Charlie Tjapangati

Charlie Tjapangati was born at the site of Tjulurrunya, west of Kiwirrkura in approximately 1949.  He is the younger brother of Nanyuma Napangati, who also paints for Papunya Tula Artists.

During the 1960’s Charlie travelled into Papunya by truck with one of Jeremy Long’s government patrols.  He was a young teenager at the time and was initiated in Papunya after arriving.

Charlie commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1978, and in 1999 he contributed to the Kintore Men’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002            Scott Livesy Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions

1982            Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1983            Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1984            ‘Paintings from the Central Australian Desert’ Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1986            ‘Aboriginal Arts Auttarlia’, Canberra, ACT, Australia

1988            Expo 88, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

1990            ‘Peintres Papunya D’Australie’, Paris, France

1995            Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

1995            Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia Selected Exhibitions; Sydney, Australia

1996            Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

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

2000            Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia

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

2001            ‘Papunya – works from the 1980’s, Utopia art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

2002            Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2002            ‘Aboriginal Art 2002’, Scott Livesy Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2002            ‘Pintupi Men’s and Women’s Stories’, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

2003            ‘Aboriginal Art 2003’, Scott Livesy Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2003            ‘Pintupi Art from the Western Desert’, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia

2003            ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2004            ‘Papunya Tula – Selected paintings’, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2004            ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005            ‘Papunya Tula Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005            ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2005            ‘Aboriginal Art 2005’, Scott Livesy Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2006            ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2006            ‘Yawulyurra kapalilu palyara nintilpayi’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

2007            ‘Master Works from Papunya Tula’, Birrung gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia

2007            ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2008            ‘New Paintings from Papunya Tula’, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2008            ‘Kintore to Kiwirrkura – Papunya Tula Artists’, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore

Collections

Artbank

Robert Holmes a Court Collection

Victorian Art Centre

The Kelton Foundation Collection

National Gallery of Australia

Museums and Art Galleries of Northern Territory

University of Virginia, USA

Flinders University Art Museum

Macquarie Bank Collection

Aboriginal Art Museum, Netherlands