Florrie Watson Napangati

Tanyinki

2019

Tanyinki is a claypan and soakage. The lines in this painting depict the sandhills surrounding them. A group of ancestral women camped here and performed the ceremonies associated with this place. Afterward they traveled east and gathered a variety of bush foods along their journey, such as kampurarrpa (desert raisins) and pura (bush tomatoes).

Language Group: Pintupi
Date: Born 1950

Florrie Watson Napangati was born around Mt Doreen, north west of the Yuendumu community. Her father passed shortly after her birth. Florrie later moved to Yuendumu where she remained until her first husband passed away. She later married Jimmy Brown Tjampitjinpa and now resides in Kiwirrkura. Florrie began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 2007.

Biographical information courtesy of Papunya Tula Artists.

FLORRIE WATSON NAPANGATI, Tanyinki, 2019

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 24 × 21 5/8 in. (61 × 55 cm). Commissioned by Richard Klingler and Jane Slatter for Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past and Present Together.

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