painting now: papunya tula artists

Painting Now

Papunya Tula Artists

6 - 27 July, 2013

© Utopia Art Sydney

Painting Now

Papunya Tula Artists

As you walk in the front door of the Art Gallery of New South Wales today, paintings by Papunya Tula Artists greet you, hanging beside their peers from across Australia and the world. This is a far cry from 1988, when indigenous art was consigned to the basement and formed a very separate and minor part in the story of Australian art.

Utopia Art Sydney is celebrating its 25th year of representing Papunya Tula Artists with an exhibition that demonstrates the continuing strength of some of Australia’s leading painters today.

Rather than looking back, we are looking forward optimistically. Too often people view aboriginal art as an historical artefact, but these artists have been painting in a contemporary context for forty years now, and these vital images we see today are as exciting as the works I first saw in 1988. Certainly some of the senior artists have passed on but new and exciting artists have continuously emerged under the support-ive community values of the artists’ own company, Papunya Tula Artists.

Christopher Hodges, 2013

Introduction

Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, 183 x 153cm

George Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 183 x 244cm

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 153 x 122cm

Patrick Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 153 x 122cm

Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 153 x 122cm

Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2008, acrylic on linen, 153 x 122cm

Ningura Napurrula, Untitled, 2009, acrylic on linen, 122 x 122cm

Yinarupa Nangala, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, 122 x 122cm

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 107 x 122cm

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 107 x 122cm

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Untitled, 2012; 2011; 2011, acrylic on linen, 107 x 28cm

Yukultji Napangati, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 122 x 61cm

Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 61 x 91cm

Nyilyari Tjapangati, Untitled, 2010, acrylic on linen, 61 x 91cm

Ray James Tjangala, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, 61 x 91cm

Katarra Butler Napaltjarri, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, 61 x 91cm

George Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Kawayi Nampitjinpa, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Yuyuya Nampitjinpa, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 46 x 91cm

Ningura Napurrula, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 91 x 91cmJohnny Yungut Tjupurrula, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 91 x 91cm

Ningura Napurrula, Untitled, 2011, acrylic on linen, 91 x 91cm George Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2012, acrylic on linen, 91 x 91cm

Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: utopiaartsydney@ozemail.com.auwww.utopiaartsydney.com.au

© Utopia Art Sydney

6 - 27 July, 2013

Painting Now

Papunya Tula Artists

Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017

Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: utopiaartsydney@ozemail.com.auwww.utopiaartsydney.com.au