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NYAPANYAPA YUNUPINU

Biography

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu is an artist from Australia born into the Gumatj people from the Yirrkala community. The artist and Yoingu painter or else, printmaker lived in Arnhem Land located in the Northern Australian territory.

Yunupingu Nyapanyapa as an artist originates from the Gumatj clan and was born in 1945. She is daughter to the cultural leader and indigenous artist Munggurrawuy Yunupingu; who was in existence between 1905 and 1979. Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu was taught the artistic styles of painting by her father.

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu was widowed but prior to this, she was the wife to Djapu clan leader by the name Djiriny Mununggurr. The husband to the artist died in 1977.

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu is the sister to Galarrwuy Yunupiŋu, Mandawuy Yunupiŋu, Barrupu Yunupiŋu, and Gulumbu Yunupiŋu.

Career

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu was working through Buku Larrnggay & Mulka center located at Yirrkala. Her first bark paintings exhibitions was in 2008 in the Roslyn Oxley9 gallery in Sydney. Most of her painting works were further under exhibition at the Sydney Biennale in 2012 as well as 2016.

During the 2008 year, Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu won the 3D prize of Wandjuk Marika Memorial at National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards of Art. The arts painting piece that enabled this price encompassed the combining of eucalyptus bark painting and a video narration of the biographic event under which she is gored by a buffalo. By this, her paintings entailing being gored by a buffalo inspired the Nyapanyapa, which is a dance choreographed by Stephen Page. The Nyapanyapa dance was necessarily used for Bangarra Theatre Dance that essentially received explicit United States tours.

Yunupiŋu abstract, in 2017 was awarded the bark painting prize under the “painting lines abstract.” This was by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards. Particularly, this 2017 bark painting has subsequently been acquired by Museum and the Art Gallery located in MAGNT, the Northern Darwin Territory.

The National Gallery of Australia initiative “Know My Name” selected Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu as a featured artist in their 2020 Australia-wide program.

The recognition of most of the arts and paintings by Yunupiŋu has been extensive, with most of her works continually gaining prizes, exhibitions, and acquisitions by buyers from the globe. Most of the exhibition galleries and museums are mounting Yunupiŋu arts and paintings because of their appealing nature and quality. With a solo exhibit, Nyapanyapa artistic works have gained implicit acknowledgment and value from various global cultures.

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales -- https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/

Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://adb.anu.edu.au/

Virgo-- https://search.lib.virginia.edu

Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory: https://www.magnt.net.au/nyapanyapa

National Gallery of Australia: https://nga.gov.au/knowmyname/artists.cfm?artistirn=34475

Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu: https://www.artistprofile.com.au/nyapanyapa-yunupingu/

Significant Exhibitions

During 2013, the exhibitions and displays of Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu art and paintings was under secrecy because of its value and absence. By this, there were undisclosed exhibitions such as the 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, ACT, Canberra, and the National Gallery of Australia.

The crossing cultures of 2012, is also another exhibition worthy of recognition. This event/exhibition of the Owen and Wagner Collection enabled recognition of aboriginal Australian art through the Dartmouth College & Hood Museum

Another significant exhibition associated with the artist entails the 2014 the world is not a Foreign Land program. The undertaking of the art exhibition was at Melbourne University of Art, under which Nyapanyapa arts received vast commendation.

Between 2016 and 2019, Nyapanyapa further received recognition for her painting marking the Infinite: The Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. The painting was showcased in the Newcomb Art Museum and Tulane University of New Orleans. Other places that put forth implicit recognition of her paintings during the stipulated period are inclusive of The Phillips Collection, University of British Columbia, the Florida International University, and the Nevada Museum of Art.

Further Readings

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu was born in 1945 to the Australian aboriginal artists Emily Kame and Mirdidingkingathi Sally Gabori. Her works are seemingly subject to possess the various aboriginal and traditional bark painting elements and other contemporary abstractions. The numerous works and paintings by the Nyapanyapa mainly underlie her interests in traditional paint elements, ancestral narratives, color, rhythms, and form. Nyapanyapa would be said to being able to communicate best through her art forms that mostly represent traditional elements of the Australian aboriginals.