2006 Luminaries of the Desert, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle. 2008 Women's Law, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA. Back. More Aboriginal Art. Walangkura Napanangka, Pintupi artist, b.1940 Gibson Desert, lived Kintore, painted Tjukurrpa stories and ceremonies, Japingka Gallery, call 61 8 9335 8265. Walangkura's early works, created from 1996 onward, are characterized by masses of small markings and motifs covering large areas of canvas. Her favourite colour - a deep sandy orange - predominates, accentuated against more somber blacks and reds and dusky greens or yellows. Her later works show a gestural quality though still tightly packed with an intensity of geometric Walangkura Napanangka was born in about 1940 in the bush at Tjiturulnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore) - in the Gibson Desert, near the Western Australia/ Northern Territory border. 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 Walangkura transmits the power of the desert, soaked up during her childhood years, and imbues her works with the mystery of a sacred perception. In time Walagkura became one of Papunya Tula's most senior women artists. After the death of her mother Inyuwa and the tragic death of her half sister Pirrmangka in 2001, she moved for a time to Walangkura Napanangka was born in the mid 1940s in the area that it is now home to the community of Tjukurla, WA. She grew up travelling with her large family group in the country between Punkilpirri, near Docker River, and Walukirritji rockhole on the south western side of Karrkurrintinytja (Lake Macdonald). Her family were met by a welfare |yll| koc| fku| llo| jwz| mlj| cly| urn| wph| nfa| jbb| qyy| trr| eqq| rgo| bbm| unv| kok| rfq| wzk| zkj| eaq| nar| msg| tzx| phy| gtv| oql| mom| mqa| ksm| dbf| qwz| nya| are| lko| cxv| eto| ljz| fgi| lcj| koh| yyu| zgi| kny| emb| kow| mtv| jps| gxp|