Pintupi, b. Western Desert circa 1960
Lived nomadically until 1984
Began painting 1991
Began working with Campfire group Sculpture Projects 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 New Sculpture Maunsell Wickes gallery Sydney
Smoke: Campfire Group and Other Commissioned Works Despard gallery Hobart fireworks gallery Brisbane Kimberley Art Melbourne
2003 Tingari’Japingka Gallery Perth
2002-04 Walala and Campfire Group fireworks gallery Brisbane
2001 Sculptures from the Tingari Cycle fireworks gallery Brisbane
1999 Tingari Cycle fireworks gallery Brisbane
1998 Tingari - Men’s Business Coo-ee Gallery Sydney N
1998 Walala Tjapaltjarri Paintings Vivien Anderson Gallery Melbourne
1998 Tingari Cycle new works by Walala Tjapaltjarri fireworks gallery Brisbane
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Blue: a group exhibition fireworks gallery Brisbane
2006 Three Large Rooms fireworls gallery Brisbane
2000-02-04 Melbourne ArtFair 2000 Carlton
2000 17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
2000 Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri & Dorothy Napangardi Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
2000-01 The Art of Place Exhibition Australian Heritage Commission National Tour
2000 Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award Australian Heritage Commission Canberra
2000 Landmarks Exhibition Dar Festival Brisbane Powerhouse
2000 Walala Tjapatjarri and Dr George Tjapaltjarri Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery Sydney
2000 My Country - Journeys of our Ancestors’ Ancient Earth Indigenous Art Cairns
2000 Lines fireworks gallery Brisbane
1999 Recent Works by Walala Tjapaltjarri Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
1999 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Darwin
1999 Painting the Desert Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy Canberra
1999 Spirit Country The California Palace of the Legion of Honour San Francisco USA
1998 15th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
1998 Tingari-My Dreaming Japingka Gallery Fremantle
1997 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin

COLLECTIONS:
New South Wales Art Gallery Sydney
Flinders University Adelaide
AMP Investments Australia Sydney
Axiom Funds Management Sydney
Ganter Myer Aboriginal Art Collection
CNC International Corporation Sydney
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Perth
Epic Energy Australia Brisbane
Hastings Funds Management Melbourne
Kaplan & Levi Collection Seattle U.S.A.
El Paso Energy International Co Houston Texas
The Kelton Foundation Santa Monica
Private Collections
COMMISSIONS:
2003 Tingari Sculpture Crown Casino Melbourne
2002-05 Tingari Sculpture Private commissions Melbourne Sydney Brisbane
Selected BIBLIOGRAPHY:
‘Nangara – The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition’ from the Ebes Collection,
The Gallery of Dreamings, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1996
‘Spirit Country’ The California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, USA, 1999, Jennifer Isaacs
'Painting the Desert’ Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French Embassy, 1999,
Maud Girard-Geslan and Luc Chailleu.
‘Beyond the Fatal Shore ’ Producer, Robert Hughes for Oxford TV, BBC & ABC, 2000