LINDA NAPALTJARRI

Born:                                     c.1937

Region:                     Alice Springs – N.T, Tarlee – S.A

Language Group:   Pintupi / Pitjantjatjara

Born in the area of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay), Western Australia, Linda is the daughter of Wanala Nangala and Rintja Tjungurrayi. Llinda sydick’s painting was influenced, at first, by the work of her stepfather, Shorty Lunkarta Tjungarayi, (now deceased). She moved away from the traditional form of rendering the Dreaming stories and merged her Christian belief and the iconography of Indigenous art into an inimitable style of painting.

Selected exhibitions: 1990 Santa Fe, USA; 1992, 1995 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; 1993 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; 1994 11^th NATSIAA Award; 1997 Tandanya, Adelaide; 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide; 1999 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA; 2001 State Library of NSW, Sydney.

Selected Collections: NGA, Canberra; Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide; MAGNT, Darwin; Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Artbank; Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand; Wollongong City Gallery; Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth.

Awards: Joint runner-up, National Indigenous Heritage Award; 1995, Finalist in 12^th NATSIAA. Four times finalist in Blake Prize for Religious Art; 2006, Telstra General Painting Award 23^rd NATSIAA.