LANGALIKI LEWIS - NGAYUKU NGURA
LANGALIKI LEWIS
NGAYUKU NGURA, 2018
40 x 75 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas
REGION
APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands
PROVENANCE
Ernabella Arts, SA
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
Langaliki is the daughter of senior artist Ati palku intjalki (painter) and Adrian intjalki (timber artist) and mother to three daughters. Her sister is the highly skilled potter Lynette Lewis.
She went to school in Ernabella and then Adelaide. On returning from Adelaide she began working at the Ernabella TAFE and later the community office and store.
She is an up and coming artist who is showing great promise in her sensitive depictions of her country on canvas. Her ceramics were exhibited at Sabbia Gallery in Sydney in 2014 and her paintings at Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs and Tunbridge Gallery, Subiaco among others.
ARTIST PROFILE