Kathleen Napurrurla Gibson, Patterns of the landscape around Nyirripi, 30x30cm

• Artist - Kathleen Napurrurla Gibson
• Community - Nyirripi  
• Art Centre/Community organisation - Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation  
• Catalogue number - 703/15ny   
• Materials - Acrylic on pre-stretched canvas  
• Size(cm) - H30 W30 D3.5  
• Postage variants - Artwork posted stretched and ready to hang

Kathleen has represented the patterns of the landscape associated to her country and to her Jukurrpa. Nyirrripi is located 160 km west of Yuendumu, the country is covered with sand dunes and low vegetation’s, sand storm and whirly-whirly (mini tornados) are frequent occurrence in the country. The designs that Kathleen paint are closely associated to the fixtures of the country, several whirl-whirly lifting simultaneously out of the ground carrying with them dust and seeds to be deposited somewhere else in the landscape.

Kathleen Napurrurla Gibson was born in 1983 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 450 km from Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She was born to Gayle Napangardi and Teddy Jakamarra Gibson, and is the grand-daughter of Nancy Napanangka Gibson, all well-known Warlukurlangu Artists. Kathleen attended the local school before attending Yirara, an Aboriginal boarding School in Alice Springs, where she graduated after Year 10. When she returned to Nyirripi she worked at the local crèche. She is a single parent and has one son.

Kathleen has been painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation; an Aboriginal owned and governed Art Centre, since 2008, however she began painting full-time in 2012. In late 2012 Kathleen went with her mother and sisters to Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, where they painted. She enjoyed the experience and when she returned started painting again. “I like to do something that keeps my mind active – thinking and doing”. She paints her Father’s Jukurrpa, Dreamings which have been passed down through the generations for millennia. Fiona uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. In the short time Kathleen has been painting she has exhibited her work in a group exhibition.

When she is not painting she likes to go hunting and taking the local girls from Nyirripi to Sports Weekends.

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