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Wentja Napaltjarri

Wentja Napaltjarri (Born c.1940) is active/lives in Australia.  Wentja Napaltjarri is known for Aboriginal art.

Napaltjarri’s paintings are always distinguished by her acute understanding of the aesthetics of crafting potent statements. Napaltjarri witnessed, and at times participated in, painting activities in Papunya in the early 1970’s alongside her father, Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, one of the senior group of Pintupi artists to commence painting during Geoffrey Bardon’s initiative in Papunya during this period.

Napaltjarri assumes specific authority from her father to depict his ancestral subjects and is now regarded as one of the most senior painters from the Central Desert community of Mount Liebig. Charismatic and authoritative in person, Napaltjarri paints with a palpable conviction and with an acute, reflexive intellect. Eschewing daily group painting in the communal painting shed, Napaltjarri paints alone, sitting on the floor in an empty room of her house, or occasionally on her front porch. Visits to her house were onl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2579 characters.]  Artist bio

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