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SOFT, ELEGANT AND LINEAR DESERT ART
Brother of Yala Yala Gibbs (1928 - 1998), one of the founding members of Papunya Tula and George Tjungurrayi, Willy was born at Patjantja, south west of Lake Mackay. He tends to paint with a restrained palette and his recent work is comprised of irregular lines of very fine, pale dotting on a neutral background, resulting in soft, elegant, linear compositions. Paintings by the artist are held in important institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and the Kelton Foundation, U.S.A.1 Hetti Perkins, the curator for Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, tells how Willy and his elder brother Yala Yala Gibbs, '[...]were among the most outstanding advocates of the characteristic early 1980s Pintupi style [...] This sacred geometry contains simultaneous references relating to ceremonial body paint designs, the cartography of country and particular narratives of the Tingari ancestors.2 1 McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 64. 2Perkins and Fink, Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius p 180-181.
PAINTINGS CURRENTLY IN STOCK (click on images for more details)
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WILLY TJUNGURRAYI
BORN: c. 1930
AREA: PAPUNYA
LANGUAGE: PINTUPI
