Narpula Napurrula Scobie b. c.1950

Also known as Narrpula Scobie Napurrula
  • Artist (Painter)
One of the first senior Pintupi women to begin painting for Papunya Tula Artists and until the mid 1990s the only one in Kintore doing so.
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Born in the Haasts Bluff region in the ’50s, Narpula is the younger sister of Turkey Tolson . She grew up with her family in the Haasts Bluff area and moved to Papunya when the settlement was established in the ’60s. Married to Johnny Scobie , she started painting at Papunya in the early ’80s, one of the first women to do so, and continued after the move to Kintore. For over a decade she was the only senior Pintupi woman painting for Papunya Tula Artists in Kintore, though her young daughter-in-law, Fabrianne Peterson , also started painting alongside her in the late 1980s. She paints Bush Tucker and Women’s stories and has lived in Mt Liebig since her husband’s death.

Writers:
Johnson, Vivien Note: Primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>]