Mitjili Napurrula

Mitjili Napurrula is a Pintupi artist born in Papunya around 1945. Her family played an important role in the Aboriginal community of Papunya. Half-sister of the famous artist Turkey Tjupurrula Tolson, she is the daughter of Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, an artist also recognized in particular for her participation in the 'Minyma Tjukurrpa Project' in the mid-1990s and thanks to which she became one of the women Kintore's most respected painters. Married to the painter Long Tom Tjapanangka who won the 16th Telstra Art Award in 1999, she moved with him to Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) located about 230 km west of Alice Springs in the 1980s. It is in the early 1990s that she began to paint. It essentially represents the Dream of a Tree (Watiya Tjuta) which concerns a particular essence with which the men of his family make the spears, associated with the Country of his father (Uwalki). Mitjili is one of the artists who marked the beginning of the 2000s through the international dimension that her work took. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Australia, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Singapore, and the United States. She was particularly distinguished at the exhibition 'Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art' held at the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco in 1999, as well as at the prestigious Adelaide Biennale in 2000, 'Beyond the Pale '. His talent has been recognized several times: 1999 The Alice Prize, National Contemporary Art Award, Alice Springs 1997 finalist 14th Telstra NATSIAA, Darwin