Eunice Napanangka Jack
Born 1940, lives and works in Haasts Bluff, Australia

Born in Western Australia, Eunice Napanangka Jack crossed at an early age the vast expanses that separated her family from the emerging communities further east. She grew up in Haasts Bluff, where she still lives today.

In the early 1970s, her father and husband were among the first artists of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement taking shape in Papunya. She was introduced to painting at a young age but truly began her career with the establishment of the Ikuntji Art Centre in 1992.

Recognized worldwide for the intensity of her painted works, Eunice has also created several prints, tracing the long lines of the desert dunes : Tali tali. A surveyor who once crossed the desert, she is also highly respected for her hunting skills and deep knowledge of traditional law.

Collections

Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Campbelltown, Australia

Flinders University, Adelaide

Museum And Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin

Selected Solo Exhibitons

Outstation Gallery, Darwin

Ochre Gallery, Melbourne

Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitons

Eunice participated in more than 200 exhibitions, including:

2024 Three Echoes – Western Desert Art, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Australia

2017, 2015-2013, 2010, 2008-2004, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1996 Desert Mob, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Australia

2016 ‘Artist’s Hand: Collector’s Eye’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2015 Colors of Nature, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2013 SOAF – Seoul Open Art Fair, South Korea.

2004 Strata: Deserts Past Present and Future, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Australia

1999 Spirit Country: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Gantner Myer Collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA

1999 Indigenous Art of the Dreamtime, United Nations, New-York

1998 Ikuntji Tjuta Touring Retrospective, Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney

1994 Minyma Tjukurrpa, Haasts Bluff/Kintore Canvas Project, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide

2016, 2007, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra

Eunice Napananka Jack

Kuruyultu

2020

etching, limited edition of 20

78 x 106 cm paper ; 49 x 98 cm image