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WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA (born circa 1946)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

The lines in this painting depict the sandhills in the area through which an old
woman, Kutungka Napanangka, passed during her travels from the west. She
travelled from Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore Community and visited the
site of Tjintjintjin where there is an underground cave, also the soakage water sites
of Ngatanga and Yaranga which are all west of Mantati Outstation, which is
approximately seventy kilometers west of the Kintore Community. She then
traveled further east to Muruntji, south-west of Mt. Liebig. At Muruntji she was
accosted by one of a group of boys so she chased them and caught all but the
culprit who managed to escape. She killed the others and cooked them in a fire.
She then traveled to Kaltarra where she entered the earth.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2003,
Certificate number WN0302020
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, ‘Walangkura Napanangka’, July 2003

Walangkura Napanangka was born at the site of Tjiturrulnga, west of Kintore. Her
family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her early teens. She is the daughter
of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and the sister of Pirrmangka Nanpanangka who both painted
for Papunya Tula Artists. Walangkura began painting for the company in early
1996. In 1999 she contributed to the Kiwirrkura womens’ painting as part of the
Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Kelton Foundation Collection, Santa Monica, USA