Charlie TJAPANGATI - Tingari Palipari Jupiters Well

Charlie TJAPANGATI - Tingari Palipari Jupiters Well

1994, 91 x 61cm ADG:800

ADG: 800

Description

Tingari Palipari Jupiters Well, 1994

Charlie TJAPANGATI - Biography
Born
1949
Language
Pintupi
Country
Tjulurrunya, west of Jupiter Well
Region
Western Desert, Western Australia, Northern
Community
Kiwirrkura WA, Kintore NT, Papunya NT
Art centre
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd
Subjects
Tingari Cycle

Charlie Tjapangati was born circa 1949 at the site of Tjulurrunya, west of Kiwirrkura. He is the younger brother of Nanyuma Napangati.

During the 1960s Charlie travelled into 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 Pty Ltd in 1978, and in 1999 he contributed to the Kintore Men’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

Solo Exhibitions
2002 Scott Livesy Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Group Exhibitions
1980 Contemporary Australian Aborigine Paintings, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA
1981 Australian Perspecta, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1982 Brisbane Festival, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1982 Georges Exhibition, Melbourne, Victoria
1983 Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1984 Paintings from the Central Australian Desert, Mori Gallery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1986 Aboriginal Arts Auttarlia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
1988 Expo 88, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1990 Peintres Papunya D’Australie, Paris, France
1995 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1995 Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia Selected Exhibitions; Sydney, Australia
1996 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1999 Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
2000 Utopia Art Sydney, NSW, Australia
2001 Art of the Pintupi, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
2001 Papunya– works from the 1980s, Utopia art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
2002 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2002 Aboriginal Art 2002, Scott Livesy Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2002 Pintupi Men’s and Women’s Stories, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2003 Aboriginal Art 2003, Scott Livesy Art dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2003 Pintupi Art from the Western Desert, Indigenart, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
2003 Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2004 Papunya Tula – Selected paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2004 Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 Aboriginal Art 2005, Scott Livesy Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2006 Yawulyurra kapalilu palyara nintilpayi, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
2007 Master Works from Papunya Tula, Birrung Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2007 Rising Stars, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2008 Kintore to Kiwirrkura – Papunya Tula Artists, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore

Collections
National Gallery of Australia
Artbank
Robert Holmes a Court Collection
Victorian Art Centre
The Kelton Foundation Collection
Museums and Art Galleries of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT
University of Virginia, USA
Flinders University Art Museum
Macquarie Bank Collection
Aboriginal Art Museum, Netherlands

Bibliography
Crocker, A. 1981, Mr Sandman Bring Me a Dream, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs and Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, Sydney.
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales.
1981, Australian Perspecta 1981, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

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