Walangkura Napanangka
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. Born: c.1946
Country: Tjiturulnga- west of Kintore
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