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Item:186360089487Aboriginal art - Pansy Napangardi 2002. Amazingly intricate and beautiful very large artwork by prominent Warlpiri artist Pansy Napangardi, "Hailstone Dreaming at Illpili" painted in Alice Springs in 2002. Acrylic on linen measuring 150cm x 127cm unstretched, signed by Pansy verso with catalogue number DG500 and accompanied by 13 photos of her painting and holding the completed work. Born at Haasts Bluff in the late 1940s which were the early years of the mission settlement, Pansy
moved across to the newly constructed government settlement of Papunya
in 1960. Unlike many other women artists now associated with Papunya
Tula Artists, she did not serve an apprenticeship working on the
paintings of her male relatives, but began working for herself, she
says, from the early ’70s. After observing artists like Johnny Warangkula and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa
, she began developing her own style. She practised on paper and later
did collages using her designs made up of glue and brightly coloured
ininti seeds. Pansy sold her works independently in Alice Springs. She
worked in this manner for about five years, followed by a long gap until
1983, when she began painting for Papunya Tula Artists, emerging by the
end of the decade as Papunya Tula’s foremost woman artist. Her work was
included in the company’s display at the 1988 Brisbane Expo, and
featured on the cover of catalogue of The Inspired Dream ,
shown at the same time at the Queensland Art Gallery. She had two solo
exhibitions, the first at the Sydney Opera House in September 1988
through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists (for whom she painted for
occasionally) followed by one at the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in
Melbourne in May 1989, through Papunya Tula Artists. In 1989 she won the
sixth National Aboriginal Art Award. Under the auspices of Papunya Tula
Artists she showed at the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in late 1991 and
independently in Brisbane with Eunice Napangati in early 1992. Her work also appeared in several major surveys of Aboriginal art, including Mythscapes at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1989 and Karnta a show of Aboriginal Women’s work at the Art Gallery of NSW in 1991. She has one son and four adopted children. In the late 1980s she attended literacy classes at the IAD
with many of the women from the Jukurrpa painting group based at the
Institute. Her sister, Alice Napangati, was married to artist Dinny Nolan and lived in Papunya. Her younger brother, Brogas Tjapangati,
also painted for Papunya Tula Artists. She paints Bush Banana, Water
Snake, Marlu (Kangaroo) Cockatoo, Bush Mangoes, Willy Wagtail from her
father and grandfather’s country around Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs) and
Seven Sisters, Hail, Desert Raisin, Two Women Dreamings from her
mother’s country Illpili. ***International customers please contact for postage charges - rate shown is Australia domestic only***