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| Mitjili Naparulla is one of the most highly represented Aboriginal female artists in Australian National Galleries. Her unique style makes her stand out from all other contemporary Aboriginal painters, and this has a had a direct impact with her popularity all over the world. Mitjili is a Pintupi woman from the Haasts Bluff region, located 200 km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She is half sister to Turkey Tolson, another well-known Pintupi painter. She married Long Tom Tjapanangka at Papunya in the 1960s and they later lived at Haasts Bluff. She now lives at Mt Liebig with Long Tom. Mitjili began painting at the Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992. She paints her father's country called Uwalki which lies in the Gibson Desert near the Kintore Ranges, west of Haasts Bluff. This country is characterised by red sandhills, bushes and trees. Since working with the Ikuntji artists she has developed a very strong and distinctive personal style based on her paintings of trees and country at Uwalki. She was taught some of her key imagery by her mother drawing patterns in the sand. This style has gained her a strong following within Australia and internationally with regular sellout exhibitions. Mitjili's work was included in the exhibition "Spirit Country: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art" at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco 1999, and featured in the prestigious Adelaide Biennial 2000, Beyond the Pale. Mitjili Napurall has also exhibited at the Australian Heritage Commission. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra 1993, 1994, 1996, Australian High Commission - Hotel Shangri-la, Singapore 1994, Yiribana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994, Ikuntji: New Art from the Western Desert, Framed - The Darwin Gallery, Darwin, 1995,Aboriginal Art Galerie Bähr, Speyer, Germany, 1997,Aboriginal Art, Goteborgs Konstforening, Göteborg, Sweden, 1997, Dreamings, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 1997,Culture Store, Art Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1998, Dreamings, Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence, Italy, 1998, Hilton Hotel Art Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1998, Zeichen des Seins. Paintings of the Australian Aborigines, Urban Gallery ADA, Meiningen, Germany, 1999, 2001 and the Galerie Knud Grothe, Charlottenlund, Denmark 2001 to name but a few. |
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