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Ngalpingka SimmsWayiyul, 2025Acrylic on linen200 x 137cmSold -
Ngalpingka SimmsWayiyul, 2025Acrylic on linen110 x 85cmSold
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Ngalpingka SimmsWayiyul, 2023Acrylic on linen230 x 200cm$ 16,000.00
Ngalpingka Simms was born at a place in Western Australia known to Anangu (Aboriginal people) as Wayiyul. Wayiyul is a Seven Sister's site, situated to the north of Warburton Community, and is therefore a sacred site. Ngalpingka spent her early days living a traditional lifestyle with her small family group and later moved into Warburton Mission where many Ngaanyatjarra people settled. She spent many years at Warburton living a semi nomadic lifestyle and participating in traditional ceremony. Now living at Tjuntjuntjara and married to Spinifex elder Lennard Walker Ngalpingka paints with the Spinifex Arts Project. She has participated with the Spinifex Artists since 1998 and is a valuable and knowledgeable member of the group who paints her homeland area associated with the Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters) as well as collaborative paintings.
Group Exhibitions
2025 Minyma Pila Nguru - Legacy, Vivien Anderson Gallery, St Kilda, VIC.
2024 Spinifex People: Art and stories from Pila Nguru, WA Museum Boola Bardip, Perth WA.
2024 Sovereigns of the Memory, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels
2024 From the Spinifex Country, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney NSW.
2024 Pila: the Space Between the Dunes, Salon Art Projects, Darwin, NT.
2024 Spinifex People - Kamile Gallery, Perth, WA.
2024 The Womens Show 2024, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2023 Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA.
2023 Desert Mob, Desart, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs. NT.
2023 Sun and Shadow - Art of the Spinifex People, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT.
2023 Artists of Tjuntjuntjara, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2023 Voir l’Invisible, Museum d’Angoulême, in conjunction with Aboriginal Signature, Estrangin Gallery and supported by the Australian Embassy in France, the French Embassy in Australia, Angoulême, France.
2022 MINYMA, Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2022 Short Street Gallery Broome, WA.
2022 Spinifex Arts Project 25 year anniversary show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2022 Aluni - Resonance - Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2021 DesertMob 2021, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs NT.
2020 Spinifex Artists - On Our Country, Japingka Gallery Fremantle. WA.
2020 Art Paris 2020, ARTKELCH at Art Paris 2020, Paris, France.
2019 Kungakarungkalpa, Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA.
2019 Explosion, Aboriginal Signature • Estrangin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2019 Art Karlsruhe 2019, ARTKELCH at art Karlsruhe 2019, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2018 The Womens Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2018 Ngura Ninti – Knowing Country, ARTKELCH, Freiburg, Germany.
2017 Wuste - Meer - Schpfermythen ArtKelch Gallery presented at The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne, Germany.
2017 Spinifex Arts 20th Anniversary, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle. WA.
2017 Spinifex Ascendent Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA.
2017 Farben der Wüste, ARTKELCH at Teppichhaus Jordan, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany.
2016 Pila Nguratja - In Spinifex Country Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2016 Desert Mob Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T. (collaboration with Estelle Hogan, Kanta Donegal and Myrtle Pennington).
2016 Rawa Nyinanyi- Unbroken. Outstation Gallery, Darwin. NT.
2016 Exposition Spinifex Arts Project, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Fine Art, Belgium.
2016 Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative, Redot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.
2016 Purungu und Narrupa Sammlung, in association with P. & A. Klein and ArtKelch, Kunstwerk, Germany.
2015 Tarnanthi - Festival of Comtemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. SA.
2015 Wo das Stachelkopfgras wachst, ArtKelch, Freibery, Germany.
2015 Kulunypa- selected small works from the Spinifex Arts Project, Outstation Gallery, Darwin. NT.
2015 Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation, The British Museum, London.
2014 Tjuntjuntjara Nguratja- Tjuntjuntjara is home Harvey Art Projects, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.
2014 Tjuntjuntjara - recent works from Spinifex Country Shorts Street Gallery, Broome, WA.
2014 Spinifex Tjukurpa ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
2014 Spinifex Arts Project 2014, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2013 Spinifex Arts Project, ARTKELCH at art Karlsruhe 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
2013 A Lesson in Pitjantjatjara, ARTKELCH Collectors Lounge at kptec, Schorndorf, Germany
2013 The Womens Show Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2013 Spinifex Arts Project ArtKelch touring exhibition Freiburg, Munich, Hamburg, Bodensee, Lake Constance, Germany.
2013 New 3 - Selected recent acquisitions 2011-2013 University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD.
2013 Kuwaritja - New Works of the Spinifex People Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT.
2012 Tupun Nguranguru: People of the Sandhill Country - Spinifex Arts Project 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Vivien Anderson Gallery at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, VIC.
2012 Spinifex - People of the Sun and Shadow John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, WA.
2011 The Women’s Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2011 Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA.
2011 Living Water- Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2010 Spinifex Arts Project 2010, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2010 Spinifex Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2010 Desert Mob, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, NT.
2010 Desert Country Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA. and National Tour.
2010 Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art Now, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe USA in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2009 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA (Women’s Collaborative)
2009 Tracking the Wati Kutjara Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW.
2009 Spinifex Artists Ab-Original Gallery, Austria.
2009 Spinifex Artists 2009 Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2009 Generation Next, Randall Lane Gallery, Perth, WA.
2009 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2008 Spinifex Artists Recent Work Short St Gallery, Broome, WA.
2008 Kapi Ninti: Knowing Water Knowing Country, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2007 Ten Years On Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2007 Seattle Arts Museum, Seattle.
2007 New Spinifex Works Short St Gallery, Broome, WA.
2007 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2007 Best of the Best Framed Gallery Darwin, NT.
2006 Spinifex - New Works Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA.
2006 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2006 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2006 Art of the Spinifex People Japingka Gallery, Perth, WA.
2005 Spinifex Mob Coo-ee Arts, Sydney, NSW.
2005 Spinifex Artists Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, England.
2005 Law and Land Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
2005 Desert Mob Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT.
2004 Spinifex Arts Project Harbour House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
2004 Colour Power - Aboriginal Art post 1984 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
2003 Spinifex Paintings Raintree Gallery, Darwin, N.T.
2003 Spinifex Arts Project 2003 Span Galleries, Melbourne, VIC.
2002 Putitja Nguru - Art of the Spinifex People Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA.
2002 Native Title Business – Contemporary Indigenous Art, Australian National Tour.
2001 Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT.
2001 Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra. ACT.
2001 Flinders Arts Museum, Adelaide, SA.
2001 Broken Hill City Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW.
2001 All About Art Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC.
2000 Pila Nguru - Art and Song of the Spinifex People Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA and national tour.
Awards
2015 Finalist (Women's Collaborative) 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museums
and Art Galleries, Darwin, N.T
Collections
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, ADELAIDE SA (WOMEN’S COLLABORATIVE)
ARTBANK, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT COLLECTION. AUSTRALIA.
COLLECTION PRINCE STEFAN OF LIECHTENSTEIN, EMBASSY OF LIECHTENSTEIN IN GERMANY.(WOMENS COLLABORATE)
KLUGE-RUHE ABORIGINAL ART COLLECTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, USA
PARLIAMENT HOUSE ART COLLECTION, CANBERRA, ACT (Womens Collaborative)
PRINZ STEFAN VON UND ZU LIECHTENSTEIN, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE USA (WOMEN’S COLLABORATIVE)
THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, ENGLAND.(WOMENS COLLABORATIVE)
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE, VIC. (AS PART OF THE WOMENS COLLABORATIVE)
THE SIMS DICKSON COLLECTION, NSW (COLLABORATIVE WITH KATHLEEN DONNEGAN)
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM, BRISBANE, QLD.
WEST AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT COLLECTION, WA (WOMENS COLLABORATIVE).
2002 Cane, S. 2002, Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People, Fremantle Arts Centre Press Fremantle WA.
2008 Vivien Anderson Gallery, 2008, Kapi Ninti – Knowing Water Knowing Country, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC.
2009 Japingka Gallery, 2009, Spinifex Artists (exh. cat.), Fremantle, WA: Japingka Gallery.
2009 Art Gallery of Western Australia 2009, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA.
2010 Vivien Anderson Gallery 2010, Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art Now (exh. cat.), Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC.
2010 Cumpston, N. 2010, Desert Country (exh. cat.), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide SA.
2011 Ryan, J. 2011, Living Water: Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne VIC.
2012 Rothwell, Nicolas. 2012 Paintings of lifetimes in the desertThe Australian, August 6th.
2012 Hacket, J. Forrest, S. Malcolm, C. Cane, S. Carty, J. Lane, C. Cruthers, J. Chadwick, R. Allerton, L. Spinifex: People of the Sun and Shadow (exh. cat) John Curtin Gallery, Perth. WA.
2012 Allerton, L., Rothwell, N. & McLean, I. 2012, Tupun Nguranguru – People of the Sandhill Country: Spinifex Arts Project 15th Anniversary exhibition, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne VIC.
2012 Jorgensen, D.J. 2012, No Place Without Other Places: Spinifex Arts Project at fifteen years, ARTLINK: Australian contemporary art quarterly, 32, 2, pp. 86-87.
2013 ARTKELCH, Robyn Kelch: Spinifex Arts Project, Exhibition catalogue Pro Community 2013, Freiburg, Germany.
2013 Rothwell, Nicolas. 2013, Dilemma of difference in indigenous art awards”, The Australian August 13th.
2015 Dulaney, Michael. 2015 Spinifex artwork takes pride of place at British Museum, The Kalgoorlie Miner, May 8th.
2015 Edmons, Penny. 2015 Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at its best, The Conversation, April 22nd.
2015 Sculthorpe,G. Carty,J. Morphy,H. Nugent,M. Coats, I. Bolton, L. Jones,J. Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation (exh cat) The British Museum, London, UK.
2015 Sculthorpe, Gaye. 2015, Bringing great Australian Indigenous works of art into the light at the British Museum, The Financial Review, April 29th.
2015 Reuters video, Prince Charles says Indigenous history as important as ANZAC day, Reuters, May 1st.
2015 Jones, Jonathon. 2015, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation a fabulous beast, The Gardian, April 21st.
2015 Neill, Rosemary. 2015, British Museum indigenous exhibition earns royal approval, The Australian, May 2nd.
2015 Nicholls, Christine. 2015,Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation is a challenge to review, The Conversation, 27th April.
2017 ARTKELCH, Robyn Kelch: Wüste – Meer – Schöpfermythen, Exhibition catalogue, Freiburg, Germany.
2018 ARTKELCH, Robyn Kelch: Spinifex Arts Project, Exhibition catalogue, Freiburg, Germany.
2019 Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, 2019, Explosion, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium, June 2019.
2022 Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, 'Aluni Resonance', Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Bruxelles, June.