Title
Tjanpi Truckpa
2007
Artist
Kunmanara (Niningka) Lewis
Australia
circa 1946 – 2020
Language group: Pitjantjatjara, Southern Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Pukatja (Ernabella)
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South Australia
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Pitjantjatjara/Southern Desert region
- Date
- 2007
- Media categories
- Weaving , Sculpture
- Materials used
- wire, minarri (greybeard grass Amphipogon caricinus)
- Dimensions
- 20.0 x 18.5 x 38.0 cm
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 347.2008
- Copyright
- © Estate of Niningka Lewis, NPY Women's Council/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Kunmanara (Niningka) Lewis
Works in the collection
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About
Before we made the tjanpi [baskets] with wool. I went to Adelaide and I found this raffia in a shop. I saw all the other colours there but I only had money for the plain one. I brought it back and made a basket and all the women saw it. It was a new idea; they all asked, 'Where did you get it?' And then the Women’s Council rang up and found out about it and brought it to Alice Springs. -- Niningka Lewis
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
18th Annual Desert Mob Exhibition (2008), Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, 28 Sep 2008–09 Nov 2008
Joy, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 Oct 2020–21 Feb 2021
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2008–09, 'Collections: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art', pg. 22-25, Sydney, 2009, 24, 25 (colour illus.).
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Jennifer Mitchell, Tjanpi desert weavers, South Yarra, 2011, 60 (colour illus.) 141.
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Penny Watson (Compilator), Tjanpi desert weavers, ‘Eminently collectable: Tjanpi works in public collections’, pg. 295-308, South Yarra, 2012, 303 (colour illus.).
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