Narpula scobie napurrula biography of george
Nabula was born in the Haast Bluff region in the Northern Territory.!
Narpula Scobie Napurrula grew up in Haasts Bluff and later moved to moved to Papunya, then Kintore then Mt Liebig.
Narpula Scobie Napurrula was born near Haasts Bluff in , and grew up there before later moving onto Pintupi homelands around Papunya and then later to Kintore. Narpula Scobie Napurrula’s parents were Toba Tjakamarra and Nganyima Napaltjarri, and her brother was the late artist Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula.
Narpula was married to Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka and assisted him by painting backgrounds to his paintings as well as starting to paint her own works at Papunya in During this time, until the mid s, Narpula Scobie Napurrula was the only woman Pintupi artist working in any of the communities of Papunya, Kintore and Kiwirrkura.
When her husband Johnny Scobie Tjapanangka died in , Narpula Scobie Napurrula moved to the community of Mt Liebig with her daughter-in-law Fabrianne Peterson, who had also begun painting alongside Narpula in the late s.
Narpula Scobie Napurrula has mostly worked as an independent artist since , and her paintings had been exhibited internationally in UK and Chin