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Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri Kngwarreye B.1970


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Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri Kngwarreye  began painting early, living in the creative family environment. Maurine Morgan work is recognized modern abstract. Maureen developed her own unique style creating the state-of-the-art inspiring paintings that are based on the ancient Dreaming.

In 2005 Maureen was selected for 23rd Telstra NATSIAA National Aboriginal Art Award. Maureen Sand Hills and Rain paintings have the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary work of art with the multi-dimensional illusion of space and depth.

Maureen great-aunt was Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) and her father, Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi (1920-1987) were first important teachers, coaching her art ideas, philosophy, beliefs and principles of painting ancient Dreaming.

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Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri, Cat. No. 77-605, Synthetic Polymer on Belgian Linen, Image Size: 158 cm x 98 cm
Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri
 
77-605
Sand Hills Wind and Rain


Acrylic on Belgian Linen

 Size: 160 cm x 98 cm

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Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri
 Country 77-134

Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Dimension:
90 cm x 90 cm

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Artist: Maureen Morgan
Desert Flowers

Acrylic on Belgian Linen
90 x 90 cm

Price: SOLD

SOLD: Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri, Shorty Lungkata, Synthetic Polymer on Belgian Linen, Size: 155 cm x 60 cm
Artist: Maureen Morgan
Father
dreaming - Shorty Lungkata
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size: 160 x 60 cm

Price: SOLD

 

Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri BIOGRAPHY

Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri (born 1970) is the youngest daughter of revered artist of Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi (1920-1987) from the Papunya.

Maureen great-aunt Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) and her father, were first, the most important teachers in coaching her in the art ideas, philosophy, ancient beliefs, principles of painting and family Dreaming.

Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi (1920-1987) is represented in international museum’s collections and Art Gallery of NSW and National Gallery of Australia, he was one of the first masters who was involved with the Aboriginal art movement

In 2005 Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri Kngwarreye was selected for 23rd Telstra NATSIAA National Aboriginal Art Award.

Maureen’s Sand Hills and Rain paintings have the sheer physical presence of the much contemporary work of art and the multi-dimensional illusion of space and depth.

Maurine pays particular attention to details and her work has the physical presence of much contemporary work of art, recognized as modern abstract.

Maureen creates inspiring paintings with fascinating accuracy of microscopically tiny dots, intricate details and subtle shades, show three-dimensional illusion of space and depth.

 

Artworks painted with intricate details are difficult to show on the website. The digital transfer does not allow the accuracy and the sheer physicality of the work of art, neither the powerful and moving multi dimensionality of Maureen Morgan work.

 

Watiyawanu Artists of Mt Liebig, Sydney Australia

Watiyawanu Artists  of Mt Liebig present Honey Ant Gallery exhibition. Some of the most interesting Aboriginal art today is coming from the Mt Liebig community - 325kms west of Alice Springs in the heart of the Western Desert.

Leading artists represented in the exhibition include the highly acclaimed Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Lilly Kelly Napangardi and Wentja Napaltjarri.
 

Artists exhibited: Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri  | Wentja NapaltjarriCederick Stevens Tjungarayi | Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri Narputa NangalaDebbie Brown Napaltjarri | Janelle Eggley Napaltjarri | Janetta Eggley Napaltjarri | Kathleen Whiskey | Lilly Kelly Napangardi | Maisie Campbell Napaltjarri | Topsey Peterson Nungala 

View Honey Ant Gallery presents Watiyawanu Artists of Mt Liebig, Sydney Australia eBlast.

URL: http://www.aboriginalartdirectory.com/news/eblast/honey-ant-gallery-presents-watiyawanu-artists.php

Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.2008Watiyawanu Artists Mt Liebig Community, PMB 111 Alice Springs Mt Liebig 0872 NT

 

AWARDS

Selected - In 2005 Maureen was selected for 23rd Telstra NATSIAA Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA).

 

STUDY

Maureen began painting with her great-aunt Emily Kngwarreye (1910-1996) the most celebrated Australian artist, and her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, a famous Australian artist, one of the first masters who was involved with the Aboriginal art movement.

Maureen Morgan Napaltjarri experiments with colour and shapes keeping the traditional content of the stories. Maurine pays particular attention to details and her work has the physical presence of much contemporary work of art, recognized as modern abstract with three-dimensional illusion of space and depth.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2005 23rd Telstra NATSIAA Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) (selected)
2004 Mary Place (Melbourne)
2003 Exhibition Chapel of Chapel (Melbourne)
2002 Exhibition High on art (Melbourne)

 

Keeping the traditional content of the stories her paintings describe Shorty Lungkata Dreamings in Australian Western Desert with Sand Hills, Winds and Rainfall of the desert surroundings after the rain in its natural world. 

National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)

The Award was established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The aim of the Award is to recognise the important contribution made by Indigenous artists and to promote appreciation and understanding of the quality and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from regional and urban based Indigenous artists throughout Australia, working in traditional and contemporary media.

The Award is an important showcase for both established and emerging artists and has come to be regarded as one of the premier national events in the Australian Indigenous art calendar. The Award attracts a range of Indigenous artists from all parts of the country and about 100 works are selected each year from around 300 entries. The diversity and style of work submitted each year reflects the changing face of contemporary Aboriginal art practice.

Telstra has sponsored the Award since 1992 and has continued to further enhance its profile and prestige. In 2000, Telstra doubled the First Prize money from $20,000 to $40,000 and in 2005 Telstra announced its ongoing support for the Award amounting to a total of over $1 million in sponsorship over the next five years.

In 2006, the Telstra First Prize was re-named the Telstra Award and all prizes became non-acquisitive. The four categories in which prizes are awarded are:

  • the Telstra General Painting Award

  • the Telstra Bark Painting Award

  • the Telstra Work on Paper Award

  • the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award (sponsored by Telstra)

Shorty Lungkata Dreamings

Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi was a man of extraordinary presence and quiet self-assurance. He grew up in the desert before travelling to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) around 1950. While he had a longer period of contact with non-Aboriginal people than some other Pintupi men of his age, he made attempt to learn English. In 1960 he moved over the MacDonnell Ranges to Papunya, where the new settlement had been created.

By the 1970s Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi was a powerful and sometimes feared ngangkari (traditional doctor) as well as a a renowned Australian artist. At Papunya, the Pintupi were marginalized, and there was almost continuous conflict between the people of various language groups clustered around the settlement.

Lungkata was a forceful advocate for his people and more than once would proclaim his rights in a dance with spears in front of a large crowd in the community canteen. Because of the dire living conditions, he and his family chose to live on successive outstations to the west of the settlement, towards his traditional country.

From the mid-1970s, Lungkata's works became increasingly elaborate. His paintings often featured multiple sets of looping crescents building from a steady centre. In some instances he employed subtle modulations of tone and colour to support the pulsing rhythm of a work. During this phase, he was the only Papunya Tula artist to begin his roundels with ovals rather than circles, giving his painting an attenuated, slightly convex feel.

By the end of the decade, he was creating monumental, authoritative works that were comprehensive representations of the several Tjukurrpa that cross his traditional country. His greatest works were created when the market demand for Western Desert art had not yet been realised and, consequently, Lungkata's significance as an artist should not be underestimated by the relative scarcity of his work. John Kean in 'Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004

Lungkata began painting in the Australian summer of 1971-72. His paintings are intensely concentrated; their energies are contained and inwardly focused. 'Women's dreaming (Two women)', 1972, is a magnificent example of his earliest work.

It is spare and powerful, but with subtle details such as the interlocking of the dotted Her family later moved to Warren Creek Outstation around 15 kilometers West of Mt Liebig,  Maureen lives at Warren Creek with all her family including her son and most other family members. Warren Creek is rich with Bush Tucker and  Maureen still looks for Honey ants and witcherty Grubs on the weekends.

Maureen began painting with her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, a famous Australian artist (one of the first masters who was involved with the Aboriginal art movement) and later for the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu Community Centre.  

Maureen Morgan Napaltjarriis an important member of the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu community centre of Mt Liebig. Some of the most interesting Aboriginal art today is coming from the Mt Liebig community 325kms West of Alice Springs in the heart of the Australian Western Desert. Leading artists represented in the exhibition include the highly acclaimed Lilly Kelly Napangardi and Wentja Napaltjarri Two.

Maureen has a promising career and is sought after solo exhibitions. One of  Maureen’s exciting exhibition was to be selected for the prestigious 23rd Telstra NATSIAA  2005 Telstra Australian National Aboriginal Art Award (NATSIA) in the Museum & Art Gallery Northern Territory (Darwin).

Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi Bibliography

Scholarly/Book; One sun one moon: Aboriginal art in Australia; Hetti Perkins (Australia), Margie West (Australia), Theresa Willsteed; 2007, 175 (colour illus.), ‘In recognition: The gift of Pintupi painting’ by Fred Myers and Jeremy Long, pg. 171-179. Scholarly/Book; Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia; Hetti Perkins (Australia), Theresa Willsteed; 2004, 160, 161 (colour illus.), 'Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi' by John Kean, pg. 160. Periodical; Look: 1953-2003 celebrating 50 years; Jill Sykes (Australia); May 2003, 52, 'When the everyday becomes extraordinary: AGS help acceptance of young urban indigenous artists' by Hetti Perkins, pg. 51-53. Periodical; Look; Jill Sykes (Australia); Dec 2002-Jan 2003, 27 (colour illus.), 'Singular symbolism: major work by a founding member of Papunya 'painting mob' by Hetti Perkins, pg. 27. Annual report; Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2002; Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874); 2002, 24, 'Year in review', pg. 8-25.

 

Literature Source & FURTHER REFERENCES

Australian Aboriginal Artist dictionary of biographies Kreczmanski, Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004.

Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary by Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994

The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000

Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody

A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database, Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs

Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody

Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst. Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa. Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst. Kat.; Isaacs, J., Australia´s Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984; Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817; Modern Art - Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), o.O. 1992, ISBN 0646080520; Nangara. The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally, Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ., London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Tjinytjilpa. The Dotted Design. Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1998, Ausst. Kat.; Traumzeit - Tjukurrpa. Kunst der Aborigines der Western Desert. Die Donald Kahn-Sammlung, Danzker, J.B. (Hrsg.), Prestel, München und New York 1994, Ausst. Kat.; Voices of the Earth. Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia. Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954.

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