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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Tingari Dreaming
Born at Tjiturrunya west of Kintore Ranges in Western Australia, Ronnie was initiated into manhood in Winparku, near Lake Mackay in the Northern Territory. After prolonged droughts in the 1950s, he and his family moved, first to Haasts Bluff, then to Papunya. Here Ronnie began working as a stockman before the family moved to the newly established settlement at Papunya, where he worked at fencing cattle yards.
One of the youngest artists, Ronnie began painting in 1971 with the founding group of Papunya painters, and became an important influence on the outstation movement. Ronnie moved to Walungurru with his family after it was established in 1981. In the early 1980s Ronnie painted only intermittently for Papunya Tula Artists; however, by the late 1980s and early 1990s his distinctive graphic style attracted considerable attention. In these later works, his delicate, dotted Tingari designs have been transformed into bands of colour to dazzling optical effect.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa’s art is a good representation of the characteristic Pintupi style: repetition of forms, which are geometric, simple and bold, and pigments which are often restricted to four basic colours of black, red, yellow and white. But Ronnie experiments with other colours as well.
He has exhibited widely both within Australia and overseas. Ronnie won the Alice Prize in September 1998 with his painting Tingari Story at Nwirmiminya, 1988. He has held several solo exhibitions, beginning with an exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989.
Selected Exhibitions:
| 1982 |
Brisbane Festival, Brisbane |
| 1983 |
Mori Gallery, Sydney |
1986
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Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
Aboriginal Arts Australia, Canberra |
1987,
1988,
1989,
1993,
1996 |
Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne
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1988
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Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide Expo ’88, Brisbane |
1991,
1993 |
Chapman Gallery, Canberra
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1991
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Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, U.S.A.
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| 1992 |
Aboriginal Artists Agency, Sydney |
1992,
1993,
1994,
1995,
1997,
1998 |
Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs
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| 1992 |
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat |
1993
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Art Gallery of N.S.W. Sydney
Art Museum, Armidale, N.S.W.
Art Gallery of W.A. Perth
Australian Perspecta |
1994
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National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Utopia Gallery, Sydney
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Milan & Palermo, Italy
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany |
| 1995 |
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1996 |
‘Dreamings of the Desert’ |
| 1998 |
Jinta Gallery, Sydney |
1999
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Flinders Art Museum, Flinders University, Adelaide
‘Twenty-five Years and Beyond’
Embassy of Australia, Washington U.S.A.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco U.S.A. |
| 2000 |
Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia, Melbourne |
| 2001 |
Chapel off Chapel Gallery, Melbourne |
2001,
2005 |
redrock gallery, Melbourne |
| June
2007
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redrock gallery, Group Exhibitions, Gallery Grand Opening, Beijing, PR China |
| July
2007
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redrock gallery, Group Exhibitions China World Exhibition Centre, Beijing, PR China |
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Aug
2007
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redrock gallery, Group Exhibitions, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Beijing, PR China |
| November
2007
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redrock gallery, Group Exhibitions International Art Expo, Beijing, PR China |
Selected Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory,Darwin
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Robert Holmes a Court
Medibank Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Artbank
Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
Donald Khan, U.S.A.
Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
Musee National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, France
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
Mem Aziz Private Collection
Awards:
1988 Alice Springs Art Prize
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