aboriginal artist: 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 early 1960’s Charlie travelled in to 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 mens’ painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Birrung Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2002 Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 ‘Community V’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2012 ‘Community IV: Celebrating Forty Years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2011 ’40 years of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW Papunya Tula Artists – Community III’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2010 ‘Papunya Tula Artists – Community’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW ‘Ngurrakutu – Going Home’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, NT ‘Aboriginal Art 2010’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2009 ‘Community – The Heart of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, NSW
2008 “New Paintings from Papunya Tula Artists”, Chapman Gallery, ACT “Kintore to Kiwirrkura – Papunya Tula Artists”, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2007 “Aboriginal Art 2007”, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
“Rising Stars”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
“Master Works from Papunya Tula”, Birrung Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2006 “A Particular Collection”, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales
“Across the board”, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales
“Pintupi’, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK
“Rising Stars”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
“Pintupi Art 2006”, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia
“Yawulyurru Kapalilu palyara nintilpayi”, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2005 “Papunya – circa 1980″, Holmes à Court Gallery, Western Australia
“Papunya Tula Artists – new work for a new space”, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales “Rising Stars”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
“Aboriginal Art 2005”, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria
“Papunya Tula Artists”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
“Strong and Stately”, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
“Papunya Tula Artists – new work for a new space”, Utopia Art Sydney, New South
“New Works From The Western Desert’, Indigenart, Perth, Western Australia
2004 “Papunya Tula – Selected paintings”, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
“Works from Kintore & Kiwirrkura”, Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
“21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award”, Darwin, Northern Territory “Melbourne Art Fair 2004”, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
“Rising Stars”, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
2003 “Papunya Tula Masters” – The Depot Gallery, Sydney
“Aboriginal Art 2003”, Scott Livesey Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria
Wales
“Pintupi Art From the Western Desert”, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia “Masterpieces From The Western Desert”, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, UK “Pintupi Artists”, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2002 “Next Generation – Aboriginal Art 2002”, Art house Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria
William mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria
”Pintupi Mens’ and Womens’ Stories’, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia “Aboriginal Art 2002”, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria
2001 “Papunya – Works from the 1980’s”, Utopia Art Sydney
“Art of the Pintupi”, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia “Spirituality & Australian Aboriginal Art”, Comunidad de Madrid touring exhibition, Spain
2000 Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia
1996 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1995 Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, Northern Territory Utopia Art, Sydney, New South Wale
1990 “Peintres papunya D’Australie”, Paris, France
1988 Expo ’88, Brisbane, Queensland
1986 Aboriginal Arts Australia, Canberra, A.C.T. Gallery Dusseldorf, Perth, Western Australia Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland
1985 “Contemporary Aboriginal Art of The Western Desert”, David Ellis Fine Art, Ballarat, Victoria
1984 Chapman Gallery, Canberra, A.C.T.
“Paintings From The Central Australian Desert”, The Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales Roar Studios, Melbourne, Victoria
1982 Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, Queensland
Georges Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria
Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd., Sydney, New South Wales

COLLECTIONS:
Artbank
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Victorian Arts Centre
The Kelton Foundation Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Museum of Australia
University of Virginia, USA
Flinders University Art Museum
Macquarie Group Collection
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Crocker A. (ed) Mr Sandman Bring Me a Dream, Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, & Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd., Sydney, 1981.
Amadio N. & Kimber R. Wildbird Dreaming, Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1988.

Johnson. V. Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert, A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, New South Wales, 1994.
P. Corbally Stourton, Songlines and Dreamings, Lund Humphries Publishers, London, 1996.
Mellor D. & Megaw V. Twenty-Five Years and Beyond, Papunya Tula Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Flinders Art Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Flinders Press, 1999.
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2002’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria.
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2003’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria.
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Masterpieces From The Western Desert’, exhibition catalogue, London, UK, 2003. Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2005’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria.
Scott Livesey Galleryes, ‘Aboriginal Art 2007’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, Victoria
Johnson, V. ‘Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, I.A.D. Press, Alice Springs, NT, 2008
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, ‘Aboriginal Art 2010’, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, VIC.