Beyula Puntunkga Napanangka (b. Papunya, 1966) has been exhibi ng with Papunya Tjupi Arts since the company’s first exhibi on in 2007. Over the past six years, her pain ngs have developed drama cally. She is the daughter of pioneer Papunya Tula painter Limpi Tjapanga , whom she observed pain ng as a young girl, later prac sing for herself on cardboard. Beyula grew up in Papunya, a ending the local primary school, where she completed Year 6. Later the family moved to Haasts Bluff where they remained un l Limpi died in 1985. Beyula moved back to Papunya and married her first husband, with whom she had two daughters. From her father Beyula inherited rights to the country near the Murini Range which Beyula o en depicted in her early pain ngs. She also inherited a bushfire story Kali Karringpa from her grandmother which was her first to paint. Her mother’s Dreaming place was the Dingo Dreaming site of Nyumanu near Kintore. These days Beyula paints her own drama c version of the Honey Grevillea Dreaming story inherited from her grandfather. The works’ strength lies in the abstracted organic lines that forms an immersive space where the viewer can feel and see the grevillea all at once. Beyula is one of Papunya Tjupi’s most senior and consistent ar sts. She had her first two-woman show in 2013 at Mossenson Gallery in Melbourne and had her work acquired by the Na onal Gallery of Australia in the same year.
Exhibitions
2013 Beyula Puntungka Napanangka and Doris Bush Nungarrayi : Two Person Show, Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne Group Exhibitions
2016 Papunya Tjupi Arts : Incinerator Art Space, Honey Ant Gallery, Sydney
2015 Streets of Papunya: The Reinvention of Papunya Painting : UNSW Galleries
2015 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair : Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
2015 Kungka Tjupi: New work from the women of Papunya Tjupi : Outstation Gallery, Darwin 2015 Desert Dreaming : Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
2015 New Narratives: Papunya Tjupi Prints with Cicada Press 2006-2014 : Kluge-Ruhe Museum – UVa Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
2014 Desert Mob : Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2014 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair : Darwin Convention Centre
2014 Seoul Open Art Fair 2014 : Seoul, Korea
2014 Kungka Tjutaku Wititjanku: Women Keeping Culture Strong : Mossenson Galleries
2014 Garden of Eden : Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs
2014 Rising Stars 2014 : Outstation Gallery, Darwin
2013 Papunya Tjupi: New Work : Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2013 Solidarity for Love: G’day from Aussie Minjung : Monkey-Wrenching Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 2013 Desert Mob : Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2013 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair : Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
2013 Salon des Refuses : The Old Bank, Darwin
2013 Papunya Tjupi Arts Group Show : Marshall Arts, Adelaide
2013 Seoul Open Art Fair : Seoul, Korea
2013 ArtStage Singapore : ArtStage Singapore, Mossenson Galleries
2012 Papunya Tjupi Artists : IDAIA and Galerie Karin Carton, Versailes, Paris, France
2012 Desert Rhythm – Artists of Papunya Tjupi : Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Papunya Tjupi : Marshall Arts, Adelaide
2012 Keating Speech : Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2011 Papunya Tjupi : Mina Mina Gallery, Queensland
2011 Papunya Tjupi Artists : Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney
2011 Papunya Power : Art Mob Gallery, Hobart
2011 Papunya Tjupi Arts : ARTKelch Gallery, Germany
2011 Papunya Tjupi : Mina Mina Gallery, Queensland
2011 UNSW International Showcase : UNSW, Kensington, Sydney
2011 Kuwarritja Tjutaku Papunya Tjupinya : Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2011 New Prints from Papunya Tjupi Arts : Nomad Arts, Canberra and Darwin
2011 Papunya Tjupi: Generations : Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Desert Mob : Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2010 Desert Stories Papunya Tjupi Now : Gecko Gallery, Broome
2010 Darwin Aboriginal Art Centre Fair : Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin
2010 Desert Stories Papunya Tjupi Now : Gecko Gallery, Broome
2010 Art of Women : Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth
2010 Tjukurrpa: Papunya Tjupi Arts : Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Desert Mob : Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2008 Papunya Tjupi: A new beginning : Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington
Collections
ARTBANK COLLECTION
KNOBLAUCH COLLECTION, SWITZERLAND
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA