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Yukultji Napangati BIOGRAPHY
Born c.1970 near Lack Mackay, Western Desert, Australia. Known for: Aboriginal painting of dream stories and songs, nomadic tradition.
Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert. She comes from a... Read full biography
Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert. She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family... Read full biography
Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert. She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family went into the inhabited world. Despite all the obstacles of adaptation, Napangati started painting in the early 1990s and has focused on the stories and songs from her dreams. Since then, she maintains... Read full biography
Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert. She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family went into the inhabited world. Despite all the obstacles of adaptation, Napangati started painting in the early 1990s and has focused on the stories and songs from her dreams. Since then, she maintains a sensible, dreamy, yet simple practice and her works are to be found in different collections across Australia. She was one of nine featured artists in June, 2018 at the exhibition of the The Phililips Collection Museum exhibition titled Marking the... Read full biography
Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert. She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family went into the inhabited world. Despite all the obstacles of adaptation, Napangati started painting in the early 1990s and has focused on the stories and songs from her dreams. Since then, she maintains a sensible, dreamy, yet simple practice and her works are to be found in different collections across Australia. She was one of nine featured artists in June, 2018 at the exhibition of the The Phililips Collection Museum exhibition titled Marking the Infinite: 9 Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. Featured image in Phillips Collection exhibition:... Read full biography
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Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert.
She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family went into the inhabited world.
Despite all the obstacles of adaptation, Napangati started painting in the early 1990s and has focused on the stories and songs from her dreams. Since then, she maintains a sensible, dreamy, yet simple practice and her works are to be found in different collections across Australia.
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