Lorna Fencer Biography
DATE OF BIRTH: c.1920
REGION: Utopia
LANGUAGE GROUP: Warlpiri & Ngaliya
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of VictoriaAboriginal Galleries of Australia
Artbank
Australian Heritage Commission Collection
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Colourists: Kudditji Kngwarreye & Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle2012 Heirs and Successors, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2010 Tradition to Modernity, Central Art – Aboriginal Art Store, Tasmania Art Fair, Launceston
2008 11 Amazing Women Artists From the Central and Western Desert, Central Art – Aboriginal Art Store, Alice Springs
2008 Women’s Law, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2008 The Genius of Lorna Fencer Napurrula, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
2006 Luminaries of the Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2005 Decouvrir Rever, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris
2005 Lorna Napurrula Fencer: Recent Paintings, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2005 All About Yumarrpa, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2004 The Dancers – Warlpiri Women, Art Mob, Hobart
2004 Colour Power, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Melbourne
2004 21st National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2003 20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2003 Lorna Napurrula Fencer: New Paintings, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2002 Lorna Napurrula Fencer – The Big Picture, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne.
2002 Lorna Napurrula Fencer – Paintings from the Tanami Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2002 Lorna Fencer – Inner Spring – New Works from the Tanami, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2001 A Tribute to Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Original & Authentic Aboriginal Art Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Tandanya Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2001 Icons of Australian Aboriginal Art, Singapore
2001 Little Gems, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
2000 Artists from Lajamanu – Tanami Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
2000 Opening of Yuwayi Art Centre, Fremantle
1999 St Valentine’s Exhibition, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
1999 Tracks Across the Landscape, Land Rover Showroom, Sydney
1999 Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1999 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
1999 United Nations Building, New York, USA
1999 Yapa, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, USA
1999 Paintings from Lajamanu Community, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
1998 Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra
1998 Yulyulu, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Warnayaka Warlpiri, Karen Brown Gallery, Darwin
1998 Wild Warlpiri Women, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
1998 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1998 6th Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melbourne
1997 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997 Women’s Body Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1997 Me Warlpiri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1996 All About Art, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Yapakurlangu Wirrkardu, Batchelor College, Tennant Creek
1991 Aboriginal Art, Australia Embassy, Washington, USA
1991 Paint Up Big: Warlpiri Women’s Art from Lajamanu, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1991 Aboriginal Art and Spirituality, High Court, Canberra
1990 S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1990 Paint Up Big, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1990 Robert Holmes a Court Collection (touring USA), USA
1988 People, Place & Art, Hilton International Hotel, Adelaide
AWARDS
2004 Selected Entrant, 21st annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory2000 Selected Entrant, 20th annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
1998 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1997 Gold Coast City Art Award, Conrad Jupiters Casino
