Details of George Tjampu Tjapaltjarri
About
George (Tjampu) Tjapaltjarri was born at Walla Walla rockhole (Pollock Hills) near Kiwirrkura in Western Australia circa 1945. Tjampu began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1983 while living on the Kiwirrkura community with his wife Doreen Nakamarra. The stories referred to in George's paintings relate to the Tingari travels in the vicinity of Kiwirrkura and Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). George passed away in Alice Springs in March 2005.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 'A Particular Collection', Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2006 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Manning Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 'Narratives Preceding All Memory', Burg Vischering, Luedinghausen, Germany
2005 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery, Bundoora, VIC
2005 'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, NSW
2004 'Looking Closely at Country', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
2004 'Ma yungu/Pass it on', Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2004 'Aboriginal Art 2004', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC
2004 'Talking About Abstraction', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
2004 'Works from Kintore and Kiwirrkua', Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2003 'Papunya Tula Artists - A Gift from the Desert', Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2003 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2003 'Aboriginal Art 2003', Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne, VIC
2003 'Ab Op 2 - Exploring the Visual Intensity of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
2002 'Saluting Papunya', Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2002 'Art Born of the Western Desert', Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2002 'Pintupi Mens' and Womens' Stories', Indigenart, Perth, WA
2002 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2002 'Paintings from our Country', Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA
2001 'Spirituality and Australian Aboriginal Art', Comunidad de Madrid, touring exhibition, Spain
2001 'Kintore, Kiwirrkura,' Gallery Gabriella Pizzi, Melbourne, VIC
2001 'Papunya Tula 2001', William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2000 'Pintupi Men', Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
2000 'Framed Gallery, Darwin, NT
2000 'Aboriginal Art Select Works', Kozminsky Gallery and Fine Art Dealers, Melbourne, VIC
2000 'Lines', Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1995 Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1995 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT
1993 Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1993 Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, SA
1990 'Friendly Country - Friendly People', Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1988 Queensland Musuem, Brisbane, QLD
COLLECTIONS
University of Virginia, USA
Artbank
SELECTED
Bibliography
Kimber, R, Friendly Country - Friendly People, exhibition catalogue, Araluen Arts Centre,
Alice Springs, Australia,1990
Johnson, V, Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert, a Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, NSW, 1994
Corbally Stourton, P, Songlines and Dreamings, Lund Humphries Publishers, London,1996
McHarg, Kirsty, Aboriginal Art select Works, exhibition catalogue,2000
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 'Aboriginal Art 2003', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, VIC, 2003
Scott Livesey Art Dealer, 'Aboriginal Art 2004', exhibition catalogue, Melbourne, VIC, 2004
'Luminous - Contemporary Art from the Australian Desert', exhibition catalogue, Manly Art Gallery and Musuem, Sydney, NSW, 2005.
