Gabriella Possum
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Mt Allan, Northern Territory
Tribal Group
Anmatyerre
Community
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Who is Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi?
Gabriella Possum Nungurray is an Australian Aboriginal artist. She is an Anmatyerre speaker born at Mt Allan in
Gabriella is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the most famous of the founding group of painters who worked at Papunya during the s and s. Taught by her father, Gabriella began painting at an early age.
She won her first award in at the Alice Springs Art Prize.
What are Gabriella&#;s themes and colour palette?
Gabriella’s colours are inspired by the dramatic colours of her central desert homelands. Her medium is acrylic on canvas.
Working with traditional stories Gabriella, like other younger central desert artists, has absorbed the technical skills of her elders while bringing her own inventiveness to her stories in her unique way.
Her Dreamings have been handed down through countless generations of ancestors:
- Women’s Ceremonies
- Seven Sisters
- Bush Tucker Black Seed
- Bush Coconut
- Goanna
- Serpent Dreamings
Seven Sisters
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Selected Group Exhibitions
Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi is an Aboriginal Australian Indigenous Art painter who was born in Numerous key galleries and museums such as Japingka Gallery have featured Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi's work in the lla Possum Nungarrayi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 50 USD to 16, USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since the record price for this artist at auction is 16, USD for ANMATJERRE DREAMINGS, sold at Smith & Singer, Melbourne in In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 1, USD.
Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi in the news
In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi is featured in Aboriginalities | Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, a piece from Juliet Art Magazine in JuneArtist's alternative names: Gabriella Possum
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (born in ) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Papunya community, she followed in her father Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's footsteps and became an internationally respected painter. Examples of her work are held in many gallery collections in Australia and elsewhere, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Flinders University Art Museum, the Kelton Foundation Collection, the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the Royal Collection.
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Born in in Papunya, around &#;km northwest of Alice Springs in the community formed in the s when Pintupi and Luritja people were forced off their traditional land and moved into Hermannsburg and Haasts Bluff. Her language is Anmatyerre. She spent her early life in Alice Springs, where she began painting with her father from a very young age.
When she was 16 In , Nungurrayi won the Alice Springs Art Award.
Throughout her life Nungurrayi has been exhibiting work in Australia and overseas. In Nungurrayi received a Profes
Born in at Mt. Allan, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of renowned artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Taught by her father, Gabriella began painting at an early age. Gabriella’s colours are inspired by the dramatic colours of her central desert homelands. Her medium is acrylic on canvas. Working with traditional stories Gabriella, like other younger central desert artists, has absorbed the technical skills of her elders while bringing her own inventiveness to her stories in her unique way. Her Dreamings have been handed down through countless generations of ancestors. Her paintings depict stories such as Bush Tucker (Exploding Seed and Black Seed from the Mt. Allan area), Women’s Ceremonies, Serpent, Goanna and Seven Sisters Dreamings. Gabriella’s work is bold and vivid in colour and composition and utilises many different techniques, the «dot» technique in particular. She was the youngest artist to be awarded the prestigious Alice Springs Art Prize whilst still studying at Yirara College at age
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