Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates

Bates was born around 1933 in Yinunmaru,{{cite web | title=Artworks: Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates|website= National Museum of Australia | date=20 March 2018 | url=http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songlines/artworks | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419132327/http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songlines/artworks | archive-date=19 April 2018 | url-status=dead | access-date=9 August 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songlines|title=Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters: Artists| website= National Museum of Australia|access-date=2018-03-27}} in the Gibson Desert.{{cite web | title=Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates | website=Buzz Art | url=http://mpyre.weebly.com/tjapartji-kanytjuri-bates.html | access-date=9 August 2022}} Her name was sometimes spelt Taparti, and she was also known as Kanytjuri. Her skin group was Karimarra.{{cite web | title=Tradition and Transformation: Indigenous Art in the NGV Collection | website=National Gallery of Victoria | url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvschools/TraditionAndTransformation/artists/Taparti-Bates/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617202306/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvschools/TraditionAndTransformation/artists/Taparti-Bates/ | archive-date=17 June 2016 | url-status=dead }}

In the early 1990s, she joined the Warburton Arts Project, which owns the "largest collection of Indigenous art in Australia that is held by Aboriginal people themselves",{{Cite web|url=http://www.warburtonarts.com/english/index.html|title=Home {{!}} Warburton Arts Project|website=www.warburtonarts.com|access-date=2018-03-27}} where she produced her first known work, Kungkarrangkalpa at Wanarn, in 1991.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=367zjU4KYsIC&q=tjapartji+kanytjuri+bates&pg=PA48|title=Wanarn Painters of Place and Time: Old Age Travels in the Tjukurrpa|last1=Brooks|first1=David|last2=Jorgensen|first2=Darren|date=2015|publisher=Government Printing Office |isbn=9781742585536 |location=|pages=48|language=en}}

In the late 1990s, Bates returned to Wanarn and continued to paint. Near the end of her life, she became a resident at the Wanarn Aged Care Facility, which offers a weekly painting program in conjunction with the Warakurna Arts Centre.[http://warakurnaartists.com.au/warakurna-projects/ weekly painting program] Her style at this time became looser and more abstract. In addition to work produced through this program, Bates also painted on the materials around her at the facility, including pieces of cardboard and pillowcases.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4651/songlines-tracking-the-seven-sisters/|title=Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters|work=Artlink Magazine|access-date=2018-03-27|language=en}}

Bates' art is focused on Tjukurrpa from her mother and father, particularly Kungarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) and Warmarrla Tjukurrpa,{{Cite web|url=http://shortstgallery.com.au/artists/779590/tjapartji-kanytjuri--bates|title=Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates|website=Short Street Gallery|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27|archive-date=11 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174621/http://shortstgallery.com.au/artists/779590/tjapartji-kanytjuri--bates|url-status=dead}} and features distinctive styles of "unusual symmetries and circular motifs," as well as "traditional motifs and iconographic forms".{{Cite journal | last=Kneebone| first=Sue| date=2017-05-16| title= An Ageless Vision: Ngaanyatjarra Late-Life Art and Country|url=http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/5501|journal=Cultural Studies Review|language=en|volume=23|issue=1|pages=171–4|doi=10.5130/csr.v23i1.5501|issn=1837-8692|doi-access=free}}

In 1998, Bates was awarded the Normandy Heritage Art Prize at the National Indigenous Heritage Art Awards, organised by the Australian Heritage Commission. Her winning work was a large slump glass panel.{{cite web | title=Taparti Bates | website=U.S. Department of State – Art in Embassies | date=9 August 2022 | url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/taparti_bates/ | access-date=9 August 2022}}

Bates' works were displayed posthumously as part of Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, a collaborative exhibition between senior custodians of Aboriginal lands in the Central and Western deserts and the National Museum of Australia, among other partners. Bates' work in the exhibition (which ran from September 2017 to February 2018 at the NMA){{Cite web|url=http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songlines/about|title=About|website= National Museum of Australia |language=en-us|access-date=2018-03-27}} illustrates and interprets Seven Sisters songlines. The exhibition continues to tour internationally, until 2024/5 and has been shown in Plymouth, UK; Berlin, Germany; and is still to be shown in Paris, France.{{when|date=August 2022}}{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

The following is a list of other exhibitions of Bates' works.{{better source needed|date=August 2022}}

Bates' work is also a part of the National Gallery of Victoria Collection,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ngvschools/TraditionAndTransformation/artists/Taparti-Bates/|title=Tradition and Transformation: Indigenous Art in the NGV Collection|website=National Gallery of Victoria|access-date=2018-03-27}} the Marshall Collection, the Merenda Collection, the Lagerberg-Swift Collection, the National Gallery of Australia Collection,{{Cite web|url=http://link.aiatsis.gov.au/portal/Tjapartji-Bates-Susan-McCulloch/CzotwecRtH0/|title=Tjapartji Bates |website= Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies|language=en|access-date=2018-03-27}} the Harriet and Richard England Collection, the Lepley Collection and the W. & V. McGeoch Collection.

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Category:Australian Aboriginal artists

Category:2015 deaths

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