Pantjiya Nungurrayi

Pantjiya Nungurrayi was born c.1936 at Haasts Bluff, prior to the mission being established. Her first contact with Europeans was as a young girl, when she and her family met with men who were travelling by camel and distributing rations.

During the latter part of the 70’s, Pantjiya lived with her family between Kungkiyunti Outstation, west of Haasts Bluff, and Papunya, before settling in Kintore soon after the community was established in the early 80’s.

Pantjiya is the widow of George Tjangala a well known artist and early member of the Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya has five sons and three daughters, one of her sons is Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa, who also paints for Papunya Tula Artists.

Pantjiya Nungurrayi only began painting in the mid nineties painting a very distinctive style using the three traditional colours of black, white and yellow ochre.

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Bibliography:

Mellor D. & Megaw V. Twenty-Five Years and Beyond, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue,
Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Flinders Press, 1999.

Collections:

Artbank
Papunya Tula Artists
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands

Exhibitions:

1996 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Central Australia, Australia
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2000 'Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2001 'Art of the Pintupi', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2001 Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2001 'Pintupi Exhibition', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2001 'Pintupi Women From Kintore', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2001 'Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2002 'Pintupi Mens' and Women's Stories', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia
2002 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2003 'Pintupi Art 2003', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2003 'Recent Paintings By The Women Artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2003 'Pintupi Art From The Western Desert', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2004 'Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 'Ma Yungu/Pass It On', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
2005 'Pintupi Women', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
2005 'Papunya Tula - The Next Generation', Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2005 'Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert', Anima Mundi Gallery, Lyons, Colorado, USA
2006 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2006 'Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists', Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia