Yukultji Napangati was born near Lake Mackay in Western Australia in 1970. She was a member of the ‘Lost Tribe’ family, living so remotely in the Gibson Desert, that they only made contact with White Australians in 1984. They are cited as the closest work to that untouched by European influence. Many aspects are conveyed in Yukultji’s story- from landforms, to depicting women and their travelling and gathering of various bush foods including bush banana and silky pear vines.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Artbank, Sydney, Australia
Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Museum of Contemporary art, Sydney, Australia
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; and the Museum of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art, Toledo Museum of Art, OH (2013); and Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art, The Kaplan & Levi Collection, Seattle Art Museum, WA (2012).
Awards
Wynne Landscape Prize 2011 and 2013
Finalist -The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011
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