Eddie Tjapangati Ediminja b. c.1920

Also known as Eddie Edimintja, Eddie Edaminja, Eddie Edeminja, Eddie Etaminja
  • Artist (Painter)
Pitjantjatjara artist who worked as a stockman for many years before beginning to paint in the mid 1970s with Papunya Tula Artists. Well connected with other prominent desert artists. His work shows the influence of Limpi Tjapangati and others painting for Papunya Tula Artists at Haasts Bluff.

Born west of Watakarra (Kings Canyon), Eddie’s language was Pitjantjatjara and his country Walu, east of Tjuninyanta. Towards the end of his life Eddie lived at Docker River. In his youth Eddie worked as a stockman on various stations including Middleton Downs, Orange Creek and Haasts Bluff. Eddie started painting in the mid ’70s. He was an associate of Limpi Tjapangati , with whom he lived at Haasts Bluff during the mid ’80s. For a time in the late ’80s he lived at Tjukula, between Docker River and Kintore. Eddie painted the Two Women Dreaming and the Three Men Lying Behind Windbreaks. Because of failing eyesight, his two sons Rex and Donald Eddie began helping him with his painting. His work has been exhibited and bought in Adelaide and Alice Springs.

Writers:
Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011