Pantjiya Nungurrayi (b.1936) Site of Kunkkiyunti Acrylic on Belgian linen, unstretched

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Pantjiya Nungurrayi (b.1936) Site of Kunkkiyunti Acrylic on Belgian linen, unstretched Accompanied by a photograph of the artist with this work 150 x 150 cm PROVENANCE: Ngintaka Aboriginal Arts, Alice Springs Corroboree Exports, Adelaide, Catalogue no. PN7050 LITERATURE: Pantjiya Nungurrayi was born at Haasts Bluff, prior to the mission being established. Her first contact with Europeans was as a young girl, when she & her family met with men who were travelling by camel & distributing rations. During the latter part of the 1970's, Pantjiya lived with her family between Kungkiyunti Outstation, west of Haasts Bluff, & Papunya, before settling in Kintore soon after the community was established in the early 1980's. Pantjiya is the widow of George Tjangala, a well known artist & early member of the Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya has five sons & three daughters, one of her sons is Raymond Maxwell Tjampitjinpa, who also paints for Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya Nungurrayi only began painting in the mid 1990s, painting a very distinctive style using the three traditional colours of black, white & yellow ochre.