{"product_id":"walangkura-napanangka-womens-ceremony-180x300cm","title":"Walangkura Napanangka | 'Women's Ceremony' | 180x300cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDWN10001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003eWalangkura Napanangka\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Womens Ceremony\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kintore, NT\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pinup\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180x300cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unknown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis painting depicts Papunga, an area west of Kintore. Kutungka, the old woman, visited rock holes, walked through the sand dunes and performed ceremonies. The tightly packed line work represents the sand dunes she travelled through, while the circular forms mark the rock holes where she stopped to camp and perform ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBorn around 1946 at Tjitururrnga, west of Kintore in the remote country straddling the Northern Territory and Western Australia border, Walangkura Napanangka was among the last generation of Pintupi to grow up hunting and gathering in the desert with her family. As a teenager she walked hundreds of kilometres with her parents, Rantji Tjapangati and Inyuwa Nampitjinpa, joining Uta Uta Tjangala's group on the long journey in to the settlements of Haasts Bluff and then Papunya. Her paintings draw on that childhood: they map the stories and sites of her traditional homeland west of the salt lake Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald), depicting sandhills, rockholes, journeys and gatherings of ancestral women, rendered in her signature deep sandy orange set against sombre blacks, reds and dusky greens. Early works from 1996 are densely packed with small markings and motifs; later canvases, some up to three metres wide, loosen into a gestural, rhythmic line work that carries the confidence of a fully assured artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe defining moment of Walangkura's career was the historic 1994 women's collaborative painting project at Kintore, where she had settled with the outstation movement in 1981. Initiated by the senior women as a way of reaffirming their own spiritual and ancestral connections to country, the project took place away from the gaze of men and outsiders, in a camp given over to women's singing, ceremony and painting. The huge, colourful canvases that emerged were alive with the ritual excitement and narrative intensity of the occasion, and they announced a distinctly female voice within Western Desert art, exuberant and vibrant where the men's work was cerebral and symmetrical. Within a year Papunya Tula Artists had taken on Walangkura and many of her companions as full time painters, revitalising the company and launching her rise to become one of its most senior women artists. Solo exhibitions followed at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi (2003) and Utopia Art Sydney (2004), and her monumental canvases have since become emblematic of Pintupi women's painting, the work of an artist widely regarded as being of stellar quality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51861329772777,"sku":null,"price":95000.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-09-11at11.30.07.jpg?v=1789090228","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/walangkura-napanangka-womens-ceremony-180x300cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}