Born at Yumari in the late 1920s, Pinta Pinta and his family were amongst the Pintupi who walked in to Haasts Bluff in the ’50s to receive rations of flour and tea. He started painting in the early ’70s, by his own account joining the group of artists at Papunya when Peter Fannin, who took over from Geoffrey Bardon in 1972, was running Papunya Tula Artists. He moved to Kintore in 1981 at the start of the re-settlement of Pintupi lands and continued painting for the company, at times sporadically. He appeared as the black tracker in the film Evil Angels . Pinta Pinta painted Tingari stories, stories associated with Yumari and his father’s Dreamings around the western site of Winparku.
- Writers:
- Johnson, Vivien
Note: primary biographer
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
