Lorna Fencer Napurrula Biography
Lorna Fencer Napurrula, born about 1920 at Yartula Yartula is a Senior Warlpiri Custodian. View Lorna Fencer Curriculum Vitae in Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies, page 262. Lorna Fencer Napurrula is represented in Collections: Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands The HOOD Museum of Art (Hanover, N.H.) http://hood.museum@dartmouth.edu Christensen Collection, held by Museum of Victoria, Melbourne http://www.nmwa.org/exhibition/artists.asp?exhibitid=141 Alice Springs Art Price Collection (Alice Springs, Australian Northern Territory) http://www.aliceprize.com/2002prize.html Richard Kelton Foundation (Santa Monica) National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, USA) Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide) Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane) Art Bank (Sydney) Laverty Collection (Sydney) National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) Christensen Collection at Museum of Victoria Victorian Art Centre (Melbourne) Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth) Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection (Perth) Anthropology Art Museum (Perth) Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin) National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) Australian Heritage Commission Collection, Canberra Japan Palace (Tokyo) http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fr/presse/communiques/translation/comtranslationen.html Margaret Carnegie Collection Gold Coast Art Gallery Ars Centre, QLD Queensland National Art Gallery (Brisbane) Gantner Myer Collection of Aboriginal Art Leeuwin Estate Western Australia Private and corporate collections around the world.
Exhibitions: 1988 People, Place and Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia 1988, People, Place and Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide, South Australia 1991, Aboriginal Art, Australian Embassy, Washington USA 1991, Paint Up Big: Warlpiri Women's Art from Lajamanu, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1991, Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia Canberra, ACT 1991 Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court of Australia; 1991 Aboriginal Art, Australian Embassy, Washington, USA; 1991 Paint up Big Warlpiri Women’s Art from Lajamanu, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1994, Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory 1994 Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu exhibition, Australian North Territory; 1996, All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 1996 Rainbow Serpent, Vaucluse, NSW; 1996 All About Art, Melbourne 1997, Women's Body Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1997, Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1997, Me Warlpiri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 1997 Yumarlpa Stories exhibition, Original and Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne; 1997 Women’s Body Paintings from Lajamanu, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1997 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1997/8, John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1998, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 1998, Yulyulu, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 1998, 6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne 1998, Warnayaka Warlpiri, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin 1998 Me Warlpiri exhibition Melbourne; 1998 6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne; 1998 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, Australian National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; 1998, Wild Warlpiri Women, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney 1999, Australian Embassy in Washington D.C 1999, United Nations Building New York, USA 1999, Yapa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 1999 St Valentine’s Exhibition, Brisbane; 1999 Tracks Across the Landscape exhibition, Land Rover Showroom, Sydney 1999 Yapa exhibition, Melbourne 2000, Lajamanu, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 2000, Opening of Yuwayi Art Centre, Yuwayi Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2001, Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 2001 A Tribute to Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Original & Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne 2002, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, Western Australia 2002, Lorna Napurrula Fencer - The Big Picture, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 2002, Lorna Fencer - Inner Spring - New Works from the Tanami, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney 2003, 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. 2003 Yumarlpa Stories, Original & Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne 2004, The Dancers - Warlpiri Women, Art Mob, Hobart; Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne.21st Telstra National Aborigainal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 2005, Lorna Napurrula Fencer: Recent Paintings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney; All About Yumarrpa, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne 2005, Decouvrir, Rever, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris, France 2005, Lorna Napurrula Fencer passed away in December 2006. Selected Bibliography: Glowczewski, B., 1991, Yapa, Peintres Aborigenes de Balgo et Lajamanu, Lebon Gallery, Paris, Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C), Ryan, Judith - Paint up Big Warlpiri Women's Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Isaacs, J - Spirit Country - Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, South Yarra, Victoria, Ryan, Judith. Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004. © Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
