Yukultji Napangati is a painter of the Papunya Tula group of artists.
21 Facts About Yukultji Napangati
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Yukultji Napangati is part of a generation of female painters who followed in the footsteps of the original male Papunya Tula artists.
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Yukultji Napangati was born north of Kiwirrkurra near Lake Mackay in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia.
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Today, Yukultji is an Aboriginal artist commanding a global stage.
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Yukultji Napangati is the daughter of Nanu Nangala and Lanti Yukulti and has many siblings making up their nomadic tribe.
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Yukultji Napangati grew up without knowing about places like Kiwirrkurra, or her relatives living there.
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Yukultji Napangati had never met anyone from outside their tribe.
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Yukultji Napangati's family lived a completely traditional nomadic way of life on a diet of bush plants, kangaroo and goanna.
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Yukultji Napangati's father had lived for a short time at the mission in Balgo, but he had run away after getting into trouble for stealing food.
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Yukultji Napangati was 14 years old and the youngest of the group.
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Yukultji Napangati experienced major culture shock when first coming out of the desert.
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Yukultji Napangati married Charlie Ward Tjakamarra and together they had a daughter and a son.
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Yukultji Napangati began painting in the 1990s at Papunya Tula Arts Center.
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Yukultji Napangati had watched her brothers and husband paint and decided to try it for herself.
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Yukultji Napangati's style is frequently associated with minimal colors that produce a shimmering effect and her primary subject is "country".
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Yukultji Napangati's painting are symbolic of the harsh desert conditions, the dots and waves shimmer like the star and the sand.
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Yukultji Napangati's paintings are shown in several public collections in Australia, but her work has been shown in over 80 exhibitions in Australia and overseas.
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In 2009 Yukultji Napangati traveled to New York for a solo exhibition at Salon 94 in the Bowery which promoted monumental success for her career.
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Yukultji Napangati was a finalist in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, in 2006,2009,2010 and 2011.
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In 2012, Yukultji Napangati won the Alice Prize, an award for Australian artists in Alice Springs.
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In 2018 Yukultji Napangati's work was included in the exhibition Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia at The Phillips Collection.