Narpula scobie napurrula biography of alberta

Narpula Scobie Napurrula was born near Haasts Bluff in 1950, and grew up there before later moving onto Pintupi homelands around Papunya and then later to Kintore.

Narpula scobie napurrula biography of alberta

Narpula Scobie Napurrula’s parents were Toba Tjakamarra and Nganyima Napaltjarri, and her brother was the late artist Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula.

Narpula was married to Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka and assisted him by painting backgrounds to his paintings as well as starting to paint her own works at Papunya in 1982.

During this time, until the mid 1990s, Narpula Scobie Napurrula was the only woman Pintupi artist working in any of the communities of Papunya, Kintore and Kiwirrkura.

When her husband Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka died in 2000, Narpula Scobie Napurrula moved to the community of Mt Liebig with her daughter-in-law Fabrianne Peterson, who had also begun painting alongside Narpula in the late 1980s.

Narpula Scobie Napurrula has mostly worked as an independent artist since 2000, and her paintings had been exhibited inte