Linda Syddick NAPALTJARRI

Linda Syddick Napaltjarri was born in 1937 at « Erranwaltta » the middle lake close to Wilkinarra (Lake mackay) in the Gibson Desert, WA.

Linda’s father Rintje Tjungarrayi was Pitjantjatjara & and her mother Wanada Nangala Pintupi. Rintje was killed in an inter-tribal spearing when Linda was an infant. She was then raised by her step father Shorty Langkata Tjungarrayi who was one of the original groups of Pintupi men to start painting in the early 1970’s.

Linda’s family walked out of the desert in the mid 1940’s to Haasts Bluff where she was educated by the Lutheran Missionaries. Linda has been married several times; her first husband was Tommy Wilpinta. After his death her second husband was Musty Syddick. His father was a cameleer from North India who transported goods over the desert in the early 20 th century. She still uses his family name, although she was since remarried.

Painting:

Linda was taught to paint by shorty Lungkata, before his death in 1987. He encouraged Linda to continue painting. She received further guidance from Nosepeg Tjupurrula & Uta Uta Tjangala. Linda has since developed her own distinctive style by combining her tribal knowledge with her Christian beliefs.

After seeing the E.T in the early 1990’s (which she watched more than twenty times) Linda began a series of paintings that embraced her strong Christian beliefs & combined her extensive knowledge of mythological dreaming. She interpreted E.T as an ancestral spirit world.

Linda also paints Tingari dreamings, her father’s Emu story and mother’s Snake story which depicts both mythological stories & actual events of traditional life in the desert.

Represented:

National Gallery of Australia Art Gallery of South Australia Museum & Art gallery of Northern Territory Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs Art Gallery of New South Wales Bernt Museum of Anthropology Finalist in the Blake Prize, National Award for Religious Art. Ceiling design, Star City Casino, Sydney.

www.clement-gallery.com Page 1 Collective exhibitions:

1990 Exposition collective, Our Dreaming, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs; Exposition collective, Blake Prize for Religious Art Exposition collective, The Seventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, The Eighth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, Llwellyn Gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1992 Exposition collective, Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs. Exposition collective, The Ninth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin

1993 Exposition collective, The Tenth National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Exposition collective, Australian National University, Canberra Exposition collective, Perpetual Motion, Australie Exposition collective, Stuttgart, Allemagne

1994 Exposition collective, People/Places, 24 Hour Art, Darwin NT Exposition collective, Australian Heritage Commission National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra Exposition collective, Contemporary Territory Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, Heritage Commission, Canberra Exposition collective, Aboriginal and South Pacific Art Gallery, Sydney

1995 Exposition collective, The Twelth National Aboriginal Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Exposition collective, Aboriginal Kunst, Pays-Bas

1996 Exposition collective, Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Exposition collective, Exploring Two Worlds, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney Exposition collective, Dreamings of the Desert, South Australian Art Gallery, Adelaide

1997 Exposition collective, L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Galerie de Stassart, Bruxelles Exposition collective, L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers

1998 Exposition collective, L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie, Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob / Espace Toyota, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris Exposition collective, Le Temps du Rêve, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Bibliothèque municipale, Le Perreux-sur-Marne Exposition collective, Festival BD Boum, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Bibliothèque Municipale, Blois www.clement-gallery.com Page 2 1999 Exposition collective, Australie – Art, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / J.L. Amsler - Bastille, Paris

2000 Exposition collective, Arts d’Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Air France, Paris Exposition collective, Accents Australiens, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Espace Adamski Designs, Paris Exposition collective, Arts d’Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Galeries Lafayette, Paris

2001 Exposition collective, Arts d’Australie, Arts d'Australie o Stéphane Jacob / Equation-Transparence, Paris

2009 Finalist at prestigious 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

Exhibitions:

2002 Salon ART PARIS, Carrousel du Louvre, Galerie Arts d'Australie Stéphane Jacob.Collections

2003 Art Aborigène contemporains, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob / Cankarjev Dom,Ljubljana, Slovénie Salon Art Paris, Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob / Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

2004 Aborigènes, les couleurs du Rêve, Museum d’histoire naturelle, Lyon Holy Holy Holy, Flinders University, Adelaide Art event, Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob, Lille

Selection:

Musé National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, France National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Australia Diocese of Paramatta, Sydney, Australia St Vincent Private Hospital, Melbourne, Australia St Andrews Catholic Church, Marayong (NSW), Australia St Patrick’s Parish Centre, Blacktown (NSW), Australia Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Australia Occidental Dominican Monastery of New Norcia, Australia Occidental St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Hadleigh, Grande-Bretagne Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Allemagne The Richard Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France Participate to the “20th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award”, Darwin

www.clement-gallery.com Page 3 Price (Selection):

1995 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellowship 1996 Northern Territory Art Award

Commandes (Sélection):

Casino de Sydney, Australie

Wins the General Painting Award of the “23th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award”, Darwin

Bibliography (Selection):

Nganampa jukurrpa : Our Dreaming, (Araluen Arts, Centre, Alice Springs,1990) Geoffrey Bardon, Papunya Tula, Art of the western desert (McPhee & Gribble, Melbourne, 1991) Michael Boulter, The Art of Utopia (Craftsman House, 1993) Wally Caruana, L’Art des Aborigènes d’Australie (Thames & Hudson, 1994 - traduction française de Luc Bessière) Françoise Dussart, La peinture des Aborigènes d’Australie (Éditions Parenthèses, 1993) Karel Kupka et André Breton, Peintures et sculptures des Aborigènes d’Australie (La Guilde du Livre, Lausanne, 1962) Yves Le Fur, “Peintures aborigènes acryliques du désert central australien”, Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, Avril 1998 Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) Judith Ryan, Mythscapes, Aboriginal Art of the Desert (National Gallery of Victoria 1989) Vivien Johnson, Aboriginal Artists of the western desert (Craftsman House, Sydney, 1994)