{"product_id":"walangkura-napanangka-travels-of-kutungka-napanangka","title":"WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA - Travels of Kutungka Napanangka","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWALANGKURA NAPANANGKA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: \u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eTRAVELS OF KUTUNGKA NAPANANGKA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON LINEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e123CM X 100CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: #212b36;\"\u003eWALANGKURA HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING A WORKING PHOTOS WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #212b36; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#WN499\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOB: \u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #212b36; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e(c1946-2014)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #212b36; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eTjitururrnga, Gibson Desert (NT–WA border)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e    \u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e                                            Known as: Walangkura Napangka                                          \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eSkin Name: Napanangka\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003ePintupi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDreaming’s: \u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eTravels of Kutungka Napanangka (ancestral woman's journey across sandhill and rockhole country) including Women's Ceremony, Hair-String Skirts, and Bush Tucker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Tunga',sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e Desert Raisin (Kampurarrpa); Rockhole and Sandhill sites including Umari, Yunala, Malparingya, Ngartannga, Tjintjintjin, Lupul and Kurriuntu; and My Country\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eWalangkura Napanangka was born in the bush at Tjitururrnga, west of Kintore in the Gibson Desert, right on the border country between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. She belonged to the last generation of Pintupi people who really grew up in the desert walking with her family, living off the land, long before there was ever a settlement to go to.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eAs a girl, she and her family walked hundreds of kilometres out of that remote country into the settlement of Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), drawn in by the promise of food and water. It wasn't an easy shift, leaving the only life she knew for one that was completely unfamiliar. Her mother, Inyuwa Nampitjinpa, and her half-sister, Pirrmangka Napanangka (who passed away in 2001), made that same journey, and both went on to become painters too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eWhen the outstation movement brought people back to their own country in 1981, Walangkura resettled at Kintore. It was there, in the mid-1990s, that she joined the historic women's collaborative canvas project a real turning point for the senior Pintupi women, painting together and reconnecting with ceremony and story on their own terms. Papunya Tula Artists took her on shortly after, and she became one of their most senior and respected women painters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eIn her later years she lived between Kintore and Kiwirrkura with her husband and fellow artist, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, and their six children, until her passing in 2014.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eDreamings (Tjukurrpa)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eHer main and most consistently cited Dreaming is the Travels of Kutungka Napanangka (also spelled Katungka) an ancestral woman who journeyed east from her homeland in the Gibson Desert, across sandhill country, to a series of rockhole and soakage sites south-west of Mt Liebig. Depending on which stretch of the journey a particular painting shows, it may be named for a specific site along the way places like Umari, Yunala, Malparingya, Ngartannga, Lupul, Kurriuntu, and Tjintjintjin all appear across her work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eAlongside this, many of her paintings depict Women's Ceremony gatherings of ancestral women at these same rockhole sites, tied to women's ceremonial business she carried as a senior law woman, where they sang, danced, made hair-string skirts, and gathered desert raisin (kampurarrpa) as part of ceremonial preparation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eBecause Kutungka is a woman's Dreaming tied to restricted ceremonial knowledge, most sources are understandably light on detail beyond \"the travels of the ancestral woman\" that reflects normal cultural protocol around women's business, not a gap in the story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eVisually, her work is instantly recognisable: dense fields of dotting in warm sandy oranges against deep reds, blacks and ochres, with the rockholes shown as concentric roundels and the surrounding sandhill country rendered in sweeping parallel lines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eSelected Exhibitions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e1997–2002 — Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e1998 — \u003ci\u003eSztuka Aborygenów\u003c\/i\u003e (Art of the Aborigines), Warsaw, Poland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e1999 — Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2000 — \u003ci\u003ePapunya Tula: Genesis and Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2000 — Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2001 — \u003ci\u003eDreamscapes: Contemporary Desert Art\u003c\/i\u003e, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2003 — \u003ci\u003eMythology and Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2005 — 22nd National Aboriginal \u0026amp; Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin — finalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2005 — 1st Prize, Redlands Westpac Art Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e2010 — \u003ci\u003eCircles in the Sand: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection\u003c\/i\u003e, Australian Embassy, Washington DC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eA note on titles:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003e You'll sometimes see the same or a very similar painting listed under different names across different galleries \"My Country,\" \"Women's Ceremony,\" \"Travels of Kutungka Napanangka,\" or a specific site name like \"Umari\" or \"Rockholes.\" A single painting can depict a rockhole site that belongs to the artist's own country (\"My Country\"), while also marking a place where women gathered for ceremony (\"Women's Ceremony\"), which may in turn sit along the path of an ancestral journey (\"Travels of Kutungka\"). The story, the ceremony, and the country are woven together rather than separate categories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;\"\u003eThis painting was purchased directly from Walangkura, and a gallery certificate of authenticity will be provided with the sale, along with working photos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66988933709869,"sku":null,"price":16500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/files\/JP499-2.jpg?v=1783457606","url":"https:\/\/altyerre.com.au\/products\/walangkura-napanangka-travels-of-kutungka-napanangka","provider":"Altyerre Aboriginal Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}