Biography Wentja 2 creates inspiring paintings with fascinating accuracy and intricate details, subtle shades of colour that moves with the viewer’s eyes and floats in air that have multi-dimensional physical presence of the much contemporary work of art
Wentja 2 Napaltjarri
Sand hills and Rockhole 10-1058268
Acrylic on Belgian linen
158 x 96 cm
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Wentja 2 Napaltjarri
Sand hills and Yam Flowers 77-1711
Acrylic on Belgian linen
158 x 96 cm
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Wentja 2 Napaltjarri
Oaks Ochre 77-0991
Acrylic on Belgian linen
156 x 62 cm
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Wentja 2 Napaltjarri and also Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies page 221. Wentja 2is highly sought by the Australian international art collectors, represented around the world.
Wentja
2
Napaltjarri
has a very distinctive style,
she
creates
top-quality modern paintings and some have
powerful multi-dimensional nature and the sheer physical presence of
much contemporary work of art that neither can be replicated by digital
image as the intricate details and subtle shades of colour wash are lost in the
process of internet transfer .
AWARDS:
2007
25th Telstra NATSIAA Australian National Art Award
(selected)
2006 Alice Springs Prize
2005
23rd Telstra NATSIAA Australian National Art Award
selected
Museum Art Gallery Northern Territory
2002
20th Telstra NATSIAA Australian National Art Award
finalist
Museum Art Gallery Northern Territory
COLLECTIONS:
Art Bank, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Homes a Court Collection, Perth
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin
The Kerry Stokes Collection,
Australia
National Aboriginal Art and Cultural Institute Tandanya
Flinders University Museum
Thomas Vroom Collection
the Flinders University Art Museum
also
private and corporate collections in
Denmark, Poland, England and
Germany
In 2002 Wentja was a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award. Wentja has participated in exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide with other Watiyawanu artists and her work has been exhibited widely across Australia.
Wentja 2 was born at Malparingya and grew up west of Kintore in the country of her father, Shorty Langkata. Wentja began painting for Papunya Tula in 1996 and quickly turn out to be one of the most essential members if the Artists Community. She lives at Mt Liebig with her husband Ginger Tjakamarra (son of well known artist Makinti Napanangka). Wentja 2 Napaltjarri has two sisters, Wentjiya One Tjunkiya (also Wentja) and Linda Syddick both prominent artists in their own right.
Wentja 2 paints sand hills, rock halls, which are landmarks associated with water, desert oaks, 'Blue Tongue Lizard and Water Dreaming' stories which has been hand down to her by her father. Unlike her father geometric work, Wentja 2 work has soft female iconography influence. She has a very strong connection with her culture and a distinctive style, she sings when painting and include songs in her painting which gives a powerful cultural experience and people say that they feel the vibration of her songs and music in her work. She creates softer iconography image in her paintings with interlacing with intricate finely doted patterning. In her paintings, Wentja 2 depicts the colour of the Australian Central Desert country. She is a highly talented and accomplished artist with a very individual creative flair and a real consistency in her work, and style.
10-1058268 Sand hills Rock hole
Wentja
2
Napaltjarri
96 x 158 cm
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Certificate Watiyawanu Artists of
Amunturrngu Community Centre
NOTES 10-1058268
A museum-quality
painting with
fascinating
accuracy of
intricate details, subtle shades of colour that
gives the multi-dimensional
physical presence of the much contemporary work of art. It
moves with the viewer’s eyes
and floats in the air.
video:
Wentja2 Rock Hole painting in the Museum Northern
Territory
10-1058268 painting depicts the soft sand hills iconography with the rock hole interlacing with intricate finely doted patterning in the colour of the Australian Central Desert. Wentja 2 work has soft female iconography influence, her sand hills and rock halls are the landmarks associated with water and desert of her 'Water Dreaming' stories which has been hand down to her by her father.
Yam
Flowers
77-1711
Sand hills and Yam Flowers
Wentja
2 Napaltjarri
96 x 158 cm
Acrylic on Belgian linen
Certificate Watiyawanu Artists of
Amunturrngu Community Centre
NOTES
77-1711
77-1711
painting depicts yam potato flowers and
the soft
iconography of
sand hills interlacing with
finely doted patterning of the
colour
of the Australian Central Desert.
A museum-quality
painting,
fascinating
accuracy
of intricate details, subtle shades of
colour with multi-dimensional
physical presence of the much contemporary work of art. It
moves with the viewer’s eyes
and floats in the air.
Wentja 2 work has soft female iconography influence, her sand hills and rock halls are the landmarks associated with water and desert of her 'Water Dreaming' stories.