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Alice Nampitjinpa b. 1945, Talaalpi, Central Australia Alice Nampitjinpa was born in 1945 at Talaalpi, west of Haasts Bluff in Central Australia. She is the niece of acclaimed Pintupi artist Uta Uta Tjangala. Alice Nampitjinpa commenced painting in 1994 when she participated in ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’, the Kintore/Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project, giving the women artists from both communities an opportunity to reaffirm family links and ties to tribal lands. Alice Nampitjinpa has developed an individual artistic expression which is distinctly different from that of Uta Uta Tjangala. She retells her stories with bold, colourful abstractions representing the sandhills and swamp lands of her tribal lands. The use of the colours yellow and red represent the ochres used in ceremonial body painting. Her place of tribal significance is Talaalpi, a swamp near the Western Australian border. Her Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) is the porcupine or tjilkamata. Her paintings often interpret the mythological account of the porcupine searching for ‘tucker’ or, in turn, being the source of ‘bush tucker’. Alice Nampitjinpa has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including at Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (2001) and Monash University at Prato, Italy (2003); Mythology and Reality, Jerusalem Centre for the Performing Arts, Israel (2003); and Ikuntji – Stories from the Red Land, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2004). Her paintings are represented in the following Collections: the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. |
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