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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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A$7,500 Buy NowBorn c.1942
Region Kintore
Language Pintupi
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (c.1943–2023) was a senior Pintupi artist whose work became synonymous with the Western Desert painting movement. Born near Muyinnga, west of the Kintore Ranges, he spent his early years living a traditional nomadic life across the Gibson Desert before moving with his family to Papunya during the 1950s.
After working as a stockman and labourer, Ronnie joined the emerging Papunya Tula movement and later returned to live on his ancestral lands following the establishment of Kintore in 1981. His close connection to Country and Pintupi cultural traditions remained central to his artistic practice throughout his career.
His paintings are distinguished by bold geometric forms, interconnected circles and rhythmic line work, depicting important ancestral narratives including the Tingari Cycle, Water Dreaming and Bushfire Dreaming. These works express the journeys of ancestral beings and the enduring relationship between people, ceremony and Country.
Ronnie was awarded the Alice Springs Art Prize in 1988, and his paintings have been exhibited extensively across Australia and internationally. His work is represented in major public and private collections, securing his place as one of the leading artists of the Papunya Tula movement and an important figure in contemporary Aboriginal art.
EXHIBTIONS
2011 Tjukurrtjanu- Origins of Western Desert Art, National Gallery of Victoria
2009 The Dreamers, Art Gallery of NSW
2008 From the air, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2004 DREAMTIME: The Dark and The Light, Sammlung Essl, Austria
2003 Bushfire, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane QLD
2001 Spirit & Vision, Sammlung Essl, Austria
2000 Aboriginal Lawman- Masterworks, Australian Exhibition Centre, Chicago, USA
2000 Papunya Tula Genesis and Genius, Australia Gallery, NSW
2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne VIC
1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA
1999 Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide SA
1999 Spirit Country, San Francisco/Touring
1998 Jinta Gallery, Sydney
1996 Twenty Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA
1995 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne VIC.” 2001, 2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Me
1994 Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
1994 Power of the Land, Masterpieces of Aboriginal Art, National Gallery of Victoria
1994 Dreamings – Tjukurrpa: Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert
1994 The Donald Kahn collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
1994 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1994 The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1994 Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1993 Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga,Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach, Qld
1993 Tjukurrpa, Desert Dreamings, Aboriginal Art from Central Australia (1971-1993), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA
1993 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1992 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1992 The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1991 The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1991 Flash Pictures, National Gallery of Australia
1991 Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, USA
1991 Aboriginal Paintings from the Desert, Union of Soviet Artists Gallery, Moscow and Museum of Ethnographic Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1990 National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome
1990 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1990 Paintings from the Desert, Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania
1990 The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1989 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1989 Aboriginal Art: The Continuing Tradition, National Gallery of Australia
1988 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1987 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1986 Roar Studios, Melbourne
1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth.
Campbelltown City Art Gallery
Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.
Medibank Private Collection
Musee des Arts Africans et Oceaniens, Paris.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Supreme Court of Northern Territory, Darwin.
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
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