Walala Tjapaltjarri
- Skin Name:Tjapaltjarri
- Language:Pintupi
- Region:Kiwirrkurra, Western Desert
- Dreaming:Tingari cycle
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Biography
Walala was born in the early 1960’s in the Gibson Desert and as one of nine lived a nomadic life (including his brothers Warlimpirrnga and Thomas). They made history in October 1984 when they had first contact with ‘the outside world and Europeans’ for the first time. Walala paints the Tingari Cycle, which is a series of sacred and secret song-lines. These Tingari are associated with his Dreaming sites at Marua, Mintarnpi, Wanapatangu, Minna Minna, Naami, Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) and Yarrawangu, which are all in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. These were some of the places where the Tingari Ancestors stopped for ceremonies during their travels across the country.
- © Artist Image taken by Arts Photographer and Gallerist Sabine Haider, Central Art, Alice Springs 2009
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Collections
- AMP Investments Australia, Sydney
- Axiom Funds Management, Sydney
- Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Perth
- El Paso Energy International Co, Houston, Texas, USA
- Epic Energy Australia, Brisbane
- Flinders University, Adelaide
- Gantner Myer Aboriginal Art Collection, CNC International Corporation, Sydney
- Hastings Funds Management, Melbourne
- Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle, USA
- New South Wales Art Gallery, Sydney
- The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
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Exhibitions
- 1997 - 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 1998 - Tingari - Men's Business, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney
- 1998 - Walala Tjapaltjarri Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
- 1998 - Tingari Cycle - an exhibition of works by Walala Tjapaltjarri, Fire-works Gallery, Brisbane
- 1998 - Tingari - My Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle
- 1998 - 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 1999 - Tingari Cycle, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
- 1999 - Spirit Country, The California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, USA
- 1999 - Recent Works by Walala Tjapaltjarri and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
- 1999 - Painting the Desert, Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy, Canberra
- 1999 - 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 2000 - Walala Tjapaltjarri and Dr George Tjapaltjarri, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney
- 2000 - Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri and Dorothy Napangardi, Rebecca Hossask Gallery, London
- 2000 - My Country - Journeys of our Ancestors Ancient Earth Indigenous Art, Cairns
- 2000 - Lines, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
- 2000 - Landmarks Exhibition Dar Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, QLD
- 2000 - 5th National Indigenous Heritage Art Award, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra
- 2000 - 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
- 2000 - Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Melbourne
- 2000-2001 - The Art of Place Exhibition, Australian Heritage Commission, National Tour
- 2004 - Papunya: Painters of the Western Desert, Addison Galleries, NSW Peintres Pintupi Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France
- 2005 - Smoke: Campfire Group and other commissioned works, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane
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