Yuritji Young

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 DOB: c. 1956
 Born: near Ernabella, S.A.
 LANGUAGE: Pitjantjatjara
 COMMUNITY: Amata, S.A.

Yaritji Young, a Pitjantjatjara woman, was born circa 1956 in the bush near Pukatja Creek (Ernabella) in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of far north South Australia.

She is sister to fellow artists Tjungkara Ken, Sandra Ken, Maringka Tunkin and Freda Brady, who together won the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Prize for landscape in 2016 for their collaborative painting about the Seven Sisters story.

Yaritji is a senior law woman who upholds and activitely promotes aboriginal law and culture in their community.

Yaritji is a very versatile artist who has been painting at Tjala Arts since 2000, and has also worked for and exhibited with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers over the years. Her artworks represent the 'Tjala' or Honey Ant Dreaming. Her expressive, colourful style is easily recognisable and very much sought after by public and private collectors.

Yaritji now lives in Amata, in the far north west corner of South Australia.

Collections

  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
  • Artbank, Sydney
  • Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Awards and Recognition

2019 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2019 36th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2018 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist
2018 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2018 35th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2017 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Finalist
2017 34th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2016 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney - Winner (Tjala Arts Collaborative)
2016 33rd NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2014 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs - Finalist
2013 30th NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist
2004 29th Annual Shell Fremantle Print Award - Finalist
2004 21st NATSIAA, Darwin - Finalist

History


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Walytapitiku Laina - Family Lines, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Ngayuku ngura - My Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Yaritji Young - From My Father's Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Yaritji Young and Tjala Arts, Olsen Gruin, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019-20 Before Time Began - Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland
2019 Milpatjunanyi, APY Gallery, Adelaide
2018 Sydney Contemporary 18 - presented by Alcaston Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018 Ngampa Ngura Kurunjara - The Place of Our Spirit, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2018 Divided Worlds: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2018 Art of the APY Art Centre Collective, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017-18 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
2017 Yaritji Young: Walytjapitiku Laina - Family Lines, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Sydney Contemporary 17 / presented by Alcaston Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 Artists of the APY Lands, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Nganampa Kililpil - Our Stars, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, NSW
2013 Heartland - Contemporary Art from South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2011 Western APY Lands - Pro Community, ARTKelch, Leipzig, Germany
2011 Tjala Artists: Anangu maruku mulapa - This is our real way, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Tjala Men and Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Watiku tjukurpa pulka mulapa, munu Minymaku tjanpi; exhibition tjungu kupu - The men’s stories are very strong with the women’s tjanpi; a strong exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2009 Kuru Alala - Eyes Open, National Touring Exhibition, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2004 Looking after country: Manta Atunymankunytja, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
2003 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
2000 Irititja Munu Kuwaritja Tjukurpa - Stories from the past and present, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide