painting now: papunya tula artists
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Utopia Art Sydney celebrates 25 years of representing Papunya Tula Artists.TRANSCRIPT
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: [email protected]
© Utopia Art Sydney
6 - 27 July, 2013
Painting Now
Papunya Tula Artists
Utopia Art Sydney2 Danks StreetWaterloo NSW 2017
Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900email: [email protected]