Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri

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Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri
Bornc.1954 (1954)
Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia
Died2011 (aged 56–57)
Alice Springs
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (c.1954–2011) was a

Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia
.

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 Molly Jugadai was born.

Molly Jugadai was born around 1954 at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, eldest daughter of artists Narputta Nangala and Timmy Jugadai Tjungurrayi.[1][2] The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Aboriginal peoples of Australia operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.[3] She had a younger sister, artist Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri,[4] who died in 2008.

kinship system of central Australian Aboriginal peoples. 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.[5][6]
Thus "Molly Jugadai" is the element of the artist's name that is specifically hers.

She died in 2011 in Alice Springs.[7]

Art

Background

Contemporary Indigenous art of the western desert began when Aboriginal men at

outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.[10]

Career

Western Desert artists such as Molly frequently paint particular

Dreamings, or stories, for which they have personal responsibility or rights.[12] Molly's dreamings relate to the seven Napaljarri sisters, and Kaarkurutintya (Lake Macdonald).[7]

Molly participated in a group exhibition at Michael Eather's Fire-Works Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Sydney's Hogarth Gallery, both in 2004.[4] She subsequently participated in numerous group and solo shows. One of her paintings appeared as the cover art for the 2005 monograph ‘Peopling’ the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia, 1850–1980.[2]

Molly played a significant role in the establishment of the

Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation,[2] set up in the mid-1990s with the assistance of Marina Strocchi, and she is represented by Ikuntji.[13]

References

  1. ISBN 1-876622-47-4
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  2. ^ a b c "Molly Napaltjarri Jugadai". Kate Owen Gallery and Studio. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  3. ISBN 1-876622-47-4
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    ISBN 0-9577481-4-0
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  5. ^ "Kinship and skin names". People and culture. Central Land Council. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  6. ISBN 978-0-85575-234-7
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  7. ^ a b "Molly Jugadai". ikuntji.com.au. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  8. ^ Bardon, Geoffrey; James Bardon (2006). Papunya – A place made after the story: The beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement. University of Melbourne: Miegunyah Press.
  9. ^ Dussart, Francoise (2006). "Canvassing identities: reflecting on the acrylic art movement in an Australian Aboriginal settlement". Aboriginal History. 30: 156–168.
  10. ^ a b Morphy, Howard (1999). Aboriginal Art. London: Phaidon. pp. 261–316.
  11. ^ Strocchi, Marina (2006). "Minyma Tjukurrpa: Kintore / Haasts Bluff Canvas Project: Dancing women to famous painters". Artlink. 26 (4).
  12. ^ Johnson, Vivien (1994). "Introduction". Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary. Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House. pp. 7–12.
  13. ^ "Upcoming exhibitions". Ikuntji Fine Art. 2008. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
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