Ningie Nangala

Ningie was born in the Pippar/Kiwirrkurra area. Her mother and father died when she was very young, and she came to the Balgo Mission at the invitation of Aboriginal people living there. Her family group was camped at Lirrwati close to Balgo. Like many people at that time, she returned to her own country before settling more permanently at the old mission, first at Tjalyiwarn, then at its present site at Wirrimanu from 1962. As a young girl she tended the mission goats, gathering bush food for them to eat. She married and had four children. After her first husband passed away, she married Tjumpo Tjapanangka, another important Balgo artist, and had a further five children. Ningie has been a prominent Balgo artist for many years, her bold and dramatic style was highly sought after and her unique application of thick rivers of paint result in a highly unique style. In her later year Ningie has developed a loose style of painting as a result of her frailty and loss of eyesight, this has developed into a wild and uninhibited style which only comes with age and a deep knowledge of Country. Ningie loves to paint and is a dedicated and prolific artist.

1997 - Nominee, Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards

2020 - Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2020 - Matriarchs, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2019 - Wirrimanu Balgo Artists, Japingka Aboriginal Art, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2019 - Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2019 - Bold and Beautiful, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2018 - WAu! Focus on Western Australia, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland
2017 - Tarnanthi Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2013 - Traversing Borders: Art from the Kimberley, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2010 - Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2010 - Mixed Exhibition, Palya Art, Sydney, NSW / Melbourne, VIC / Perth, WA, Australia
2010 - Balgo Prints, Northern Editions, Darwin, NT, Australia
2007 - Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2007 - Warlayirti Survey, Woolloongabba Art Gallery / Alcaston Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2007 - Mixed Show, Palya Art, Melbourne, VIC / Sydney, NSW / Perth, WA, Australia
2007 - Warlayirti Survey, Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2007 - Warlayirti Survey, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2007 - Warlayirti Survey, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2007 - Women with Sticks, Suzanne O’Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
2006 - Warlayirti Suite Print Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2006 - Balgo Survey Show, ReDot Gallery, Singapore
2006 - Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia
2006 - Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2005 - Glass from the Sand Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2004 - Balgo 4-04, Warlayirti Artists, Wirrimanu (Balgo), WA, Australia
2003 - Eight by Three, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2003 - Purtatjanirri Kamu Warrmala, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
2003 - Balgo Brilliance, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2003 - Palya Minyirri, Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
2003 - Christmas Gift Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2002 - Balgo Hills, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2002 - Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2002 - Balgo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA, Australia
2002 - Balgo Hills Artists 2002, Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2002 - Art from Balgo, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2002 - Kutjungka: Passing It On – Works from Balgo Hills, Coomalie Cultural Centre, Batchelor, NT, Australia
2002 - Land of Dreamings, Australia Centre, Berlin, Germany
2002 - Balgo Hills: An Artist’s Survey, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 - Big Colour My Country, Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
2001 - Beyond Wings, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2001 - Short on Size, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia
2001 - Kutjungka, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2001 - New Paintings from Balgo, Cutliffe Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2001 - Recent Works by Artists from Balgo Hills, Ochre Gallery, Collingwood, VIC, Australia
2001 - Past Modern: An Exhibition of Kimberley Landscapes, Short Street Gallery at Australia Square, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Waltja Family, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Balgo Art, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, NT, Australia
2000 - Balgo Hills Aboriginal Paintings, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS, Australia
2000 - Ikuntji Artists / Warlayirti Artists, Desart Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2000 - Dreaming in Colour: Australian Aboriginal Art from Balgo, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Charlottesville, VA, USA
1999 - Aboriginal Art, IHK, Würzburg, Germany
1999 - Miliynyin, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1999 - Miliynyin, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA, Australia
1998 - Galerie Baehr, Speyer, Germany
1998 - Dreamings, Vlaams-Europeesch Conferentiecentrum, Brussels, Belgium
1997 - Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (14th NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT, Australia
1997 - Big Balgos: Recent Paintings by Warlayirti Artists, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
1997 - Balgo Paintings, Seywald Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
1997 - New Paintings by Balgo Women, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1997 - Daughters of the Dreaming: Sisters Together Strong, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
1997 - Dreamings, Arnhem, Netherlands
1997 - Göteborgs Konstförening, Gothenburg, Sweden
1997 - Innenseite: Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel & Göttingen, Germany
1996 - Balgo Hills: Art of the Place, Derek Simpkins Gallery of Tribal Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995 - New Works by the Artists of Balgo Hills, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia
1995 - On the Trail of the Kingfisher: Aboriginal Art from Balgo Hills, Western Desert, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia
1995 - Aboriginal Paintings and Prints (Robert & Barbara Bromberg Collection), New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, USA
1994 - Wirrimanu: Aboriginal Art from Balgo, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia
1994 - Desert Spirit Paintings, Channing Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1993 - Wirrimanu: The Art of Balgo Hills, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia
1992 - Warlayirti Artists’ Homelands, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia
1990 - Songlines: Paintings from Balgo Hills, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1990 - The Singing Earth, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1990 - A Myriad of Dreaming: Twentieth Century Aboriginal Art, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia / Design Warehouse, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Morven Estate Collection, UK
Laverty Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Artbank, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ken Thompson and Pierre Marecaux Collection, Australia
Helen Read Collection, Australia

Warlayirti Artists