Charlie Tjapangati
Born: 1949
People: Pintupi
Language: Pintupi
Area: Near Kiwirrkura
Charlie Tjapangati was born at the site of Tjulurrunya to the west of Kiwirrkura. He is the younger brother of Nanyuma Napangati.
During the early 1960’s Charlie traveled to Papunya in the back of a truck with one of Jeremy Longs government patrols.
He was a teenager at the time and was initiated at Papunya after arriving.
Collections:
Art bank, Sydney
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide.
National gallery of Australia
Museums & Art galleries of the Northern Territory
Victoria Art Centre
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth.
Aboriginal Art Museum, Netherlands
University of Virginia USA
Kelton Foundation Collection
Exhibitions:
1980, Contemporary Australian Aborigine Paintings, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA;
1981, Australian Perspecta, A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney ;
1982, Brisbane Festival, Brisbane; 1982, Georges Exhibition, Melbourne;
1983, Mori Gallery, Sydney; 1989, Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, Hobart.;
1990, Paintings from the Desert, Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Tasmania;
1992, Crossroads-Towards a New Reality, Aboriginal Art from Australia, National Museums of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
2004 – 21st Telstra National Aborigainal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
2005 – Papunya Tula Artists, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Papunya Tula Artists – new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney; Rising Stars Papunya, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2006 – Papunya Tula Artists – across the board, Utopia Arts Sydney, Sydney; Rising Stars 2006, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.