Kathleen Ngal Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Kathleen Ngal Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 08, 2023
Kathleen Ngal - Bush Plum Country, 2002
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Kathleenâs works can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps, depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her brilliant canvases, denoting the varied flora and geographical locations of the Bush Plum.
Cooee Art
Mar. 08, 2022
Kathleen Ngal - Bush Plum Country, 2007
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Kathleenâs works can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps, depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her brilliant canvases, denoting the varied flora and geographical locations of the Bush Plum. The site depicted is Arlperre on Utopia Station. This is country that belongs to the Ngal and Kemarr custodians, who paint the Bush Plum or Conkleberry. It only thrives once every seven years, after huge storms. In these paintings Kathleen's coloured dotting represents the petals and flowers of the bush plum flowers, in a range of orange, red, blue, purple, and yellow, depending on the different stages of its life cycle. In this work we see the plant's final flourish, as white dots overlay the canvas, representing the sun-dried leaves, seeds, husks, and grasses of Arlperre.
Cooee Art
Mar. 08, 2022
Kathleen Ngal - Untitled, 2008
Est: $28,000 - $35,000
Kathleen Ngal was born at Camel Camp, an outstation near the Sandover River on the Utopia clan lands in the Eastern Desert, 240 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs. She began her artistic career creating Batik designs on silk during workshops organised by Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) in the late 1970s. Her paintings can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps, depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour rained across her brilliant canvases, denoting the varied flora and geographical locations of the Bush Plum. The site depicted is Arlperre on Utopia Station. This is country that belongs to the Ngal and Kemarr custodians, who paint the Bush Plum or Conkleberry, which only thrives once every seven years, following large storms. Kathleen's paintings can be predominantly white, representing the petals of its flowers, or a range of orange, red, blue, purple, and yellow, depending on the different degrees of ripeness of the plum. In this work, we see the plant's final flourish, as white dots overlay the canvas, representing the sun-dried leaves, seeds, husks, and grasses of Arlperre.
Cooee Art
Jun. 23, 2020
Kathleen Ngal - Anwekety - Bush Plum Dreaming
Est: $1,800 - $2,500
Kathleenâs works can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps, depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her brilliant canvases, denoting the varied flora and geographical locations of the Bush Plum. The site depicted is Arlperre on Utopia Station. This is country that belongs to the Ngal and Kemarr custodians, who paint the Bush Plum or Conkleberry. It only thrives once every seven years, after huge storms. Kathleen's paintings can be predominantly white, representing the petals of its flowers, or a range of orange, red, blue, purple, and yellow, depending on the different degrees of ripeness of the plum. In this work, we see the plant in flower with a suggestion of stages in the ripening of the fruit.
Cooee Art
Jun. 23, 2020
Kathleen Ngal - Bush Plum Dreaming
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Kathleenâs works can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps, depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her brilliant canvases, denoting the varied flora and geographical locations of the Bush Plum. The site depicted is Arlperre on Utopia Station. This is country that belongs to the Ngal and Kemarr custodians, who paint the Bush Plum or Conkleberry. It only thrives once every seven years, after huge storms. Kathleen's paintings can be predominantly white, representing the petals of its flowers, or a range of orange, red, blue, purple, and yellow, depending on the different degrees of ripeness of the plum. In this work we see the plant's final flourish, as white dots overlay the canvas, representing the sun-dried leaves, seeds, husks, and grasses of Arlperre.
Cooee Art
Apr. 21, 2020
Ngal, Kathleen Flowers in Bush Plum Country Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas 120 x 93 cm 2004
Est: $4,500 - $6,500
The conkerberry known as anwekety or bush plum, is a sweet black berry that is favoured by desert Aboriginals. They grow on the plant (Carissa lanceolata) for only a few weeks of each year. They are collect in plenty and stored dry, until soaked in water before being consumed. The plant of the conkerberry is a tangled, spiny shrub that can grow up to 2m high. After rain fragrant white flowers bloom. This plant also has medicinal properties. The orange inner bark from the roots can be soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash. This is particularly favoured for skin and eye conditions. The thorns on the shrub can be used to cure warts. In Dreamtime, winds blew from all directions, carrying the anwekety seed over Kathleen's ancestors' land. Urapantja Artists Utopia, NT Private Collection, USA Cooee Art, NSW
Cooee Art
May. 29, 2018
Arlperre-Bush Plum
Est: $8,000 - $10,000
Kathleen's works can be interpreted as sophisticated mind maps depicting cultural knowledge of her country as well as its physical geography. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her brilliant canvases denoting the varied flora and the geographical location of the Bush Plum. Best known for the way in which she depicts the white flowers of the Bush Plum over a shimmering background of colour, Kathleen often employs a variety of blues, purples and reds in her under-painting.
Cooee Art
Nov. 16, 2017
Untitled
Est: $12,000 - $15,000
The Ngal women are custodians who paint Anekwetji, which is also called a bush plum. The Anekwetj is a small fruit, sourced from a bushy shrub with small bright green leaves. The various colours underlying the surface of the painting represent the different degrees of ripeness of the plum, which is purple when ready to eat. These bush plums thrive over the vast flood-out area of Arlperre on average one in seven years when the Sandver River runs a banker after huge storms. Kathleen's treatment of this bush plum theme derives from her long memory of survival, particularly in those hard years of drought, the internalised anticipation of rain, and the belief that ceremony would help bring the rain and flush of bush food. Kathleen takes a layered approach to the canvas, and gives it her stamp of validity through her choice of colours. Her final flourish of a white dotted overlay across the canvas represents the sun-dried leaves, seeds, husks and grasses of Arlperre and allows a beautiful pink hue to radiate from the surface of the painting.
Cooee Art
Jul. 25, 2017
KATHLEEN NGAL (BORN 1934) Untitled
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
KATHLEEN NGAL (BORN 1934) Bush Plum Country (2008) synthetic polymer paint on linen 199 x 297 cm PROVENANCE Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (280000) EXHIBITED Finalist, Wynne Prize for Landscape Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2008 On Loan, Shepparton Art Gallery, 2008-2011
Mossgreen Auctions
Jul. 21, 2015
KATHLEEN NGAL born circa 1930 My Country (2002) synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
KATHLEEN NGAL born circa 1930 My Country (2002) synthetic polymer paint on canvas 122.5 x 100 cm PROVENANCE Laurairne Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (label verso) PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DR GEOK WONG, MELBOURNE
Smith & Singer
Oct. 18, 2011
Kathleen Ngal born circa 1930 BUSH PLUM COUNTRY (2007) synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Kathleen Ngal born circa 1930 BUSH PLUM COUNTRY (2007) synthetic polymer paint on linen 197 X 114CM PROVENANCE Painted at Utopia, Northern Territory Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne (stock LDFA 270032) Private Collection, Melbourne Kathleen Ngal lives at Camel Camp in the Utopia region and she is married to Motorbike Paddy, who is the traditional owner of Camel Camp. As a senior custodian, Kathleen has great responsibility as keeper of cultural knowledge for her country Aharlper, located in the heart of Utopia, 250 kms North East of Alice Springs. Kathleen began her career in 1979, involved in the production of Batiks, at Utopia prior to the introduction of painting on canvas in the mid 1980s. Thousands of dots of colour are rained across her canvas denoting flora and the geographical and sacred sites. D'lan Davidson
Smith & Singer
Oct. 18, 2011
Kathleen Ngal born circa 1930 BUSH PLUM COUNTRY (2009) synthetic polymer paint on linen
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Kathleen Ngal born circa 1930 BUSH PLUM COUNTRY (2009) synthetic polymer paint on linen 213 X 152CM PROVENANCE Commissioned by Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory (stock 09K106) Metro Gallery, Melbourne Private Collection, Melbourne
Smith & Singer