(Wife of Johnny Yungut)
Walangkura Napanangka Born: 1946 Died: 2014 Region: Central Western Desert: Outstation: Tjturrulnga Language: Pintupi Social Affiliation: Subsection: Napangka Medium: Acrylic on canvas. Awards: 2005 1st prize Redlands Westpac Art Prize Collections: Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Artbank. Gabrielle Pizzi Collection. Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory. The Kelton Foundation, USA. Exhibitions: Individual Exhibitions: 2004 - Walangkura Napanangka, Utopia Art Sydney. 2003 - Walangkura Napanangka: Recent Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. Group Exhibitions: 2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria; Luminus: selected works from the Helen Read Collection, touring; Papunya Tula Artists - new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney. 2004 - Pintupi Art 2004, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia; Papunya Tula Artists - 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria; All About Papunya, Chapman Gallery Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; The Inner And The Outer, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany; Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory; EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Ma Yungu/Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT; Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT; Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria. 2003 - Pintupi Art 2003, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia; Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria; Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia; Masterpieces From The Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Papunya Tula Artists - A Gift From The Desert, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales; Pintupi Artists,Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. 2002 - Paintings From Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia; Aboriginal Art 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne; William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories, Indigenart, Perth; Art Born Of The Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Saluting Papunya, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. 2001 - Size Doesn't Matter - Papunya Tula Painting 1997-2001, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia; Six Painters From Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Papunya Tula Aboriginal Art, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne; Papunya Tula 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery,Canberra, ACT; Indigenart, Perth; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT; Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Museum, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; 31st Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia. 2000 - Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Framed Gallery, Darwin; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. 1999 - Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia; 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; New Horizons 2000, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, VIC; 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Art Of The Aborigines, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne. 1997 - Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1997, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Chapman Gallery, Manuka, Canberra. 1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney; A/S Art Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Select Bibliography: Isaacs, J., Spirit Country: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, San Francisco, 1999. Mellor, D. and Megaw V., Twenty Five Years and Beyond, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Flinders Press, Adelaide, 1999. Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000. Bardon, Geoffrey; Ryan, Judith; Pizzi, Gabrielle; Stanhope, Zara., Mythology and Reality - Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2004. Walangkura Napanangka: Recent Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2003. Bahr, Elizabeth. The Unseen in Scene, exhibition catalogue, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany, 2000. Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art, exhibition catalogue, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2002, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2002. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Aboriginal Art 2003, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, 2003. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Masterpieces From The Western Desert, exhibition catalogue, London, 2003 © Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Notes: Walangkura Napanangka was born in 1946 at Tjiturulnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore). She is the daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and Tutuma Tjapangati and sister of the Pirrmangka Napanangka. Her family was 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 began her career through participating in the historic Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’ in 1995, and subsequently began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. She now lives at Kiwirrkura with her husband and fellow artist Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula. Walangkura has exhibited extensively, including in Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2000), in Dreamscapes – Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark (2001), and in Mythology and Reality at the S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2003). Walangkura had her first solo exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 2003. Her work is represented in the following Collections: the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Artbank, Sydney; and The Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA.