Walangkura was born in c. 1946 at Tjiturulnga, west of Kintore.
She is the daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and Tutuma Tjapangati and sister of Pirrmangka Napanangka.
Her family moved to Haasts Bluff in 1956, along with a group of Pintupi people.
The family returned to Kintore in 1981.
Walangkura’s career commenced when she participated in the Kintore-Haasts Bluff canvas project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’, in 1995.
She began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists in 1996.
Walangkura now lives at Kiwirrkura with her husband.
Exhibitions
Individual Exhibitions:
2004 - Walangkura Napanangka, Utopia Art Sydney.
Group Exhibitions:
2005 - Papunya Tula Artists, Melbourne, Victoria; Luminus: selected works from the Helen Read Collection, touring; Papunya Tula Artists - new work for a new space, Utopia Art Sydney.
2004 - Pintupi Art 2004, Adelaide, South Australia; Papunya Tula Artists - 2004, All About Papunya, Australian Capital Territory; The Inner And The Outer, Stadtgalerie Bamberg, Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; 21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin, Northern Territory; EXPLAINED, A closer look at Aboriginal art, Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Ma Yungu/Pass It On, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Melbourne Art Fair 2004, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Mythology & Reality, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003 - Pintupi Art 2003, Adelaide, South Australia; Recent Paintings By The Women Artists Of Kintore And Kiwirrkura, Melbourne; Aboriginal Art 2003; Pintupi Art From The Western Desert, Masterpieces From The Western Desert, Gavin Graham Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Papunya Tula Artists - A Gift From The Desert, New South Wales; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
2002 - Paintings From Our Country, Aboriginal Art 2002, Art Born Of The Western Desert, Framed Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory; Capital Territory; Pintupi Artists, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
2001 - Size Doesn’t Matter - Papunya Tula Painting 1997-2001, ; ACT; Indigenart, Perth; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Pintupi Exhibition, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Kintore and Kiwirrkura, Museum, Sydney; 31st Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia.
2000 - Aboriginal Art, Aboriginal Art Galerie Bahr, Speyer, Germany; Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Pintupi Women, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
1999 - Flinders University Art Museum, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia; 16th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Melbourne; Melbourne. 1998 - The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; 15th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Art Of The Aborigines, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne.
1997 - 14th National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1997, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; The Desert Mob Art Show, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory;
1996 - Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin; A/S Art Foundation, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
Collections
Aboriginal Art Museum,The Netherlands.
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Artbank.
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory.
The Kelton Foundation, USA.
