Details of Tjampawa Stevens
About
Tjampawa was born in the Western Desert at Areyonga in the Northern Territory around 1947. Areyonga is her father's country and her mothers place is Waltytjara and Arran at the intersection of the three borders of Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia. She came to Nyapari with her husband (Keith Stevens) and five children to establish a community on their traditional land.
TJUNGU PALYA
Located about 100 kms south of Uluru, Nyapari is set at the base of the majestic Mann Ranges in the heart of country originally owned by the Pitjanjatjara people. These ranges, known to the Anangu as Murputja, likening the mountain to a bony ridge of a person's spine, are the source of many waterholes and traditional camping places. The homelands of Kanpi, Nyapari, Angatja, Umpukulu and Tjankanu have grown from these seasonal camping places into permanent settlements. Over 50 artists from Marputja joined together with family members living in traditional country 180 kms to the south of Watarru and created Tjungu Palya (Good Together).
Tjungu Palya is 100% owned and managed by Aboriginal people, ensuring the wealth of talent and economic returns are retained in the community. Tjungu Palya promotes cultural integrity and the ethical sales of authentic art.
MEDIUM
Acrylic on canvas
Punu (wooden artefacts)
Tjanpi (spinifex baskets and sculptures)
THEMES
Piltati (Serpent Men Tjukurpa)
Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa (Perentie Man Creation Story)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 'Tjungu Palya 2011', Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2011 'Ngura Tjukuritja - A Dreaming Place', Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA
2011 'Western APY Lands', ArtKelch, Freiburg, Germany
2010 'Inma Mantangka Ngarinyi - Song of the Land', Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD
2010 'Fremantle Print Award', Fremantle, WA
2010 'Our Mob', Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
2010 'Tjukurpa' Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT
2010 'Tjungu Palya Survey Show', Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2010 'Etched in the Sun -Prints by Indigenous Australians' with Basil Hall Editions, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2009 'Alwara-wara - Side by Side' Outstation, Darwin, NT
2009 'Etched in the Sun' with Basil Hall Editions and Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London. UK
2009 'Kulini-Ngura- Knowing Country' Short St Gallery, Broome, WA
2009 'Wanampiku Munu Kalayaku Ngura' Chapman Gallery, Canberra ACT
2008 'South Australian Impressions' Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
2008 'Iwaya Mantangka - Land Lines' Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth. WA
2008 'Anangu Backyard - Stories for Children' Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
2008 'Tjukurpa Kunpu' Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA
2008 'Our Mob' Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide. SA
2007 'Skin to Skin' Tuggeranong Art Centre, Adelaide,SA
2007 'Pilati' Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA
2007 Our Mob, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
2007 'Uwankara Ngura Palya' Randall Lane Fine Art, Perth WA
2006 'Desert Mob' Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2006 Art from the APY Lands' South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
2006 'Tjukurpa Mantajara' Randell Lane Fine Art, Perth, WA
COLLECTIONS
Lagerberg-Swift Collection, Perth, Western Australia
The Marshall Collection, Adelaide, South Australia
Harriet and Richard Collection, Sydney, New South Wales
W & V McGeoch Collection, Melbourne
