KUMUNTJAI NAPANANGKA JACK

Kumuntjai Napanangka Jack (1940 – 2022)

Kumuntjai Napanangka Jack was a contemporary Aboriginal artist based in the Northern Territory. This design depicts the artist’s father’s Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) and is an interpretation of his country at Kuruyultu, near Tjukurrla in Western Australia.

Napanangka Jack was born in 1940 at Lupul in the Sir Frederick Ranges.
She was well known for her hunting skills, dancing, and traditional law knowledge.
Napanangka Jack started painting with the opening of the Ikuntji Women's Centre in August of 1992. Prior to that during the 1970s she assisted her husband Gideon Tjupurrula Jack who was painting at Papunya Tula. Her father Tutuma Tjapangardi was one of the founding members of the Papunya Tula art movement in the 1970s. Her paintings are interpretations of her country near Tjukurrla and her father’s country Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), both in Western Australia. Amongst this landscape her personal stories are told, either of the travelling of her Tjukurrpa - the Bilby, or the people who once lived in the area.

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Kuruyultu, 2022
Tencil linen, ink
3000mm L x 1450mm W
$330