Nora Andy Napaltjarri
| Nora Andy Napaltjarri | |
|---|---|
| Born | c.1957 Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Painting |
Nora Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1957) is a Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. like her mother Entalura Nangala, Nora has painted for Indigenous artists' cooperative Papunya Tula. Her work has been exhibited at the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti, and is held by Artbank.
Nora Andy was born circa 1957: Karrinyarra Artists' biography gives a date of 1956, while Birnberg and Kreczmanski's 2004 biographical dictionary gives circa 1957. She was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, west of Alice Springs. The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Indigenous Australians operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.
'Napaljarri' (in Warlpiri) or 'Napaltjarri' (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people. These names define kinship relationships that influence preferred marriage partners and may be associated with particular totems. Although they may be used as terms of address, they are not surnames in the sense used by Europeans. Thus 'Nora Andy' is the element of the artist's name that is specifically hers.
Nora Andy's mother is artist Entalura Nangala who, along with Nora's sisters Ada Andy Napaltjarri, Emily Andy Napaltjarri and Charlene Andy Napaltjarri, painted for major Indigenous art company Papunya Tula. While she has lived in Mount Allen and Mount Liebig (both near Haasts Bluff), in 1994 Nora Andy was living in either Alice Springs or Papunya (both locations are cited in the one source).
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