Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in c1948, at Haasts Bluff, north west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Her husband, Jack Tjampijinpa Pollard (now deceased), was a very important artist painting for the Papunya Tula Artists community. Ngoia Pollard was assisting him at the Papunya Tula community.
Ngoia has special custodianship responsibilities for her country. She paints her father's country, which is a sacred Walpiri territory associated with narratives to the 'water snake'. The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes, around her country. The dots represent the water drying up and the cracks in the ground forming. She depicts the wet and dry characteristics of the country. This region is changed with the spiritual presence of the 'Water Snake' which lives beneath the surface. This is the area where her father had been hunting in the past.
Ngoia's work is included in the National Australian Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and Artbank Sydney, amongst others. In 2004 Ngoia was the winner of the Advocate Central Australian Award and in 2006 was outright winner of the highly prestigious NATSIAA Telstra prize.
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AWARDS:
2006 1st Prize of the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award
2004 1st Prize in the Advocate Central Australian Award
2002 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award
2003 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award for the Telstra Prize
COLLECTIONS:
Thomas Vroom collection on loan to the Aboriginal Art Museum
Utrecht the Nederland's; National Australian Art Gallery
Canberra National Gallery of Australia
Artbank; Private and cooperate collections in Australia, Denmark and Germany
Her husband, Jack Tjampijinpa Pollard (now deceased), was a very important artist painting for the Papunya Tula Artists community. Ngoia Pollard was assisting him at the Papunya Tula community.
Ngoia has special custodianship responsibilities for her country. She paints her father's country, which is a sacred Walpiri territory associated with narratives to the 'water snake'. The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes, around her country. The dots represent the water drying up and the cracks in the ground forming. She depicts the wet and dry characteristics of the country. This region is changed with the spiritual presence of the 'Water Snake' which lives beneath the surface. This is the area where her father had been hunting in the past.
Ngoia's work is included in the National Australian Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and Artbank Sydney, amongst others. In 2004 Ngoia was the winner of the Advocate Central Australian Award and in 2006 was outright winner of the highly prestigious NATSIAA Telstra prize.
To view Ngoia's art for sale click here
AWARDS:
2006 1st Prize of the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award
2004 1st Prize in the Advocate Central Australian Award
2002 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award
2003 selected in the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award for the Telstra Prize
COLLECTIONS:
Thomas Vroom collection on loan to the Aboriginal Art Museum
Utrecht the Nederland's; National Australian Art Gallery
Canberra National Gallery of Australia
Artbank; Private and cooperate collections in Australia, Denmark and Germany