Pansy Napangardi (born 1948) is an Australian artist. She is associated with the Jukurrpa group of women artists in

Alice Springs Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' Al ...

where she lives today.

Early life

She was born at

Haasts Bluff Haasts Bluff, also known as Ikuntji, is an Aboriginal Australian community in Central Australia, a region of the Northern Territory. The community is located in the MacDonnell Shire local government area, west of Alice Springs. At the 2006 cens ...

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...

, Australia. She remains one of the leading artists of

Papunya Tula Papunya Tula, registered as Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artist cooperative formed in 1972 in Papunya, Northern Territory, owned and operated by Aboriginal people from the Western Desert of Australia. The group is known for its innovative ...

, after she was moved to the settlement of Papunya in the early 1960s after

became abandoned due to lack of suitable water; it was here where she observed the work of many artists.

Career

Napangardi was the first professional female desert painter amidst the Luritija and Warlpiri people, learning techniques from the desert art founders. Learning from the renowned Indigenous Australian artists, Johny Warangula and Kaapa, she began to develop her own technique through the application of multi-coloured dots. Although she observed the men's painting business there, she is one of the rare women associated with Papunya Tula who did not serve an apprenticeship with the men. In 1983, Napangardi commenced her work with Papunya Tula Artists and by the late 1980s, had established herself as a leading female artist. She sold her works independently in

at first and in 1989 she won the

National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darw ...

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

*the

Hood Museum of Art The Hood Museum of Art is owned and operated by Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth dates to 1772, making the collection among the o ...

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, *Artbank, Sydney. *Central Collection, Australian National University, Canberra. *Donald Kahn collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. *Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. *National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. *National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. *The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A *The Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. *The Robert Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.

Individual exhibitions

*1988,

Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architec ...

*1989,

Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi Gabrielle Pizzi (1940 – 5 December 2004), born Gabrielle Wren, was an Australian art dealer who promoted Aboriginal art from the Western Desert from the early 1980s. She created the Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in Melbourne in 1987. In 1990, Gabri ...

, Melbourne *1991, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Napangardi, Pansy 1948 births Living people Australian Aboriginal artists Artists from the Northern Territory 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian painters 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian painters