Collections:

Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne.
Macquarie Bank Collection.
Museums & Art Galleries of the N.T.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Queensland Art Gallery.

Subjects: Kuningka (the Western Quoll); Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women Ancestor figures).

Awards:

2003 – finalist in the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria.

2003 – Makinti was included as one of Australia’s 50 most collectable artists by the prestigious Australian

            Art Collector magazine and again in 2004, 2005, 2006.

2008 – WINNER:       2008 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

2011 – Queen’s Birthday Awards, OAM (Order of Australia Medal)

Individual Exhibitions:
2002 – Makinti Napanangka: Recent Paintings, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2001 – Makinti Napanangka: new paintings, Utopia Art Sydney.
2000 – Makinti Napanangka: New Vision, Utopia Art Sydney.

Group Exhibitions:
2004 – Papunya Tula Artists 2004, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne.
2003 – Emerge, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.
2002 – Recent Paintings by the Women Artists of Kintor and Kiwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne; Sprint Exhibition 2002, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne; 19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Next Generation – Aboriginal Art 2002, Art House Gallery, Sydney; Paintings from Our Country, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide.
2001 – Dreamtime: the Dark and the Light, Kunst der Gegenwart, Sammlung Essl, Vienna; Desert Flowering:Aborignal Art from Private Collections, Manawatu Gallery, New Zealand.;Palm Beach Art Fair, Palm Beach, Florida, USA.;2001, Utopia Art Sydney; Art of the Pintupi Tony Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia; Aboriginal Art 2001, Scott Livesey, Art Dealer, Melbourne Victoria ; Dreamscapes-Contemporary Desert Art, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Papunya Tula 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT; Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; 19th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory; Kintore and Krwirrkura, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Dreamtime-Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Essi Collection, Vienna, Austria.

2000 – Pintupi Women, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.; Melbourne ArtFair 2000, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne.; Papunya Tula Artists NOW, Utopia Art Sydney; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria

1999 – Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic; Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Victoria, Australia.

1998 – Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic; nineteen ninety eight, Utopia Art Sydney; 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1998, Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.; 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Art Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, Queenslad; , Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, N.T. 1997 – Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, N.T.; Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Vic.

1996 –Papunya Tula Women: first exhibition outside Alice Springs, Utopia Art Sydney; Museums & Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin, N.T.; Womens’ Show, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, N.T.

1995 – Minyma Tjukurrpa, Kintore/Haasts Bluff Canvas Project, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide.

Bibliography:

Isaacs, J.Spirit Country, Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art, Hardie Grant Books, 1999.

Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of NSW, Australia 2000.

Aboriginal Art 2001 exhibition catalogue, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2001.

Desert Flowering, exhibition catalogue, Manawatu Art Gallery, North Island, New Zealand, 2001.

Dreamscapes- Contemporary Desert Art exhibition catalogue, Mostings Hus, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 2001.

Sammlung Essl Dreamtime-Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibition catalogue, Essi Collection, Vienna, Austria, 2001.

Ryan, Judith (ed), Colour Power – Aboriginal Art Post 1984, National Gallery of Vic, Melbourne, 2004 (C).

Bardon, Geoffrey; Ryan, Judith; Pizzi, Gabrielle; Stanhope, Zara., Mythology and Reality – Contemporary Aboriginal Desert Art from the Gabrielle Pizzi Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.