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KUTUNGKA NAPANANGKA
Women Hunting Among Tali
Kutungka Napanangka was born near Kintore circa 1950.
Her family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her late teens.
Katungka Napanangka is one of the daughters of Katarra Nampitjinpa, an important Pintupi artist who painted originally with the Papunya Tula Artists and then later with Ikuntji artists at Haasts Bluff.
Katungka watched her mother and sister, Permungka, paint for many years but she only started painting regularly after her mother passed away in 1999.
Kutungka, Walangkura Napanangka and the late Pirrmangka Napanangka all share the same father, Raatja Tjapangati.
Katungka paints her mother's dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjukurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far West of Haast's Bluff, over the West Australian border.
The stories at Intinti involve women hunting for kuniya or carpet snakes with nullanullas.
The two kuniya disappear down rockholes, hiding from the women.
Katungka appears to reconcile both traditions with respect and integrity and is deeply committed to the transmission of knowledge of both cultures.
In 2003 Katungka developed her white saltlake works.
These have expanded and developed with fine marking all over the white canvas.
Shadow forms are seen as marks in the salt lake.
These marks represent people travelling, the wind shifting the salt, animal tracks and the myriad marks left on the salt pan by even the most minor change.
Since 2006 in particular, Katungka's work has featured in a rapidly growing number of prestigious group exhibitions, and in 2009 the Suzanne O’Connell Gallery in Brisbane held a solo exhibition of her work.
.Kutungka Napanangka was born near Kintore circa 1950.
Her family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her late teens.
Katungka Napanangka is one of the daughters of Katarra Nampitjinpa, an important Pintupi artist who painted originally with the Papunya Tula Artists and then later with Ikuntji artists at Haasts Bluff.
Katungka watched her mother and sister, Permungka, paint for many years but she only started painting regularly after her mother passed away in 1999.
Kutungka, Walangkura Napanangka and the late Pirrmangka Napanangka all share the same father, Raatja Tjapangati.
Katungka paints her mother's dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjukurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far West of Haast's Bluff, over the West Australian border.
The stories at Intinti involve women hunting for kuniya or carpet snakes with nullanullas.
The two kuniya disappear down rockholes, hiding from the women.
Katungka appears to reconcile both traditions with respect and integrity and is deeply committed to the transmission of knowledge of both cultures.
In 2003 Katungka developed her white saltlake works.
These have expanded and developed with fine marking all over the white canvas.
Shadow forms are seen as marks in the salt lake.
These marks represent people travelling, the wind shifting the salt, animal tracks and the myriad marks left on the salt pan by even the most minor change.
Since 2006 in particular, Katungka's work has featured in a rapidly growing number of prestigious group exhibitions, and in 2009 the Suzanne O’Connell Gallery in Brisbane held a solo exhibition of her work.
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New Year, New Home – Stock Room Show 2010
A Collection of Fine Australian Indigenous Art
