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Papunya Tula Profiler | AAA | April 2022                                          Nick Resch | Wordsmith PAPUNYA TULA PROFILER: ABORIGINAL ARTISTS AGENCY; DO PAINTINGS HAVE AN AFTERLIFE? Papunya Tula Artists is a unique Australian business, celebrating its half century in 2022. The Company is fully owned and directed by traditional Aboriginal people of the Western Desert. We run… More

  Today the entire Papunya Tula family are grieving the loss of Daphne Williams Napanangka. During her remarkable time as a Field Worker and Manager at the Company, Daphne guided the artists and their business with a steady hand and compassionate heart. She worked for them tirelessly for over 20 years, displaying a rare sense… More

MARTUPURA TJUKURRPA        IMPORTANT BUSINESS            Celebrating 50 years of Western Desert painting            9th September – 23rd September 2021   Online catalogue: https://issuu.com/papunyatula/docs/martupura_tjukurrpa.pptx     Papunya Tula Artists are excited to announce this September will see the return of our Annual Pintupi Show!   To mark the 50th anniversary of… More

                  Papunya: 50 years 1971-2021 curated by Christopher Hodges, artist & Director, Utopia Art Sydney presented with the support of Utopia Art Sydney & Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd   28 February - 4 April 2021   In line with COVID Safe protocols: All guests must check-in via… More

For me, this book is exemplary, a benchmark in artist biography as well as a lens on the period and movement.  -Prof Ian McLean, Melbourne University. The master from Marnpi is worth owning for the images alone. Its compilation was clearly a labour of love, out of which Alec O’Halloran has made a beautiful book… More

Papunya Tula Artists are thrilled to announce the return of the Pintupi Show for 2019. PTA takes great pleasure in once again partnering with Desart, The Araluen Arts Centre and the Desert Mob Exhibition program, to present our biannual Pintupi Show. This years offering will showcase a vast array of stunning new paintings from the… More

A new exhibition opening this weekend in New York at the prestigious Gagosian Gallery centres on the work of Western Desert artists. Works by acclaimed Papunya Tula painters Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Makinti Napanangka, Naata Nungurrayi, Willy Tjungurrayi and George Tjungurrayi are included in the exhibition at Madison Avenue's Gagosian, which is at… More

To look at Ronnie Tjampitjinpa's paintings is to be struck by a force of colour, contrast, and movement that is the fabric of Tjampitjinpa's cultural history and mythology. Utopia Arts' Tribute to a Master presents a survey of these paintings not to be missed. Exhibition runs March 30-April 27. View exhibition catalogue here: Tribute to… More

What to See in New York Art Galleries Right Now Yukultji Napangati Through March 2. Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery, Manhattan; 212-979-0001, salon94.com. The Pintupi artist Yukultji Napangati lives and works in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert, and you can see it in her paintings. Each of the 10 untitled canvases in her first solo show… More

A biography of a Pintupi man, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (c1923-98),  who became an award-winning Papunya Tula artist. Namarari is a worthy choice as a biographical subject. He won the National Aboriginal Art Award (1991) and the Alice Prize (1994, co-winner), and was the inaugural recipient of the Commonwealth’s prestigious Red Ochre Award (1994) – the only… More