Born in 1977, the daughter of leading Balgo artists Helicopter Tjungurrayi and Lucy Yukenbarri, Christine Yukenbarri has become one of Australia’s leading young artists. Christine learned to paint by watching and assisting her mother, and thus works in the kinti-kinti style of dotting that was pioneered by her mother. Christine’s paintings depict her mother’s country, Winpurpurla, and its ‘living water’ that she depicts as the central circle in her paintings.
Christine belongs to the Kukutja language group of Country Balgo.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Ashworth Collection, Australia
The Laverty Collection, Sydney
Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle
Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Awards
2007 Finalist, 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
2007 Finalist, Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award
2005 Finalist, 22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award