Makinti Napanangka

Makinti Napanangka


Born: 		c.1930 
Died:		Jan. 2011
Region: 	Central Desert NT
Community: 	Kintore 
Outstation: 	Kaakuratinja
Language: 	Pintupi
Subsection: 	Napanangka 

Awards:
2003 - finalist in the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria.
2003 - Makinti was included as one of Australia's 50 most collectable artists by the prestigious Australian Art Collector magazine.
2008 - Winner Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2011 - Queen's Birthday Awards, OAM (Order of Australia Medal)

Collections:
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Macquarie Bank Collection.
Museums & Art Galleries of the N.T.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Queensland Art Gallery.

Exhibitions:
Individual Exhibitions:
2007 Makinti, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2005 Makinti, John Gordon Gallery, Coffs Harbour, NSW
2003 Makinti napanangka - A Painter, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2002 Recent Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2001 Makinti Napanangka - New Paitings, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2000 New Vision, Utopia Art, New Vision, Sydney, NSW

Group Exhibitions:
1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd. Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1996 Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin,,NT
1996 Utopia Art, Sydney,NSW
1997 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
1997 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1997 Museums and Art Galleries of NT, Darwin, NT
1998 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1998 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait islander Art Award,RMIT University, Melbourne, Vic
1998 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
1999 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2000 Papunya Tula 'Genesis and Genius', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2000 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2000 Pintupi Women, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001 Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2001 Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
2001 Desert floering, Manawatu art Gallery, North Island, New Zealand
2001 Dreamscapes - Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark. 2001 Papunya Tula 30th aniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT 2001 Indigenart, Subiaco, WA
2001 Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2001 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
2001 Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gabriele Pizzi, Melbouren, Vic
2001 Dreamtime - Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Essl collection, Vienna, Austria
2001 Size Doesn't Matter, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2001 Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

2001 Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art, Comunidad de Madrid touring exhibition, Spain
2002 Next Generation - Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Paintings From Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2002 William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Vic
2002 Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories, Indigenart, Subiaco WA
2002 Art Born of the Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2002 Saluting Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
2002 Spring Exhibition 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Vic
2002 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2003 Pintupi Art 2003, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2003 Recent Paintings by the Women Artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic
2003 Papunya Tula Selected Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne,VIC
3003 Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC
2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
2003 Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA
2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery, VIC
2003 Masterpieces From Thw Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, WA
2003 Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2003 Pintupi Artists, PapunyaTula Artits, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Pintupi Art of 2004, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adlelaide, SA
2004 Depth of Field Anamorphosis, Utopia Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
2004 Celebrating 20 Years, Telstra Natioanl Aboriginal & Torress Strait Islander Art Award, travelling exhibition, National Archivesof Australia, Canberra, ACT
2004 Papunya Tula Artists 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2004 All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery CAnberra, ACT
2004 Aboriginal Art 2004, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Ma Yungu/Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2004 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2004 Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Colour Power Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne,VIC
2004 Celebrating 20 Years Telstra National Aboriginal & torres Strait Islander Arts Award, Travelling exhibition RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Pintupi Women, Indigenart, Perth, WA
2005 New Ideas, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2005 Celebrating 20 Years Telstra National Aboriginal & torres Strait Islander Arts Award, Travelling exhibition, Woolongong City Gallery, NSW
2005 Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2005 Celebrating 20 Years Telstra National Aboriginal & torres Strait Islander Arts Award, Travelling exhibition, Cains Reginonal Gallery, QLD
2005 Luminouus Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manly Art GAllery & Museum, Sydney, NSW 2005 Museum 2, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2005 Luminouus Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery, VIC
2005 Aboriginal Vision in Contemporary Australian Art, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, Washington, USA
2005 Pintupi Art 2005, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2005 Strong and Stately, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2005 New Work for a New Space, Utopias Art Sydney, NSW
2005 Living Legends of the Western Desert, Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Pintupi Artists and Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2005 New Works from the Western Desert, Indigenarts, Perth, WA
2005 From Big Things Little Things Grow, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2006 Luminouus Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 Papunya Tula Artists 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2006 PTA, Utopia Art Sydney,NSW
2006 Dreaming their Way, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
2006 Luminouus Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2006 Aboriginal Art 2006, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Pintupi, Hamilton's Gallery, London, UK
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Papunya Tula Artists, Recent Paintings, Harriet Place, Darwin, NT
2006 Luminouus Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2006 Pintupi Art 2006, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2006 Pintupi Dream Time, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2006 Well represented, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2006 A Particular Collection, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2006 Yawulyurru Kapalilu Palyara Nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2007 Papunya Tula 2007, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2007 Papunya Tula, Short Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia, Australia.
2007 Gifted: Contemprary Aboriginal Art, The Mollie Gowing Acquisition Fund', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Aus
2007 Papunya Tula Women, Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2007 Group Show, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2007 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT Australia.
2007 Recent Paintings 2007, Cross Cultural Art Exchange, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
2007 Pintupi Art 2007, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
2008 Australian Abstraction, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Select Bibliography:
Isaacs, J., Spirit Country, 'Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art', Hardie Grant books, 1999.
Papunya Tula 'Genesis and Genius', exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2000.
'Aboriginal Art 2001', exhibition catalogue, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2001.
'Desert Flowering', exhiition catalogue, Manawatu Art Gallery, North Island, New Zealand, 2001.
'Dreamscapes - Contemporary Desert Art', exhibition catalogue, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001.
Sarnmlung Essl, 'Dreamtime - Contemporary Aboriginal Art', exhibition catalogue, Essl collection, Vienna, austria, 2001.
Achille Bonito Oliva, 'Aborigena', exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy, 2001.
Scott Livesey, 'Spring Exhibition', catalogue, 2002
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Masterpices From The Western Desert, exhibition catalogue, London, UK
Scott Livesey Art dealer, Aboriginal Art 2003, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, ViC
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award Celebrating 20 years, exhibition catalogue 2004
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2004, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, VIC
Mythology & Reality, exhibition catalogue, heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Ryan J Coloour POwer Aboriginal Art POst 1984, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2004, VIC
Luminous Contemporary Art from the Australian desert, exhibition catalogue, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, NSW
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Dreaming Their Way, exhibition catologue, Washington DC, USA 2006
Scott Livesey Galleries, Aboriginal Art 2006, exhibition catoluge, Melbourne, VIC
Hamiltons Gallery, Pintupi, exhibition catalogue, London, UK 2006
Scott Levesey Galleries, Aboriginal Art 2007, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Papunya Tula Artists, Makinti- Solo Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, 2007.

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Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Notes:
Makinti Napanangka is one of the leading women artists from the Western Desert working with Papunya Tula Artists.

Makinti Napanangka is a Pintupi speaker who was born sometime around 1930 in the Lake MacDonald region. She and her family walked in to Haasts Bluff before the Papunya Community was established.

She began painting in the mid 1990s and quickly developed her own distinctive style and has been painting regularly with the Papunya Tula Artists cooperative since 1996.

Makinti's work incorporates designs associated with the travels of the Kungka Kutjarra (two women). The wandering lines that so often feature in her paintings depict the swirling hair string skirts worn by women during ceremonies associated with certain sites. While the patterning refers to the skirts, the flowing rhythms of the lines hint at the songs and dances of the Pintupi women's ceremonies. While most of Makinti's imagery is related to the Kungka Kutjarra, it can also refer to the Kuningka - the western quoll - which is represented by circles.

Makinti has participated in numerous group exhibitions and has had three solo shows. Her work is represented in many major public and private collections in both Australia and the rest of the world.

She was rated in the March 2003 issue of "Australian Art Collector" magazine as one of the 50 most collectable artists in Australia.