Makinti Napanangka | |
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| Born | circa 1930[a] |
| Died | 9 January 2011 Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Untitled (Lupul rockhole) |
| Awards | 2008 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award |
Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930 – 9 January 2011[1]) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously as Kumentje.[2] The term Kumentje was used instead of her personal name as it is customary among many indigenous communities not to refer to deceased people by their original given names for some time after their deaths.[3] She lived in the communities of Haasts Bluff, Papunya, and later at Kintore, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-east of the Lake MacDonald region where she was born, on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Makinti Napanangka began painting Contemporary Indigenous Australian art at Kintore in the mid-1990s, encouraged by a community art project. Interest in her work developed quickly, and she is now represented in most significant Australian public art galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia. A finalist in the 2003 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Makinti won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2008. Her work was shown in the major indigenous art exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Working in synthetic polymer on linen or canvas, Makinti's paintings primarily take as their subjects a rockhole site, Lupul, and an indigenous story (or "dreaming") about two sisters, known as Kungka Kutjarra. She was a member of the Papunya Tula Artists Cooperative, but her work has been described as more spontaneous than that of her fellow Papunya Tula artists.
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- ^ "Makinti Napanangka". Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Ashleigh Wilson (13 January 2011). "Aboriginal desert art loses unique vision". The Australian. Archived from the original on 5 April 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ Dussart, Francoise-F. (1988). "Notes on Warlpiri women's personal names" (PDF). Journal de la Société des Océanistes. 86: 53. doi:10.3406/jso.1988.2842. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2011.