Alice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people. Alice started painting on the "Minyama Tjukurrpa" - the Kintore Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active "dancing woman" who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and "Women's Law" meetings. Alice's tjukurrpa is the porcupine or Tjilkamala. Her story is told in bright colours often utilizing orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine. Alice is a keen hunter and likes to go hunting with Eunice Jack. Alice's father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, who was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. His Tjukurrpa is Pungkalungka at Takpalangu. Pungkalungka's are dangerous, and sometimes kill and eat people. They live in huge caves in the hills. Alice only paints the entrance to the caves to signify the unknown danger of the monster that dwells within. Her father's country is Ngurrapalangu, and her tjukurrpa has passed to her from this place - the porcupine was travelling through the sand hills and passing near the two carpet snakes, kuniya kutjarra, who were living underneath the water. Alice also enjoys the other crafts and is involved in producing hand-spindled hairstring for ceremonies and ininti necklaces and mats. She regularly goes out bush to collect ininti seeds then laboriously pierces them with hot wire to make beads for necklaces, bracelets or mats.
Eurantica Art Fair, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels.
Off Art Fair, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels.
2014
Artitja: The Gift Collection - Art + Objects, Artitja Fine Art, Fremantle.
Around the Campfire - Fundraiser Concert, Alice Springs.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin.
21 Years Ikuntji Artists Festival, Ikuntji Artists, Haasts Bluff.
SOAF 2014 Seoul Open Art Fair, Seoul, Korea.
The Bold and the Beautiful, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs.
The Bold and The Beautiful - new works from Ernabella Arts, Ikuntji Artists, Ninuku Artists, Tjala Arts and Tjungu Palya Artists AMONGST OTHERS, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs.
2013
Desert Minatures from Ikuntji Artists, Tali Gallery, Sydney.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
A Love of Country - the Indigenous Perspective, A Seymour College Art Exhibition.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin.
Sun Flying, A Bright Australian Desert Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
SOAF - Seoul Open Art Fair, Seoul, Korea.
2011
IndigenousArt At IGS, Sydney, Tali Gallery, Sydney.
2010
Art Mob, Hobart.
Ikuntji, Scotch College, Melbourne.
Palya Art, Melbourne.
In Print , Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Charles Darwin university Gallery, Darwin., 4 November 2010 - 28 February 2011.
2009
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Qdos Gallery, Lorne.
Art Mob, Hobart.
Artkelch Gallery, Germany.
2008
Ballan and Pannan Galleries, Alice Springs.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Value of Country, ArtKelch Gallery, Direct Invest.
Land and Mythology - Art of the Western Desert, Artequity, Sydney.
Ikuntji Icons, ArtMob, Hobart.
Palya Art, Mary Place, Sydney.
Palya Art, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney.
Ikuntji Artists, QDos Arts, Lorne.
All About Country, ArtKelch Gallery, Freiburg, Germany.
Men at Work, Aboriginal Art in der Fabrik, ArtKelch, Schorndorf, Germany.
Aboriginal Art - Window to Culture, ArtKelch, Australian Embassy (Australia Day Exhibition), Berlin, Germany.
Palya Art, Cabinet Malemont, Paris, France.
Palya Art, Gallows Gallery, Perth.
Ikuntji meets Brisbane, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane.
2007
Group Exhibition, ArtKelch, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
Palya Art, Mary Place, Sydney.
Yungkiya & Kulunnypa - Old & New, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney.
Ikuntji Now, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Cultural Connections - Desert Stories, Artitja Fine Art, Perth.
Ikuntji Painters, Footsteps Gallery, Brisbane.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Best of the Best, Framed Gallery, Darwin.
Ikuntji Women Painters, King fisher Gallery, Perth.
Palya Art, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney.
2006
Best Of The Best, Framed Gallery, Darwin.
Booker Lowe Gallery, Texas.
Desert Dreamings (Earth + Water), Artitja Fine Art, Perth.
Ngankirritja, Indigenart, Perth.
Palya Art, Melbourne.
Palya Art, Darwin.
Yaiti Yamimi, Bandigan Gallery, Sydney.
Senior Ikuntji Women, Ochre Gallery, Melbourne.
Short St Gallery, Broome.
North Meets South- Ikuntji and Tjala Converge, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
Genesis, Aboriginal Art Collection, Chicago.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne.
2005
Anangu, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
Senior Aboriginal Women Artists of Central Australia, Gadfly Gallery, Perth.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
Dreaming Their Way - Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover,.
Sydney Art Fair, Sydney.
Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs.
2004
Kaarkurutintya - Goanna Country - Recent Paintings from Haasts Bluff, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
Concord, Framed Gallery, Darwin.
Susan OConnell Gallery, Brisbane Art Fair, Brisbane.
Indigenart, Perth.
Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs.
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
Indigenart, Perth.
Art Frankfurt, Germany.
Ikuntji Desert Belles, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore.
2003
Red Dot Gallery, Singapore.
Indigenart, Perth.
Carole Queriye, London, United Kingdom.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Presinct, Alice Springs.
Desert Show, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs.
Ikuntji – Stories from the Red Land, Rebecca Hossack, London, United Kingdom.
Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane.
Divas of the Desert, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs.
2002
Mythology and Reality: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Desert Art, Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
Mythology & Reality, Jerusalem Centre of the Performing Artist, Israel.
Monash University, Prato Centre, Italy.
2001
Pintupi Women - Bush Stories, Ikuntji, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney.
2000
Ikuntji, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
Our Country: Pintupi Women from Haasts Bluff, Raft Artspace, Alice Springs.
Aborigena, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Alice Springs.
1999
Ikuntji Artists, Desart Gallery, Sydney.
Land of Diversity- The Northern Territory, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney.
1998
Ikuntji Tjuta - Touring Retrospective, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney.
Desert Mob, Araluen Cultural Presinct, Alice Springs.
