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WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA
Walangkura Napanangka was born in 1946 at
Tjiturulnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore). She is the daughter of Inyuwa
Nampitjinpa and Tutuma Tjapangati and sister of the Pirrmangka Napanangka.
Her family was amongst a group of Pintupi people who made their way to the
Ikuntji settlement (Haasts Bluff) in 1956. They walked hundreds of
kilometres from west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald)
to access the supplies of food and water on offer at the settlement. The
family returned to their homelands community of Walungurru in 1981.
Walangkura began her career through
participating in the historic Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas
project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’ in 1995, and subsequently began painting for
Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. She now lives at Kiwirrkura with her husband
and fellow artist Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula.
This painting represents designs associated
with the travels of an old woman Kutungka Napanangka from the west. She
traveled from Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore community and visited
the site of Papulnga, where there is an underground cave. The circles
represent the edible berries known as KAMPURARRPA or desert raisin from
small scrubs SOLANUM Centrale. Kutungka gathered these berries as she
traveled. These berries are of great importance to the aboriginal people
and are renowned for there medicinal properties. They are used in
ceremonies by the elder women.
Collections:
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Artbank.
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection.
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.
The Kelton Foundation, USA.
Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions:
2004 - Walangkura Napanangka, Utopia Art Sydney.
2003 - Walangkura Napanangka: Recent Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne.
Group Exhibitions:
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria;
Luminus:
selected works from the Helen Read Collection, touring; Papunya Tula
Artists - new
work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney.
2004 - Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South
Australia;
Papunya Tula Artists - 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria;
All About
Papunya, Chapman Gallery Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; The Inner
And The
Outer, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany; Mythology
and Reality
- Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection,
Heidi
Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; 21st Telstra National Aboriginal &
Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory; EXPLAINED, A closer look at
Aboriginal
art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Ma Yungu/Pass It On,
Framed
Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal
Exhibition Building,
Melbourne; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern
Territory;
Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003 - Pintupi Art 2003, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South
Australia;
Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura, Gallery
Gabrielle
Pizzi, Melbourne; Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne,
Victoria;
Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia;
Masterpieces
From The Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom;
Papunya Tula
Artists - A Gift From The Desert, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales;
Pintupi Artists,
Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
2002 - Paintings From Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer,
Adelaide, South
Australia; Aboriginal Art 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne;
William Mora
Galleries, Melbourne; Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories, Indigenart, Perth;
Art Born
Of The Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Saluting
Papunya,
Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; Pintupi Artists,
Papunya Tula
Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Royal
Exhibition
Building, Melbourne.
2001 - Size Doesn't Matter - Papunya Tula
Painting 1997-2001, William Mora Galleries,
Melbourne; Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide,
South Australia;
Six Painters From Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney;
Dreamscapes-Contemporary
Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Papunya Tula Aboriginal
Art, William
Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition,
Chapman Gallery,
Canberra, ACT; Indigenart, Perth; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art
Centre, Alice
Springs, Northern Territory; Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists,
Alice Springs,
Northern Territory; Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne; Museum,
Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; 31st Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice
Springs, Northern
Territory; Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford
Park, South
Australia.
2000 - Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany;
Papunya Tula:
Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Framed Gallery,
Darwin;
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists,
Alice Springs,
Northern Territory.
1999 - Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders
University,
Bedford Park, South Australia; 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Islander Art Award,
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Gallery
Gabrielle Pizzi,
Melbourne; New Horizons 2000, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern
Territory;
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; 15th National Aboriginal & Torres
Strait Islander Art
Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Art Of
The Aborigines,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Melbourne
Art Fair,
Melbourne.
1997 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; 14th National Aboriginal &
Torres Strait
Islander Art Award 1997, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin; The
Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory;
Chapman
Gallery, Manuka, Canberra.
1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory;
Museum & Art
Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; A/S
Art
Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
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