Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in c.1943 at Tjiturrunya west of Kintore Ranges in Western Australia. Ronnie was initiated into manhood in Winparku, near Lake Mackay.
After prolonged droughts in the 1950s, he and his family moved, first to Haasts Bluff, then to Papunya. Ronnie Tjampitjinpa commenced painting in c.1975 after he observed the Papunya painting movement. Since moving to Walungurru, in the early 1980's he has emerged as one of Papunya Tula's major artists.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's art is a good representation of the characteristic Pintupi sytle: repetition of forms, which are geometric, simple and bold, and pigments which are often restricted to four basic colours of black, red, yellow and white; however Ronnie experiments with other colours as well.
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Collections:
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
- Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
- Robert Holmes a Court
- Medibank Private Collection
- Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- Artbank
- Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
- Donald Khan, U.S.A.
- Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
- Musee National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France
- Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Exhibitions:
- 1982 Brisbane Festival, Brisbane
- 1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney
- 1986 Galerie Dusseldorf, Germany
- 1986 Aboriginal Arts Australia, Canberra
- 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996 Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
- 1988 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
- 1988 Expo '88, Brisbane
- 1991, 1993, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
- 1991 Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- 1991 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, U.S.A.
- 1992 Aboriginal Artists Agency, Sydney
- 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
- 1992 Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat
- 1993 Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
- 1993 Art Museum, Armidale, N.S.W.
- 1993 Art Gallery of W.A., Perth
- 1994 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- 1994 Utopia Gallery, Sydney
- 1994 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Milan and Palermo, Italy
- 1994 Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
- 1995 Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
- 1996 - 2006 Twenty-Five Years and Beyond: Papunya Tula Painting, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
- 1998 Jinta Gallery, Sydney
- 1999 - 2001 Spirit Country, San Francisco, touring
- 1999 Flinders Art Museum Flinders University, Adelaide
- 1999 Embassy of Australia, Washington, U.S.A.
- 1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, U.S.A.
- 2000 Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne
- 2000 Papunya Tula Genesis and Genius, Australia Gallery, N.S.W.
- 2001, 2003 Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne
Awards:
- 1988 Alice Springs Art Prize
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Source: Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)
Artist: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Skin Name: Tjampitjinpa (also known as Jampitjinpa)
Language: Pintupi
Region: Kintore
Vendor: Central Art
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