: Exhibition kits :: Resources :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. "unDISCLOSED -". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. "CooeeArt Since 1981". www.cooeeart.com.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. Cuthbertson, Debbie (1 September 2016). "Indigenous artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's paintings inspire Bangarra Dance Theatre show". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. "Spinifex and spears: here are the winning works of the 2017 Telstra NATSIAA Awards". NITV. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. Starmer, Karyn. "#KnowMyName: Recognising Australian Women in art". The RiotACT. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  7. "the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu". Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  8. "Coronavirus restrictions are easing, and now this NT gallery is marking two milestones". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 29 May 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  9. the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 2020, ISBN 978-0-648-65422-3
  10. "Nyapanyapa Yunupingu". artsearch.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  11. "Nyapanyapa Yunupingu | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  12. "Seven Sisters - Nyapanyapa". collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  13. "unDISCLOSED - ABOUT". nga.gov.au. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  14. Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art at the Hood Museum of Art.
  15. Hood Museum of Art (2012). Crossing cultures : the Owen and Wagner collection of contemporary aboriginal Australian art at the Hood Museum of Art. Gilchrist, Stephen,, Butler, Sally. Hanover, New Hampshire. ISBN 978-0-944722-44-2. OCLC 785870480.
  16. The World is Not a Foreign Land.
  17. "The world is not a foreign land | Ian Potter Museum of Art". art-museum.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  18. "Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia". Nevada Museum of Art. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  19. Skerritt, Henry F., 1979- éditeur intellectuel. Baum, Tina, auteur. Marking the infinite : contemporary women artists from Aboriginal Australia : from the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection : Nonggirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Carlene West, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yunupingu, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. ISBN 978-3-7913-5591-7. OCLC 980860631.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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