Angelina Ngal Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1952 -

Born to Nellie Petyarre in the arid desert area of Utopia Station in 1947, Angelina Ngale (also known as Angelina Pwerle) has become an Australian renowned aboriginal artist with her work held in collections both nationally and internationally.

Initially Angelina began in the medium of batik when this begun in the late 1970’s at Utopia. When acrylics swept the Utopia region about a decade later Angelina made the swift transition and has continued using this medium like other Utopia artists.

Becoming well known for her fine dot representations of the Anwekety(conkerberry, also known as conkleberry and bush plum) Angelina quickly became a household name amongst Australian Indigenous galleries. Like most other women Angelina can paint the women’s ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye) which she does so with a bold and colourful feel, though she paints much less of this. Angelina also enjoys painting another subject, the story of Atham-areny.

Atham-areny are small creatures that live where there is no fire. On a trip home to Utopia in January 2003 with Mbantua’s field team, Angelina showed us the site of the Atham-areny story and agreed to paint this story for us. Angelina returned with her first two Atham-areny paintings later that month both of which are now held in the Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection. Her Atham-areny paintings depict the women prepared to sing and dance with witch doctors to draw sickness out of those touched by the atham-areny creatures.

On a personal level, Angelina was wife number one to artist and sculptor Louis Pwerle (1935 – 1999) though there union never bore children.
Collections

Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne

Holmes á Court Collection, Perth

La Trobe University Collection, Melbourne

Mbantua Gallery Permanent Collection, Alice Springs

National Gallery, Victoria

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Bank, Sydney.

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Solo Exhibitions

2001 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1999 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions

1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the first works on canvas, Sydney

1989 Twelve Men and an Echidna, Utopia Art, Sydney

1990 The Last Show, Utopia Art, Sydney Art from Utopia, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1991 Long Hot Summer, Utopia Art, Sydney Utopia, Utopia Art, Sydney Men and Dogs, Utopia Art, Sydney

1992 Bubbles, Baubles & Beads, Utopia Art, Sydney

1992 Aboriginal Painting, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA

1992 Little Friends, Utopia Art, Sydney

1993 Utopia Women, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

1993 Camp Scenes, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney

1993 Utopia Sculpture, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

1994 This Land, Utopia Art, Sydney

1994 The Oval Board Collection, Bishop Museum, Hawaii; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut; Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, USA

1994 Central Australia Aboriginal and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs

1996 Painted People; Sculpture from Utopia, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1997 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

28th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, Alice Springs

1998 Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, Italy

1998 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T

1998 Art Gallery ‘Culture Store’, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1999 Blue Chip 11: The Collectors’ Exhibition Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

2000 Not the done thing! Niagara Galleries, Sydney

2001 Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Madrid and touring regional Spain 2001 Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T

2002 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, TN; 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, OR; Urban Wine Works, Portland, OR; Mary's Woods, Portland, OR Sept

2003 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibitions: New City Merchants, Knoxville, TN; Art and Soul Gallery, Nashville, TN; 'The Cove Gallery' Portland, OR; Mary's Woods, Portland, OR

2003 Contemporary Aboriginal Art Event,Umpqua Bank in conjunction with Mbantua Gallery, Portland, Oregon USA

2003 Art from the Dreamtime,Portland Art Museum, Portland OR USA

2004 ‘Last of the 20 th Century’, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs

2004 Mbantua Gallery USA exhibition; Nashville, Tennessee

2005 ‘Small Wonders’ (A collection of 1’x1’ and 1’x1½’ paintings), Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, N.T

2004-2006 Evolution of Utopia, Mbantua Gallery Cultural Museum, Alice Springs December

2006 Camp Scenes and Utopia Life, Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs

2008 Emily and Her Legacy, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo with Coo-ee Art Sydney in conjunction with the opening of the landmark retrospective exhibition Utopia – the Genius of Emily Kngwarreyeat the National Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
Further References

Boulter, M. The Art of Utopia,Craftsman House Press, 1991, NSW

Isaacs, J. ‘Bush Gardens’ Art & Australia, Vol 35, No 4, 1998, Fine Arts Press, NSW

Kleinert, S and Neale M.The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture,2000, Oxford University Press, NSW

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      • Angelina Pwerle (Ngal) - Bush Plum Dreaming, c.2005
        Mar. 08, 2022

        Angelina Pwerle (Ngal) - Bush Plum Dreaming, c.2005

        Est: $6,000 - $7,000

        Angelina began by producing batiks and wooden sculptures alongside her elder sisters Kathleen and Poly Ngal for the Utopia Summer Project in the late 1970s. In 1980, at 40 years of age, she was included in the first exhibition of Utopia women’s paintings held in Alice Springs. Angelina's paintings can be seen as a translation of the cultural, geographic, social and religious components of Anmatjerre life. Her intimate renditions of country are delicately layered and can be read and appreciated at a superficial level for their abstraction and painterliness. At a deeper level, they depict the cultural and social mores of the society in which she lives. Angelina paints her grandfather’s country, Alparra. Many of her paintings depict the Bush Plum, which she represents through a focus of many coloured dots flooding the canvas. She also paints the multicoloured wild flowers of her country, producing patchworks of colour in an ethereal landscape.

        Cooee Art
      • ANGELINA PWERL NGAL born 1952 Night Owl - Kula Kul (1997) synthetic polymer paint on wood 49 x 17 x 16 cm
        Oct. 23, 2019

        ANGELINA PWERL NGAL born 1952 Night Owl - Kula Kul (1997) synthetic polymer paint on wood 49 x 17 x 16 cm

        Est: $500 - $1,000

        ANGELINA PWERL NGAL born 1952 Night Owl - Kula Kul (1997) synthetic polymer paint on wood 49 x 17 x 16 cm PROVENANCE Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Mrs Rae Rothfield, Melbourne, acquired from the above on 19 April 1997 EXHIBITED Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 1997 no. 17

        Smith & Singer
      • Angelina Pwerle Ngal (1972-) Bush Plum Country 2002
        Nov. 27, 2018

        Angelina Pwerle Ngal (1972-) Bush Plum Country 2002

        Est: $3,000 - $5,000

        As with her sisters, Kathleen and Poly Ngal, Angelina began producing batiks and wooden sculptures in the mid 1980s, probably influenced by her late husband, the older brother of Cowboy Loy Pwerl. She was formerly known as Angelina ‘Pwerl’, her husband’s name. Pwerl(e) in Alyawarr language is the equivalent to Ngal in the Anmatyerr language, and it is as Angelina Ngal that she is referred to today. She began painting as part of the CAAMA ‘summer project’ in 1988-9 and, already at 40 years of age, was included in the first exhibition of Utopia women’s paintings held in Alice Springs in 1980. Angelina quickly adapted to painting on canvas and subsequently gained international recognition. Her work can be seen as a contemporary dialogue or translation of the cultural, geographic, social and religious components of Anmatjerre life. Her intimate renditions of country are delicately layered and can be read and appreciated at a superficial level for their abstraction and painterliness. At a deeper level, however, they depict the cultural and social mores of the society in which she lives. Angelina paints her grandfather’s country, Alparra. Many of her paintings depict the Bush Plum, which she represents through a focus of many coloured dots flooding the canvas. She also paints the multicoloured wild flowers of her country, producing patchworks of colour in an ethereal landscape.

        Cooee Art
      • Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) - Ariparra , 2005 199 x 135cm (framed & ready to hang)
        Sep. 24, 2015

        Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) - Ariparra , 2005 199 x 135cm (framed & ready to hang)

        Est: $800 - $1,200

        Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) Ariparra , 2005 acrylic on linen 199 x 135cm (framed & ready to hang) gallery label verso (Lauraine Diggins Fine Art) Cat no.250184

        Lawsons
      • Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) - Ariparra , 2005 199 x 135cm
        Feb. 12, 2015

        Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) - Ariparra , 2005 199 x 135cm

        Est: $1,500 - $2,500

        Angelina Ngal (c.1947 -) Ariparra , 2005 acrylic on linen 199 x 135cm gallery label verso (Lauraine Diggins Fine Art) Cat no.250184

        Lawsons
      • Angelina Ngal born 1952 AHALPER COUNTRY (2007) synthetic polymer paint on linen
        Oct. 18, 2011

        Angelina Ngal born 1952 AHALPER COUNTRY (2007) synthetic polymer paint on linen

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        Angelina Ngal born 1952 AHALPER COUNTRY (2007) synthetic polymer paint on linen 198 X 178CM PROVENANCE Painted at Utopia, Northern Territory Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (stock 270006) Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney Private Collection, Melbourne This painting depicts Angelina's country, Aharlper and is like a map of the area and shows where the Bush Plum grows. The circle of the Bush Plum culminates in December when the fruit turns a deep black purple and is ripe to pick and eat. On a second level, Angelina's paintings incorporate, sacred places associated with women's ceremonies. D'lan Davidson EXHIBITED Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2008

        Smith & Singer
      • Angelina Ngal born circa 1947 AHARLPER synthetic polymer paint on linen
        Jul. 20, 2009

        Angelina Ngal born circa 1947 AHARLPER synthetic polymer paint on linen

        Est: $15,000 - $20,000

        bears artist's name and catalogue number 250185 on the reverse synthetic polymer paint on linen

        Sotheby's
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