Walkatjunanyi inmaku (Painting Songs)

REDOT FINE ART GALLERY in collaboration with Tjungu Palya Arts presents

Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) A Collection of Tjungu Palya Indigenous Art

5 April – 27 May 2017

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Kanpi Country, 2016 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Benji Bradley

Introduction The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is especially honoured to present the exhibition Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs). The exhibition consists of eight astonishing large-scale paintings, executed by the senior artists of Tjungu Palya Arts. Located at Nyapari community about 100 km south of Uluru (Ayres Rock) in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, in the remote north west corner of South Australia, Tjungu Palya Arts is one of the most innovative art centres in Central Australia and is solely Aboriginal owned and governed.

As ReDot Fine Art Gallery celebrates its long-standing partnership with Tjungu Palya Arts, we welcome the Singaporean audience to connect and immerse themselves in this experience of Indigenous art and culture. This concisely curated exhibition represents the pinnacle of each of the artist’s abilities, and is a high point in their careers. Each painting tells the story of the artist’s relationship with their landscape and the powerful traditional Tjukurpa (Dreamtime symbolism) embedded within its land formations.

An exhibition of this magnitude has never been seen before from Tjungu Palya Arts, with each painting being 200 x 300 cm in size. This larger format allows abundant space for sprawling and epic narratives, which depict large tracks of country and demonstrate fundamental cultural thinking. This scale also allows the artists the freedom to weave a spectacular amount of painterly detail into their work. The nuanced mark-making of each individual artist sets a unique and sophisticated tone within each artwork, and represents a strong spiritual connection, to both the act of painting and the process of narrating ones’ mythological beliefs.

The artists of Tjungu Palya Arts hold a special position in Australian art. They are simultaneously contributing to contemporary painting discourse whilst representing a strong cultural and political standpoint - that of living on their country as traditional and current owners whilst partaking in regular ceremony and teaching young people how to do the same. We invite the audience to participate in the privilege of absorbing these very distinctive Indigenous viewpoints, which represents an understanding of country in the present moment, as well as memories of pre-colonial life in one of Australia’s most remote environments.

The exhibition runs from Wednesday 5 April to Saturday 27 May 2017. Attending the opening reception, on Friday 7 April, are Tjungu Palya artists Teresa Baker and Imitjala Pollard, with the art centre managers, Benji Bradley and Liz Bird.

A must-see exhibition for those interested in following recent developments in Indigenous art. This is a wonderful opportunity to view important and collectable artwork emerging from Australia today, created by some of the most talented proponents of one of the world’s oldest art forms.

Giorgio Pilla Director ReDot Fine Art Gallery

Left Page: Piltati Rock Hole, 2016 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

Foreword – Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Song) To get to Piltati rock hole you must drive off the main dirt road between Nyapari and Amata communities at a very specific point. This point isn’t marked by anything obvious but Keith Stevens knows exactly where it is. The 4WD journey involves a slow crawl through large red boulders, long spindly trees, and dry river beds before reaching an arid valley flanked by rocky hills.

The landcruisers are left at the foot of this valley and Keith leads us all through the ritual associated with entering Piltati. Firstly, his grandchildren clean a small pile of rocks at the beginning of our walk, meticulously pulling out all the grass that has grown over and dusting off the rocks. Then as a group we make our way on foot up the valley. As we walk Keith’s eldest grandson gathers a ball of dry sticks and grass.

Despite numerous visits everyone is silent, in awe of the grand natural beauty and powerful cultural resonate of this site.

Before we round the final corner into the catchment area Keith points out a grassy plain where he once camped with his father whilst hunting for Malu (Kangaroo) as a

child. ‘My father told me to look after this place. He told me show people this place’, he says. Keith’s grandson climbs onto a rocky plinth holding the ball of sticks and grass, which he lights on fire, holding it above his head whilst letting out a loud shout.

His voice echoes up the valley and then fades into a vast silence as everyone stands motionless.

The place feels peaceful yet charged with energy, our attention is directed towards one leafy tree right at the base of the rock hole. A small gust of wind comes down the valley as if from nowhere, the leaves shimmer like silver in the sunlight, this means we are allowed to enter the rock hole.

Each of these eight paintings reflects a potent relationship to the landscape and the cultural symbolism entwined in its boldest and most subtle features. The above story is just one example of the strong cultural bond Anangu have with country and their willingness and joy in sharing the parts of the traditional narratives that are open to everyone.

Just as Keith Stevens unravels the tale of Piltati in his epic two by three-meter work, so too do the other artists speak with equal sentiment and commitment about their sacred environments. To make a series of large scale paintings is all at once an act of sharing and exchange through storytelling, it is a striking aesthetic documentation of ones utter joy in masterfully moving paint and dealing with colour but it is also a powerful political act which shows that these vast desert landscapes are still very much owned and occupied by Anangu and that their culture is very much alive and strong, constantly adapting to contemporary conditions whilst being firmly grounded in powerful and unbreakable tradition.

Benji Bradley Tjungu Palya – Art Centre Manager April 2017

Left Page: Wipana Jimmy Collecting Bush Tobacco at Watarru, 2014 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

The Ladies of the Watarru Collaborative - Wipana Jimmy, Imitjala Pollard and Beryl Jimmy, 2016 Source: Š Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

Various Tjungu Palya Artists (WATARRU COLLABORATIVE) Language

Pitjantjatjara

The artists of Watarru have received high acclaim for their collaborative paintings. Their initial collaborative works were commissioned by the Department for Environment and Heritage and now hang permanently in the South Australian Parliament. These are the first Indigenous paintings to hang in parliament house. In 2007 they won a major prize in the national Drawing Together competition sponsored by the Australian Public Service Commission, a competitive award, which attracted over 570 entries from across Australia.

Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Peter & Agnes Cooke Collection, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle, WA, United States of America.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 2012 2011

2010

2008 2007 2006

Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2011 - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kunpu - Marshall Arts, Adelaide SA, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Nganampa Tjukurpa Nganampa Ngura - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Our Mob - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Anangu Backyard - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Left Page, from Top to Bottom: Wipana Jimmy, Imitjala Pollard and Beryl Jimmy Source: Š Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

Various Tjungu Palya Artists (WATARRU COLLABORATIVE) Minyma Kutjara Synthetic Polymer on Linen 200 x 300cm 16-139

Nyangatja Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa Ilpililanguru (This is the creation story for Ilpili about the Two Sister creation beings).

The women were hiding in tjukulas (rockholes) and one man Wati Kawalpa (Preying Mantis Man) was searching for them.

Minyma malyanpa paku kangkuru kanyini (The younger sister was very tired and her elder sister was taking care of her).

The younger sister was pregnant. As they hid in a cave at the base of the hill, the man climbed up high to look for them and called out, “Yaltji, minyma kutjara (where are you two women)?”

The women were painting sacred designs on themselves. They painted concentric circles on the younger sister’s big tummy and straight lines on the elder sister’s breasts. Then they had Inma (ceremony).

Various Tjungu Palya Artists (WATARRU COLLABORATIVE) Ilpili Synthetic Polymer on Linen 200 x 300cm 17-004

Nyangatja Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa Ilpililanguru (This is the creation story for Ilpili about the Two Sister creation beings).

The women were hiding in tjukulas (rockholes) and one man Wati Kawalpa (Preying Mantis Man) was searching for them.

Minyma malyanpa paku kangkuru kanyini (The younger sister was very tired and her elder sister was taking care of her).

The younger sister was pregnant. As they hid in a cave at the base of the hill, the man climbed up high to look for them and called out, “Yaltji, minyma kutjara (where are you two women)?”

The women were painting sacred designs on themselves. They painted concentric circles on the younger sister’s big tummy and straight lines on the elder sister’s breasts. Then they had Inma (ceremony).

Maringka BAKER Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1952 Kaliumpil Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Maringka Baker is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist living in the remote community settlement of Kanpi, 100kms east of the tri-state borders of Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. She was born circa 1952 at Kaliumpil rock hole, a traditional camping area in Western Australia. Maringka’s parents passed away when she was young and she was raised by Anmanari Brown and other members of her extended family.

Growing up, Maringka continued to observe and participate in traditional cultural practices. She went to the mission schools of Warburton in Western Australia and Ernabella in South Australia.

Maringka married a man from Papulankatja and they had two children. Their younger daughter passed away during childhood. Elaine Woods, her elder daughter, married a Docker River man and they had four daughters, Julie Woods, Janice Woods, Venita Woods and Casseyanne Woods. Maringka has three great-grandchildren. Maringka remarried Douglas Baker (Jimmy Baker’s cousin) later in life and settled in Kanpi community, Douglas’s country.

Maringka has been painting with Tjungu Palya Arts since 2005 and has since then emerged as a highly sought-after painter. With deep connection to country and a spiritual connection with the land, these powerful links to the desert are expressed with beauty and integrity in her canvas paintings. In her paintings, often you can find interlaced grid patterns, and sometimes Indigenous symbols representing emu tracks or people.

Clark & Jenkins (2009) describes Maringka Baker’s paintings “are rich in colour and cultural significance, and grounded in country and ceremony… Where some see the desert as barren, Baker paints it green: testament to her perspective of seeing life and soul beyond the merely obvious.”

Her works are represented in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally. Maringka was selected as one of thirty-one artists from every state and territory in Australia to participate in the ‘National Indigenous Art Triennial 07 - Culture Warriors’.

Awards 2011

2009

Finalist 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Collections Araluen Collection, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Alison and Peter W. Klein Collection, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Artbank Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian National University Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Harriett & Richard England Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Hassall Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle, WA, United States of America.

The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Peter & Agnes Cooke Collection, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

The Beat Knoblauch Collection, Switzerland.

The Corrigan Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

University of Canberra Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Spirituality in Contemporary Art - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas,

MO, USA 2017 Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

2016 Nganampa Kililpil: Our Stars - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre Sydney,

NSW, Australia.

Tradition & Innovation - Parcours des Mondes Art Fair, Paris, France

(Represented by Aboriginal Signature).

Racines - BRUNEAF international Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium (Represented by

Aboriginal Signature).

2015 Résonance millénaire - Nocturnes Knokke Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium

(Represented by Aboriginal Signature).

Paysages Incarnés - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2014 Salon des Refusés - Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya - Tunbridge Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia.

Desert and Coast: Contemporary paintings from South Australian art centres Adelaide Airport, SA, Australia (in association with Marshall Arts).

Tjukutjuku walka walka walka walka walka pulka tjurkurpa - Outstation Gallery,

Darwin, NT, Australia.

2013 APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Minymaku Ara - Women’s Way - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa – Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

2012 Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Kutju-tu: Together as One - Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

2011 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Ngura Tjukuritja – A Dreaming Place - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Western APY Lands - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Green - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2011 - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Manta - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

2011 Living Water - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Minymaku Tjukurpa - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Intangibles in Terra Australis - Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2010 Tjungu Palya Survey Show - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law - South Australian Museum, Adelaide,

SA, Australia.

Partnerships - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Etched in the Sun: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists with Basil Hall Editions

- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of University of Virginia, Charlottesville,

Virginia, USA.

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

(Represented by Aboriginal & Pacific Arts).

Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art – Now - Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe,

NM, USA (in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery).

Ngaranyi Kunpu – Standing Strong - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Desert Country - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Intangibles in Terra Australis - Sala kubo-kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastian, Spain (in

association with Marshall Arts).

2009 Tjukurpa Wirunya Kanyini - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Anangu Backyard Exhibition - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Wanampiku Munu Kalayaku Ngura - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Kulini Ngura – Knowing Country - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tali Tjintiri - Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula – Tjungu Palya Print Show - Nomad Gallery,

Reflection Room, Holiday Inn, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

Masterstroke - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Etched in the Sun: London with Basil Hall Editions - Rebecca Hossack Gallery,

London, United Kingdom.

2008 Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Manta Nyangatja Pitjantjatjara - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palyaku Warka Nyuwana (New Works from Tjungu Palya) - ReDot Fine Art

Gallery, Singapore.

Iwara Mantangka – Land Lines - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

2008

2007

2006

2005

Tjukurpa Kutjupa Kutjupa Tjuta - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kunpu - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Desert Masterclass - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Walytja - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Culture Warriors - National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Uwankara Ngura Palya - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Celebration - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Skin to Skin - Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Our Mob - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Mantatja - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Anangu Backyard Exhibition - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Nganampa Tjukurpa Nganampa Ngura - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Minyma Kutjara Kutjara - Vivian Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Art from the APY Lands - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

New Works from the APY Lands - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Maringka BAKER Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa Synthetic Polymer on Linen 200 x 300cm 17-005

Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa (This painting tells the creation story of the two sisters).

Two sisters were travelling back to their homeland. The younger sister was reluctant to head further north as she had been living with a different family near the ocean to the south. She had been lost a long time and did not know the country the elder sister was showing her. Comforting her younger sister, the elder sister gave her a piggyback and taught her all about the country they travelled through. Sometimes when they stopped, they performed Inma (sacred singing and dancing). They camped at Punuwara and Irrunytju rockhole before heading further north to Docker River.

Bernard TJALKURI Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1930 Waltja Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Bernard Tjalkuri was born in the bush at Waltja rockhole close to the homeland of Kunumata in the far north west of the Pitjantjatjara Lands of northern South Australia in 1930. His mother’s country is Watarru and his father’s place is Aparatjara, which is located near Kanpi community.

Bernard lived a traditional nomadic life in the desert prior to contact with Europeans. He remembers seeing whitefellas travelling through his country as they headed west to the Warburton Mission when he was a young man.

Bernard has the authority to paint many stories associated with his traditional country. He is an important community elder with a wealth of knowledge of the Law or Tjukurpa. This cultural knowledge is handed down orally in the retelling of the Tjukurpa (traditional stories of the ancestors’ journeys), which not only sustains Anangu (Indigenous people) physically, but socially and spiritually. Tjukurpa painting depicts a fragment of a larger story, a living history where an ancestor was involved in creating country. Individuals have authority and ownership of this land and the associated sites and stories. The maintenance of this country is paramount to artists of Watarru and they continue to care and manage the land with respect and responsibility.

Awards 2011 Finalist – 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Collections Artbank Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian National University Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Flinders University (Department of Psychiatry), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

The Beat Knoblauch Collection, Switzerland.

Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

The Merenda Collection, Fremantle, WA, Australia.

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

University of Canberra Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Art Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017

2015

2013

2012

Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Empreintes Eternelles - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Group Exhibition – Eurantica International Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium (Represented by Aboriginal Signature) Old Knowledge Young Blood – Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Titutjara: Always Here, Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa - Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Kutju-tu: Together as One - Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

2012 Uwankara kurunpa kutju-tjara – Our People, One Soul - Alcaston Gallery,

Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

2011 Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Watiku Tjukurpa - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Wati Kalaya: Celebrating the work and life of Jimmy Baker - Raft Artspace, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

2010 Ngaranyi Kunpu – Standing Strong - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Desert Country - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Intangibles in Terra Australis - Sala kubo-kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastian, Spain (in

association with Marshall Arts).

Raft Launch Exhibition - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Senior Artists – Important New Works - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Partnerships - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Inma Mantangka Ngarinyi – Song of the Land - Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD, Australia.

Nganana Uwankaraku Tjukurpa Palyani Tjukurpa Mulapa – We are painting these

sacred stories for you Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

(Represented by Aboriginal & Pacific Arts).

Tjungu Palya Survey Show - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2009 Kulini Ngura – Knowing Country - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Wirunya Kanyini - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tali Tjintiri - Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula – Tjungu Palya Print Show - Nomad Gallery,

Reflection Room, Holiday Inn, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Emerging Artist Award - Royal Bank of Scotland Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

2008 Manta Nyangatja Pitjantjatjara - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kutjupa Kutjupa Tjuta - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Iwara Mantangka – Land Lines - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palyaku Warka Nyuwana (New Works from Tjungu Palya) - ReDot Fine Art

Gallery, Singapore.

2007 Watarru Tjukurpa - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

2007 2006

2005

Uwankara Ngura Palya - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Nganampa Nguraku Tjukurpa - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Art from the APY Lands - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

New Works from the APY Lands - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Bernard TJALKURI Tjitji Tjuta Synthetic Polymer on Linen 150 x 300cm 17-008

Tjitji Tjuta Tjukurpa, Tjukurpa pulka Inma wiru (This Tjukurpa is Tjitji Tjuta, all the children and the sacred song and dance ceremony are great).

Nyangatja tjitji tjuta pakalpai tjitji wilu tjuta munu witilunpa tjuta munu tjitji langka tjuta muna tjitji kalaya tjuta tjitji liru tjuta tjitji ngapari tjuta tjitji uwankara tjunguringkupai munu inma kantalpai tjintira Watarrula tjangati (This is where all the children were dancing, there are the stone bush curlew children and emu children and blue tongue lizard children and the snake children. All the children are coming here for dancing at this dry lake bed just this side of Watarru).

Tjitji uwangkara, tjitji uwankara winki mamu tjitji (The whole lot, all the children even the spirit children come here to dance).

Keith Stevens on the Walk to Nyapari Rock Hole, 2014 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

Keith STEVENS Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1940 Granite Downs Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Keith Stevens is a senior Pitjantjatjara man born in the far north of South Australia at Granite Downs station where his parents were working in the 1940’s.

Following in his parents’ footsteps, he was mustering at an early age and had no schooling until moving to Ernabella mission. Keith’s family would travel for weekends to their traditional homelands of Piltati and Iwarrawarra. Keith’s father eventually settled down with his family close to Piltati creek, where the Nyapari Community now stands.

Keith is a respected senior man in traditional law and a strong community leader.

Diana James describes, “Today Keith is a man of both worlds. A highly respected traditional law man and a skilled painter of the Tjukurpa in the modern medium of acrylics. His careful application of thick rich colour in intricate patterning creates a three dimensional moulded topography of the Piltati plateau and gully. Colour floods the landforms with the static tension of the Tjukurpa creation energy metamorphosed into rocky and sandy creek bed. Finely drawn ancient motifs float on the painted ground. Traces of ancestral camps, footprints, spears and digging sticks. Energetic marks of the Tjukurpa recording the story of creation.”

Keith’s highly distinctive red textured fields of colour evoke an ancient landscape, the country of the Tjukurpa. His intimate knowledge of his country is referenced in his works with important landmarks depicted across his canvases. These are dynamic works that have a magical quality which sing out and touch the viewer.

Keith comes from an artistic family. His mother was the late Eileen Yaritja Stevens (c. 1919 – 2008) and his uncles, Tiger Palpatja and Ginger Wikilyiri, are well-known for their depictions of Piltati the ancestral story for Nyapari. Keith also paints the Tjukurpa of his traditional land Piltati.

Keith has been receiving high acclaim for his works and is represented in major private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).

Awards 2015

2014 2011

Finalist – 32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist – The Alice Prize - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Finalist – Togart Contemporary Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Collections Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Artbank Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010 Keith Stevens Solo - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Collector Spotlight – 2017 - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Empreintes Eternelles - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2016 Nganampa Kililpil: Our Stars - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre

Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2015 Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

32nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

2014 Salon des Refusés - Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

The Alice Prize - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjukutjuku walka walka walka walka walka pulka tjurkurpa - Outstation Gallery,

Darwin, NT, Australia.

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa - Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Kutju-tu: Together as One - Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Deadly – In Between Heaven and Hell - Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Uwankara kurunpa kutju-tjara – Our People, One Soul - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjukurpa Manta - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Watiku Tjukurpa - Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2011 - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Living Water - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Ngura Tjukuritja – A Dreaming Place - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Western APY Lands - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Inma Mantangka Ngarinyi – Song of the Land - Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD, Australia.

Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Generation Next - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – New Works - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Etched in the Sun: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists with Basil Hall Editions - Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Ngaranyi Kunpu – Standing Strong - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Nganana Uwankaraku Tjukurpa Palyani Tjukurpa Mulapa – We are painting these sacred stories for you Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Etched in the Sun: London with Basil Hall Editions - Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK. Kulini Ngura – Knowing Country - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Alwara-wara – Side by Side – Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Survey of Prints - Nomad Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Our Mob - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

South Australian Impressions - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Iwara Mantangka – Land Lines - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kunpu - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Piltati - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Uwankara Ngura Palya - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Mantatja - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Nganampa Tjukurpa Nganampa Ngura - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

New work from the APY Lands - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Keith STEVENS Piltati Synthetic Polymer on Linen 200 x 300cm 17-003

This is the Wanampi Tjukurpa (water snake men dreaming) for Nyapari. This place is called Piltati. Piltati rockhole is just in the hills, really close to the community.

There are two men who are water snakes. Piltati is the main waterhole and those wanampi (snake men) go in one rockhole and can come up in another one. Also, here there are kuyi (harmless small snakes) that have ngura tjuta (many homes). The wanampi loves to eat those kuyi. Minyma kutjara (two women) were digging for that big kuniya (carpet python) but it was only those wanampi (watersnake men) tricking. Those women speared the wanampi by accident and he got up and chased them and killed them.

Angkaliya Curtis Collecting Bush Tobacco at Kunamata, 2016 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Benji Bradley

Angkaliya CURTIS Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1928 Miti Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Angkaliya Curtis was born in 1928 at Miti in the South Australian Pitjantjatjara Lands. When she was younger, she travelled with her mother to Watarru (her mother’s country). The family spent time at Ernabella mission and cattle station properties exchanging animal skins (dingoes and rabbits) for flour and sugar. She lived a semi nomadic lifestyle, often walking long distances in the desert where traditional knowledge of the country, its water holes and food supplies are vital to survival. She learned from her mother and grandmother the secrets of the land and acquired an intimate understanding of the environment and the ancestral creation stories associated with it. She was well-versed with food gathering and has a wealth of knowledge about medicinal plants. She learned what seeds to collect to grind to a flour to make into small cakes cooked in the hot ashes from the fire. She made wiltjas (simple dwellings - shade structures from branches), yuu (windbreaks), and carved utensils from local trees such as wana (wooden digging stick) and piti (collecting bowls). She read the desert sands for tracks and hunted small animals. She spun hair on a handmade spindle for ceremonial belts and manguri (woven head ring).

Angkaliya married and lived at the Ernabella where she worked in the craft room spinning wool and making rugs. In the 1960s, she moved closer to her traditional homeland when the community of Amata began. Today she lives and works at Nyapari Community.

Art and craft remains important to Angkaliya and she maintains a prolific weaving and artefact production. Her camp is scattered with discarded raffia and spinifex from the tjanpi baskets she has made. These textured baskets and wooden carvings are distinctive in their unique quirkiness a quality she also brings to her paintings, which have a naĂŻve quality, illustrating animals, plants and people drawn with finely detailed line work. The representation of rockholes, creeks and other topographical elements are interspersed with people and animals going about their daily activities.

Awards 2014

2013

2011

2010

2003

Finalist – 31st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist – 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist – 28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist – Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards - Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.

Finalist – 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Finalist – 20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Collections Artbank Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian National University Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Harriett & Richard England Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

The Beat Knoblauch Collection, Switzerland.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

University of Canberra Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Empreintes Eternelles - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2016 Nganampa Kililpil: Our Stars - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre Sydney,

NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

2015 Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

Résonance millénaire - Nocturnes Knokke Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium

(Represented by Aboriginal Signature).

Paysages Incarnés - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2014 31st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya - Tunbridge Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjukutjuku walka walka walka walka walka pulka tjurkurpa - Outstation Gallery,

Darwin, NT, Australia.

2013 A Study of the Figurative in Desert Painting - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Titutjara: Always Here, Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa – Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Minymaku Ara - Women’s Way - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2012 Tjungu Kutju-tu: Together as One - Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice

Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

2011 Minymaku Tjukurpa - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards - Art Gallery of Western Australia,

Perth, WA, Australia.

Living Water - National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

28th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Ngura Tjukuritja – A Dreaming Place - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Intangibles in Terra Australis - Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Animal Magic - Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2011 - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Western APY Lands - ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany.

Intangibles in Terra Australis - Sala kubo-kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastian, Spain (in association with Marshall Arts).

Raft Launch Exhibition - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Partnerships - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law - South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Senior Artists – Important New Works - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Ngaranyi Kunpu – Standing Strong - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Inma Mantangka Ngarinyi – Song of the Land - Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Survey Show - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Kulini Ngura – Knowing Country - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Wanampiku Munu Kalayaku Ngura - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tali Tjintiri - Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula – Tjungu Palya Print Show - Nomad Gallery, Reflection Room, Holiday Inn, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kunpu - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Kutjupa Kutjupa Tjuta - Aboriginal & Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Iwara Mantangka – Land Lines - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Manta Nyangatja Pitjantjatjara - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Uwankara Ngura Palya - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Celebration - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Angkaliya CURTIS Cave Hill Synthetic Polymer on Linen 150 x 300cm 17-007

Ngayuku mitaku ngurangka (this is Angkaliya Curtis’ country from her husband), a place called Cave Hill. There are many animals living in this desert country and their tracks are everywhere. It is a precious place where a lot of water can be found.

Angkaliya and her husband Billynya travelled on a camel from the mission in Ernabella to Cave Hill.

Beryl Jimmy with her Stunning 2 x 3m Painting (17-002) Source: © Photo Courtesy of Tjungu Palya Arts

Beryl JIMMY Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1970 Fregon Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Beryl Jimmy is a Pitjantjatjara woman living at the community settlement of Watarru in the far northwest of South Australia, part of an area referred to as the Western Desert.

Beryl’s work is inspired by a deep connection to country and her spiritual links to the desert are expressed with integrity, beauty and creativity.

Traditional knowledge of food collection and water sources were vital for survival in this dynamic desert landscape and is a prominent theme in her work. This cultural knowledge is handed down orally in the retelling of the Tjukurpa (traditional stories of the ancestors’ journeys), which not only sustains Anangu (Aboriginal people) physically, but socially and spiritually.

Tjukurpa painting depicts a fragment of a larger story, a living history where an ancestor was involved in creating country. Individuals have authority and ownership of this land and the associated sites and stories. The maintenance of this country is paramount to artists of Watarru and they continue to care and manage the land with respect and responsibility.

Awards 2013

2007

Finalist – 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Drawing Together, Caring for Country Award, The Australian Public Service Commission in partnership with the National Archives of Australia and the National Museum of Australia, ‘Kuku Kanyini’ 2007

Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Parliament of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Department of Primary Industry and Regions, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

The Beat Knoblauch Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The Lepley Collection, Perth, WA, Australia.

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Empreintes Eternelles - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2016 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

2015 Mangkurpa (3) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Résonance millénaire - Nocturnes Knokke Art Fair, Bruxelles, Belgium

(Represented by Aboriginal Signature).

Group Exhibition - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2014 The Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjukutjuku walka walka walka walka walka pulka tjurkurpa - Outstation Gallery,

Darwin, NT, Australia.

2013 APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjukurpa Wangka: Storytellers - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Minymaku Ara - Women’s Way - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa – Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya: Piltati and Other Stories - Elements Art Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia.

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Paintings from the APY Lands of far northern South Australia - Metropolis Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Wati Kalaya: Celebrating the work and life of Jimmy Baker - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Minymaku Tjukurpa - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Our Mob: art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjukurpa Manta - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Aboriginal and Pacific Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Survey Show - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Inma Mantangka Ngarinyi – Song of the Land - Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD, Australia.

Wanampiku Munu Kalayaku Ngura - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Kulini Ngura – Knowing Country - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Tali Tjintiri - Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula – Tjungu Palya Print Show - Nomad Gallery, Reflection Room, Holiday Inn, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Generation Next - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palyaku Warka Nyuwana (New Works from Tjungu Palya) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Drawing Together - National Archives of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Anangu Backyard Exhibition - Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Beryl JIMMY Nyangatja Watarru Synthetic Polymer on Linen 200 x 300cm 17-002

This painting depicts Watarru, which is Beryl Jimmy’s home. There are many people (anangu tjuta) moving around, moving between waterholes and creeks, and looking for food. The people head out in the daytime, looking around the country and through the bushes, trying to search for food to bring back to the children at the camp. When the water source is depleted at one location, the people would move on to the next waterhole. If there is no water, they would continue the journey until water is found.

Knowing where to find the water is a special knowledge. There is water in many unlikely places. There are creeks, waterholes, rockholes, soakages and springs that hold good water (kapi wiru).

Teresa Baker and her Daughter, Clarise Tunkin, at Kanpi Rock Hole, 2016 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Benji Bradley

Teresa BAKER Birth Date Place of Birth Language Skin/Clan

circa 1977 Alice Springs Pitjantjatjara Pitjantjatjara

Teresa Baker was born in 1977 in Alice Springs hospital. Her mother Kay Baker is a Pitjantjara woman from Kanpi and her father a Pitjantjatjara man from Yalata. Teresa spent much of her youth with her grandfather Jimmy Baker, learning about the country and the sacred stories associated with it.

Today she works full time at Murputja school and is passing on the knowledge she learned to the next generation. She continues her teacher training with annual courses and cares for 5 children, still finding time to paint in school holidays and at night time.

She began painting in 2005, under her grandfather’s guidance. While her paintings have qualities reminiscent of her late grandfather Jimmy Baker, she has found her own individual way of mark-making and using iconography. Like her grandfather, she utilises the power of negative space, and uses it in her paintings. A talented and intuitive artist, her paintings possess great depth of expression, often depicting stories of the Tjukurpa (Dreamtime) creation being, Malilu.

One of the younger artists at Tjungu Palya Arts, Teresa brings a different energy to work which consciously evokes that of her grandfather.

Married with three children, Teresa spends her time between Alice Springs, Kanpi and her homelands in Watarru.

Awards 2013 Finalist – Kate Challis (RAKA) Award - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Finalist – 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

Collections Artbank Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle, WA, USA. Thomas Vroom Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

W. & V. McGeoch Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 Minyma Malilinya - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Empreintes Eternelles - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

2016 Gems from the desert - Aboriginal Signature, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Painting More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

33rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Art Award - Museum & Art

Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Darwin, NT, Australia.

2014 The Women’s Show - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2013 Tjungu Palya – The Next Generation (Online Exhibition) - Outstation Gallery,

Darwin, NT, Australia.

APY Lands Survey Exhibition - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

New Paintings - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Minymaku Ara - Women’s Way - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutupa - Desert Days - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2012 Tjungu Kutju-tu: Together as One - Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian Contemporary Art II - Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA (in

association with Vivien Anderson Gallery).

Tjungu Palya 2012 - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Ara Irititja Ara Kuwaritja – Old Stories Going Forward - Vivien Anderson Gallery,

Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

2012

2011

2009

2008

2007

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Kanpi Car Show - McCulloch & McCulloch, Queenscliff, VIC, Australia (at Salt Contemporary Art).

Tjungu Palya Tjukurpa - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya 2011 - Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, Australia.

Watarru Tjukurpa - Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palya – Masterpieces - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Minymaku Tjukurpa - Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Shalom Gamarada Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Wati Kalaya: Celebrating the work and life of Jimmy Baker - Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Wanampiku Munu Kalayaku Ngura - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Alwara-wara – Side by Side – Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia.

Tjungu Palyaku Warka Nyuwana (New Works from Tjungu Palya) - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.

Tjukurpa Kunpu - Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia.

Uwankara Ngura Palya - Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA, Australia.

Tjungu Palya Artists – Desert Mob Exhibition - Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.

Celebration - Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Teresa BAKER Minyma Malilunya Synthetic Polymer on Linen 180 x 300cm 17-006

This is the country for Malilu, who is a creation being from the Tjukurpa (Dreamtime).

Minyma Malilu nyinanyi wana ngka munu piti (the woman Malilu is sitting with her digging stick and collecting bowl). She has been dancing, performing Inma (important ceremonial dancing) for this country and she has left her dancing tracks behind in the sand.

Malilu was a crippled woman and her two daughters had ran off to get married, leaving her to fend for herself. It was difficult for her to collect bush foods and water because she had to drag her leg as she walked. Through much effort, she collected kampurarpa, wiriny-wirinypa, tawalpa munu mai kutjupa-kutjupa (desert rasins, bush tomatoes, berries and many different kinds of wild foods).

Works in Progress – Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Song)

Various Tjungu Palya Artists (WATARRU COLLABORATIVE) (17-004)

Wipana Jimmy and Imitjala Pollard from the Watarru Collaborative Working on their Painting (16-139)

Beryl Jimmy (17-002)

Keith Stevens (17-003)

Teresa Baker (17-006)

Source: Š Photos Courtesy of Tjungu Palya Arts

Maringka Baker (17-005)

Nyapari Lights, 2016 Source: © Photo Courtesy of Liz Bird

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