| Paddy Fordham 1941 - 2006 Evelyn Pultara Gloria Petyarre Kai Kai Walangkura Napanangka Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Mitjili Napurrula Clifford Possum |
| Paddy Fordham 1941 - 2006 Paddy Fordham Wainbuurranga was born in Arnhem Land in the early 1930's and passed away 1 June 2006. His country is called Bamdibu near Bulman Station. Paddy started working as a boy around cattle yards and later on droving cattle. A lot of his time was also spent hunting and learning culture and customs from his father and uncles. He learnt how to paint from his father. Paddy can remember being taken to sacred locations where he was told many Dreamtime stories of how customs came to be and why Aboriginal people practice them. Paddy's unique and vibrant depiction of the Mimi Spirit is the centre piece for most of his paintings. He often painted a dancing Mimi Man, which he says is a good Mimi. He looks over the land as a protector, and only comes out at nights. The Mimi is not visible during the day. Paddy traveled to Canberra for the opening of the Hollow Log memorial at the National Gallery of Australia as a tribute to all the aborigines who died as the result of European contact. Thirty of the two hundred poles in this installation were made by Paddy. Paddy has exhibited his works at the Dusseldorf Art and Antique Fair in Germany. Paddy Fordham's works are in many private collections around the world, also the National Gallery Canberra, National Gallery of Northern Territory In 1993 his painting Eagle Hawk and Crow won the National Aboriginal art award. When asked if he would ever give up painting if he became wealthy he replied: “No, painting won't stop. no, I gotta do that. My painting, my Dreamtime, nobody own it for me, nobody can stop this History painting. When I die, young people gotta take it over. That's why all over the world we meet up, talk together and give history to one another. I give you my painting or you give me your painting. Everything for the children because they going to be taking over.” Paddy is well-known for encouraging young Aboriginal children to paint and learn their culture. go to Paddy's paintings |
| Evelyn Pultara Evelyn was born at Woodgreen Station, the cattle property adjoining Utopia Station, north east of Alice Springs. She is an Anmatyerre woman and the mother of six children. Born C1940. She began her painting career in 1977, even though her works have a bright, bold, contemporary edge they are still based on tradition. |
| Gloria Petyarre Gloria Petyarre was born in Utopia C1945. She is an Anmatyerre speaker and her country is Atnangkere. One of seven sisters, all artists, including Kathleen Petyarre, Nancy Petyarre, Violet Petyarre and Ada Bird. Gloria lives at Mulga Bore (Akaye Soakage) at Utopia. She first gained recognition as an artist working with batik. In 1988 began painting, her first work was shown in the exhibition "Utopia Women's Painting; The First Works of Canvas; a Summer Project 1988 to 1989." Gloria's work is based on the body paint designs for her Dreamings, which include Mountain Devil Lizard, Bean, Emu, Pencil Yam, Grass Seed and Small Brown Grass and well as the traditional body paint designs worn by women. Gloria uses a range of different brush strokes to represent the growth of the leaves at certain times of the year. She is continually experimenting with colour and form to create the bold and vibrant works she is famous for. In 1990 she traveled to Ireland, London and India as a representative of the Utopia Women in the 'Utopia - A picture Story' exhibition. (Tandanya, Adelaide, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland and the Meat Market Gallery in Melbourne.) In 1991 she had her first solo exhibition at Utopia Art in Sydney. Since then she has exhibited at the National Gallery in Canberra, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jinta Desert Art in Sydney and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. She is also featured extensively in major collections around the world. The National Gallery of Australia, the Robert Holmes a' Court Collection, Museum of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum. |
| Kai Kai Kai Kai Nampitjinpa was born in 1946 at Kiwirrkura which is North West of Alice Springs. Today she lives in the Pintupi community at Kintore. She is a Pintupi speaker. Kintore was founded in the early 1980's when the Pintupi tribes left the government reservation at Papunya. (Kintore is approximately 600 kms west of Alice Springs). Kayi Kayi started painting in the 1980's. She paints mainly rock hole dreaming and women's ceremony. The designs in her paintings refer to the designs that the women paint on their bodies for ceremonies. She is married to artist, Nolan Tjapangati, also an artist and on inspiration from her fellow artists. At the Kintore community there is a communal artists shed where all the women artists gather to paint, sing their dreamings and develop their style. The Kintore community at present has over fifty artists all of whom are gaining in popularity. The Kintore settlement has been home to some of the major artists of the Papunya Art movement, amongst those Turkey Tolson and Mick Namareri . Her works have appeared in exhibitions at Flinders University, Darwin, Utopia Galleries in Sydney and in Melbourne. She was featured in the catalogue entitled "Twenty Five Years and Beyond" which was produced for the Flinders exhibition. She was a finalist for a national arts award which took place in Darwin in 2000. |
| Walangkura Napanangka Walangkura Napanangka was born C1940 in the bush at Tjiturulnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore) - in the Gibson Desert, near the Western Australia/ Northern Territory border. Her family were amongst a group of Pintupi people who made their way to the Ikuntji settlement (Haasts Bluff) in 1956. They walked hundreds of kilometres from west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald) to access the supplies of food and water on offer at the settlement. The family returned to their homelands community of Walungurru in 1981. Walangkura lives with her husband, artist, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula at Kintore. Her mother, Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and sister, Pirrmangka Napanangka, both deceased were also painters. Her father was Tutuma Tjapangati. Walangkura began her painting career through participating in the historic Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project 'Minyma Tjukurrpa' in 1995. Her bold, strong and vibrant paintings recreate the creation stories and ceremonial sites associated with the Tjukurrpa of her Pintupi homelands. Exhibitions: 1997 - 2002 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs 1998 'Sztuka Aborygenow' - (Art of the Aborigines), Warsaw, Poland 1999 Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide 2001 Pintupi, Alice Springs 2000 Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of NSW 2001 Dreamscapes - Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark 2003 Mythology and Reality, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2003 Solo Exhibition - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 2005 Across Skin - Women Artists of the Western Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle Some Major Collections: Art Gallery of NSW National Gallery of Australia Artbank, Sydney The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA. |
| Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Ronnie was born around 1943 near Muyinnga, about 100 kilometres west of the Kintore ranges. Before his painting career Ronnie worked as a stockman and fencer making the yards for cattle. When Kintore was established in 1981 Ronnie moved back to his traditional homelands. By being more in touch with his traditional lands and the Dreaming, Ronnie has emerged as one of Australia's major artists. His Dreamings stories are of the Tingari Cycle, Rain Dreaming and Bushfire Dreaming where his bold and powerful style reflect the land that he grew up on. Whilst his works on first observation are very simple, they reflect a knowledge of Australian outback that is only gained after a lifetime of living in a country that is often very harsh and survival depends on knowledge handed down from generation to generation. Ronnie;s work has featured in numerous exhibitions and collections around Australia. He has had solo exhibitions at Kimberley Art, Melbourne, Utopia Gallery, and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi. Several of his group exhibitions include the Dreamtime Gallery, The Australian National Gallery and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Australian Exhibition Center, Chicago. He is also in permanent collections at the National Gallery and the Art Gallery of Victoria and the Supreme Court of Northern Territory. In 1988 he won the Alice Springs Art Prize which has spearheaded his movement into galleries around the world. |
| Mitjili Napurrula Mitjili Napurrula is a Pintupi woman from the Haasts Bluff region, located 200 km west of Alice Springs. Born 1945, she is half sister to artist Turkey Tjupurrula Tolson. She married Long Tom Tjapanangka at Papunya in the 1960's, and they now live at Haasts Bluff. Mitjili's distinctive painting style and designs are based on her father's country called Uwalki, an area west of Haasts Bluff near the Kintore Ranges. The Dreaming stories (Tjukurrpa) behind the paintings relate to the making of spears - an important aspect of "men's business". The patterns represent the women's side of this Tjukurrpa, showing the trees (Watiya Tjuta) that provide the patternwood for spear shafts and other objects. Mitjili began painting at the Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992. The country that she paints, Uwalki, lies in the Gibson Desert near the Kintore Ranges, west of Haasts Bluff. This country is characterised by red sandhills, bushes and trees including the beautiful desert oaks. Mitjili was taught some of her key imagery by her mother drawing patterns in the sand. She says: "My mother taught me my father's Tjukurrpa; that's what I'm painting on the canvas". Mitjili's paintings are strong and energetic. Her works are popular by both Australian and international collectors. |
| Clifford Possum Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1933—21 June 2002) was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in many galleries and collections, Australian and worldwide. He was the most famous of the Aboriginal artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya in the early 1970s and encouraged the Aboriginal people to put their dreaming stories on canvas, stories which had previously been depicted ephemerally on the ground. Clifford Possum emerged as one of the leaders in this school of painting, which has come to be called Papunya Tula. When it held an exhibition of his work in 2004, the Art Gallery of New South Wales described his artistic background: He was an expert wood-carver and took up painting long before the emergence of the Papunya Tula School in the early 1970s. When Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri joined this group of 'dot and circle' painters early in 1972 he immediately distinguished himself as one of its most talented members and went on to create some of the largest and most complex paintings ever produced. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri led a groundbreaking career and was amongst the vanguard of Indigenous Australian artists to be recognised by the international art world. Like Albert Namatjira before him, Clifford Possum blazed a trail for future generations of Indigenous artists; bridging the gap between Aboriginal art and contemporary Australian art.[1] Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri died in Alice Springs on the day he was scheduled to receive a medal praising his contribution to art and to the Indigenous community and awarding him the Order of Australia. His obituaries, which appeared in newspapers around the world, generally referred to him as Clifford Possum and gave his age as about 70. While his year of birth is considered to be approximately correct, the day and month remained undocumented. His two daughters, Gabriella Possum Nungurayyi and Michelle Possum Nungurayyi, are renowned artists in their own right. There was legal controversy surrounding his burial, as his surviving family and community maintained he wished to be buried in a location different to that specified in his will.[2] He was buried at Yuelamu, which had been the preference of his community and daughters, several weeks after his death.[3] Posthumously, Tjapaltjarri's works are drawing increasing attention. The artist's majestic painting Warlugulong (previously bought by the Commonwealth Bank for just $1200) was auctioned by Sothebys on July 24, 2007. Pre-auction, the work was expected to make art history as the most expensive Aboriginal canvas at auction. The work was tipped to fetch up to $2.5 million AUD, more than double the then-record for Aboriginal art at auction [4]. The work in fact sold for $2.4 million [5] and the day after the auction it was revealed that the National Gallery of Australia was the buyer [6]. The Gallery's purchase eased tensions of a rumoured Government legal intervention had the work been purchased by an overseas buyer, out of concern that significant indigenous art would be "lost" overseas. [edit] References 1. ^ Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Art Gallery of New South Wales, retrieved November 2007 2. ^ Anne Barker, 'Artist's dying wish ignites burial row', PM (ABC Radio), 15 July 2002, retrieved November 2007 3. ^ Murray McLaughlin, 'Tjapaltjarri finally allowed to rest in peace', 7:30 Report (ABC TV), 25 July 2002, retrieved November 2007 4. ^ "Indigenous artwork tipped to sell for $2.5m", ABC News online Retrieved on July 24, 2007 5. ^ "Aboriginal Artwork sells for record price", News Limited, news.com.au Retrieved on July 25, 2007 6. ^ "National Gallery bought dot painting", July 25, 2007 Retrieved on July 25, 2007 Australia This Australian painter article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. [edit] See also [edit] External links Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Possum_Tjapaltjarri" go to paintings |
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