Walangkura Napanangka Kutungka Napanangka at Papunga

KUTUNGKA NAPANANGKA (Australia, 1949 - 2010) Kutjarr Kuniya at Intinti 2002 Screen-print Edition: 12/20 24cm x 60cm Acquired 2002 109707

Biography:

Kutungka Napanangka was born near Kintore circa 1950. Her family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her lat teens. Kutungka, Walangkura Napanangka and the late Pirrmangka Napanangka all share the same father, Raatja Tjapangati. Her mother, Katjarra Nampitjinpa, also painted for the company before painting more regularly with Ikuntji Artists at Haasts Bluff. Raatja Tjapangati’s second wife, Inyuwa Nampitjinpa was Kutungka Napanangka’s second mother and became very well known following a brief career spanning from 1996 to 1999. Kutungka started painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 2005.

Katungka’s works are held in Artbank, and the collections of Thomas Vroom (Netherlands), Pino Degiosa (Singapore) and Helen Read.

Artwork:

Katungka paints her mother’s dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjukurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far west of Haast’s Bluff, over the West Australian border.

The stories at Intinti involve women hunting for kuniya or carpet snakes with nullanullas.

In 2003 Katungka developed her white salt-lake works. These have expanded and developed with fine marking all over the white canvas. Shadow forms are seen as marks in the salt lake which represent people travelling, the wind shifting the salt, animal tracks and the myriad marks left on the salt pan by even the most minor change in the environment.