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Building Papunya Tjupi | The College of Fine Arts
Building Papunya Tjupi | The College of Fine Arts
Ena Lane Napangarti, Lupul (Ena’s father’s country), acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91.5cm. Courtesy the artist and Papunya Tjupi Arts.
In May 2009 the Ivan Dougherty Gallery held an exhibition titled Building Papunya Tjupi. Curated by the Papunya Tjupi art
centre’s directors, Kasumi Ejiri and Simon Taylor, Building Papunya Tjupi showcased the talent of the artists
who’ve been working at the centre over the last 18 months.
Etchings and relief prints from workshops conducted at Papunya and at the College of Fine
Arts’ Cicada Press revealed the progress the artists have made in this new medium. Descendants of
the original founders of Papunya painting presented large family canvases and individual works
highlighted how the artists have developed with access to a professional environment.
A slide show about the exhibition with a voice over by Vivien Johnson is accessible from:
http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/uniken/multimedia/papunya/slideshow.html