NGANGANYI (SEEING) by Everywhen Artspace |McCulloch & McCulloch

Nganganyi (Seeing)

Everywhen Artspace November 12-29, 2021 In partnership with Papunya Tjupi

Front: Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, Four Dreamings, 2021, acrylic on linen, 153 x 183 cm. Left: Renita Brown Nungarrayi, Mina Mina, 2021, acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm. Over page: Doris Bush Nungarrayi at Papunya

Text © Susan McCulloch Design © Lisa Reidy Images © the artists and photographers Artists biographies and stories for paintings © the artists and Papunya Tjupi

EXHIBITINGARTISTS Candy Nelson Nakamarra Carbiene McDonald Tjangala Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra Doris Bush Nungarrayi Kumantjayi Tilau Nangala Lynn Ward Napangardi Maureen Poulson Napangardi Puuni Brown Nungarrayi Renita Brown Nungarrayi Watson Corby Nungurrayi

Ways of seeing

The exhibiting artists in Nganganyi (Seeing) chose this name for their exhibition to demonstrate the different ways of seeing their work. This includes seeing how the works relate to each other in an exhibition, how each artist sees their Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) when painting and the importance of revisiting places to remember them in the mind’s eye while painting. Exhibiting are senior artists Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula, Doris Bush Nungurrayi, Maureen Poulson Napangardi, mid generation painter Watson Corby Tjungurrayi, emerging artists Lynn Ward Napangardi, Puuni Brown Nungurrayi and Renita Brown Nungurrayi and award-winning artist Carbiene McDonald Tjangala. Papunya Tjupi Arts is a 100% Aboriginal owned and directed community arts organisation based at the community of Papunya, the birthplace of the Western Desert dot-painting movement. The artists of Papunya Tjupi have established their own unique identity based on the legacy of their famous forebears. Established in 2007, in response to the vacuum following the homelands movement of the late 1970s, which saw the exodus of many of the famous pioneer painters, Papunya Tjupi currently consists of 150 artists from Papunya and surrounding outstations. Renowned for their strong line-work and for continuously developing new ways to tell the old stories, Papunya Tjupi’s artists exhibit fine art paintings nationally and internationally and feature in major public and private collections.

Candy Nelson Nakamarra

Candy Nelson Nakamarra was born in 1964 and is the daughter of renowned Papunya Tula artist Johnny Warangkula. Warangkula’s main painting theme was Water Dreaming story, of the rain and hail making ceremony, at his place of Kalipinypa – a story which Candy continues to explore and reinvent. Candy has a distinct, evolving style, employing bold contrasting colours and layering of drips, drawing and outlining to create sophisticated, sought-after contemporary works, which she says “look as if they are breathing, with the drawing elements popping out of the canvas”. Candy represents tali (sandhills) and running water in her background and uses dotting to represent hailstorms and rain. Through drawing shapes and motifs, she represents the waterholes, running water, bush tucker, water birds and flowers present after a big storm and the wanampi (water snake) which lives under the waterhole. The concentric circles represent waterholes, while the arrow shapes represent the footprints of the white heron that frequents the site.

Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 183 x 183 cm, MM5594 | $8900

Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 122 cm, MM5593 | $2900

Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 152 cm, MM5339 | $3,900.00

CarbieneMcDonaldTjangala

Born at Papunya in 1961, Carbiene McDonald started painting in 2018. Since, his passion for painting coupled with his extreme dedication and enthusiasm has led him to name for himself. His unique works feature four dreaming stories which he inherited from his father. These tjukurrpa are associated with a series of waterholes running between the Pitjantjatjara lands of Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Range) and Mulyayti near Kata Tjuta. As a young man, Carbiene returned to these places and retraced the footsteps of his father. These memories stay with him vividly today.Cabiene’s work embodies the quality of innovation within tradition, and his practice of filling the canvas with coloured squares of loose acrylic paint creates work of immense depth and sophistication.

Carbiene McDonald Tjangala, Four Dreamings, 2021, acrylic on linen, 153 x 243 cm, MM5587 | $10,500

CharlottePhillipusNapurrula

Born in 1957, Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula is the daughter of Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, a founding member of both Papunya Tula Artists (in the 1970s) and Papunya Tjupi in 2006.Charlotte has developed her own unique and meticulous version of Kalipinypa Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) that focuses on the tali (sand) aspect of her country. She often paints this story as two colour, large scale works which allows for line to take centre stage. She also paints her own distinct style of children’s stories that she developed when working at the Papunya School. The painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Here, ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain, which sends a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. The forms created by the repetition of lines represent the sandhills making waves across the desert, but Charlotte says they are also symbolic of water courses and ceremonial body paint.

Charlotte Phillipus Naparrula, Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 107 x 183 cm, MM5603 | $8500

Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra

Born in Alice Springs in 1962, Dennis Nelson is the son of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and his second wife Gladys (Yawitji) Napanangka, who was among the first group of women at Papunya to paint for Papunya Tula Artists. Dennis’s famous father taught him to paint. His strong iconographic works have been sought after since the 1980s, and he has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally. This painting depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) site of Kalipinypa - which Dennis talks of ‘Paradise Country’. He remembers a story of this site where two birds wonder around for water. Underneath that water there is a snake making the water bubble. There is bush tucker all around. There are wildflowers, kapi tjukitji and water running. The painting tells the story of an important rain making ceremony involving the rainmakers to invoke storms. Kalipinypa is a powerful storm that brings lightning, thunderclouds and rain to rejuvenate the earth, filling rock holes, clay pans and creeks.

It has the power to create new life and growth upon the land. The circles represent kapi tjukitji (rock holes) and the meandering lines depict the water flowing throughout the country and between waterholes. Background dotting represents the rejuvenating effect the rain has on the land, bringing out the bush food plants and providing easy access to water.

Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra, Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 122 x 122 cm, MM5604 | $3400

Doris Bush Nungarrayi Born in Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji circa 1942, Doris Bush was married to the late George Bush Tjangala, one of Papunya Tula Artists’ original shareholders. In the mid 1980s the family went to live on an outstation at Nyunmanu in Doris’ mother’s country out towards the WA/NT border. Doris continues to paint Nyunmanu and the traditional Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) of this place, Dingo Dreaming. She also paints vivid memories, stories and dreams from her life – often relating happy stories from her early days in the bush – eating, hunting and swimming with her friends and family. Doris’ works, with their expressive style and bold use of colour, embody her nature of a true storyteller. She is renowned as one of the most prolific and enthusiastic of Papunya Tjupi artists. Her three paintings are of two different subjects. The first two are about a snake and goanna fighting by a river, while a group of men are attempting to spear them and catch the goanna to eat. The third is both a personal memory and a Tjukurrpa (dreaming) story of Nyunmanu – a sacred Dingo Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) site near the remote community of Kintore. Here, most of the dingoes and their pups from this place rose up into the sky and became stars. However, the ancestral mother Dingo and her pup had gone out hunting and were too tired to rise up, so they turned into a large rock that marks the place of this sacred Dreaming. People lived in a cave, smoked lots of minkulpa (bush tobacco), performed ceremonial dances and speared snakes and goannas to eat. Doris and her husband walked a very long way, without water, to get there. It said that if you sleep in this place you will dream of the ancestral dingo puppies and if someone removes one of the gleaming stones found at Nyunmanu, the puppies will haunt your dreams until you return it to the place where it belongs.

Doris Bush Nungarrayi, Pilkjati anta Rumia (Snake and Goanna), 2021, acrylic on canvas, 122 x 183 cm, MM5599 | $6900

Doris Bush Nungarrayi, Pilkjati anta Rumia (Snake and Goanna),

2021, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 152 cm, MM5600 | $4200

Doris Bush Nungarrayi, Anangu Tjuta at Nyunmanu & Papa Tjukurrpa, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 122 cm, MM5598 | $3300

Kumantjayi Tilau Nangala

One of Papunya Tjupi’s directors and leading artists, Kumuntjayi Nangala (c.1933-2020) had a long, event-filled and rich life. A highly respected senior law woman, Nangala’s deeply felt knowledge of country and ceremony empowers her bold lyrical and expressive paintings depicting the topography of hills and creeks that create the feeling of flowing water. This story relates to a place called Mikantji, an important Water Dreaming site, west of Yuendumu whose custodians are the Nangala and Nampitjimpa women and their brothers, the Tjangala and Tjampitjimpa men. This is his grandfather’s country. The orange represents the sandhills. The flowing lines are the water.

Kumantjayi Tilau Nangala, Kapi Tjukurrpa-Mikantji, 2020, acrylic on linen, 198 x 122 cm, MM5135 | $10300

Lynn Ward Napangardi

An emerging artist, Lynn’s mother is Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula, and her grandfather was Papunya Tula Artist Long Jack Phillipus. Lynn has inherited the rights to their Kalipinypa dreaming story and is developing her own unique style of fine line work combined with traditional symbols. Her paintings depicts the Tali (Sandhills) at Kalipinypa, north-east of Kintore - Lynn’s family’s country. They tell of a rain making ceremony in which ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Many artists in Lynn’s family paint different aspects of this story. Lynn is particularly inspired by her mother Charlotte Phillipus who also focusses on sandhills - seeing them flash with lightning.

Lynn Ward Napangardi, Tali, 2021, acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm, MM5596 | $4400

Lynn Ward Napangardi, Tali, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 152 cm, MM5595 | $3300

MaureenPoulsonNapangardi

Born in 1958 in Papunya, Maureen Poulson is the daughter of the senior lawwoman Pilyari Napurulla and niece of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula. Maureen’s work excites the eye as it elicits a sense of movement and vibrating patterns through subtle shifts in colour and intricately dot-painted diamond shaped designs. She uses dotting to represent hailstorms, and her use of colours and designs are representative of waterholes, sandhills, clouds, lightning and rocks. Her subjects are the designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a site northwest of Kintore. The tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony to invoke the elements. It is a powerful storm bringing on the lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending its deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling rock holes, clay pans and creeks. It has the power to create new life and growth upon the land.

Maureen Poulson Napangardi, Kapi Tjukurrpa – Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 152 cm, MM5602 | $3900

Maureen Poulson Napangardi, Kapi Tjukurrpa – Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 107 x 198 cm, MM5597 | $5800

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi

Born in 1979, Puuni Brown is a highly talented emerging artist. She gew up in Papunya and spent many hours watching her mother Isobel Gorey Nambajimba paint. Puuni continues to reinvent her Mother’s Tjukurrpa with a style distinctly her own. Puuni paints Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at the site of Wantupunyu, her grandfather and great grandfather’s county, an important site for the regeneration of nature. Puuni’s intricate and delicate line work create rhythmic and detailed work with fine, thoughtful brush work paired with a reduced colour palette. Her paintings depict Kapi Tjukurrpa (water dreaming) story of Wantupunyu. Wantupunyu is Punni’s grandfather’s Country to the north of Papunya and west of the sacred mountain Karinyarra. Punni leant to paint this story from her mother - Isobel Gorey Nambajimba, who is a prolific painter and a director at Papunya Tjupi. Water dreaming sites are important for the regeneration of nature. The water makes the country green and brings a lot of ‘bush tucker’ foods for the people and the animals. The heavy rain usually comes in the summertime. When the lightning can be seen at a distance,

the elders will start singing to it, to encourage it to bring more rain to replenish the land. In her paintings, Puuni depicts lightning, rainbows, puddles and bush flowers. The central shapes are important water or rock hole site. The lines represent the elements of a storm – wind, rain, thunderclouds, and lightning. The patterns represent rain and water flowing from the waterholes and flooding the usually dry creek beds.

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 122 cm, MM5592 | $2500

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 122 x 152 cm, MM5590 | $4400

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa,

2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 15 2 cm, MM 5338 | $2900

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 152 cm, MM5589 | $3300

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa – Kalipinypa, 2021, acrylic on linen, 107 x 183 cm, MM5591 | $4500

Renita Brown Nungarrayi

A young, emerging artist Renita Brown is the daughter of leading artist Flora Nakamarra Brown who paints with Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu. Renita depicts, in detailed linework, the sandhills and lands of her great grandmother’s country of Mina Mina near Lake Mackay – a highly significant sacred and ceremonial site for women of the region. Renita uses the natural designs of Tali or sand hills that predominate the country around Papunya as her inspiration for this painting. The Tali form waves across the desert.

Renita Brown Nungarrayi, Mina Mina, 2021, acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm, MM5601 | $4400

Renita Brown Nungarrayi, Tali, 2021, acrylic on linen, 91 x 122 cm, MM5588 | $2500

Watson Corby Tjungurrayi

Born in Papunya in 1973, Watson Corby is the son of founding Papunya Tula painter David Corby Tjapaltjarri and grandson of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula. He has developed a unique drip technique on the canvas laid horizontally and using a variety of found and homemade paint applicators. The resulting abstract lines and expressive drips of paint create works of depth that draw the viewer in. Watson has been instrumental in establishing the Men’s Art and Cultural Revival at Papunya Tjupi Arts, encouraging and leading the younger male cohort of painters in the studio and taking them on country visits. This painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa and in which ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Watson says that the lines represent the water travelling into the waterholes and the blue dots represent the rain drops and the hail stones brought by the storm.

Watson Corby Tjungurrayi, Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa, 2020, acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm, MM5131 | $4400

Biographies Candy Nelson Nakamarra was born in Yuendumu in 1964 and is the daughter of renowned Papunya Tula artist Johnny Warangkula, who taught his children how to paint whilst passing down family stories. They all paint the Kalipinypa Water Dreaming story, of the rain and hail making ceremony, which Candy continues to explore and reinvent. Candy has a distinct, evolving style, employing bold contrasting colours and layering of drips, drawing and outlining to create sophisticated, sought after contemporary works, which she says “look as if they are breathing, with the drawing elements popping out of the canvas’”. Candy represents tali (sandhills) and running water in her backgrounds, and uses dotting to represent hail storms and rain. Through drawing shapes and motifs, she represents the waterholes, running water, bush tucker, water birds and flowers present after a big storm and the wanampi (water snake) which lives under the waterhole. Recently, Candy has also started creating works in a more traditional style, directly referencing her father’s original paintings. Winner of the Interrelate Acquisitive Prize as part of the Wollotuka Acquisitive Art Prize (2012), her work is held in the Macquarie Bank Collection, Parliament House Canberra Collection and the Hassall Collection. Carbiene McDonald Tjangala was born in Papunya in 1961, son of Snowy McDonald and as a young man, he travelled back to his father’s homelands and inherited

his Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). This Dreaming is associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Range) and Mulyayti near Kata Tjuta. Cabiene’s work embodies quality of innovation within tradition, and his practice of filling the canvas with coloured squares of loose acrylic paint creates work of immense depth and sophistication. Having only taken up painting later in life in 2018, his passion for painting coupled with his extreme dedication and enthusiasm has led him to quickly make a name for himself. Winner of the prestigious Hadley’s Art Prize (2019), finalist in the Vincent Lingiari Art Award (2019) his work is held in Art Gallery of NSW Collection, Charles Darwin University Collection and in private collections in Australia. Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula was born in Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji in 1957, daughter of Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra, a founding member of Papunya Tula Artists. Over the years painting at Papunya Tjupi, Charlotte has developed her own unique and meticulous version of Kalipinypa Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) that focuses on the tali (sand) aspect of her country. She often paints this story as two colour, large scale works, allowing for the line work Charlotte is so well regarded for to take centre stage. She also paints her own

distinct style of children’s stories that she developed when working at the Papunya School. Many of her illustrations can be found in the archive of the school from the days when teaching in traditional language was encouraged. Occasionally Charlotte will apply her children’s stories as dot paintings on canvas. Finalist of the Telstra NATSIAA (2018) and Hadley’s Art Prize (2018) her work is held in the National Gallery of Victoria Collection and the University of Western Sydney Collection. Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra was born in Alice Springs in 1962, son of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, one of the founders of the desert painting movement, and his second wife Gladys (Yawitji) Napanangka, who was among the first group of women at Papunya to paint for Papunya Tula Artists. Dennis remembers going “after school or smoko time” to watch the painters at work. He says his father taught him to paint: “Use brush – cut ‘im – he learn me. When I’m a little boy he sat me down in the gallery”. Dennis’ paintings are strongly reminiscent of his famous father’s early works: “I carry on his style. I know.” Johnny also taught him his stories and took him to the sites: the Kalipinypa Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) with “lots of birds playing round after the rain”; the “Death Spirit [that] comes from underground in the middle of the desert” and Tjikari where the “Men Dreaming [are] still there now”. Dennis painted for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1990s, then

for Warumpi Arts before its closure in 2004, now painting at Papunya Tjupi Arts. Dennis’ works are sought after and he has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally in Germany and the United States of America. Doris Bush Nungarrayi was born in Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji circa 1942 and was married to the late George Bush Tjangala, one of Papunya Tula Artists’ original shareholders. In the mid 1980’s the family went to live on an outstation at Nyunmanu in Doris’ mother’s country out towards the WA/NT border. Doris continues to paint Nyunmanu and the traditional Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) of this place, Dingo Dreaming. Doris also paints vivid memories, stories and dreams from her life, with her work often telling happy stories from her early days in Ikuntji; eating, hunting and swimming with her friends and family in the bush. Doris’ works embody her nature of a true storyteller with her expressive style, bold use of colour and recognisable motifs. Doris is renowned as one of the most prolific and enthusiastic artists in the community and is usually the first to arrive each morning when – or even before – the doors open. Finalist in the TELSTRA National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (2020), Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2019) and shortlisted in the Alice Art Prize (2018), her work is held in the Artbank Collection, Macquarie Bank Collection, University of Western Sydney Collection, The Hassall Collection and private collections internationally.

Kumanjayi Nangala was born at Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji circa 1933 of Ngaliya/Warlpiri parents and unexpectedly passed away in January 2020 after a long rich life. Nangala was a director of Papunya Tjupi right up until her passing and she governed the art centre with incredible leadership, ambition and care. Nangala was a highly respected senior law woman. Her deeply felt knowledge of country and ceremony empowers her bold lyrical and expressive paintings depicting the topography of hills and creeks that create the feeling of flowing water. The great Water Dreaming site of Mikantji she inherited from her father was nearly always her subject. She said that her Auntie taught her culture and stories but she developed her own ideas on how to paint it. She paints “so the children can watch me paint and learn, so I can pass on my Dreaming and stories to my grandchildren. Papunya is my mother’s brother’s country.” Before she started painting, Nangala was a prodigious carver of coolamons and clap sticks and maker of ininiti seed necklaces, but from 2007 she mainly painted – and she also produced prints with Cicada Press College of Fine Arts UNSW. Finalist in the Vincent Lingiari Art Award (2016) and Wyndham Art Prize (2019) her works are held in the Artbank Collection and Central Land Council Collection. Lynn Ward Napangardi was born in Papunya and lives there with her family. Lynn attended Papunya school and then Yurara College in Alice Springs from the age of 13 to 15.

She then returned to Papunya. At the age of 18 she married Amos Eagan, a Walpiri man with whom she has two children, Isaiah and Deannie. Lynn’s Grandfather is Papunya Tula Artist Long Jack Phillipus whose Kalipinypa dreaming story she inherited as did her mother Charlotte Phillipus Napurulla. Lynn has developed her own unique style in her Sand drawing paintings where she uses fine line work to combine traditional symbols with her own contemporary designs. Maureen Poulson Napangardi was born in 1958 in Papunya, daughter to Pilyari Napurulla, a strong law woman for Papunya, and is sister and niece respectively to Papunya Tula artists Brogas Tjapangardi and Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula. They all share the Country around Ilpilli, Kalipinypa and Tjikari, and Maureen inherited their Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) which tells of an important rain making ceremony, with the power to create new life and growth upon the land and the resulting storms.Maureen’s work excites the eye as it elicits a sense of movement and vibrating patterns through her subtle shifts in colour and intricately dotpainted diamond shaped designs. She uses dotting to represent hailstorms, and her use of colours and designs are representative of waterholes, sandhills, clouds, lightning and rocks. Maureen often paints large scale, and dedicates many hours to each piece, painting at the art centre each day. Her work is held at the Kunstwerk, Collection of Alison and Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany,

Artbank Collection and University of Western Sydney Collection. Puuni Brown Nungarrayi was born at Karrinyarra in 1979. She grew up in Papunya and spent many hours watching her mother Isobel Gorey paint. Puuni continues to reinvent her Mother’s Tjukurrpa with a style distinctly her own. Puuni paints Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at the site of Wantupunyu, her grandfather and great grandfather’s county, an important site for the regeneration of nature. Puuni’s intricate and delicate line work create rhythmic and detailed works. Her use of fine, thoughtful brush work paired with a reduced colour palette create mesmerising compositions. Puuni is an emerging talent at Papunya Tjupi and an artist to watch. Renita Brown Nungurrayi is a young, emerging artist and daughter of leading artist Flora Nakamarra Brown who paints with Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu. She paints the sandhills and lands of her great grandmother’s country of Mina Mina near Lake Mackay – a highly significant sacred and ceremonial site for women of the region. Watson Corby Tjungarrayi was born in Papunya in 1973, son of founding Papunya Tula painter David Corby Tjapaltjarri and grandson of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, and he learned to paint by watching them and his mothers. Watson often paints Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa (Dreaming), which was passed down to him from his Grandfather,

and tells of an important rain making ceremony, with the power to create new life and growth upon the land and the resulting storms. He paints this story employing a drip technique onto canvas or linen laid horizontally using a variety of found and homemade paint applicators. The resulting abstract lines and expressive drips of paint create works of depth that draw the viewer in and a style unique to Watson Corby. Watson occasionally paints the Tjunti Wallaby story, which was passed onto him by his father, telling of the wallaby dreaming place at Tjunti, west of Nyrippi. Watson, who is also the current Chairperson of Papunya Tjupi, has been instrumental in the recent Men’s Art and Cultural Revival at Papunya Tjupi Arts, encouraging and leading the younger male cohort of painters in the studio and taking them on country visits. Finalist of the Macquarie Group Collection Prize (2016), his work is held in the Macquarie Group Collection.

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Nganganyi (Seeing) In partnership with Papunya Tjupi November 12-29, 2021