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This body of work emerged from my return to my bush property following the recent Victorian fires. Rather than depicting the visible aftermath of fire, I found myself drawn to something less obvious – the feeling that the land had changed in ways that were difficult to articulate…… Continue reading
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182 x 244 cm
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Acrylic on Linen
182 x 244 cm
A$135,000 Buy NowBorn 1943
Died 2023
Region Kintore, W.A.
Language Pintupi
George Tjungurrayi (c.1943–2023), widely known as George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi, was one of the foremost artists of the Papunya Tula movement. A senior Pintupi man, he was born in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia and spent his early years living a traditional nomadic life before moving to Papunya in the early 1960s.
Growing up alongside many of the founding figures of the Western Desert art movement, George began painting with Papunya Tula Artists in 1976. While grounded in the traditions established by the movement’s pioneers, he developed a highly individual visual language that distinguished him as one of Australia’s most accomplished contemporary Aboriginal artists.
His paintings are renowned for their refined minimalism, built from finely rendered parallel lines that create subtle optical movement across the canvas. Drawing on the Tingari Cycle and the ceremonial landscapes of his ancestral Country around Kiwirrkurra, Lake Mackay and the Gibson Desert, his works express the journeys of ancestral beings while maintaining the cultural integrity of Pintupi knowledge.
George’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally and is represented in major public and private collections. A finalist in the Wynne Prize and recipient of numerous accolades, he is widely regarded as one of the most important innovators of contemporary Western Desert painting, celebrated for transforming traditional iconography into a strikingly modern visual language.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Museum of Victoria, Melbourne.
Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Artbank, Sydney.
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Queensland University, Brisbane.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Musee des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Paris.
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand.
Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA.
University of Virginia, USA.
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997 Utopia Art, Sydney.
1998 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2002 Utopia Art, Sydney.
2003 “Paintings from Mamultjulkulnga and Kirrimalunya”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2008 “Between the lines” Utopia Art, Sydney
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