Linda Syddick Tjungkiya Wukula

Australian Aboriginal Artist



Alternative Spelling: Napaljarri, Junkata, Tjangkiya
Also Known As: Linda Sims








Linda Syddick Tjungkiya Wukula


Born: 		1941 
Region:	 	Western Desert 
Community: 	Kintore, Alice Springs 
Outstation: 	n/a 
Language: 	Pintupi 
Social Affiliation: 	Napaltjarri subsection 


Subjects: Tingari , emu, snake, Christian elements, ET Returning home 
Medium: 	acrylic paint on canvas 

Awards:
1996 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship (1995); Northern Territory Art Award.
2006 - Winner, general painting, Telstra, 23rd National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, Darwin, NT,

Collections:
Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Australia Occidentale.
Diocese of Paramatta, Sydney, Australia.
Dominican Monastery of New Norcia, Australia Occidentale.
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Allemagne.
Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, Paris, France.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia.
Museum de Lyon, France.
Museum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon, France.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
St Andrews Catholic Church, Marayong (NSW), Australia.
St Joseph's Catholic Church, Hadleigh, Grande-Bretagne.
St Patrick's Parish Centre, Blacktown (NSW), Australia.
St Vincent Private Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
The Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.

Group Exhibitions:
2004 - Aborigenes, les couleurs du Reve, Museum d'histoire naturelle, Lyon; Holy Holy Holy, Flinders University, Adelaide; Twenty Indigenous Female Artists From Central Australia, Ann Snell Gallery; Art event, Galerie Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Lille.
2003 - Art Aborigene contemporain, Galerie Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenie; Salon ART PARIS, Galerie Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.
2002 - Salon ART PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie Arts d'Australie Stephane Jacob.
2001 - Arts d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Equation-Transparence, Paris.
2000 - Arts d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Air France, Paris; Accents Australiens, Arts, Stephane Jacob / Espace Adamski Designs, Paris.;Arts d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Galeries Lafayette, Paris.
1999 - Australie - Art, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / J.L. Amsler - Bastille, Paris.
1998 - Exposition collective, L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Espace Toyota, Avenue des Champs-Elysees, Paris; Le Temps du Reve, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Bibliotheque municipale, Le Perreux-sur-Marne.; Festival BD Boum, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Bibliotheque Municipale, Blois.
1997 - L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles. Exposition collective, L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / ; Espace Paul Riquet, Beziers.
1996 - Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Exploring Two Worlds, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Dreamings of the Desert, South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide; L'Art des Aborigenes d'Australie, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob / ; Espace Paul Riquet, Beziers.
1995 - The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Aboriginal Kunst, Pays-Bas.
1994 - The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; People/Places, interactions with land by some contemporary Central Australian Artists, 24 Hour Art, Darwin NT; Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra.
1993 - The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. ; Exposition collective, Australian National University, Canberra; Perpetual Motion, Australie; Stuttgart, Allemagne.
1992 - The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs.
1991 - The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
1990 - Our Dreaming, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.;; Blake Prize for Religious Art, The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Llwellyn Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Select Bibliography:
Arts actualites magazine - page 109 - October 2000.
Connaissance des Arts - page 574 - July 2000.
Fran�oise Dussart, La peinture des Aborigenes d'Australie (Editions Parentheses, 1993)
. Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula, Art of the western desert (McPhee & Gribble, Melbourne, 1991).
Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998).
Jacob, Stephane & Leroy, Christian, Le Temps du Reve, Art Aborigene Contemporain, exhibition catalogue, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenie, April-May 2003
Judith Ryan, Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert (National Gallery of Victoria 1989).
Karel Kupka et Andre Breton, Peintures et sculptures des Aborigenes d'Australie (La Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, 1962)
L'Australie dans l'hexagone - page 6 - 10 June 1998. " Arts d'Australie - Stephane Jacob ".
L'Express Magazine - page 2558 - du 13 au 19 June 2000.
La Tribune - 18 September 2000. " De droles de jeux d'artistes australiens ".
La Tribune - 4 July 2000. " Artistes australiens avant JO ".
Le Monde - 13 September 2000. " Sortir ".
Liberation - Samedi 17 / Dimanche 18 June 2000. " La deferlante australienne ".
Michael Boulter, The Art of Utopia (Craftsman House, 1993).
Midi Libre - 28 October 1997. " L'effet boomerang de l'art aborigene ". Mode, mode, modes - Hiver 2000.
Monsieur - 24 September 2000, page 87. " Artipodes ".
Nganampa jukurrpa: Our Dreaming, (Araluen Arts, Centre, Alice Springs,1990).
Nova Magazine. " Expo australe - Accents australiens ".
Ole ! - page 183 - Periode du 5 au 19 November 1997.
Page des libraires - page 63 - April/May 2000. Dossier Australie.
Plaisir de la maison - page 283 - September. 1997. " Travailler � la maison ! ".
Urbuz.com (un urban guide pour l'Europe) - 23 September 2000.
Vivien Johnson, Aboriginal Artists of the western desert (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994).
Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art (Thames & Hudson, 1994.
Yves Le Fur, "Peintures aborigenes acryliques du desert central australien", Revue du Louvre et des Musees de France, April 1998.

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