Hubert Pareroultja is a senior Western Arrernte-Luritja man who lives in his homeland, Kulpitharra / Luntharra outstation, west of Hermannsburg (Ntaria).
Winner of the prestigious 2020 Wynne prize for landscape painting at the Art Gallery of NSW, Pareroultja is one of the custodians of his uncle Albert Namatjira’s vision of the West MacDonnell Ranges. He lives on country, surrounded by the white gums and grass trees with the sounds of black cockatoos echoing through the air. When Pareroultja was a young boy he watched the original Hermannsburg School watercolour artist, Albert Namatjira, his father and his uncles as they painted. Hubert paints many of the same locations that the Namatjira and the Pareroultja brothers painted, in particular, Hermannsburg, Mt Sonder/Rutjipma and the James Range. Pareroultja's vision of the evocative landscape is accentuated with his unique ability to capture the subtleties of light as it bounces off the ancient iron stone. Colour and composition are monumentalised in his vast canvases.