Pantjiya Nungurrayi 


Born:           	c.1936
Region:         	Kiwirrkurra - Western Australia
Language group: 	Pintubi

Collections:
Artbank
Papunya Tula Artists
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands.

Exhibitions:
1996	Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd. Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 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, 
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 Womens' Stories', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
2002	19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT
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, 
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, New South Wales, 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, Queensland, Australia.
2009	Parcours des Mondes, Arts d'Australie, Stephane Jacob, Paris, France.
2010	Papunya Tula Artists Community, Utopia Art, Sydney. 
2011	Papuya Tula Women's Art, at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW. 


Select 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.


Notes:
Pantjiya was born in the bush near Haasts Bluff circa, prior to the mission being established. 
Her first contact with Europeans was 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 seventies 
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 eighties. 
Pantjiya commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. Pantjiya is the widow of George 
Maxwell Jangala (now deceased), who also painted for Papunya Tula Artists and has five sons 
and three daughters. 


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