Walala Tjapaltjarri SIZE:160cm by 95cm

Born 1960

Region: Kiwirrkurra-Western Australia
Language Group: Pintupi

Born in the Gibson Desert east of Kiwirrkura. Walala walked out of the Gibson Desert with his family in 1984 after living a traditional nomadic lifestyle near Lake Mackay.  This was the family’s first contact with European society and their emergence made international headlines.

Some years later Walala began painting portraying classic Tingari images, sacred and secret mythological song cycles, associated with his dreamings sites.  His style has developed into the rectangular shapes with surrounding dots that represent sacred sites such as rock holes and sand hills His paintings are represented in private and public collections in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A.

Artists: Walala  Tjapaltjarri

D.O.B: circa 1960

Language: Pintupi

Region: Kiwirrkurra- Western Australia

Painting Size: 160cm by 95cm

The painting comes with COA and photo's of the artist holding and signing his work

Collections:
AMP Investments Australia, Sydney, N.S.W.
Axiom Funds Management, Sydney, N.S.W.
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Perth, W.A.
El Paso Energy International Co, Houston, Texas
Epic Energy Australia, Brisbane, QLD.
Flinders University, Adelaide, S.A.
Gantner Myer Aboriginal Art Collection CNC International Corporation, Sydney, N.S.W.
Hastings Funds Management, Melbourne, VIC.
Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle, U.S.A.
New South Wales Art Gallery, Sydney, N.S.W.
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.


Exhibitions: Individual Exhibitions:
1998 - Tingari - Men's Business, Coo-ee Gallery, Sydney, NSW; Walala
Tjapaltjarri Paintings, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, VIC;
Tingari Cycle an exhibition of works by Walala Tjapaltjarri, Fire-Works
Gallery, Brisbane, QLD.


Group Exhibitions:
2005 - Smoke: Campfire Group and other commissioned works, Fire-Works
Gallery, Brisbane.
2004 - Papunya: Painters of the Western Desert, Addison Galleries, NSW;
Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France.
2000-01 - The Art of Place Exhibition, Australian Heritage Commission,
National Tour 2000 - Walala Tjapatjarri and Dr George Tjapaltjarri, Cooee Aboriginal
Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW; Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri & Dorothy Napangardi, Rebecca
Hossack Gallery, London, England; My Country - Journeys of our Ancestors Ancient Earth
Indigenous Art, Cairns, QLD; Lines, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD; Landmarks Exhibition,
Dar Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Queensland; Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art
Award, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra; 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T;
Melbourne ArtFair 2000', Melbourne, Australia.
1999 - Tingari Cycle, Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD; Spirit Country
The California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, U.S.A; Recent Works by
Walala Tjapaltjarri and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London; Painting
the Desert Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy. Canberra, A.C.T;
16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of
the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.
1998 - Tingari-My Dreaming, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, W.A; 15th National
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin, N.T.
1997 - 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum
and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.