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UTOPIA   

Audrey Morton
(B.1952)


6 images, from $500
Anna Petyarre
(B.1950)

3 works, established

Anna Timouth
(B.1955?)

6 images,  from $500

Eileen Bird
(B.1960)

5 images, exciting

Elsie Dixon
(B.1968?)

Gloria Petyarre  
(B.1945-)


5 images, famous

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Gloria Mills Petyarre
(B.1932)

8 images, famous !
Gracie Morton  
(B.1956-)

8 images, famous !
Jennifer Kngwarreye Purvis (B.1975?)

exciting art
Jeannie Mills
(B.1965?)

6 images, from $500
Judy Greeny Purvis (B.1962)

7 images,  from $500

Katie Kemarre
(B.1943)

12 images, famous!

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Lindsay Bird
(B.1935)


2 images, famous
Lilly Kelly Napangardi (b.1948)

4 images, famous

Lily Lion
(B.1964?)

4 images.
from $500

Lucky Morton
(B.1951-)

4 images, famous

Maureen Purvis
(B.1962)


8 images, from $500

Minnie Pwerle
(1910-2006)

4 images, famous

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Michelle Lion
(B. 1960)


 original Naive art

Pansy Napangardi (B.1947-)

National Museum of Australia (Canberra)

Patsy Long
(B.1964?)

9
images, from $500

Peggy Purvis
(B.1940's)


5
images, from $500
Ruby Morton
(B.1968)


5 images,
from $500

Sarah Morton
(B.1966?)

 original Naive art

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Barney Campbell
(B.1928-2007)

2 images
Billy Stockman
(B.1927)

National Museum of Australia (Canberra)
Don Tjungarrayi (B.1938-)

famous !
Jimmy Robertson
(1944–2002)


famous !
Long Jack Phillipus (b.1932)

National Museum of Australia (Canberra)
Lorna Fencer
(1924-2006)


famous!
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Barbara Reid Napangardi (B.1962)

7 images, famous
Bobby West Tjupurrula (B.1958)

famous
Colleen Nampitjinpa
(B.1953)

3 images,
established
Charlie Tjapangarti
(B.1949)

National Museum of Australia (Canberra)
Fabrianne Peterson
(B.1965)

famous
!
Joy  Nakamarra
(B.1959)


10
images, established

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Lynette Corby
(B.1955?)

2 images, established
Lynette Granites
(B.1950)

3 images, established
Maurine Morgan Napaltjarri (B.1970)

3 images,
established
Margaret Scobie
(B.1948)

5 images,
established

Nancy Nunguarrayi
(B.1935)


3 images, famous

Ningura Napurrula
(B.1938)

22 images, famous
Western & CENTRAL DESERT Renowned Artists 
Nelli  Marks
(B.1976)

5 images,
established
Ngoia Pollard  
(B.1948)

famous
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa
Mrs Bennett (b.1938)
 

5 images,
famous
Peggy White
(B.1949)

established
Robin Granites
(B.1953)

2 images, famous
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
(B.1944)


famous
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Sabina Brown
(B.1948)

established
Scobie Napurrula
(B.1950)

2 images, famous
Tjawina Porter
(B.1950)

4 images,
established
Wentja 2 Napaltjarri
(B.1923)


3 images, famous
William Sandy
(B.1944)

5 images, famous
Yulanti Nangala
(B.1968)

established

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Aboriginal art is the most important art that come out from this ancient Australian land. This ancient culture of over 60 thousands years old gave the world its most exciting form of contemporary art. It is also a living tradition, having taken its current form, in an explosion of creativity, in the second half of the Twentieth Century. But those painters who started the Central and Western Desert Art Movement aging they are old and unwell; Billy Stockman (B.1927), Long Jack Phillipus (B.1932), Lindsay Bird (B.1935), Barney Campbell (B.1928), Mrs Bennett (b.1938), Nancy Nunguarrayi (B.1935), Don Tjungarrayi (B.1938), Ningura Napurrula (B.1938), Pansy Napangardi (B.1947), Gloria Petyarre (B.1945), Gloria Mills Petyarre (B.1932), Katie Kemarre (B.1943), William Sandy (B.1944), Lilly Kelly Napangardi (b.1948), Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (B.1944), Ngoia Pollard (B.1948), Barbara Reid Napangardi, Gracie Morton (B.1956-), Lucky Morton (B.1951-). Many important artists have passed away including Minnie Pwerle (1910-2006), Jimmy Robertson (1944–2002) Lorna Fencer (1924-2006) and the younger generation is learning western customs .

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Aniela talks about Aboriginal art...How the Australian Indigenous Art Movement started? It was only in 1971 when the Pintupi tribe was taken from the land to Papunya settlement to learn living in one place, Geoffrey Barton, a school teacher inspired the senior Aboriginal men to paint murals in the local school. In 1972 the artists successfully established own Papunya Tula Artists company and the community started painting canvases to document their stories. Early paintings gave an account of the sacred laws and depicted some elements of the ceremonial life normally forbidden by women, children and non-initiated.

Aboriginal culture has no written language and relies on storytelling as the basis of their “formal” education. Creating artworks on canvas allowed Aboriginal people permanently document their everlasting stories and their way of life. These canvases become “the written language” to communicate with the rest of the world and securing Aboriginal culture entry to the 21 century contemporary civilization.

Today Aboriginal women use the freedom of self expression (Utopia art) and through experimentation create the most fascinating and most beautiful contemporary art. Nowadays Aboriginal people live and work around the world from Arnhem to London from Papunya to New York. Hence it is probably the last chance that anyone on this planet to get hold of authentic paintings of these legendary artists we have for sale.

Papunya Tula From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists' cooperative formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men. They began painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory in 1971. The Australian government moved several different groups living in the region to Papunya in an effort to remove them from cattle lands and assimlate them into western culture. They were primarily Pintupi, Luritja, Walpiri, Arrernte, and Anmatyerre peoples.

Papunya is the epicenter of the Honey Ant Dreaming where songlines converge. The name "tula" derives from a small hill near Papunya, and refers to the Honey Ant Ancestor of the indigenous inhabitants of the area. For many years only men participated in this commercial activity. A few women, notably Pansy Napangardi, began to paint for the company in the late 1980s, but it wasn't until 1994 that women generally began to participate. The company operates today out of Alice Springs and is widely regarded as the premier purveyor of Aboriginal art in Central Australia.

Also known as the Western Desert Art Movement, the style of painting, although traditionally used in the sand and for body adornment in ceremonies, had never been painted before in Western style – that is, using acrylic paint, and a hard surface.

Popularly referred to as "dot painting", the paintings of Papunya Tula brought Aboriginal art to world attention, and have inspired many other