Pantjiya Nungurrayi

Language:  Pintupi

Region:  Kintore / Kirwirrkurra

Dreaming:  Womens Dreaming

Pantjiya Nungurrayi was born c.1936 in the region of Haasts Bluff, prior to the mission being established. Her first contact with Europeans was as a young girl, when she and her family met with men who were travelling by camel and distributing rations.

During the latter part of the 70’s, Pantjiya lived with her family between Kungkiyunti Outstation, west of Haast’s Bluff, and Papunya, before settling in Kintore soon after the community was established in the early 80’s.

Pantjiya is the widow of George Tjangala a well known artist and early member of the Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya has five sons and three daughters, one of her sons is Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa, who also paints for Papunya Tula Artists.

Pantjiya Nungurrayi only began painting in the mid nineties painting a very distinctive style using the three traditional colours of black, white and yellow ochre. Pantjiya Nungurrayi's work is widely and continuously exhibited worldwide and is highly collectable.

Collections:

Artbank

Papunya Tula Artists

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands

 

Exhibitions:

1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2000 Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2000 Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

2000 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2000 'Pintupi Women', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2001 Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA

2001 Art House Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2001 'Art of the Pintupi', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

2001 Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

2001 'Pintupi Exhibition', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2001 'Pintupi Women From Kintore', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2001 'Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2002 'Pintupi Mens' and Women's Stories', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2002 19th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, NT, Australia

2002 'Pintupi Artists', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2003 'Pintupi Art 2003', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

2003 'Recent Paintings By The Women Artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2003 'Pintupi Art From The Western Desert', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2004 'Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkura', Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2004 'Ma Yungu/Pass It On', Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

2005 'Pintupi Women', Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2005 'Papunya Tula - The Next Generation', Walkabout Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2005 'Aboriginal Art of the Australian Desert', Anima Mundi Gallery, Lyons, Colorado, USA

2006 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2006 'Paintings By Papunya Tula Artists', Suzanne O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane, QLD, Australia