Eunice Jack Napanangka

DOB: 1940

About Artist:
Eunice Jack Napanangka was born in 1940 at Lupul in the Fredrick Range. When Eunice was a little girl, and like so many other Aboriginal families at the time, shortages of food forced her family east towards the ration stations being set up in central Australia.

Now an important woman in the community, Eunice is well known for her hunting skills, dancing and traditional law knowledge.

Eunice started painting with the opening of the Ikuntji Women's Centre in August of 1992. Prior to that during the 1970's she assisted her husband Gideon Tjupurrula Jack who was painting at Papunya Tula.

Eunice paintings are interpretations of her country near Lake Mackay. She uses layers of colour to build up a vision of the bush flowers and grasses. Amongst this landscape Eunice's personal stories are told, either of the travellings of her tjukurrpa - the Bilby - or the people who once lived in the area.

Her father was Tutuma Tjapangarti, one of the first men to paint for Papunya Tula. Eunice also paints his country, which includes Tjukurla, Tjila, Kurulto and Lupul.

Her mother was from the Walpiri side of Lake Mackay - Winparrku - in Western Australia.

A brilliant colourist, Eunice's Hairstring, Tali (sandhill), Mungada (apple) and wildflower paintings display great talent and dedication to her profession and traditions.

Her Hairstring works are made up of thousands of varied colour strokes, representing the hair being rolled on women's thighs to make bags and clothing.

Her Mungada (apple) works hold myriad dusted mauve circles overlaying the ground of varicoloured-feathered brushwork.

Highly collectable, Eunice is represented in leading galleries worldwide.



2000
"Ikuntji Artists" Desart Gallery ,Sydney
Women's Work, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Heritage Art Award, Canberra
"Tjilkamata and Watuya", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen

2001
"Ikuntji Artists", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Recent works from Ikuntji Artists", Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
Our Country - Pintupi Women from Haasts Bluff" RAFT Artspace, Darwin
Pintupi Women" Desart Gallery ,Sydney

2002
Adelaide Fringe Festival Desart Exhibition

2003
Gallerie Gabriells Pizzi
Desert Mob
Onshore Ikuntji Group show
Framed Ikuntji Mob

MEDIUM
Acylic on Linen


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, "Painting My Tjukurrpa" (with Marinka Nangala Marshall)
2008 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (with Alice Nampitjinpa)
2007 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Eunice Jack & Alice Nampitjinpa Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2004 Boutwell Draper, Sydney
2004 Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne Group Exihibitions
2009 ArtMob, Hobart, "Ikuntji Icons"
2009 Artequity, Sydney, "Land and Mythology - Art of the Western Desert"
2008 Kingsfisher Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, "Ikuntji Women Painters"
2008 Palya Art @ Mary Place, Sydney, "Group Show"
2008 Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs & Sydney, "Divas of the Desert"
2008 QDos Gallery, Lorne (Victoria), "Ikuntji Show"
2008 Artitja Fine Art, Perth W.A., "Desert Stories: 2008"
2008 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs NT, "Desertmob"
2008 Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane QLD, "Ikuntji Now"
2008 Artitja Fine Art, Perth W.A., "Cultural Connections - Desert Stories"
2008 Hogarth Galleries, Sydney NSW, "Yungkiya & Kulunypa - Old & New"
2007 Short St Gallery, Broome, "Group Show"
2007 Palya Art, Darwin/Sydney, "Palya @ Mary Place"
2007 Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007 Artkelch, Germany, "Women's Business"
2007 Bandigan Gallery, Sydney, "Yaiti Yamimi"
2007 Araleun Gallery, Alice Springs, "Desert Mob"
2007 Palya Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007 Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007 Artitja Fine Art, Perth W.A., Desert Dreamings 2007: Earth + Water
2007 Framed Gallery, Darwin, "Best Of The Best"
2006 Gondwana, Alice Springs, "Big Country"
2006 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, " Anangu"
2006 Gadfly Gallery, Perth, "Senior Aboriginal Women Artists of Central Australia"
2006 Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, "DesertMob"
2005 Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt
2005 Gallery Gabrielle, Melbourne
2005 "Big Country", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005 Elisabeth Baehr, Art Frankfurt Germany
2005 Strata, Araluen Alice Springs
2005 Desert Mob, Araluen Alice Springs
2005 "Desert Divas", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005 Susan O'Connell Gallery, Brisbane Art Fair
2005 Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, "Ikuntji Desert Belles"
2004 Carole Queriye, London
2004 Red Dot Singapore
2004 Araluen, Desert Mob
2004 Gondwana, Desert Show
2004 Gondwana, Desert Divas
2004 Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2004 Fireworks, Brisbane
2004 Rebecca Hossack, London
2004 Indigenart - Perth
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen, Alice Springs
2003 "Ikuntji Mob", Framed, Darwin
2003 Onshore Gallery, Geelong
2003 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2002 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Desart Exhibition
2001 "Ikuntji Artists", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2001 "Pintupi Women", Desart Gallery, Sydney
2001 "Recent works from Ikuntji Artists", Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2001 "Our Country - Pintupi Women from Haasts Bluff", RAFTArtspace, Darwin
2000 Desert Mob Exhibition, Araluen, Alice Springs
2000 "Tjilkamata & Watuya", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2000 Heritage Art Award, Canberra
2000 "Women's Work", Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
2000 "Ikuntji Artists", Desart Gallery, Sydney
1999 Ikuntji Walka, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1999 Ikuntji Tjuta Touring Retrospective, Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1998 "Dreamings" (Walonia) Brussels, Belgium
1998 "Culture Store", Rotterdam Art Gallery, The Netherlands
1998 Desert Mob, Araluen, Alice Springs
1998 Ikuntji Painters, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1998 Bischoffs, Burbank California, USA
1998 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Desart Exhibition
1998 "Ikuntji: Paintings from Haasts Bluff", Framed, Darwin
1997 Ikuntji Tjuta, Gallerie Australis, Adelaide
1997 Ikuntji Tjuta, Alliance Francaise, Canberra
1997 Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen, Alice Springs
1997 14th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1997 "Dreamings - Aboriginal kunst uit Australie", The Netherlands
1996 Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1996 13th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1996 MAGNT Shell Launch, Darwin
1996 "Miracles from the Desert", Savode, Brisbane
1996 "Native Title Now", Tandanya, Adelaide - touring six regional galleries
1996 "Minyma Mankurrpala Ikuntji Ngurra", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1995 "Minyma Tjukurrpa: Haasts Bluff/Kintore Canvas Project", Tandanya, Adelaide
1995 "Paintings from Haasts Bluff:, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney
1995 "Ikuntji: New Art from the Central Desert", Framed Gallery, Darwin
1995 26th Alice Prize, Araluen, Alice Springs
1995 12th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1995 NT Art Award, Alice Springs
1994 "Ikuntji: Paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992-94", Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1994 Australian High Commission & Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore
1994 NT Art Award, Alice Springs
1994 11th National Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin
1994 Heritage Art Award, Canberra
1993 NT Art Award, Alice Springs

COLLECTIONS
Bailleau Myer, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Thomas Vroom, The Netherlands
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection
Flinders University
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Darwin Supreme Court
Campbelltown Regional Gallery
University of Tasmania
Private Collections

AWARDS
2008 Finalist, Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Indigenous Art Awards
2006 Finalist, Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Indigenous Art Awards

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
2000 "Art Centre", Desert Magazine, Alice Springs
2000 The Fifth National Heritage Art Award Catalogue
1999 Ikuntji Tjuta Touring Catalogue
1996 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Electoral Calander
1995 12th National Aboriginal Art Award Catalogue
1995 "Ikuntji: Paintings from Haasts Bluff 1992-1994", IAD Press, Alice Springs