View artworks by Angelina Kngale (Ngale).
Born in the arid desert area of Utopia Station in 1947, Angelina Ngale has become an Australian renowned aboriginal artist, with her work held in collections throughout the world. Initially Angelina began in the medium of batik when this begun in the late 1970’s at Utopia. When acrylics swept the Utopia region about a decade later, Angelina made the transition and has continued using this medium like other Utopia artists.
Angelina is famous for her fine dot representations of the Anwekety (conkerberry, also known as conkleberry and bush plum). Angelina quickly became a household name amongst Australian Indigenous galleries. Like most other women, Angelina can paint the women’s ceremonial body paint designs (Awelye) which she does so with bold and colourful feel, though she paints much less of this. Angelina also enjoys painting another subject, the story of Atham-areny. Atham-areny are small creatures that live where there is no fire. These are quirky, joyous artworks. Her Atham-areny paintings depict the women prepared to sing and dance with witch doctors to draw sickness out of those touched by the atham-areny creatures.
COLLECTIONS – selected
Mansion Hotel, Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney
The Holmes à Court Collection, Perth
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Laverty Collection
Allen, Allen and Helmsly Collection, Sydney
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Artbank, Sydney
Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne
Holt Collection
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth
Latrobe University Collection, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS – selected
2011 E(merge): two spiritualities, Space Station Art Space, Beijing and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and touring Korea International Art Fair, COEX Korea Exhibition Centre, Seoul, Korea
2009 Utopia – Bush Plum and other Delicacies, Honey Ant Gallery, Noosa, QLD
2008 Utopia Revisited, WG Gallery, Sydney
2005 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2001 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS- selected
2017 Sacred Marks, JGM Gallery, London, U.K.
2017 The Golden Age of Utopia, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, Nevada Museum of Art. Tour included Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; and the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada
2009 Utopia Artists, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2009 Utopia Group Exhibition, DACOU, Melbourne
2008 Power of Place, Paintings and Sculpture from the Eastern Desert, Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
2008 Emily Kngwarreye and her legacy, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Eastern Desert Dreaming – Artists from Utopia, GalleryG, Brisbane
2007 Delmore Gallery – a new Selection of Utopia Art, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2004 Explained, A closer look at Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002 Indecorous Abstraction: Contemporary Women Painters, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
1999 Blue Chip 2: The Collectors Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
1997 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
1994 Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
1994 The Oval Board Collection, Hawaii
1994 This Land, Utopia Art, Sydney
1993 Utopia Women, MCA, Sydney
1993 Utopia Sculpture, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1993 Camp Scenes, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney
1992 Aboriginal Painting, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1992 Bubbles, Baubles & Beads, Utopia Art, Sydney
1992 Little Friends, Utopia Art, Sydney
1991 Long Hot Summer, Utopia Art, Sydney Utopia, Utopia Art, Sydney Men and Dogs, Utopia Art, Sydney
1990 The Last Show, Utopia Art, Sydney Art from Utopia, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
1989 Utopia Women’s Paintings, the first works on canvas, Sydney
EXHIBITION OF BATIK SILKS
1988 Time Before Time, Austral Gallery, St Louis, USA
1988 Painting and Batik from the Desert, Utopia Art, Sydney, NSW
1988 Utopia Batik, Craft Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1988 Utopia Batik, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, QLD
1987 Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, WA
1987 Darwin Museum Gallery, Darwin, NT
1987 Yirrkala Community Centre, Northern Territory
1987 Jogyakarta Fine Art Academy, Indonesia
1987 Sydney Expo, Craft Council Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1987 The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1986 Craft Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1986 Bundaberg Art Gallery, Queensland
1986 The Araluen Centre, Springs Craft Festival, Alice Springs, NT
1985 Black Women in Focus, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, SA
1985 Burnie Gallery, Tasmania
1985 Tasmanian Craft Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1984 Craft Council Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1984 Queensland University Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1984 Fireworks Gallery, Adelaide, SA
1984 Sydney Craft Expo, Sydney, NSW
1984 Darwin Craft Council Gallery, Darwin, NT
1984 The Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
1983 Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
1983 Alice Springs Craft Council, Alice Springs, NT
1982 Sydney Craft Expo, Sydney, NSW
1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD
1981 Floating Forests of Silks – Utopia Batik from the Desert, Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
1980 Artworks, Alice Springs, NT
AWARDS
1997 Finalist in 14th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
2008 Finalist in the Wynne Prize for Landscape painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney