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Barbara Napangarti Reid
was born around 1964 in the Tjukurla region which is in the Gibson
Desert of Western Australia. Her uncle is renowned
artist George Ward. Ningura Napurrula is Barbara's mother's sister,
but she calls her 'mum'. Her language is,
Ngaanyatjarra. and began painting in 1987 with the Centre for
Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs.
Barbara Reid is an
artist with a distinctive personal style whose works depict her
traditional country in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia.
She paints womens sacred
stories - minyma - which revolve around the role of the woman as
healer and provider within her Ngaanyatjarra society. Barbara's
paintings are beautiful depictions of places such as rock
formations and sand hills which are so much a part of the land from
which she comes, paintings of the lands to which she is custodian
and the songs that explain them. This area is dominated
by expansive sand hills and rockholes containing water where bush
foods are found.
Also vital to Barbara's
work is the women’s sacred stories (minyma stories) involving the
role of the women as healers and providers in Ngaanyatjarra
society. Barbara’s paintings have been gaining in popularity with
Galleries and Private collectors since 2002.
We currently have two
works by Barbara Reid in stock.
Bush Fruit
Body Paint
143 X 243cm
Acrylic on
linen
$12,000.
165 x 123cm
Acrylic on
Canvas
$4,400
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