Athena Nangala Granites
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About the Artist
“I learnt to paint by watching my mother, my sisters and my grandmother paint.”
Athena Nangala Granites was born in 1994 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290km from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She has lived most of her life in Yuendumu, attending the local school and graduating from Senior Girls Upper School in 2009.
Since leaving school she has gained work experience working in the office at Mt Theo, a program that provides comprehensive training in youth development and leadership. She has also married Sebastian Jupurrurla Wilson and they have one son, “little Henry Peterson Wilson”. Athena enjoys being Mum to little Henry.
Although young, Athena comes from a long line of artists. She is the daughter of Geraldine Napangardi Granites and the grand-daughter of Alma Nungarrayi Granites, well-known artists who paint with Warlukurlangu Artists. She is also the great grand-daughter of Paddy Japaljarri Sims (Deceased) one of the founding artists of Warlukurlangu Artists. Athena has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2010. She paints Jukurrpa from her father’s side (Ngapa Jukurrpa – Water Dreaming) and her mother’s side (Ngalyipi Jukurrpa – Snake Vine Dreaming and Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa – Seven Sisters Dreaming), stories which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Athena uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.
When Athena is not painting and when the rain comes and it is cooler she likes to go hunting with her family for Honey Ants, Bush Banana, Goanna and Kangaroo.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
• 2021 Across the Night | Stories of the Stars, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
• 2019 Athena's Seven Sisters - A celestial display of the Seven Sisters Dreaming by Athena Nangala Granites, Art Mob, Hobart
Selected Group Exhibitions
• 2024 Pijirrdi Warlalja: Strong Families | a Warlukurlangu Artists Group Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
• 2024 Top 20 2024, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2023 Vividly Bold, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
• 2023 Celebrating Country | Women Artists of Art Mob, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2023 Warlpiri Artists from Yuendumu, Japingka Gallery, Freemantle
• 2023 Top 20 of 2022, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2022 Connection, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
• 2022 Tanami Today, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2022 Top 20 2022, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2022 Out Bush: Warlu 2022, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
• 2021 Across the Top 2021, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2021 The Seven Sisters and the Night Sky, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2021 Top 20 2021, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2020 Murdie Leads the Pack, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2020 Top 20 Exhibition, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2020 Warlukurlangu Artists: New Works from Community, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
• 2019 Seven Sisters, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
• 2019 The Children of the Warlpiri, Art Mob, Hobart
• 2019 Infinite - An Exploration of Deep Time and Space, Hearth Galleries, Healesville
• 2019 Women in Colour, Cooee Gallery, Sydney
• 2019 International Women's Day, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney
• 2019 Fire Country - Warlukurlangu Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
• 2018 My Country, Salt, Queenscliff, VIC
• 2018 Land and Sky - Warlpiri Artists, Japingka Gallery, Fremantle, WA
• 2018 Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
• 2015 Yuendumu Jukurrpa, Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Woolloongabba
Awards and Recognition
• 2022 Connection | Songlines from Australia's First Peoples in a spectacular immersive experience, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
• 2019 Artist Workshop, Paspalis Centerpoint, Darwin
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10 Papuana St, Kununurra,
Western Australia, 6743 Australia
