Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (Aboriginal b.1947)
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in Haasts Bluff, a daughter of Angoona Nangala and Jim Tjungurrayi. Her husband, (now deceased) Jack Tjampijinpa Pollard, was a very important artist painting for Papunya Tula Artists community; Ngoia Pollard was assisting him. She now works for the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation. Ngoia has special custodianship responsibilities for her country and often fly by helicopter on business with the North Territory Land Council. In 2004 Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri received the First Prize in the he Advocate Central Australian Award.
She paints her father 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 near Nyrripi (Talarada) North West of Mount Liebig where Ngoia lives. 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 was hunting in the past.
Awards:
2006 First Prize of the prestigious Northern Territory Art Award
2004 First Prize in the he Advocate Central Australian Award
2002 Northern Territory Art Award - selected
2003 Northern Territory Art Award - selected Telstra Award
Collections:
Thomas Vroom collection on loan to the Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht; Nederland's;
National Australian Art Gallery, Canberra National Gallery of Australia;
Art Bank Sydney;
Solo Exhibitions
2003, Chapel Off, Chapel Gallery, Melbourne.
Group Exhibitions
2006, 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; New Works by Wentja Napaltjarriand Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri, Neil Murphy Indigenous Art in Association with Watiyawanu Artists, Mt. Liebig present on exhibition at Depot II Gallery, Sydney.
2003, 2004 Desert Mob Show, Alice Springs.
2003, 20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin NT.
2002, 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin NT.