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About
"My birthplace is my father's place (ngura); a very important sacred place; a big place east of Kanpi. My mother, like Ungakini's father, came from Ngaatatjara lands in Western Australia. When the family moved to Ernabella mission I was not yet an adolescent girl. After school hours I would go to the craft room. It was a small shed then. I did not learn weaving but but was spinning wool on the outside while the other relatives were dying it. I also knitted jumpers. I did not paint on canvas, but made floor rugs with colourful patterns. During that time we were all living in shelters (wiltja) made from spinifex (tjanpi) and shifted camp regularly in a circle around the mission compound. Our homes were very clean. Amata, Fregon, Finke, Mimili and Indulkana did not exist then but there was Alice Springs, Areyonga and Haast's Bluff where rations were handed out. After my brief work experience in the hospital, I began to cook large meals, the rations in the mission kitchen. The present Art Centre is an expansion of that building." (Conversation with Dr Ute Eickelkamp, January 2003 at Ernabella.)
TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS BIO
Pantjiti Lionel was born at an important sacred place, her father's ngura (country), east of Kanp (SA). Her mother was a Ngaatatjara (WA) woman. Pantjiti moved with her family to the Presbyterian Mission at Pukatja (Ernabella, SA) when she was a little girl. After school she would go to the craftroom, which was a small shed then. She spun wool and knitted jumpers, and made floor rugs with colourful patterns. During that time everyone lived in wiltja (shelters) made of tjanpi (grass), and shifted camp regualrly around the mission. Rations were obtained from Alice Springs, Areyonga and Haast's Bluff, and after doing work experience in the hospital, Pantjiti cooked large meals in the mission kitchen using the rations.
Pantjiti discovered basketry in 1996 through her well-known sister Niningka Lewis, and when Tjanpi gave a workshop at Ernaeblla in 2000. Niningka was the artist responsible for many of the first fibre sculptures and for introducign the use of raffia on the AP Lands. Like Niningka, Pantjiti is an innovative fibre artist, producing many unusual figures and animals. These works have featured in numerous exhibitions both with Tjanpi and with Ernabella Arts.
MEDIUMS
Tjanpi
Painting on Canvas
Prints on Paper
THEMES
Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters)
Mai putitja (bush foods)
Itjari-itjari (Marsupial Mouse)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
NGURA KUTJU, TJUKURPA PULKATJARA, ONE SMALL COMMUNITY, MANY DIFFERENT STORIES
Short St Gallery, Broome, 2011
NGANAMPA MANTANGURU NYUNTU MYANGANYI - FROM OUR LAND YOU SEE
Michael Reid Galleries, Sydney, 2010
DESERT MOB
Araluen Xentre, Alice Springs, 2010
NGURA NGANAMPA (OUR COUNTRY)
Outstation Gallery, Darwin, NT, 2010
ERNABELLA AND KAYILI 2010
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW, 2010
RECENT PAINTINGS
Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT, 2010
CELEBRATING COUNTRY: KINSHIP & CULTURE
Seymour College, Adelaide, SA, 2009
OUR MOB
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA 2009
NYANGATJA NGANAMPA TJUKURPA (these are our stories)
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, NSW 2009
ITJANU (Fresh like Flowers after rain)
Australian Dreaming Art, Melbourne, VIC 2005
ERNABELLA - RECENT PAINTINGS AND CERAMICS
Birrung Gallery, Sydney, NSW 2007
SKIN TO SKIN
Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Canberra, ACT 2007
OUR MOB
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide SA 2007
DESERT MOB
Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, NT 2007
A WAY OF SEEING
Gallery Gondwana, Sydney, NSW 2008
ANANGU BACKYARD
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA 2008
NGANAMPA TJUKURPA (our stories)
Indigenart, Perth, WA 2008
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Flinders University Art Museum, 2004
National Gallery of Australia, 2004
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
IAD Press Jukkurpa Diary 2005
IAD Press Jukkurpa Calendar 2010
Artworks of Pantjiti Lionel
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