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Alice Nampitjinpa (b.1943)
Skin Name: Nampitjinpa
Language: Pintupi
Region: West of Kintore
Biography
Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border.
Prior to her painting Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people.
Alice started painting on the "Minyama Tjukurrpa" - the Kintore Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active "dancing woman" who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and "Women's Law" meetings. Alice's tjukurrpa is the porcupine or Tjilkamata. Her story is told in bright colours often utilizing orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine. Alice is a keen hunter and likes to go hunting with
Eunice Jack.
Alice's father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, who was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. His Tjukurrpa is Pungkalungka at Takpalangu. Pungkalungka's are dangerous, and sometimes kill and eat people. They live in huge caves in the hills. Alice only paints the entrance to the caves to signify the unknown danger of the monster that dwells within. Her father's country is Ngurrapalangu, and her tjukurrpa has passed to her from this place - the porcupine was travelling through the sand hills and passing near the two carpet snakes, kuniya kutjarra, who were living underneath the water. Alice also enjoys the other crafts and is involved in producing hand-spindled hairstring for ceremonies and ininiti necklaces and mats. She regularly goes out bush to collect ininti seeds then laboriously pierces them with hot wire to make beads for necklaces, bracelets or mats.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (with Eunice Napanangka)
2006 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi , Melbourne
2005 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (with Euince Napanangka Jack),
Melbourne
2005 Boutwell Draper (with Katungka Napanangka), Sydney
2000 Tjilkamata & Watuya (with Eunice Napanangka Jack), Gallery
Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (with Narputta Nangala), Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Kingsfisher Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, "Ikuntji Women
Painters"
2008 Footsteps Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, "Ikuntji Painters"
2008 Palya Art @ Mary Place, Sydney, "Group Show"
2007 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, "Senior Ikuntji Women"
2007 Indigenart, Perth, "Ngankirritja"
2007 Bandigan Gallery, Sydney, "Yaiti Yamimi"
2007 Booker Lowe Gallery, Texas, USA "Group Show"
2007 Short St Gallery, Broome, "Group Show"
2007 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, "North Meets South - Ikuntji and
Tjala Converge"
2007 Aboriginal Art Collection, Chicago USA, "Genesis"
2007 Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, "Desert Mob"
2007 Palya Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007 Framed Gallery, Darwin, "Best Of The Best"
2007 Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007 Palya Art, Darwin/Sydney, "Palya @ Mary Place"
2006 Gadfly Gallery, Perth, "Senior Aboriginal Women Artists of
Central Australia"
2006 Araluen, Desert Mob, Alice Springs
2006 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, "Anangu"
2005 Art Frankfurt, Germany
2005 Strata, Araluen Alice Springs
2005 Desert Divas, Gondwana Gallery Alice Springs
2005 Sydney Art Fair
2005 Heidi Museum of Modern Art - Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
2005 "Concord", Framed Gallery, Darwin
2005 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, "Ikuntji Desert Belles"
2005 Susan O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane Art Fair
2005 Indigenart, Perth
2005 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi
2005 Indigenart, Perth
2004 Araluen, Desert Mob, Alice Springs
2004 Indigenart - Perth
2004 Gondwana, Desert Show
2004 Desert Divas, Gondwana
2004 Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2004 Rebecca Hossack, London
2004 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore
2004 Fireworks, Brisbane
2004 Carole Queriye - London
2003 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
2003 Mythology & Reality Jerusalem Centre of the Performing Artist,
Israel
2001 Our Country: Pintupi Women from Haasts Bluff, Raft Artspace,
Darwin
2001 Ikuntji, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2001 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
2000 Desert Mob, Araluen Alice Springs
2000 Women's Work, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2000 Ikuntji Artists, Desart Gallery, Sydney
1999 "Ikuntji Tjuta - Touring Retrospective", Campbelltown City Art
Gallery
1998 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Desart Exhibition
1998 Bischoffs, California, USA
1998 Ikuntji Paintings, Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1998 Desert Mob, Araluen, Alice Springs
1998 "Ikuntji: Paintings from Haasts Bluff", Framed, Darwin
1998 "Raiki Wara: Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the
Torres Strait
1998 National Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1997 28th Alice Prize, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1997 14th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1997 Ikuntji Tjuta, Alliance Francaise, Canberra
1997 "Circles about the Body", University Gallery, University of
Tasmania
1997 Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown
1997 Ikuntji Tjuta, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1996 13th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1996 "Ikuntji Minyma Tjuta", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1995 "Minyma Tjukurrpa" - Haats Bluff/Kintore Canvas Project,
Tandanya, Adelaida
Collections
Private Collections
Myer Baillieu Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
Aboriginal Art Museum, The Netherlands
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Arts d'Australie Stephane Jacob, Paris
Heidi Museum of Modern Art
Red Dot Gallery
Harold Mitchell Foundation
Awards
2006
2000 Heritage Art Award, Canberra
Bibliographies
2005 Raiki Wara. Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres
Strait. Judith Ryan, National Gallery of Victoria (Hrsg.),
Melbourne 1998, ISBN 0724102035
2005 Art Monthly Australia, Issue 182, August, 2005
2004 Mythology & Reality. Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from
the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection. Heide Museum of Modern Art
(Hrsg.), Bulleen 2004, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 094710481X
2002 Desert Art. Achille Bonito Oliva (Hrsg.), 2. Aufl., Mailand 2002,
Ausst. Kat.
2002 Indigenous Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria.
National Gallery of Victoria (Hrsg.), Melbourne 2002, ISBN
0724102124
Meeuwsen, Franca. Aboriginal Kunst, de verhalen vertellen,
Zwolle 2000, ISBN 9040095078
2001 The Pocket Guide to THE RED CENTRE, David Kirkland,
HEMA Maps, 2001
2000 Das Verborgene im Sichtbaren. The Unseen in Scene.
Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Kulturabteilung Bayer,
Leverkusen, Bayer Australia, Sydney (Hrsg.), Speyer 2000,
Ausst. Kat., ISBN 3980707202
2000 The Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award. The Art of
Place. Australian Heritage Commission (Hrsg.). Canberra 2000,
Ausst. Kat.
2000 The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. Kleinert,
S. und Neale, M. (Hrsg.). Oxford Univ. Press, Melbourne 2000,
ISBN 0195506599
1998 Raiki Wara. Long Cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres
Strait. Judith Ryan, National Gallery of Victoria (Hrsg.),
Melbourne 1998, ISBN 0724102035
1995 Ikuntji Tjuta. Touring. Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art
Gallery (Hrsg.), Campbelltown 1999, ISBN 1875199276, Ausst.
Kat.
1995 Ikuntji. Paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992-1994. Strocchi, M.
(Hrsg.), IAD Press, Alice Springs 1995, ISBN 094965986X
1991 Boulter, M., The Art of Utopia. A New Direction in Contemporary
Aboriginal Art. Craftsman House, Roseville East, Sydney 1991,
ISBN 9768097159
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