Kutungka Napanangka

Katungka is one of the daughters of Katarra Nampitjinpa, an important Pintupi artist who painted originally with the PapunyaTula Artists and then later with Ikuntji artists at Haasts Bluff. Katungka watched her mother and sister, Permungka, paint for many years but she only started painting regularly after her mother passed away in1999 . Katungka drives 100 kilometres round trip to and from Papunya every day to paint her stories. She is a devout Christian who is married to Pastor Murphy and regularly participates in religious ceremonies. Katungka appears to reconcile both traditions with respect and integrity and is deeply committed to the transmission of knowledge of both cultures. Katungka paints her mother’s dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjukurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far west of Haast’s Bluff, over the West Australian border. The stories at Intinti involve women hunting for kuniya or carpet snakes with nullanullas. The two kuniya disappear down rockholes, hiding from the women. Katungka lives in Alice Springs now is is an diayalisis patient In 2003 Katungka developed her white saltlake works. These have expanded and developed with fine marking all over the white canvas. Shadow forms are seen as marks in the salt lake. These marks represent people travelling, the wind shifting the salt, animal tracks and the myriad marks left on the salt pan by even the most minor change in the environment.

Languages

Luritja, Pintubi

Past Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2005
    Katungka with Alice Nampitjinpa, Boutwell Draper, Sydney.
  • 2001
    Narputta & Katungka, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.

Group

  • 2019
    Desert Mob Market Place 2019, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs., 5th, 6th and 7th September
  • 2018
    3rd Annual Environmental Defenders Office of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Art Auction, Darwin and Sydney.
  • 2017
    Desert Mob Marketplace 2017, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
  • 2017
    11th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
  • 2017
    Ngurra Kutju - Tjukurrpa Tjuta, One Country - Many Stories, Exhibition at Colin Biggers & Paisley, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.
  • 2015
    Tarnanthi Festival Art Fair, Tandanya Institute, Adelaide.
  • 2015
    Art Parade, Whistlewood.
  • 2009
    Ikuntji Artists, Beckworth Gallery, Ballarat.
  • 2009
    Group Show, Palya Art at Mary Place, Sydney.
  • 2009
    Ikuntji, Desert Sands Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Mayfair London, United Kingdom.
  • 2008
    Ikuntji, Victoria Carroll and Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi, Battersea London, United Kingdom.
  • 2008
    Ikuntji Artists, Jennifer Guerrini-Maraldi Contemporary Fine Art, London England.
  • 2008
    Charity Show, McCulloch Gallery, Melbourne.
  • 2008
    Group Show, Palya Art at Mary Place, Sydney.
  • 2007
    Ngankirritja, Indigenart, Perth.
  • 2007
    Group Show, Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne.
  • 2007
    Where The Wild Flowers Grow, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane.
  • 2007
    North Meets South: Ikuntji and Tjala Arts Converge, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
  • 2007
    Senior Ikuntji Women, Ochre Gallery, Melbourne.
  • 2007
    Palya Art at Mary Place, Palya Art, Darwin/Sydney.
  • 2007
    Yaiti Yamimi,Bandigan Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2006
    Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs.
  • 2006
    White Australia, Indigenart, The Mossenson Galleries, Melbourne.
  • 2006
    Anangu, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
  • 2005
    Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
  • 2005
    22nd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, Darwin.
  • 2005
    Susan OConnell Gallery, Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane.
  • 2005
    Indigenart, Perth.
  • 2005
    kuntji: Desert Belles, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
  • 2004
    Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London.
  • 2004
    Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
  • 2004
    Indegenart, Perth.
  • 2003
    Ikuntji Mob Show, Onshore Gallery, Geelong.
  • 2003
    Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
  • 2003
    Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
  • 2002
    Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
  • 2001
    Hogarth Gallery, Sydney.
  • 2001
    Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
  • 2001
    Desert Mob, Araluen Alice Springs.
  • 2001
    Our Country - Pintupi Women from Haasts Bluff, Raft Artspace, Darwin.
  • 2001
    Pintupi Women, Desart Gallery, Sydney.

Collections

  • Artbank Collection.
  • David Betz, Songlines Gallery, San Francisco.
  • Pino Degiosa, Singapore.
  • Richard Klingler, Washington.
  • Thomas Vroom, The Netherlands.
  • Helen Read Collection.