Harry Tjutjuna

Harry Tjutjuna Community: Pukatja
Art Centre: Ernabella Arts (Pukatja, S.A)
Area: APY Lands, South Australia
Born:
Biography:

Harry often paints many women (Kungka Tjuta). His reason for thinking about women is purely platonic, he wants to find a companion to help take care of him, be a friend and provide company. Harry is an elderly man.

Harry started painting at the end of 2005. He is in his 'late' seventies however it is difficult to verify the year of his birth.

Harry is a senior law man and ngankari, a traditional healer.

Harry's painting subjects are kangaroo men and (marsupial) mouse women, two of the significant totemic Creation beings of his country, and men thinking about (chasing) women and women thinking about (and running way from) men. He often paints the "Kungkarangkalpa' (seven sisters story) from a very male perspective.

Selected exhibitions:

2008 Darlings of the Desert - Noosa, Queensland

2007 Ernabella - A collection of New works Australia Dreaming Art Melbourne, Vic

2007 Desert Master Class Museium of South Australia

2007 Desert Mob Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT

2007 Museium of Modern Art, Comune di Spoleto, Spoleto Italy

2007 Best of the Best Framed Gallery, Darwin NT

2007 Nganampa Ngura Australia and Pacific Art, Sydney

2007 Visions of Country, Seymour College, Adelaide SA

2007 APY Grandeur Art Mob, Hobart, Tas

2007 Ernabella - Recent paintings & ceramics, Sydney

2007 Harry Tjutjuna - Recent Works (Solo exhibition,Darwin NT)