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BORN circa 1940
REGION Tjiturrulnga
LANGUAGE Pintupi
Walangkura was born at Tjiturulnga, west of Kintore. She is the daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and Tutuma Tjapangati and sister of Pirrmangka Napanangka. Her family moved to Haasts Bluff in 1956, along with a group of Pintupi people. The family returned to Kintore in 1981. Walangkura’s career commenced when she participated in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff canvas project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’, in 1995. She began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. AWARDS
2005 1st prize Redlands Westpac Art Prize
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
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
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, NT;
Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne;
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT;
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, NT;
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, VIC;
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.
SELECT BIOGRAPHY
Isaacs, J., Spirit Country: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, San Francisco, 1999. Mellor, D. and Megaw V., Twenty Five Years and Beyond, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Flinders Press, Adelaide, 1999. Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000. Bardon, Geoffrey; Ryan, Judith; Pizzi, Gabrielle; Stanhope, Zara., Mythology and Reality – Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004. Walangkura Napanangka: Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2003. Bahr, Elizabeth. The Unseen in Scene, exhibition catalogue, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany, 2000. Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art, exhibition catalogue, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2002, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2002. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2003, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2003. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Masterpieces From The Western Desert, exhibition catalogue, London, 2003
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