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Papunya Tula, Alice Springs
The catalog for Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community (Araluen Arts Centre; Papunya Tula Artists, 2012) is deceptively slim in size, a mere 96 pages that is, however, packed with vivid color and equally vivid memories. … Continue reading
Papunya Tula: Celebrating 40 in Style
Celebrations in Alice Springs are underway. The annual Papunya Tula Artists November exhibition at the Todd Mall gallery opened on November 16 with the usual round of speeches, good food (from the looks of the party pictures posted on the … Continue reading
Papunya Tula: Celebrating 40 at Araluen
In addition to the exhibition at the Papunya Tula gallery, there’s a major retrospective of the company’s work at Alice Springs’ Araluen Arts Centre. Curator Stephen Williamson has produced some spectacular shows at Araluen Galleries in recent years, including the … Continue reading
PTA’s 40th @ CCAE (and the Electronic Catalog)
There’s less than a week to go until the opening of the 29th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and the host of exhibitions that will bloom across Darwin. One of the regular standouts in this field of … Continue reading
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Papunya Tula Celebrations Continue
The celebrations surrounding the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Papunya Tula Artists continue this week on the American side of the Big Pond. Harvey Art Projects, based in Sun Valley, Idaho, and led by Julie Harvey, an Aussie national … Continue reading
Tjilpi
I want to conclude my trilogy of posts about the artists of Papunya Tula on a personal note, by paying homage to a man whose work has resided in my heart for almost the entire span of my interest and … Continue reading
Tjukurrtjanu: Reconstructing Papunya History
I missed forty years by about forty days and forty nights: that’s how long before the opening of Tjukurrtjanu: origins of Western Desert art at the National Gallery of Victoria that I left Australia to return to the United States … Continue reading
Papunya, Forty Years On
It has been forty years since senior men at Papunya joined forces with Geoffrey Bardon to begin marketing paintings in acrylic, based on traditional designs and iconography, to art collectors, locals, and tourists passing through Alice Springs. Bardon’s sponsorship of … Continue reading
There Is No Town Like Alice
Let’s backtrack a week or so to Alice Springs, although the memories seem tame now by comparison to the rush of Darwin’s events. We arrived on the midday flight from Sydney, which gave us just enough time to drop our bags … Continue reading
Vale Napanangka
This coming week a funeral will be held for the renowned Papunya Tula artist M. Napanangka, who passed away in Alice Springs earlier this month. Her age, like that of many senior, bush-born people, is not known exactly, but she … Continue reading
