Contemporary Australia: Women

204 Selected group exhibitions: ‘Ngayulu Witini Ngayuku Mamaku Tjukurpa. Ngayuku Witini Ngayuku Ngunytjuku Tjukurpa. I Hold My Father’s Story. I Hold My Mother’s Story’, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, 2011; ‘Malparra: Friends Together’; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2011; ‘Desert Country’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2010. Paniny Mick Pitjantjatjara people b.1939 Rocket Bore, NT | Lives and works in Amata, SA Paniny Mick was born at Rocket Bore near Mulga Park in the Northern Territory. Her language is Pitjantjatjara and her Dreaming is Malu, the kangaroo. She arrived in Amata as a young girl with her parents; her elder brother, Marla; and sisters Yaritji and Marinka. She lives there still as a respected elder. Initially, Paniny Mick made batik at the Tjurma Arts and Crafts Centre, taking up painting when Minymaku Arts (now Tjala Arts) was established in 1999. She is a highly regarded artist, collaborating regularly with Tjungkara Ken, Sandra Ken, Marinka Mick and Yaritji Young. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Ngayulu Witini Ngayuku Mamaku Tjukurpa. Ngayuku Witini Ngayuku Ngunytjuku Tjukurpa. I Hold My Father’s Story. I Hold My Mother’s Story’, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, 2011; ‘Tjala Artists: Anangu Maruku Mulapa: This is Our Real Way’, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 2011; ‘Nganampa Tjukula: Our Rock Holes’, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra, 2003; ‘Mina Wala: Fresh, like Water from a Spring’, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, 2002; ‘Desert Mob’, Araluen Galleries, Alice Springs, 2002. Award: Tandanya/Arts South Australia Aboriginal Artists’ Fellowship Award 2002. Rebecca Baumann b.1983 Perth, WA | Lives and works in Perth Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Rebecca Baumann’s practice is centred around a formal and conceptual exploration of materials. Her current interest in the relationship between colour and emotion reveals an engagement with psychology, sociology, colour theory and art history. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘Automated Monochrome’, IMA @ Ksubi, Brisbane, 2012; ‘Untitled State of Mind’, Gallery ON, Poznań, Poland, 2010; ‘This Glorious Mess’, Amata painters Senior artists Tjampawa Katie Kawiny Pitjantjatjara people b.c.1921 | Lives and works in Amata, SA Tjampawa Katie Kawiny is an elder in the Amata community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in north-west South Australia. She is a traditional owner of nearby Tjurma country. Joining Tjala Arts, then named Minymaku Arts, in 1999, Tjampawa has been part of the organisation’s development and participated in many group exhibitions. Her paintings depict Anangu tjukurpa (dreaming stories), particularly the Seven Sisters narrative that is embodied in hills and rocks surrounding Amata. Tjampawa also makes tjanpi (desert grass) figures and baskets. Selected exhibitions: ‘Tjala Artists’, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, 2011; ‘APY & NPY Survey Exhibition’, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, 2010; ‘Tjala Women’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2010. Wawiriya Burton Pitjantjatjara people b.c.1925 Pipilyatjara, WA | Lives and works in Amata, SA Wawiriya Burton is a senior woman of law and culture, revered as a ngangkari (traditional healer). She started painting at Tjala Arts in 2008 and also makes punu (wood carvings) and tjanpi baskets. Her father’s country is west of Amata, near Pipilyatjara, where she was born, and she often paints complex depictions of dreaming stories from this region. Selected exhibitions: ‘Tjala Artists’, Short St Gallery, Broome, WA, 2011; ‘Ngayulu Witini Ngayuku Mamaku Tjukurpa. Ngayuku Witini Ngayuku Ngunytjuku Tjukurpa. I Hold My Father’s Story. I Hold My Mother’s Story’, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, 2011; ‘Nganampa Tjukurpa Kunpu: Our Strong Stories’, Aboriginal and Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney, 2010. Ruby Tjangawa Williamson Pitjantjatjara people b.1940 SA | Lives and works in Amata, SA Ruby Tjangawa Williamson is a senior law woman committed to fostering traditional culture. She began painting in 2000. Her distinctive works are acclaimed and she is regarded as one of Amata’s most significant artists. Williamson also weaves tjanpi baskets and makes punu with pokerwork designs. Selected solo exhibition: ‘Ruby Williamson Revisited’, Art Mob, Hobart, 2005. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Ngayulu Witini Ngayuku Mamaku Tjukurpa. Ngayuku Witini Ngayuku Ngunytjuku Tjukurpa. I Hold My Father’s Story. I Hold My Mother’s Story’, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, 2011; ‘Tjala Women’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 2010; ‘Desert Country’, Art Gallery of South Australia’, Adelaide, 2010 Awards: Tandanya/Arts South Australia Aboriginal Artists’ Fellowship Award 2002. Iluwanti Ken Pitjantjatjara people b.1944 SA | Lives and works in Amata, SA Iluwanti Ken’s traditional country is around Waturru. She is a well-known and respected senior Pitjantjatjara artist, painting and also using traditional fibres and found materials to make sculptures and baskets. Ken often paints with her sister Mary Katatjuku Pan, her daughter Sylvia, and granddaughter Serena. Selected group exhibition: ‘Tjala Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers: Watiku Tjukurpa Pulka Mulapa, Munu Minymaku Tjanpi; Exhibition Tjungu Kupu (The Men’s Stories are Very Strong with the Women’s Tjanpi; A Strong Exhibition)’, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 2010. Tjungkara Ken Pitjantjatjara people b.1969 Amata, SA | Lives and works in Amata, SA Tjungkara Ken began painting in 1997 and she is now a key member of Tjala Arts in Amata. Tjungkara paints about her parents’ country — her mother’s country is Walitjara, west of Amata, and her father’s is Amata — and its tjukurpa, often featuring caves, rocks, kapi tjukula (rock holes) and other elements in the landscape. Mother of Kunmanara Raymond, killed recently in a car accident, she led a group of female artists in a community project to produce collaborative works for the exhibition ‘Ngayulu Witini Ngayuku Mamaku Tjukurpa. Ngayuku Witini Ngayuku Ngunytjuku Tjukurpa. I Hold My Father’s Story. I Hold My Mother’s Story’ at Raft Artspace, Alice Springs, in 2011. An initiative of Hector Tjupuru Burton, this exhibition celebrated the life of her son. Exhibiting artists