Artist | ANGUS TJUNGURRAYI

Artist | ANGUS TJUNGURRAYI



ANGUS TJUNGURRAYI

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AT2411202 (2024)
Acrylic on Linen
122 x 107cm | 48.03 x 42.13in
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ANGUS TJUNGURRAYI

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AT2412108 (2024)
Acrylic on Linen
122 x 91cm | 48.03 x 35.83in
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ANGUS TJUNGURRAYI

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AT2111010 (2021)
Acrylic on Linen
61 x 31cm | 24.02 x 12.2in
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Angus Tjungurrayi was born in Alice Springs on June 1st 1988.

He is the son of internationally-renowned Papunya Tula artists Warlimpirrgna Tjapaltjarri and Yalti Napangati, both members of the Pintupi Nine – the last remaining group of traditional hunter-gatherers who first encountered settler Australians in 1984. 

Angus lives and works in Kiwirrkura community, one of the most remote communities in the world situated deep in the Western Desert, 700km west of Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

Angus heralds from a strong linegae of artists, including uncles Walala and Tamayinya Tjapaltjarri, Robert and Vincent Nanala and auntie, Winifred Nanala.

He regularly paints his custodial sites and associated Tjukurrpa (Dreaming Stoires) including Wilkinkarra (Lake Mckay) and the secret-sacred Tingari song-cycle.

Angus learnt to paint watching his father in the Kiwirrkura studio, utilising the optical techniques his father is famous for – ‘flashes’ that encode and reveal esoteric meaning.

Unlike his father, Angus’ works are often hard, angular, geometric compositions with Western characters of personal meaning embedded, merging traditional and contemporary Pintupi life.

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Angus Tjungurrayi was born in Alice Springs on June 1st 1988.

He is the son of internationally-renowned Papunya Tula artists Warlimpirrgna Tjapaltjarri and Yalti Napangati, both members of the Pintupi Nine – the last remaining group of traditional hunter-gatherers who first encountered settler Australians in 1984. 

Angus lives and works in Kiwirrkura community, one of the most remote communities in the world situated deep in the Western Desert, 700km west of Mparntwe/Alice Springs.

Angus heralds from a strong linegae of artists, including uncles Walala and Tamayinya Tjapaltjarri, Robert and Vincent Nanala and auntie, Winifred Nanala.

He regularly paints his custodial sites and associated Tjukurrpa (Dreaming Stoires) including Wilkinkarra (Lake Mckay) and the secret-sacred Tingari song-cycle.

Angus learnt to paint watching his father in the Kiwirrkura studio, utilising the optical techniques his father is famous for – ‘flashes’ that encode and reveal esoteric meaning.

Unlike his father, Angus’ works are often hard, angular, geometric compositions with Western characters of personal meaning embedded, merging traditional and contemporary Pintupi life.

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Transitional Beauty

A Collection of Fine Papunya Tula Indigenous Art