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Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was born east of Kiwirrkura in the late 1950's. The brother of artist Walala Tjapaltjarri, in late 1984, Walala and eight other relatives of the Pintupi Tribe walked out of the desert in Western Australia and made contact for the first time with non-Aboriginal society. Described as The Lost Tribe, he and his family created international headlines. Until this time Warlimpirrnga and his family lived the traditional and nomadic life of a hunter-gatherer society. It is this sacred landscape with its significant sites that Warlimpirrnga so strikingly describes in his paintings. His art is a very important testimony to the time-honored way of living and the beliefs that sustained the Aboriginal people for centuries.
Warlimpirrnga began painting for Papunya Tula Artists on canvas with acrylics only three years after emerging from his traditional country around Wilkinkarra. In 1987, Warlimpirrnga completed his first painting for Papunya Tula Artists and in 1988 the first eleven paintings were exhibited at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. This entire collection was purchased and donated to the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2008, Tourism Australia purchased a Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri painting, 'Tingari Cycle', with the purpose of using it to promote Australian tourism through Aboriginal Art.
Exhibitions
2003 'Kintore Kiwirrkura', Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2002 - 2005 'Native Title Business: Contemporary Indigenous Art', touring exhibition travelling nationally
1993 'Aboriginal Art Exhibition: Kung Gubunga', Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach
1991 'Friendly Country, Friendly People', touring exhibition travelling through Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1990 'Lete Australien a Montpellier', Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France
1989 'Mythscapes: Aboriginal Art of the Desert', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Collections
Kelton Foundation Collection, USA
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney
Musee des Arts Africians et Oceaniens, Paris
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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