Anatjari Tjakamarra

Anatjari Tjakamarra (c. 1930–1992) was a Central Australian Aboriginal artist who was part of the Papunya Tula art movement. He came from the area of Kulkuta, southeast of Kiwirrkura in Western Australia. He was a Pintupi man.[1][2]

He came to Papunya in the early 1966 from the Western Desert (relocated by the Weapons Research Establishment).[3] He was working in Papunya as a school gardener when Geoffrey Bardon began encouraging the men to paint using western style materials in the early 1970s. After, in the 1980s, he got into photo art, and made multiple art exhibits around the globe.

He left Papunya at the start of the outstation movement, establishing Tjukula in Western Australia, southeast of his birthplace and near the Northern Territory border. During much of the 1980s, when this painting was done, he worked and sold his art independently.

After settling at Kiwirrkura late in the decade, he began working through Papunya Tula Pty Ltd. He had his first solo exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989, and another in the same year at the John Weber Gallery in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired his painting Tingari Dreaming Cycle[4] tin the early 1990s;[5] this represented the first acquisition by a major international museum of a contemporary Aboriginal artwork. His work is held in most major Australian collections,[6] including the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT),[7] the Art Gallery of South Australia (one work),[8] the National Gallery of Victoria (one work),[9] the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2 works),[10] as well as the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.

Notes
  1. Perkins, Hetti; Fink, Hannah (2000), Papunya Tula : genesis and genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales in association with Papunya Tula artists, ISBN 978-0-7347-6310-5
  2. Ryan, Judith; Batty, Philip (2011), Tjukurrtjanu : origins of Western Desert art, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria, ISBN 978-0-7241-0345-4
  3. Mulford, C. (2017). "Selected artists' biographies: Anatjari Tjakamarra". In Scholes, L. (ed.). tjungunutja from having come together. Darwin, NT: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. p. 251.
  4. "Metropolitan Museum of Art: Anatjari Tjakamarra". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  5. "Trove: Anatjari Tjakamarra". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  6. "DAAO: Anatjari Tjakamarra - collections". DAAO. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  7. Scholes, L. (2017). "MAGNT's Papunya collection c 1971-1972". In Scholes, L. (ed.). tjungunutja from having come together. Darwin, NT: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. pp. 227–228.
  8. st; l. "Anatjari Tjakamarra". AGSA - Online Collection. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  9. "Anatjari Tjakamarra | Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  10. "Works matching "Anatjari Tjakamarra" :: The Collection :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 13 August 2020.


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