Christine Yukenbarri

Born: 24 February 1977
Location: Balgo
Skin: Nakamarra
Language: Kukatja

Selected details of artist’s working life

Mediums

Professional acrylic on canvas and linen

Themes

Witjinti (soakwater)
Mungari (bush food)

Biography

Christine is the youngest daughter of leading Balgo artist Helicopter Tjungurrayi and the late Lucy Yukenbarri. She has been painting since late 2000 and has produced innovative and distinctive works, both in paint and glass.  She learned to paint by watching her mother and she paints her mother’s country in the Great Sandy Desert.

Group exhibitions

2007    Nominee, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards ( Telstra), Art Gallery and Museum of Northern Territory
2007    Nominee, Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2006    Helicopter Tjungurrayi, Imelda (Guguman)Yukenbarri, Christine Yukenbarri, Carmel Yukenbarri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2006    Singing and Dancing up the Country, Raft Gallery, Darwin
2006   Shorts Street Gallery , Broome
2006   34th Alice Prize 2006,, Araluen, Alice Springs
2006    Balgo Survey, Short Street Gallery, Broome
2005    Kinti Kinti, Framed Gallery, Darwin
2005    Helicopter Tjungurrayi, Christine Yukenbarri, Carmel Yukenbarri, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2005    Glass from the Sand Country, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2004    Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for Arts, Alice Springs
2004    Balgo 4-04, Warlayirti Artists, Balgo
2004    The Next Generation: Balgo & Warmun, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
2003    Desert Mob, Araluen Centre for Arts, Alice Springs
2002    Desert Mob, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs
2002    Art from Balgo, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2001    Desert Mob, Arulen Centre, Alice Springs

Collections

Laverty Collection
Levi-Kaplan Collection, Seattle