Walangkura Napanangka
selected biography
| Description: | 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:
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:
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:
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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