WALANGKURA
NAPANANGKA
Born: c1946
Region: Central Desert Community:
Outstation: Tjturrulnga
Language: Pintupi
Social Affiliation: Subsection: Napangka
Medium: Acrylic on canvas.
Solo 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
Papunya Tula Artists - 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery Canberra
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, NT
EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht,
The Netherlands
Ma Yungu/Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin
Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2003
Pintupi Art 2003, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura, Gallery
Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth
Masterpieces From The Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London,
United Kingdom
Papunya Tula Artists - A Gift From The Desert, Utopia Art, Sydney
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
2002
Paintings From Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide
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
Saluting Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
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
Six Painters From Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art , 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
Indigenart, Perth
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Museum, Utopia Art, Sydney
31st Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
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
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 NT, Darwin
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
New Horizons 2000, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1998
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum
& Art Gallery of the NT, 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 NT, Darwin
The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra
1996
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney
A/S Art Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
Select Bibliography
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.
© Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian
Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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.
Notes
Walangkura Napanangka was born in 1946 at Tjiturulnga, west of Alice
Springs. She came to Haasts Bluff before finally residing in Kintore.
In 1996 Walangkura commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists. Now
an accomplished, respected artist Walangkura unveils a masterpiece in
every painting she completes.
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