Details of Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin
About
Tuppy is a senior Pitjantjatjara woman committed to fostering traditional law and culture, dancing and painting. Tuppy's father name was Nguyarangu (dec) and is from Docker River. Her mother's name was Emily Nyanyanta and her country is Wintutjuru, west of Fregon on the APY Lands. She has two brothers, Robyn, Willy, and a sister, Margaret. Her eldest brother Robyn Kankatankatja paints at Kaltjiti Arts and her sister Margaret Dodd also paints at Mimili Maku.
Tuppy Goodwin was born in in the bush near Bumbali Creek, and she came to Mimili when she was a baby. At the time Mimili was called Everard Park and was a cattle station, which was eventually returned to the Pitjantjatjara people in the mid 1960s. Tuppy was a teacher at the local Anangu school for thirty years and retired in 2009.
Tuppy has been painting with Mimili Maku Arts since 2010. Tuppy paints Kunga Kutjara, a women's tjukurpa from Bumbali Creek in the Northern Territory. The tjukurpa from Tuppy's mother's country is Tjala (honey ant dreaming) another theme the Tuppy paints. Her works are contemporary with a modern perspective and application. Her paintings have a colourful presence with fluid brushstrokes overlaying solid masses of colour that represent mountains, sky and country. Her colour combinations bring movement and texture to the flat place canvas, representing and replicating life and tradition. Tuppy's style is distinctive and her weavings incorporate structure and design into her colourful and textural works.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 RAFT Gallery launch APY&NPY Lands Survey Exhibition Alice Springs, NT
2010 Mimili Maku, AP Pond Aboriginal Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
2010 Desert Mob, Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2010 Piiny-Piinypa Tjukurpa Exhibition, RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
2010 Mimili Maku, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Mimili Maku, AP Bond GAllery, Adelaide, SA
2011 Tjukuritja kunpu kanyitjaku, Aboriginal and PAcific Art, Sydney, NSW
2011 Nganampa Paintingku Nyuwana, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Desert MOb, Araleun Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
2001 Mimili Maku Mirinpa, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2011 Waltjapiti Mimili Maku, RAFT Artspace, Alice Springs, NT
COLLECTIONS
Desert Country Collection, Art Gallery fo South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Corrigan Art Collection
Artbank
James Selva-Nangam Collection
