Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery – Warlimpirrnga TJAPALTJARRI, Walala TJAPALTJARRI
(In House Catalogue)
In 1984 an extraordinary event occurred.A lost tribe, of about a dozen Pintupi aboriginals was discovered, living in the remote wildness of the Gibson Desert on the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. They were atill carrying on their traditional nomadic way of life, a way of life sanctioned by millennia.
While all the other Pintupi aboriginals in the area had been rounded up in 1962 and settled on Government stations further east, far from their ancient lands, this small tribe, (in reality no more than a family group) had sontrived to escape the net.
The quality of their work ws recognised at once. Both Warlimpirrnga and Walala have had important solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, and each is represented in national collections in Australia and Europe.
This is the first London Exhibition of their work, and i am very pround to present it.
Rebecca Hossack, London 1999
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