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AIAM Rank 51
AIAM Rating 3.3695

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As one of the last generation to remember a childhood lived in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Walangkura Napanangka’s paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald). Born in 1946, at Tjitururrnga west of Kintore, in the remote and arid country between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, she lived with her father Rantji Tjapangati and mother Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and later, while still a teenager, travelled by foot with her family over the hundreds of kilometres from their remote desert home eventually joining Uta Uta Tjangala’s group as they walked into the settlements of Haasts Bluff and then Papunya. The lure of settlement life with its promise of plentiful food and water belied the harsh conversion they would make to an alien lifestyle with its many problems and unfamiliar demands. The upheaval however, was ameliorated to some degree by the proximity of her immediate family including her mother Inyuwa, adoptive father Tutuma Tjapangati, and sister Pirrmangka Napanangka all of whom became artists.

Relocated to the community of Kintore in 1981 when the outstation movement began, Walangkura participated in the historic women’s collaborative painting project (1994) that was initiated by the older women as a means of re-affirming their own spiritual and ancestral roots. It was a time of specifically female singing, ceremony and painting, away from the gaze of outsiders and men folk. The huge and colourful canvases that emerged from the women’s camp were 'alive with the ritual excitement and narrative intensity of the occasion' (Johnson 2000: 197). Within a year, Papunya Tula Artists, now established at Kintore, had taken on many of these women as full-time artists, revitalising the company after the deaths of many of the original ‘painting men’. While individual women forged their own stylistic trajectory, these paintings were immediately distinguishable from the men’s more cerebral and symmetrical style. They radiated an exuberant and vibrant energy, the felt heart-beat of women’s affinity to country and spirit.

Walangkura’s early works, created from 1996 onward, are characterized by masses of small markings and motifs covering large areas of canvas. Her favorite colour, a deep sandy orange predominates, accentuated against more somber blacks and reds and dusky greens or yellows. More recent works show a gestural quality though still tightly packed with an intensity of geometric line work representing sandhills. In a sense this provides a strong visual and contextual link to the men’s linear style as exemplified by the works of George Tjungurayi, Turkey Tolson and Willy Tjungurayi. They are rich with a sense of rhythm and unimpeded movement: they show sandhills, rockholes, journeys and gatherings of ancestral women, the flow of colours in subtle shifts of light. Many of these are monumental works that transmit the confidence of an assured and dynamic creativity. Walangkura transmits the power of the desert, soaked up during her childhood years, and imbues her works with the mystery of a sacred perception.

In time Walagkura became one of Papunya Tula’s most senior women artists. After the death of her mother Inyuwa and the tragic death of her half sister Pirrmangka in 2001, she moved for a time to Kiwirrkura where she lived with her husband and fellow artist Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula and their six children. Her first solo exhibition was held at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2003, and this was followed by another at Utopia Art Sydney in 2004. As her fame spread from this time onward she began painting increasingly for a number of private independent dealers outside of the Papunya Tula company. As a result her works could be seen in a great many galleries and retail shops throughout the country. At her best, Walangkura Napanangka was a formidable artist capable of creating masterpieces on canvases up to three metres in size and many of these are likely to become emblematic examples of Pintupi women’s art.  

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Womens Ceremony  by Walangkura Napanangka
#11622
Womens Ceremony

305 x 170 cm
#11622 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$50,000.00

Untitled by Walangkura Napanangka
#16096
Untitled - 2007

151.0 x 60.0 cm
#16096 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$7,000.00

Untiled by Walangkura Napanangka
#15188
Untiled - 2006

100 x 99 cm
#15188 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$6,000.00

Kutungka Napanangka at Papunga by Walangkura Napanangka
#2919
Kutungka Napanangka at Papunga - 2005

90 x 60
#2919 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$4,400.00

Women's Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#15642
Women's Ceremony

150 x 60 cm
#15642 LOCATION: Bondi Beach
$3,500.00

Kutungka Napanangka at Papunya by Walangkura Napanangka
#7849
Kutungka Napanangka at Papunya - 2008

192.0 x 120.0 cm
#7849
SOLD

Untitled by Walangkura Napanangka
#11765
Untitled - 2008

180.0 x 120.0 cm
#11765
SOLD

Women�s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7004
Women�s Ceremony

150.0 x 120.0 cm
#7004
SOLD

Women's Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#6999
Women's Ceremony

150.0 x 90.0 cm
#6999
SOLD

Women�s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7001
Women�s Ceremony

150.0 x 90.0 cm
#7001
SOLD

Women�s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7003
Women�s Ceremony

60.0 x 120.0 cm
#7003
SOLD

Women’s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7000
Women’s Ceremony

150.0 x 90.0 cm
#7000
SOLD

2005 by Walangkura Napanangka
#2835
2005 - 2005

153.0 x 61.0 cm
#2835
SOLD

Womens Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#2760
Womens Ceremony - 2005

152.0 x 61.0 cm
#2760
SOLD

Women's Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#1913
Women's Ceremony - 2005

90.0 x 120.0 cm
#1913
SOLD

Womens Site by Walangkura Napanangka
#7790
Womens Site - 2007

118.0 x 37.0 cm
#7790
SOLD

Womens Site by Walangkura Napanangka
#7791
Womens Site - 2007

119.0 x 29.0 cm
#7791
SOLD

 by Walangkura Napanangka
#7010

120.0 x 60.0 cm
#7010
SOLD

Womens Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#6996
Womens Ceremony

150.0 x 60.0 cm
#6996
SOLD

Women’s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7321
Women’s Ceremony - 2007

139 x 138 cm
#7321
SOLD

Women’s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7244
Women’s Ceremony - 2007

183 x 122 cm
#7244
SOLD

Women’s Site by Walangkura Napanangka
#7970
Women’s Site - 2008

300 x 182 cm
#7970
SOLD

Women's Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7286
Women's Ceremony - 2007

122.0 x 121.0 cm
#7286
SOLD

Women’s Ceremony by Walangkura Napanangka
#7044
Women’s Ceremony - 2006

119.0 x 207.0 cm
#7044
SOLD


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