MICK TJAPALTJARRI NAMARARI - TJUNGPA TJKURRPA - BUSH TUCKER

 MICK TJAPALTJARRI NAMARARI
TJUNGPA TJKURRPA - BUSH TUCKER,  1994
147.5 x 134 cm
synthetic polymer paint on belgian linen
 
PROVENANCE
Kintore Western Desert, NT
Utopia Art, N.T Cat nu. MN9931Private Collection,. NSWAccompanied by a certificate of Authenticity and a picture of Mick with the artwork 
 
STORY
During a career that spanned almost three decades Mick Namarari became a towering presence, whose variety of subjects and diversity of stylistic approaches kept him at the forefront of Western Desert painting. Geoff Bardon noted his ability as a painter from the earliest days of the movement when he  'could often unexpectedly be found late at night working away at his meticulous and marvellous paintings' (Johnson 2000: 191). Much later, he was to play a quiet but decisive role in instigating the Papunya Tula art movementā€™s increasing ethereal minimalism of the late 1980ā€™s and 1990's and in doing so significantly fueled the international reputation of Australian Aboriginal art, thereby earning himself an ā€�incomparable placeā€™ in Australian art history.