Kaapa Tjampitjinpa

E350103

Australian Aboriginal artist Western Desert artist person

Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was a pioneering Western Desert Aboriginal artist whose work helped establish the contemporary Papunya painting movement in Australia.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Kaapa Tjampitjinpa canonical	4

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Australian Aboriginal artist ⓘ Western Desert artist ⓘ person ⓘ
activeIn	20th century ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa ⓘ
artForm	Western Desert art ⓘ surface form: Western Desert dot painting acrylic painting on board ⓘ painting ⓘ
associatedWith	Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula Artists cooperative
contributedTo	emergence of the Western Desert art movement ⓘ recognition of Aboriginal painting in the Australian art world ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
culturalAffiliation	Papunya ⓘ surface form: Papunya community
culturalRole	custodian of Dreaming designs ⓘ
culturalSignificance	early leader in translating ceremonial ground and body designs to permanent painting surfaces ⓘ
ethnicity	Aboriginal Australian ⓘ
field	Indigenous Australian art ⓘ
genre	Aboriginal desert painting ⓘ
heritage	Western Desert (Australia) ⓘ surface form: Western Desert Aboriginal
historicalSignificance	one of the first Papunya artists to gain wider recognition ⓘ
influenced	contemporary Aboriginal art in Australia ⓘ later Western Desert artists ⓘ
languageGroup	Anmatyerr ⓘ
legacy	helped establish Papunya as a major centre of Aboriginal art ⓘ inspired subsequent generations of Papunya Tula artists ⓘ
movement	Papunya Tula paintings ⓘ surface form: Papunya Tula art movement Western Desert art ⓘ surface form: Western Desert art movement
name	Kaapa Tjampitjinpa self-link ⓘ
nationality	Australian ⓘ
notableFor	helping establish the contemporary Papunya painting movement ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Papunya ⓘ surface form: Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia
region	Central Australia ⓘ
role	founding Papunya Tula artist ⓘ pioneer of Papunya painting ⓘ
style	geometric patterning ⓘ symbolic iconography ⓘ use of dots and lines ⓘ
subjectMatter	Dreaming stories ⓘ ancestral narratives ⓘ ceremonial designs ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Papunya Tula paintings → notableArtist → Kaapa Tjampitjinpa ⓘ

Western Desert art → notableArtist → Kaapa Tjampitjinpa ⓘ

Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd → hasNotableArtist → Kaapa Tjampitjinpa ⓘ

Kaapa Tjampitjinpa → name → Kaapa Tjampitjinpa self-link ⓘ