Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs NT. Hub for 18 Town Camp communities. Arrernte, Warlpiri, Luritja artists. Figurative painting, textiles and ceramics.
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Located in the historic mission town of Hermannsburg (Ntaria), just west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, this Aboriginal art centre is renowned for its unique approach to pottery that combines traditional Aboriginal motifs with contemporary artistic expressions.
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Durrmu Arts is particularly noted for its distinctive style of artwork, which sets it apart. The centre specialises in transferring the designs from traditional weavings and durrmu (dot body painting) designs onto canvas, showcasing the traditional techniques and patterns of the Peppimenarti community.
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Papunya Tula is the first Aboriginal Art Centre in Australia and emerged in the early 1970s from the community of Papunya, a location roughly 240km northwest of Alice Springs. The centre has a proud tradition and stands as a remarkable emblem of the profound depth and complexity of Indigenous Australian artistry.
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Born around 1936 in the saltwater country of the Marra people near the Limmen Bight River, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala spent the 1950s droving cattle across the Northern Territory before taking up painting around 1986. His large-scale, brilliantly coloured landscapes of the Four Archers, Garimala the creator snake, and Ngak Ngak the sea eagle made him the first living Aboriginal artist honoured with a retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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Dorothy Napangardi was born in the early 1950s at Mina Mina in the Tanami Desert. Her family was forced to move to Yuendumu in 1957. She began painting in Alice Springs in 1987, initially colourful bush tucker stories, before a return visit to Mina Mina around 1997 transformed her practice into the monochromatic, finely dotted works that won the 2001 NATSIAA and placed her in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Destiny Deacon was born in 1957 in Maryborough, Queensland, of Kuku Yalanji and Erub/Mer heritage, and grew up in Melbourne's inner suburbs. A politics graduate who worked for Charles Perkins before turning to art, she coined the term "Blak" in 1991, became the only Australian artist selected for documenta 11 in 2002, and received the Red Ochre Award for lifetime achievement in 2022. She died on 23 May 2024.
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Born around 1958 at Tjuurlnga in the Gibson Desert, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri was one of the Pintupi Nine who made first contact with the outside world in October 1984. He began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1987, participated in documenta 13 in 2012, and is now represented by Gagosian.
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In 1983 a Warlpiri man living at Papunya asked to join the Papunya Tula Artists studio. Within a year he had won the inaugural National Aboriginal Art Award and been commissioned to design the Parliament House forecourt mosaic. His painting hangs in the Sydney Opera House, his mosaic paves the forecourt of Parliament House, and his design appears on the Australian five-dollar note.
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Wenten Rubuntja Pengarte AM was born around 1923 at Burt Creek north of Alice Springs, an Arrernte lawman and senior custodian of the Yeperenye Dreaming who learned to paint in secret after watching Albert Namatjira at work in the 1950s. He led more than 1,000 people through Alice Springs demanding the Land Rights Act in 1976, co-presented the Barunga Statement to Bob Hawke in 1988, and helped win Arrernte native title over municipal Alice Springs land in 2000.
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