PINTUPI ARTISTS live and work in various areas in their Pintupi home country, which encompasses a vast stretch of land in the Gibson Desert in the Northern Territory of Australia and beyond over the border into Western Australia. Pintupi Artists have a very strong presence in the Aboriginal Art world and most are associated to their own community art centre known as Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., which has a long history and also included member artists, such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, who were not Pintupi, but were part of the group of painting men, who brought Contemporary Aboriginal Art into being and founded Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd to begin with.
Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula Bibliography
Date: 2002
Size: 153 x 122 cm ( Aprox. 5` 6`` x 4` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # JY0207222
PRICE: Offers considered
These two ceremonial relics depicting traditional Aboriginal iconography, or traditional Aboriginal symbols, serve to further reinforce the traditional nature of Johnny Yungut`s paintings, which clearly remain interconnected to the secret-sacred world of Aboriginal tribesmen. Relics such as this and a better understanding of the Art of other Aboriginal Masters largely contradict the notion that artists of the Papunya Tula Art Movement shifted away from depicting secret-sacred material following the departure of Geoffrey Bardon from Papunya Settlement. Reasons for this shift differ among those who monopolize Aboriginal literature and information, because no-one thought of asking the precursors of the Movement themselves, who to some degree did make their secret-sacred material less conspicuous, but not to the degree widely held, as demonstrated in Johnny Yungut`s work in which all that is really missing here is the actual representational image of a Tjurunga (Churinga), or sacred carved stone or board, but not its content.
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Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula
Date: 2002
Size: 137 x 122 cm ( 4` 6`` x 4` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # JY0207075
PRICE: Offers Considered
As Pintupi Art developed Pintupi artists became less concerned with pictorial detail and instead focused their attention on the fundamental visual basics associated to their own cultural visual language, which senior artists like Johnny Yungut knew well and practiced this form of art in creating ceremonial sandpaintings and body art in traditional rituals throughout their adult life. This is the experience that Johnny Yungut brought to his canvases that portray the profound in Pintupi Culture.
Not guided in his art making to be at one with current tastes, or paint in haste for his next pay cheque, Johnny Yungut drew from his own creativity and painted with heart. Consequentially, this is the art that will hold pride of place in the art world for all time, for it rests beyond personal taste and trends and interference and can only be described as `Important Contemporary Aboriginal Art`, because this is exactly what it is and it's beautiful.
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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
(c.1943-)
An early 1970s Tjurunga Stone that serves to support the sacred traditional content in Ronnie Tjampitjinpa`s unique and exquisite painting.
Date: 1996
Size: 132.5 x 95 cm ( Aprox. 4` 4`` x 3` 1 1/2``)
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Commissioned by P Los
COA Artspeak Studio Gallery
PRICE: SOLD
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Richard Yukenbarri Tjakamarra (or Richard Tjakamarra)
Date: 2002
Size: 91 x 91 cm ( Aprox. 3` x 3` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # RY 0212171
PRICE: AU$4,900
Most recent exhibition: YIWARRA KUJU : THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE (Jan 10-Jan 11) ...
National Museum of Australia
Publication: YIWARRA KUJU : THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE, 2010, National Museum of Australia.
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George Tjapanangka
(c.1930s-2002)
Date: 1998
Size: 61 x 55 cm ( Aprox. 2` x 1` 9 1/2`` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # GT 980648
PRICE: SOLD
According to John Kean (long term art advisor and currently a staff member at Museum Victoria), speaking of the art of George Tjapanangka in relation to his first solo exhibition `Desert Landmarks` in Melbourne some years ago: "George's works are unique, because they are relatively small-scale with careful detailing of traditional elements, rather than the large scale minimalist works which have been popular recently".
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Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa
Date: 1998
Size: 61 x 55 cm ( Aprox. 2` x 1` 9 1/2`` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # GT 980524
PRICE: SOLD
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Barney Campbell Tjakamarra
(c.1930s- 2006)
Date: 1998
Size: 91 x 46 cm ( Aprox. 2` x 1` 9 1/2`` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # BC 981003
PRICE: SOLD
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Joe Wondous Tjapanangka
(deceased)
Date: 1985
Size: 121 x 76 cm ( Aprox. 3` 11 3/4` x 2` 6`` )
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists catalogue # JW851117
PRICE: SOLD
With few works by this artist so far discovered, little is known of Joe Wondous, who started painting for Papunya Tula Artists at around 1976 in relation to a work by him that forms part of the Australian Embassy collection in Paris. How he died or when he died is not known, though from this work's accompanying certificate he obviously spent some time at New Bore Outstation, which presumably might be situated in Pintupi country. If more is discovered it will be added here, but what can be said is that this work forms part of the history of Papunya Tula Artists.
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Pintupi women's art in the
Pintupi Women's Gallery
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