{"id":7620,"date":"2019-12-11T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/?post_type=artist&p=7620"},"modified":"2023-08-27T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T13:55:35","slug":"alice-nampijinpa","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/artist\/alice-nampijinpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","acf":{"artist_description":"Skin name: Nampitjinpa\r\nLanguage: Luritja, Pintupi\r\nFrom: Kintore - Walungurru\r\nCommunity: Haasts Bluff, NT\r\n\r\nAlice was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people. Alice started painting on the \u201cMinyama Tjukurrpa\u201d \u2013 the Kintore Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active \u201cdancing woman\u201d who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and \u201cWomen\u2019s Law\u201d meetings. Alice\u2019s tjukurrpa is the porcupine or Tjilkamala. Her story is told in bright colours often utilizing orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine. Alice is a keen hunter and likes to go hunting with Eunice Jack. Alice\u2019s father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, who was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. His Tjukurrpa is Pungkalungka at Takpalangu. Pungkalungka\u2019s are dangerous, and sometimes kill and eat people. They live in huge caves in the hills. Alice only paints the entrance to the caves to signify the unknown danger of the monster that dwells within. Her father\u2019s country is Ngurrapalangu, and her tjukurrpa has passed to her from this place \u2013 the porcupine was travelling through the sand hills and passing near the two carpet snakes, kuniya kutjarra, who were living underneath the water. Alice also enjoys the other crafts and is involved in producing hand-spindled hairstring for ceremonies and ininti necklaces and mats. She regularly goes out bush to collect ininti seeds then laboriously pierces them with hot wire to make beads for necklaces, bracelets or mats.\r\n\r\nCOLLECTIONS\r\nAboriginal Art Museum Utrecht, NL\r\nArt Gallery of New South Wales, NSW\r\nArts dAustralie Stephane Jacob, Paris, FR\r\nGabrielle Pizzi Collection, Melbourne, VIC\r\nHarold Mitchell Foundation, Melbourne, VIC\r\nHeide Muesum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC\r\nMyer Baillieu Collection, de Young Museum, San Fransico, USA\r\nNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT\r\nNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC\r\nParlament House Collection, Canberra, ACT\r\nRed Dot Gallery, Singapore\r\nSupreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin, NT\r\nUniversity of Queensland Art Collection, Brisbane, QLD\r\nActive Youth Collection, Japan\r\nGriffith University, QLD\r\nAraluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT\r\nThe Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art\r\nHelen Read Collection\r\nAustralian Association of Gerontology\r\nColin Biggers & Paisley Foundation, Sydney","artist_image":12101,"born":"19421231","gallery":[4855],"featured":true,"featured_for_art_centre":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/7620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunbridgegallery.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}