MAKINTI
NAPANANGKA
Born c.1930
State: NT
Region: Central Desert
Community: Kintore
Outstation: Kaakuratinja
Language: Pintupi
Subsection: Napanangka
Solo Exhibitions
2002
Makinti Napanangka: Recent Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2001
Makinti Napanangka: new paintings, Utopia Art Sydney.
2000
Makinti Napanangka: New Vision, Utopia Art Sydney.
Group Exhibitions
2008
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum
and Art Galleryof the NT, Darwin.
2007
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum
and Art Galleryof the NT, Darwin.
2005
Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2004
Papunya Tula Artists 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria
Federation Square, Melbourne
Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from
the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
2003
Emerge, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,
Museum and Art Galleryof the NT, Darwin.
2002
Recent Paintings by the Women Artists of Kintor and Kiwirrkura, Gallery
Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Spring Exhibition 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award,
Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin
Next Generation – Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney
Paintings from Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
2001
Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl,
Vienna
Desert Flowering:Aborignal Art from Private Collections, Manawatu Gallery,
New Zealand
Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Utopia Art Sydney
Art of the Pintupi Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia
Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey, Art Dealer, Melbourne Victoria
Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg,
Denmark
Papunya Tula 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island award, Museum and
Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin, NT
Kintore and Krwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Dreamtime-Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Essi Collection,Vienna, Austria
2000
Pintupi Women, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
Melbourne ArtFair 2000, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne
Papunya Tula Artists NOW, Utopia Art Sydney
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of NSW
Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1998
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Utopia Art, Sydney
15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.
14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award, RMIT University,
Melbourne, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, N.T.
1997
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, N.T.
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic.
1996
Papunya Tula Women: first exhibition outside Alice Springs,Utopia Art
Sydney
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.
Womens Show, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, N.T.
1995
Minyma Tjukurrpa, Kintore/Haasts Bluff Canvas Project, Tandanya
National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.
Select Bibliography
ISAACS, J.Spirit Country, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardi
Grant Books, 1999.
Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery
of
New South Wales,Australia 2000.
Aboriginal Art 2001 exhibition catalogue, Scott Livesey Art Dealer,
Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia 2001.
Desert Flowering, exhibition catalogue, Manawatu Art Gallery, North
Island, New Zealand, 2001.
Dreamscapes- Contemporary Desert Art exhibition catalogue, Mostings
Hus,
Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001.
Sammlung Essl Dreamtime-Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibition
catalogue, Essi Collection, Vienna, Austria, 2001.
Ryan, Judith (editor), Colour Power - Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004 (C).
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.©
Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Awards
2008 - winner, 2008 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art Award (NATSIAA).
2003 - finalist in the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of
Victoria.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Macquarie Bank Collection.
Museums & Art Galleries of the N.T.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Queensland Art Gallery.
Notes
Makinti Napanangka is one of the leading women artists from the Western
Desert working with Papunya Tula Artists.
Makinti Napanangka is a Pintupi speaker who was born sometime around
1930 in the Lake MacDonald region. She and her family walked in to
Haasts Bluff before the Papunya Community was established.
She began painting in the mid 1990s and quickly developed her own
distinctive style and has been painting regularly with the Papunya
Tula Artists cooperative since 1996.
Makinti's work incorporates designs associated with the travels of
the Kungka Kutjarra (two women). The wandering lines that so often
feature in her paintings depict the swirling hair string skirts worn
by women during ceremonies associated with certain sites. While the
patterning refers to the skirts, the flowing rhythms of the lines
hint at the songs and dances of the Pintupi women's ceremonies.
While most of Makinti's imagery is related to the Kungka Kutjarra,
it can also refer to the Kuningka - the western quoll - which is
represented by circles.
Makinti has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has had
three solo shows. Her work is represented in many major public and
private collections in both Australia and the rest of the world.
She was rated in the March 2003 issue of "Australian Art Collector"
magazine as one of the 50 most collectable artists in Australia.
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