Catalogue no: 09MJ009
Artist: Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri
Title: Lake MacDonald
Size: 136 x 71 cm
Stretched and ready to hang. Original outstanding painting, comes with COA.

Story:
This work describes Kaakurutinytja (Lake MacDonald) in Western Australia and the surrounding desert landscape. Molly paints the Tali Tali (Sand Hills) and the salt lake Kaarkuruntinytja.

Bio:
Maluya Jugadai (Molly) is the eldest daughter of Narputta Nangala. Maluya was instrumental in the establishement of Ikuntji Art Centre in 1992 and has been a staunch supporter and practising artist at the studio ever since. Maluya was born under a Ngalta tree about three kilometres west of the existing Haasts Bluff community in 1954, shortly after the establishment of the mission community of the period. A Napaltjarri skin woman, Maluya in her first decade of artistry initially painted the story of the “Napaltjarri Children (or Sisters)” who came in space ships to earth thousands of years ago. They represent the first people on earth. The children travel the country every night seeking dew and mungari amid the vegetation of the desert. Due to illness her mother, Narputta, has granted Molly permission to paint the story of the massive saltlake, Kaarkurutintya (Lake MacDonald), which is the sacred country of Narputta. Surrounded by tali, or sand hills, the lake is mostly depicted during the dry season, but is sometimes painted as it appears after heavy rains. Molly is no longer painting, she resides in a Aged care home at Alice Springs. Molly has passed away in early May 2011

Past Exhibitions:

Kaléidoscope millénaire avec les artistes dIkuntji, Aboriginal Signature - Estrangin Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
2015-11-19

Tarnanthi Festival Art Fair, Tandanya Institute. Adelaide
2015-10-09

9th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin, NT
2015-08-07

Art Parade 2015
2015-03-06

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
2014-08-07

Estate Works from an Ikuntji artist, Tali Gallery, Sydney
2013-04-28

Artkelch, Germany
2010-01-01

Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, "IKUNTJI ARTISTS"
2009-01-01

Beckworth Gallery, Ballarat, VIC, "Ikuntji Artists"
2009-01-01

Palya Art @ Mary Place, Sydney, "Mixed Show"
2009-01-01

Artequity, Sydney, "Land and Mythology - Art of the Western Desert"
2009-01-01

ArtMob, Hobart, "Ikuntji Icons"
2009-01-01

Kate Owen Gallery @ Chifley Tower, Sydney, "Visions of the Desert"
2009-01-01

QDos Arts, Lorne (Victoria), "Ikuntji Artists"
2009-01-01

Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney, "Winter Warmers"
2009-01-01

Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, "Desertmob 2009"
2009-01-01

Desert Sands Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Mayfair London, U.K., ‘Ikuntji’
2009-01-01

Palya Art @ Cabinet Malemont, Paris, France
2009-01-01

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Ikuntji meets Brisbane
2009-01-01

Palya Art @ Gallows Gallery, Perth, WA
2009-01-01

Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs NT, "Desertmob"
2008-01-01

Artitja Fine Art, Perth W.A., "Desert Stories: 2008"
2008-01-01

Footsteps Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, "Ikuntji Painters"
2008-01-01

Jennifer Guerrini-Maraldi Contemporary Fine Art, London England, "Ikuntji Artists"
2008-01-01

Victoria Carroll and Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi, Battersea London, U.K., ‘Ikuntji’
2008-01-01

ARTKELCH, Freiburg i.Br., Germany, "Gruppenausstellung"
2008-01-01

Kingsfisher Gallery, Perth, Western Australia, "Ikuntji Women Painters"
2008-01-01

Hogarth Galleries, Sydney NSW, "Yungkiya & Kulunypa - Old & New"
2008-01-01

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane QLD, "Ikuntji Now"
2008-01-01

Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs & Sydney, "Divas of the Desert"
2008-01-01

Palya Art @ Mary Place, Sydney, "Group Show"
2008-01-01

Gondwana Gallery, Sydney, My Mothers Story
2008-01-01

QDos Gallery, Lorne (Victoria), "Ikuntji Show"
2008-01-01

Booker Lowe Gallery, Texas, USA, "Group Show"
2007-01-01

Palya Art, Darwin/Sydney, "Palya @ Mary Place"
2007-01-01

Gallery Gondwana, "Naïve Show"
2007-01-01

Ochre Gallery, Melbourne, "Ikuntji Senior Women"
2007-01-01

Bandigan Gallery, Sydney, "Yaiti Yamimi"
2007-01-01

Indigenart, Perth, "Ngankirritja"
2007-01-01

Palya Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007-01-01

Short St Gallery, Broome, "Group Show"
2007-01-01

Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, "Desert Mob"
2007-01-01

Australia Dreaming Art, Melbourne, "Group Show"
2007-01-01

Gondwana Gallery, Alice Springs, "Divas of the Desert"
2007-01-01

Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, "Where The Wild Flowers Grow"
2007-01-01

Red Dot Gallery, Singapore, "Anangu"
2006-01-01

Araluen Gallery, Alice Springs, "DesertMob"
2006-01-01

"Big Country", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005-01-01

Strata, Araluen Alice Springs
2005-01-01

Indigenart, Perth
2005-01-01

"Desert Divas", Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2005-01-01

"Concord", Framed Gallery, Darwin
2005-01-01

Fireworks, Brisbane
2004-01-01

Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, My Grandmothers Dreaming
2004-01-01

Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2004-01-01

Desert Mob, Araluen, Alice Springs
2004-01-01

Indigenart, Perth
2004-01-01

Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
2004-01-01

COA is provided with the painting. Stretched and ready to hang.