Walala Tjapaltjarri
Selected Works | Biography


© 2008

 

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
2002-4
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
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
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
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
2002-5
Tingari Sculpture Private commissions Melbourne Sydney Brisbane
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY SELECTED
 
‘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