Collections:
Kelton Foundation Collection, USA. 
Macquarie Bank Collection, Sydney. 
Musee des Arts Africians et Oceaniens, Paris. 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Exhibitions:
2003 - Kintore Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne. 
2002 - 2005 - Native Title Business - Contemporary Indigenous Art, a national travelling exhibition. 
1993 - Aboriginal Art Exhibition, Kung Gubunga,Oasis Gallery, Broadbeach,Qld. 
1991/92 - Friendly Country, Friendly People, Touring Exhibition, through Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. 
1990 - l'ete Australien a' Montpellier, Musee Fabre Gallery, Montpellier, France. 
1989 - Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert, National Gallery of Victoria.

Select Bibliography:
Crossman, S. and Barou, J-P. (eds), 1990, L'ete Australien a Montpellier: 100 
Chefs d'Oevre de la Peinture Australienne, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France. (C). 
Dussart, F., 1993, La Peinture des Aborigines D'Australie, Editions Parentheses, 
Marseille, France. 
Johnson, V., 1994, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, 
East Roseville, New South Wales. (C). 
Ryan, J., 1989, Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Desert from the National Gallery 
of Victoria, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. (C). 
Winter, Joan., Native Title Business, Contemporary Indigenous Art (Catalogue), 
Keeira Press, Qld, 2002.


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Notes:
Warlinipirrnga Tjapaltjarri was born east of Kiwirrkura in the late 1950s. 
He is the brother of artist Walala Tjapaltjarri. In late 1984, Walala and eight 
other relatives of the Pintupi Tribe walked out of the desert in Western 
Australia and made contact for the first time with European society. 
Described as 'The Lost Tribe', he and his family created international 
headlines. Until this time Warlimpirrnga and his family lived the 
traditional and nomadic life of a hunter-gatherer society. Their intimate 
knowledge of the land, its flora and fauna and waterholes allowed them to 
survive, as their ancestors had for thousands of years. It is this sacred 
landscape with its significant sites that Warlimpirrnga so strikingly describes 
in his paintings.

In 1987 Warlimpirrnga completed his first painting for Papunya Tula Artists 
and in 1988 the First eleven paintings were exhibited at Gallery Gabrielle 
Pizzi, Melbourne, This entire collection was purchased and donated to the 
National Gallery of Victoria. Warlimpirrnga exhibited with Ray James Tjangala 
at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1999. Exhibitions include 'Mythscapes (1989) 
and 'Friendly Country Friendly People, (1990).