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Pantjiya Nungurrayi

  • Skin Name:Nungurrayi
  • Language:Pintupi
  • Region:Kintore, Western Desert
  • Dreaming:Womens stories
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Pantjiya Nungurrayi

Biography

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.

  • © Artist image taken by Arts Photographer Sabine Haider, Central Art 2007

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
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