Charlie Tjungarrayi Tarawa b. c.1925

Also known as Charlie Tjaruru Tjungurrayi
  • Artist (Painter)
Because of his extensive experience with Europeans, he became the spokesman for the younger Pintupi men in the early days of the Papunya painting movement. Later he befriended Papunya Tula Artists' manager (1980-1) the late Andrew Crocker, with whom he travelled to the UK and who organised his retrospective, the first of a Papunya artist.
Name
Charlie Tjungarrayi Tarawa
Also known as Charlie Tjaruru Tjungurrayi
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
c.1925
Birth place
Tjitururrnga west of the Kintore Ranges
Death date
1999
Residence
  • ( Papunya, NT)
  • ( Kintore, NT)
Indigenous Australian
 
Dreaming
  • Ice
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Pintupi
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
Copyright
  • Papunya Tula Artists