Uta Uta Tjangala b. c.1925

Also known as Uta Uta Jangala, Uta Uta Tjungala, Wuta Wuta Tjangala, Uata Uata Tjangala No 2
Uta Uta was a gardener at the Papunya School, whose friendship with Geoffrey Bardon sparked off the involvement of a dozen other Pintupi men at the very beginning of the painting enterprise at Papunya. Uta Uta later emerged as the grand old man of Pintupi painting at Kintore.
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Citations

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .

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Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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Related stub people
  • Bardon, Geoffrey (associate of)
  • Gibson, Yala Yala (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Papunya Tula Artists (associate of)
Related people
  • Tjampitjinpa, Anatjari (associate of)
  • Campbell, Dini Tjampitjinpa (associate of)
  • Tjakamarra, John (associate of)
  • Tjapangati, Kanya (associate of)
  • Tjapangati, Charlie (associate of)
  • Jackson, Shorty Tjampitjinpa (parent of)
Related works
  • Yumari (creator of)
Related collections
  • SA Museum, SA (collected in)
  • Museums & Art Galleries of NT, Darwin, NT (collected in)
  • Museum of Sydney, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Parliament House, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Holmes a Court Private Collection, WA (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • National Aboriginal Art Award (received)
Related events
  • Dreamings (exhibited at)
  • XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo (exhibited at)