GALLERY  Australian Aboriginal Art

Title: Women's Ceremony
Artist: Maisie Campbell Napaltjarri
Painted: 2011
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, unframed
Painting area: 146cm x 145cm
Margin: 4.5-5.0cm
Authenticity: The painting singed by Maisie Campbell. CoA and pictures of Maisie holding and signing her work will be provided as well as pictures in process.
Story: Her paintings represent the stories from her father’s country – Karku and include Yalka – Bush Onion, Kampurarrpa – Bush Tomato and Kunga Tjurkurpa – Women’s Stories, these still take place in the area between Kintore and Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia.

Artist: Maisie Campbell Napaltjarri
Skin Name: Napaltjarri
Born: c.1960
Region: Kintore
Language: Pintupi
Subjects and Themes(Dreaming): Women's Ceremony, Bush Tomato, Bush Onion.

About artist:

Maisie Campbell Napaltjarri was born in 1958 near Haasts Bluff, about 300km NW of Alice Springs. The area is home to the Luritja people, who have many Western Arrente and Pintupi family connections. Maisie's language group is Pintupi.

Maisie spent her formative years at Papunya attending school there. Her first teacher was Geoffrey Bardon, a fact that she remains proud of today. As a young woman, Maisie moved to the Pintupi community of Kintore, about 500km west of Alice Springs, where she married Barney Campbell Tjakamarra (now deceased) and to whom she had four children.

Maisie began painting about 15 years ago. Whilst clearly influenced by her husband and the dotting style adopted by many Pintupi artists, she has developed her own form of expression which is characterised by a free flowing depiction of her stories and a rapid fire approach to dotting. Maisie is imaginative in her use of colours, showing a propensity to experiment in order to achieve the effects she is seeking, yet preserving the inherent cultural integrity of her works.

Maisie is enthusiastic about the preservation of her tribal traditions and worries that her children, at this stage are showing limited interest in her painting. She sees the recording of traditional sites and ceremonies on canvas as an important part of both sustaining and fostering the great traditions of her culture.

The Haasts Bluff and Kintore areas have produced many notable artists and Maisie is one of the most interesting of a new wave that is emerging.

Group exibitions:

• 2006 Towards Black and White, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
• 2009 Watiyawanu Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA
• 2014 Desert Song, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle WA

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