Michelle Possum Nungurrayi
Born: 1970 Mt Allan
Region: Papunya, West of Alice Springs NT
Community: Papunya
Language: Anmatyerre
Tribe: Warlpiri
Subjects: Milky Way or Seven Sisters Dreaming.
Bush Coconut, Black Seed (for making damper),
Exploding Seed Pod and Women's stories from
the Mt Allan area.
Collections:
Aranda Collection
Knight Family Collection
Corrigan Collection
Solo Exhibitions:
2009 - Michelle Possum, Australia Dreaming Art, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
2009 - Generations, Aranda Art Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Group Exhibitions:
1982 - Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1987 - Possum Family Paintings, Brisbane
1995 - Desert Dreaming
2005 - Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair, Sydney
2005 - Christmas Show, Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art
2006 - Modern Masters from an Ancient Culture
2006 - Opening Exhibition, Aranda Art Alice Springs
2006 - Aboriginal and Oceanic Art Fair, Sydney
2006 - Shanghai Art Fair, China
2007 - Shanghai Art Fair, China
2007 - Hong Kong Cricket Club
2007 - London Art Fair, UK
Bibliography:
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists,
Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C)
Michelle Possum Nungarrayi is the younger daughter of Emily Nakamarra Possum,
and the famous Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (deceased), renowned for being one
of the founding artists of the contemporary indigenous art movement, and for
being the artist whose work has achieved the highest price at auction for an
Australian Indigenous artwork. Her area is Mt. Allan, to the north west of
Alice Springs, in Australia's NT. Michelle and her husband, Heath Ramzan Tjangala,
have six children. Michelle, her sister Gabriella and brother Lionel, were taught
to paint by their highly talented father. She began painting at a young age in
the mid 1980's and to this day, carries on the traditional stories, style and
much of the iconography of Clifford Possum, typically using stronger colours
depicting women's ceremonial stories and other women's dreamings.
