Nura Rupert (c1933-2016)

Nura Rupert was an Australian Aboriginal artist from north-west South Australia. She learned from a young age to weave and knit, making rugs and clothes at the Presbyterian mission at Ernabella. Later she also learned to make artistic objects from wood arving to poker work. In her late sixties she began to paint, using acrylic on canvas and started printmaking a few years later. She produced her works using intaglio methods of printmaking. The designs are drawn by etching and linocutting, and the prints done on paper.

Most of her works depict stories from her childhood, usually showing animals or children, which she painted with great joy. Nura was described by her son and "joyful, always happy and full of laughter".

Nura was born about 1933 in the bush of Tjitapiti, northeast of Nyapari, South Australia and passed away in 2016.

Exhibited widely since 2000 in many Australian and United Kingdom cities, her work is held in several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia and Parliament House in Canberra. Prints by Nura were chosen as finalists for the NATSIAA 2006 and 2007 and the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards in 2010.