Tim Tjapaltjarri Leura b. c.1930

Also known as Timmy Leurah Tjapaltjarri, Tjapaltjarri, Djabaldjari, Tim Leura
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Carver)
Anmatyerre artist who was renowned for his wood carving skill before beginning to paint in Papunya at the beginning of the 1970s. As a close friend of Geoffrey Bardon, he was a key figure in the beginnings of the painting movement at Papunya and one of Papunya Tula's leading artists over the company's first decade.

Citations

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .

    http://www.iadpress.com

  • Bardon, Geoffrey (1979), 'Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert’, Rigby, Adelaide, SA.

  • Bardon, Geoffrey (1991), 'Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert’, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, VIC.

  • Sutton, Peter (ed) (1988), 'Dreamings: Art of Aboriginal Australia’, Viking in association with the Asia Society Galleries, New York.

  • (1976), 'Desert Dreamers’, BBC (British Broadcasting Authority).

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.

    http://www.iadpress.com

  • Bardon, Geoffrey and Bardon, James (2004), 'Papunya: A Place Made After the Story; The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement’, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, VIC ISBN-10 : 0-522-85110-X / ISBN-13: 978-0522851106.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary