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Pintupi,
b. Western Desert circa 1960
Lived nomadically until 1984
Began painting 1991
Began working with Campfire group Sculpture Projects 1999 |
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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 |
2002-4 |
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
Walala Tjapaltjarri Paintings Vivien Anderson Gallery Melbourne
Tingari Cycle new works by Walala Tjapaltjarri fireworks gallery
Brisbane |
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GROUP
EXHIBITIONS |
2009 |
Sculpture
+ Works on Paper fireworks gallery Brisbane |
2008 |
Blue: a group exhibition fireworks gallery Brisbane |
2006 |
Three Large Rooms fireworls gallery Brisbane |
2000 |
Melbourne ArtFair
17th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Museum and Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin
Songlines: Walala Tjapaltjarri & Dorothy Napangardi Rebecca
Hossack Gallery London |
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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 |
2000-1 |
The Art of Place Exhibition Australian Heritage Commission National
Tour |
2000 |
Fifth National Indigenous Heritage Art Award Australian Heritage
Commission Canberra
Landmarks Exhibition Dar Festival Brisbane Powerhouse
Walala Tjapatjarri and Dr George Tjapaltjarri Cooee Aboriginal
Art Gallery Sydney
My Country - Journeys of our Ancestors’ Ancient Earth Indigenous
Art Cairns
Lines fireworks gallery Brisbane |
1999 |
Recent Works by Walala Tjapaltjarri Rebecca Hossack Gallery London
16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Darwin
Painting the Desert Alliance Francaise de Canberra and the French
Embassy Canberra
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 |
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COLLECTIONS |
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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 |
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COMMISSIONS |
2003 |
Tingari Sculpture Crown Casino Melbourne |
2002-5 |
Tingari
Sculpture Private commissions Melbourne Sydney Brisbane |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTED |
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‘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 |