Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri

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Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri
Bornc. 1955
Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia
Died2008 (aged 52–53)
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting
AwardsFinalist, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award: 1995, 1998, 2001
Section winner, NATSIAA: 2000

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955–2008) was a

Ikuntji Women's Centre
, where many artists of the region have worked.

Influenced by the

Tjuukurrpa, the complex spiritual knowledge and relationships between her and her landscape. The paintings also reflect fine observation of the structures of the vegetation and environment. Jugadai's works were selected for exhibition at the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards five times between 1993 and 2001, and she was a section winner in 2000. Her paintings are held in major collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
.

Life

Daytime landscape photo, showing a range of hills with the nearest rising to a rocky red peak, below a blue sky with a few white strings of cloud, and above the tops of eucalyptus trees.
Haasts Bluff, where Daisy Jugadai was born

Daisy Jugadai was born circa 1955 at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, daughter of artists Narputta Nangala and Timmy Jugadai Tjungurrayi.[1] The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Indigenous people operate using a different conception of time from non-Indigenous Australians, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.[2]

The people of Papunya and Haasts Bluff, such as Daisy, speak a variety of the

kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people. These names define kinship relationships that influence preferred marriage partners and may be associated with particular totems. Although they may be used as terms of address, they are not surnames in the sense used by Europeans.[3][4]
Thus "Daisy Jugadai" is the element of the artist's name that is specifically hers.

Jugadai's childhood was spent at both Haasts Bluff and a nearby camp, Five Mile, while she was schooled at Papunya. She married Kelly Multa, and they had a daughter, Agnes. They lived on an

Arnhem Land and Haasts Bluff. Jugadai died in 2008, her funeral held at Haasts Bluff, where she was born.[5] Daisy Jugadai had an older sister, artist Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri,[6] and another sister, Ester, who predeceased her.[5]

Art

Background

The

outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.[9]

Daisy Jugadai came from a family of painters, including her uncle Uta Uta Tjangala and her mother.[11] She learned to draw during her schooling at Papunya and Haasts Bluff,

spinifex and emu dreamings;[16] geographical locations that were the settings for these paintings included Muruntji waterhole and Talabarrdi, and other locations around Kungkayunti, where her family had lived for many years.[1][17]

Career

An acrylic painting showing a stylised blue sky with clouds, red hills, and trees and other vegetation interspersed by waterbeds
Memory and Five Mile Creek (1995)

Throughout the 1990s, Daisy Jugadai was a regular exhibitor at the

Araluen Art Centre in Alice Springs, and well as other major exhibitions such as the Australian Heritage Art Awards in Canberra in 1994.[1] Recognition came in 1993, in two forms: an award of a Northern Territory Women's Fellowship;[5] and the purchase by the Araluen Arts Centre of a work exhibited in its annual art award.[11] Within her community she was an administrator as well as an artist. A member of the Ikuntji Women's Centre and a representative on Ikuntji Community Council, Daisy was one of those who successfully lobbied to have artist Marina Strocchi appointed as an art centre coordinator in the early 1990s.[5][18] The respect between the two women was mutual: Daisy was one of a group of artists whose work was selected for an exhibition that toured regional Australian public galleries in 1999–2000, Ikuntji tjuta – touring, which was curated by Marina Strocchi, the art centre coordinator who had first helped develop the Ikuntji centre in Haasts Bluff some years earlier.[19]

Works by Daisy Jugadai are held by the National Gallery of Victoria,[20] National Gallery of Australia and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.[1] They are also held in major private collections, such as Nangara (also known as the Ebes Collection),[21] as well as by Edith Cowan University.[22] First exhibiting in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 1993,[16] she was a finalist on several occasions including 1995, 1998 and 2001,[1] and a section winner in 2000.[5] Her 1994 entry in the award, Karu kapingku pungu (Creek after rain), belongs to the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.[23] Her work is also featured alongside other Indigenous artists such as Gloria Petyarre in the Melbourne international airport terminal, completed in 1996.[24] Antiti, near Five Mile, a 1998 painting, has appeared as cover art on an issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.[22]

Style

Alone amongst the Ikuntji artists, Daisy Jugadai worked at an easel. She cited the

bush tucker of that area", as well as choosing "a time of year in which to depict her country".[19] Vegetation would be carefully painted with a trimmed brush, while even finer detail, such as pollen, would be rendered using a matchstick. Clouds were always the final features to be included. Despite this devotion to detail, Daisy preferred to paint large canvasses.[5] Memory and Five Mile Creek was included in the National Gallery of Victoria's 2004–05 exhibition "Aboriginal Art Post 1984" and reviewer Miriam Cosic, while noting its "naive charm", also drew attention to the work's title and the implication that, like other more explicitly political painters of her era, "she too is talking of violent dispossession".[25]

Artist Mandy Martin, who participated in a 2005 collaboration with several painters from the Haasts Bluff region, thought that Daisy's rendering of bush tucker was achieved with a "stylised but dazzling personal language".[26] Writer and critic Morag Fraser described Daisy's work as "extraordinary", observing that in Daisy's paintings "nature is so wholly internalised, and its rendering so uninhibited."[27] A distinguished artist in her community, her death coincided with a vigorous renewal of artistic expression amongst her successors.[28]

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  11. ^ a b c Johnson, Vivien (1994). "Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai b. 1956 Haasts Bluff, NT". Biography. Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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  23. ^ Jugadai, Daisy Napaltjarri (1994). "Karu kapingku pungu (Creek after rain)". The MAGNT National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) Collection. Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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  28. ^ Griffin, Sasha (2008). "Ikuntji Art Centre: Haasts Bluff". Australian Art Collector. 46. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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