Walangkura Napanangka

ASAAWN1419

Synthetic Polymer Paints on Belgium Linen
3000mm x 1800mm
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Walangkura Napanangka Old Womans Travelling Story ASAAWN2178 2007 297x180cm Acrylic paints on linen

Acrylic paints on linen
Old 297x180cm
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Walangkura Napanangka Old Womans Travelling Story ASAAWN1396 2005 180x300cm Acrylic paints on linen

Acrylic paints on linen
180x300cm
ASAAWN1396 sold

 

Walangkura-Napanangka

Walangkura Napanangka

Born: c.1946
Country: Tjiturulnga- west of Kintore
Language group: Pintupi

Walangkura was born at Tjiturulnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore).

She is the daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and Tutuma Tjapangati and sister of Pirrmangka Napanangka (dec). Her family was amongst a group of Pintupi people who walked for hundreds of kilometres from west of Lake Macdonald to the Ikuntji settlement (Haasts Bluff) in 1956 for food and water at the settlement. The family returned to their own country of Walungurru in 1981. Walangkura began painting through her participation in the historic Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’ in 1995, and eventually began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. She now lives at Kiwirrkura (Kintore) with her husband and fellow artist Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula. Walangkura’s paintings feature rock holes, sand hills and underground caves however her main dreamings are of a “devil devil” woman who kills and eats people whilst on her journey from the west. Walangkura has exhibited extensively, including in Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2000), in Dreamscapes – Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark (2001), and in Mythology and Reality at the S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2003). Walangkura had her first solo exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2003.

 

Exhibitions

Exhibitions: 2000- Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2001- Dreamscapes: Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Fredriksberg, Denmark 2003- Emerge, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin 2003- Mythology and Reality at the S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2004- Walangkura Napanangka, Utopia Art Sydney 2004- Papunya Tula Artists: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 2004- Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne 2005- Papunya Tula Artists: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Collections

Collections: Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Artbank The Kelton Foundation, USA Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Aranda Collection

Awards

Awards: 2004- 21st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin 2008- 1st prize Redlands Westpac Art Prize

 

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