Patrick Tjungurrayi

DOB: c,1935
Born: Jupiter Well, WA
SKIN Tjungurrayi
LANGUAGE Manyjiljyjarra, Kukatja

About Artist:
Patrick Tjungurrayi was born near Jupiter Well in Western Australia in c.1935. Currently living between Balgo and Kiwirrkurra, Patrick previously walked out of the desert by following the Canning Stock Route. He is a highly regarded artist who won the prestigious Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards in 2008 with his depiction of scrub fire in his Gibson Desert homeland. For the past five years, Patrick has been one of Australia's most collectible artists, with works selling for $40,000.

'If contemporary Aboriginal art has become renowned for its flickering, optical power, then Patrick Tjungurrayi would have to be described as a master of the form. His works pulse with desert warmth and where all too much Aboriginal art on the market appears to be a pastiche of traditional forms to capture a bewildered and naive market, Tjungurrayi's work is both unique in structure and indisputably heart-felt." Australian Art Collector Magazine 2005.









Awards:

2008: Winner of Western Australia's Indigenous Art Award
Major collections:
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Holmes a' Court Collection
South Australian Museum, Adelaide
Artbank


Selected exhibitions:

1993: Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1997: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
1997: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs
1997: Utopia Art, Sydney
1998, 2000, 2001: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
1999: Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin
2000: Subiaco, Western Australia
2000: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2001: Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2001: Chapman Gallery, Canberra
2001: Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2001: Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2002: Thornquest Gallery, Gold Coast
2002: Coomalie Cultural Centre, Batchelor
2002: Art Mob Aboriginal Fine Art, Tasmania
2002: Fremantle Art Centre, Perth



Auction Details:

Title: Emu Dreaming at Boundary Bore
Details: Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 183 x 152 cm
Auction Price: $43,200
Auction House: Lawson~Menzies, Aboriginal Fine Art, Sydney, 23/05/2007, Lot No. 15

Patrick has had 42 works listed from the 1970's onwards.