#Wentja Napaltjarri

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Wentja Napaltjarri - Rockholes West of Kintore. 2005

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri - Rockhole West of Kintore, 2007

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri and her universe. 

Wentja Napaltjarri was born at Malparinga about 1943, and grew up west of Kintore in her father's country, located in the Gibson Desert. 

Wentja is the daughter of one of the founders of the Desert painting movement, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi and one of his wives, Napulu Nangala. Wentja Napaltjarri has several sisters who are also well known artists; including step-sister Linda Napaltjarri Syddick (born c. 1936), adopted by Shorty Lungkata as a young girl, when he married her widowed mother. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, her father and uncle, along with their families including Wentja travelled east in the footsteps of the Ancestral Emu Men of Tingarri cycles, out of the desert. 

They travelled from water to water. It was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high tali [sandhills], so knowledge of the exact location of kapi [water], whether hidden rockholes, claypans, natural springs, or soakages, was critical for survival. Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their journey out of the desert to join other relatives in settlements at Haasts Bluff Mission Outpost about 1948. The family then moved to Papunya around 1960. As with so many Pintupi families, Wentja’s extended family established a strong artistic voice in Pintupi culture. While at Haasts Bluff, Wentja met her husband, Ginger Tjakamarra, who was the son of the artist Makin Napanangka. The couple eventually moved to Papunya, where Shorty Langkata apprenticed each of his daughters.

Wentja’s first works were collaborative, helping out the men in the family with their work. While they painted the stories, Wentja did the dotting in-fill, characteristic of the Papunya Tula artists.

Eventually, Wentja lived at Watiyawanu [New Bore], Mt Liebig with her husband and with her children. Wentja began her own career there, painting for Watiyawanu Artists. Wentja mostly paints Tingarri and Kapi Tjukurrpa, the iconography for which has been handed down to her by her father. She also paints Tali [sandhills], Puli  [rockholes], Watiya Tjuta [Desert Oaks], and other landmarks central to her Country, and her father’s Country. Wentja has a very distinctive style and her work highly sought by the Australian and international art collectors. Her work has been exhibited in leading Australian and international exhibitions, including the 2003 exhibition Masterpieces from the Western Desert, in London. 

Source - https://www.shortstgallery.com.au/.../105.../biography/

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Wentja Napaltjarri

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by Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri

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Wentja Napaltjarri.  

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by WENTJA NAPALTJARRI

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Wentja Napaltjarri / Blue Tongue Lizard Dreaming

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri and her universe. Wentja Napaltjarri was born at Malparinga about 1943, and grew up west of Kintore in her father's country, located in the Gibson Desert. Wentja is the daughter of one of the founders of the Desert painting movement, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi and one of his wives, Napulu Nangala. Wentja Napaltjarri has several sisters who are also well known artists; including step-sister Linda Napaltjarri Syddick (born c. 1936), adopted by Shorty Lungkata as a young girl, when he married her widowed mother. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, her father and uncle, along with their families including Wentja travelled east in the footsteps of the Ancestral Emu Men of Tingarri cycles, out of the desert. They travelled from water to water. It was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high tali [sandhills], so knowledge of the exact location of kapi [water], whether hidden rockholes, claypans, natural springs, or soakages, was critical for survival. Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their journey out of the desert to join other relatives in settlements at Haasts Bluff Mission Outpost about 1948. The family then moved to Papunya around 1960. As with so many Pintupi families, Wentja’s extended family established a strong artistic voice in Pintupi culture. While at Haasts Bluff, Wentja met her husband, Ginger Tjakamarra, who was the son of the artist Makin Napanangka. The couple eventually moved to Papunya, where Shorty Langkata apprenticed each of his daughters.Wentja’s first works were collaborative, helping out the men in the family with their work. While they painted the stories, Wentja did the dotting in-fill, characteristic of the Papunya Tula artists.Eventually, Wentja lived at Watiyawanu [New Bore], Mt Liebig with her husband and with her children. Wentja began her own career there, painting for Watiyawanu Artists. Wentja mostly paints Tingarri and Kapi Tjukurrpa, the iconography for which has been handed down to her by her father. She also paints Tali [sandhills], Puli  [rockholes], Watiya Tjuta [Desert Oaks], and other landmarks central to her Country, and her father’s Country. Wentja has a very distinctive style and her work highly sought by the Australian and international art collectors. Her work has been exhibited in leading Australian and international exhibitions, including the 2003 exhibition Masterpieces from the Western Desert, in London. Source - https://www.shortstgallery.com.au/.../105.../biography/

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri and her universe. Wentja Napaltjarri was born at Malparinga about 1943, and grew up west of Kintore in her father's country, located in the Gibson Desert. Wentja is the daughter of one of the founders of the Desert painting movement, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi and one of his wives, Napulu Nangala. Wentja Napaltjarri has several sisters who are also well known artists; including step-sister Linda Napaltjarri Syddick (born c. 1936), adopted by Shorty Lungkata as a young girl, when he married her widowed mother. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, her father and uncle, along with their families including Wentja travelled east in the footsteps of the Ancestral Emu Men of Tingarri cycles, out of the desert. They travelled from water to water. It was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high tali [sandhills], so knowledge of the exact location of kapi [water], whether hidden rockholes, claypans, natural springs, or soakages, was critical for survival. Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their journey out of the desert to join other relatives in settlements at Haasts Bluff Mission Outpost about 1948. The family then moved to Papunya around 1960. As with so many Pintupi families, Wentja’s extended family established a strong artistic voice in Pintupi culture. While at Haasts Bluff, Wentja met her husband, Ginger Tjakamarra, who was the son of the artist Makin Napanangka. The couple eventually moved to Papunya, where Shorty Langkata apprenticed each of his daughters.Wentja’s first works were collaborative, helping out the men in the family with their work. While they painted the stories, Wentja did the dotting in-fill, characteristic of the Papunya Tula artists.Eventually, Wentja lived at Watiyawanu [New Bore], Mt Liebig with her husband and with her children. Wentja began her own career there, painting for Watiyawanu Artists. Wentja mostly paints Tingarri and Kapi Tjukurrpa, the iconography for which has been handed down to her by her father. She also paints Tali [sandhills], Puli  [rockholes], Watiya Tjuta [Desert Oaks], and other landmarks central to her Country, and her father’s Country. Wentja has a very distinctive style and her work highly sought by the Australian and international art collectors. Her work has been exhibited in leading Australian and international exhibitions, including the 2003 exhibition Masterpieces from the Western Desert, in London. Source - https://www.shortstgallery.com.au/.../105.../biography/

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri and her universe. Wentja Napaltjarri was born at Malparinga about 1943, and grew up west of Kintore in her father's country, located in the Gibson Desert. Wentja is the daughter of one of the founders of the Desert painting movement, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi and one of his wives, Napulu Nangala. Wentja Napaltjarri has several sisters who are also well known artists; including step-sister Linda Napaltjarri Syddick (born c. 1936), adopted by Shorty Lungkata as a young girl, when he married her widowed mother. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, her father and uncle, along with their families including Wentja travelled east in the footsteps of the Ancestral Emu Men of Tingarri cycles, out of the desert. They travelled from water to water. It was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high tali [sandhills], so knowledge of the exact location of kapi [water], whether hidden rockholes, claypans, natural springs, or soakages, was critical for survival. Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their journey out of the desert to join other relatives in settlements at Haasts Bluff Mission Outpost about 1948. The family then moved to Papunya around 1960. As with so many Pintupi families, Wentja’s extended family established a strong artistic voice in Pintupi culture. While at Haasts Bluff, Wentja met her husband, Ginger Tjakamarra, who was the son of the artist Makin Napanangka. The couple eventually moved to Papunya, where Shorty Langkata apprenticed each of his daughters.Wentja’s first works were collaborative, helping out the men in the family with their work. While they painted the stories, Wentja did the dotting in-fill, characteristic of the Papunya Tula artists.Eventually, Wentja lived at Watiyawanu [New Bore], Mt Liebig with her husband and with her children. Wentja began her own career there, painting for Watiyawanu Artists. Wentja mostly paints Tingarri and Kapi Tjukurrpa, the iconography for which has been handed down to her by her father. She also paints Tali [sandhills], Puli  [rockholes], Watiya Tjuta [Desert Oaks], and other landmarks central to her Country, and her father’s Country. Wentja has a very distinctive style and her work highly sought by the Australian and international art collectors. Her work has been exhibited in leading Australian and international exhibitions, including the 2003 exhibition Masterpieces from the Western Desert, in London. Source - https://www.shortstgallery.com.au/.../105.../biography/

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Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri and her universe. Wentja Napaltjarri was born at Malparinga about 1943, and grew up west of Kintore in her father's country, located in the Gibson Desert. Wentja is the daughter of one of the founders of the Desert painting movement, Shorty Lungkata Tjungarrayi and one of his wives, Napulu Nangala. Wentja Napaltjarri has several sisters who are also well known artists; including step-sister Linda Napaltjarri Syddick (born c. 1936), adopted by Shorty Lungkata as a young girl, when he married her widowed mother. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, her father and uncle, along with their families including Wentja travelled east in the footsteps of the Ancestral Emu Men of Tingarri cycles, out of the desert. They travelled from water to water. It was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high tali [sandhills], so knowledge of the exact location of kapi [water], whether hidden rockholes, claypans, natural springs, or soakages, was critical for survival. Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their journey out of the desert to join other relatives in settlements at Haasts Bluff Mission Outpost about 1948. The family then moved to Papunya around 1960. As with so many Pintupi families, Wentja’s extended family established a strong artistic voice in Pintupi culture. While at Haasts Bluff, Wentja met her husband, Ginger Tjakamarra, who was the son of the artist Makin Napanangka. The couple eventually moved to Papunya, where Shorty Langkata apprenticed each of his daughters.Wentja’s first works were collaborative, helping out the men in the family with their work. While they painted the stories, Wentja did the dotting in-fill, characteristic of the Papunya Tula artists.Eventually, Wentja lived at Watiyawanu [New Bore], Mt Liebig with her husband and with her children. Wentja began her own career there, painting for Watiyawanu Artists. Wentja mostly paints Tingarri and Kapi Tjukurrpa, the iconography for which has been handed down to her by her father. She also paints Tali [sandhills], Puli  [rockholes], Watiya Tjuta [Desert Oaks], and other landmarks central to her Country, and her father’s Country. Wentja has a very distinctive style and her work highly sought by the Australian and international art collectors. Her work has been exhibited in leading Australian and international exhibitions, including the 2003 exhibition Masterpieces from the Western Desert, in London. 

Source - https://www.shortstgallery.com.au/.../105.../biography/

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Pintupi artist Wentja Napaltjarri often paints her father’s ancestral country, west of Kintore, in the Gibson Desert along the Western Australia /Northern Territory border. Wentja Napaltjarri’s father was the famous painter Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, the family travelled all across their traditional lands, living off its resources, as the Pintupi people had done for thousands of years.

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Pintupi artist Wentja Napaltjarri often paints her father’s ancestral country, west of Kintore, in the Gibson Desert along the Western Australia /Northern Territory border. Wentja Napaltjarri’s father was the famous painter Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, the family travelled all across their traditional lands, living off its resources, as the Pintupi people had done for thousands of years.

During the 1940s, Wentja and her family, like others before them, walked out of the desert to join relatives who now lived in the small settlements to the east, and they never returned to live on their traditional lands. Wentja Napaltjarri has always painted the subjects that relate to her Pintupi culture, and her paintings representing her Father’s country are topographical maps of the country that also include references to significant metaphysical narratives of the Pintupi traditional life.

When Wentja Napaltjarri was young her father and uncle had made a journey from rock hole to rock hole, a journey that was also carried out by the Ancestral Emu Men, which comprises an important Pintupi Tingari story. Wentja Napaltjarri knew this story – it was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high sandhills, so knowledge of rock holes and their exact location was critical for survival.

Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their long journey out of the desert to join other clansmen and relatives who had moved to settlements at Mt Liebig and Papunya. The family established a strong artistic link with Pintupi culture. Besides Wentja Napaltjarri and her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, Wentja also had three sisters who became well known in the Aboriginal art field – Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (1927-2009), Wintjiya Napaltjarri (b.1932) and Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (b. 1937).

https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/col.../wentja-napaltjarri/

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Pintupi artist Wentja Napaltjarri often paints her father’s ancestral country, west of Kintore, in the Gibson Desert along the Western Australia /Northern Territory border. Wentja Napaltjarri’s father was the famous painter Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, the family travelled all across their traditional lands, living off its resources, as the Pintupi people had done for thousands of years.

During the 1940s, Wentja and her family, like others before them, walked out of the desert to join relatives who now lived in the small settlements to the east, and they never returned to live on their traditional lands. Wentja Napaltjarri has always painted the subjects that relate to her Pintupi culture, and her paintings representing her Father’s country are topographical maps of the country that also include references to significant metaphysical narratives of the Pintupi traditional life.

When Wentja Napaltjarri was young her father and uncle had made a journey from rock hole to rock hole, a journey that was also carried out by the Ancestral Emu Men, which comprises an important Pintupi Tingari story. Wentja Napaltjarri knew this story – it was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high sandhills, so knowledge of rock holes and their exact location was critical for survival.

Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their long journey out of the desert to join other clansmen and relatives who had moved to settlements at Mt Liebig and Papunya. The family established a strong artistic link with Pintupi culture. Besides Wentja Napaltjarri and her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, Wentja also had three sisters who became well known in the Aboriginal art field – Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (1927-2009), Wintjiya Napaltjarri (b.1932) and Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (b. 1937).

https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/col.../wentja-napaltjarri/

[mybeingthere]

Pintupi artist Wentja Napaltjarri often paints her father’s ancestral country, west of Kintore, in the Gibson Desert along the Western Australia /Northern Territory border. Wentja Napaltjarri’s father was the famous painter Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. When Wentja Napaltjarri was young, the family travelled all across their traditional lands, living off its resources, as the Pintupi people had done for thousands of years.

During the 1940s, Wentja and her family, like others before them, walked out of the desert to join relatives who now lived in the small settlements to the east, and they never returned to live on their traditional lands. Wentja Napaltjarri has always painted the subjects that relate to her Pintupi culture, and her paintings representing her Father’s country are topographical maps of the country that also include references to significant metaphysical narratives of the Pintupi traditional life.

When Wentja Napaltjarri was young her father and uncle had made a journey from rock hole to rock hole, a journey that was also carried out by the Ancestral Emu Men, which comprises an important Pintupi Tingari story. Wentja Napaltjarri knew this story – it was hot weather time in the Gibson Desert and there was little water to be found. This area is dominated by high sandhills, so knowledge of rock holes and their exact location was critical for survival.

Wentja Napaltjarri and her family successfully navigated their long journey out of the desert to join other clansmen and relatives who had moved to settlements at Mt Liebig and Papunya. The family established a strong artistic link with Pintupi culture. Besides Wentja Napaltjarri and her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, Wentja also had three sisters who became well known in the Aboriginal art field – Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (1927-2009), Wintjiya Napaltjarri (b.1932) and Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (b. 1937).

https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/col.../wentja-napaltjarri/