Wentja 2 Napaltjarri has a very distinctive style, her paintings are powerful and moving often multi dimensional with the accuracy and the physicality of modern art. Wentja is highly sought by international art collectors represented around the world including  Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide, Thomas Vroom Collection. Please view  Biography  page 221 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies.

AWARDS:  
2002 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award finalist
2005 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award
2006 Alice Springs Prize   P

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Artist:     Wentja Two Napaltjarri
Title:      oaks and Ochre 77-0991
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 156 x 61 cm
Signed on reverse Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu
Price (stretched):    SOLD

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Wentja Two Napaltjarri powerful paintings are the top-quality modern works of art. The often have a multi dimensional expression achieved with the accuracy of details, can only be seen "live".  Wentja 2 Napaltjarri has a good name and very distinctive style, her top-quality paintings are powerful and moving. This painting depicts yam potato flowers and the soft sand hills. It is a soft iconography image with interlacing with intricate finely doted patterning in the colour of the Australian Central Desert.  This painting has a multi-dimensional nature and sheer physical presence of much contemporary artwork, neither of which can be replicated by an image, many intricate details and subtle shades of colour wash in the internet transfer process. This powerful and moving multi dimensional work with the accuracy and the physicality of modern art. She is highly sought by the Australian collectors as well as the international art collectors. Wentja 2 paints sand hills, rock halls, landmarks which are associated with water and desert oaks and 'Water Dreaming' stories which has been hand down to her by her father. Unlike her father work her work is less geometric but 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. Wentja 2 work has a multi-dimensional nature and sheer physical presence of much contemporary artwork, neither of which can be replicated by an image, many intricate details and subtle shades of colour wash in the internet transfer process. The powerful and moving multi dimensionality of her work is hard to see on the website as even quality images do not allow for the accuracy and the physicality of art. She experiments with colour and shapes keeping the traditional content of the stories. Wentja 2 is highly sought by the Australian collectors as well as the international art collectors.

Please view Wentja 2 Napaltjarri Curriculum Vitae page 221 Australian Encyclopedia Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies. Wentja 2 Napaltjarri is a sister of Wentjiya One Tjunkiya who is also a prominent artist. 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. Now she is one of the most important member of the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation. She now lives at Mt Liebig with her husband Ginger Tjakamarra (son of well known artist Makinti Napanangka).

Wentja 2 Napaltjarri has a very distinctive style, her paintings are powerful and moving often multi dimensional with the accuracy and the physicality of modern art. She is highly sought by the Australian collectors as well as the international art collectors. Wentja 2 has a strong connection with her culture she sings when painting, including songs in her work which gives a powerful cultural experience. People say that they feel the vibration of her songs and music in her paintings. She is a highly talented and accomplished  artist with a individual creative flair and a real consistency in her work, and style.

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's work is in a number of significant collections including the National Aboriginal Cultural Instutute - Tandanya, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Flinders University Art Museum. She has two sisters, Wentjiya One Tjunkiya (also Wentja) and Linda Syddick which are also prominent artists in their own right.  In her painting career, Wentja 2 achieved a great deal of recognition including in 2002 she was the finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award, in 2005 she was selected for the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award  and was selected to hang in the Alice Springs Prize. She is a very important member of the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation.
 
Wentja 2 paints sand hills, rock halls, landmarks which are associated with water and desert oaks as well as 'Blue Tongue Lizard and 'Water Dreaming' stories which has been hand down to her by her father. Unlike her father work Wentja 2 work is less geometric but 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. Wentja 2 work has often a multi-dimensional nature and sheer physical presence of much contemporary artwork, neither of which can be replicated by an image, many intricate details and subtle shades of colour wash in the internet transfer process. The powerful and moving multi dimensionality of her work is hard to see on the website as even quality images do not allow for the accuracy and the physicality of art. She experiments with colour and shapes keeping the traditional content of the stories. Wentja 2 is highly sought by the Australian collectors as well as the international art collectors.

AWARDS:  
2002 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award finalist; 2005 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torrens Straight Islander Art Award selected; she was also selected to hang in the Alice Springs Prize; She is an important member of the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Corporation

Collections:  
Thomas Vroom Collection;  Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide; Art Gallery of Western Australia; National Aboriginal Art and Cultural Institute Tandanya; Flinders University Museum; Art Bank Sydney; The Kerry Stokes Collection, Australia; Private and Cooperate collections Denmark, Poland, England and Germany.