Gabriella possum nungurrayi biography books
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (born in ) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Papunya community, she followed in her father Clifford..
GABRIELLA POSSUM NUNGURRAYI
Gabriella Possum learned the discipline of painting from an early age at the side of her famous father, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.
Born at Papunya in 1967, she first achieved recognition in 1983, for her entry in the Alice Art Prize, while a 16-year-old student at Yirara College.
Who is Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi?
From the mid 1980’s Clifford Possum had largely abandoned Papunya Tula, preferring to create works and sell them independently. While living in Alice Springs and maintaining close contact with his Anmatjerre countrymen at Mount Allan and Napperby he sold works through Aboriginal Arts Australia’s Centre for Aboriginal Art in Todd Street as well as to a range of independent dealers.Gabriella, along with her younger sister Michelle, meticulously filled in areas of dotting on many of her father’s emblematic canvasses from this period and onward to the following decade.
These ‘assisted’ canvasses brought Clifford Possum increasing worldwide recognition until this practice b