 Eunice Napangardi "Bush Banana" Cat No. 5417 Size = 91 x 182 cm. Acrylic on linen |
Dob: Early 50’s Died: 2005 Place: Yuendumu Area NW Alice Springs, Central Australia. Language Luritja Tribe: Warlpiri Mother Luritja. Father Warlpiri . Dreamings: Bush Banana, Water Snake, Bush Mangoes, Cockatoo, Hail, Desert Raisin etc. Commissions: 1991, Alice Springs Airport, in conjunction with FAC. Collections: Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide. The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth. The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A. Wollongong City Art Gallery. Stockman's Hall of Fame. Federal Airports Corporation. Exhibitions: 1985, Dot and Circle, a retrospective survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne 1989 'Tjukurrpa' Exhibition at the Gallery. Blaxland 1990, Art Dock, Contemporary Art from Australia, Noumea, New Caledonia 1991 Aboriginal Arts Australia Gallery 1991 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 1992 Brisbane. (With her sister Pansy Napangati). 1992 Travelling exhibition starting in Washington, USA. 1993, Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga,Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach,Qld 1994, Eunice Napangardi, Maxie Tjampitjinpa and Pansy Napangardi, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney 1995, The Twelfth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, Darwin 1996, Darwin Performing Arts centre. Darwin NT Select Bibliography: Isaacs, J., 1989, Australian Aboriginal Paintings, Weldon Publishing, New South Wales. Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville, New South Wales. (C) Maughan, J., and Zimmer, J., (eds), 1986, Dot and Circle, a Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings of Central Australia, exhib. cat., Communication Services Unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. (C) Premont, R., and Lennard, M., 1988, Tjukurrpa, Desert Paintings of Central Australia, Centre for Aboriginal Artists, Alice Springs. © Discovery Media, Documentation Pty Ltd, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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