Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri b. c.1932

Also known as Clifford Possum
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Carver)
Leading Papunya Tula artist. One of last men to join Geoffrey Bardon's group of 'painting men' at the beginning of the 1970s and the first to be recognised as an artist in his own right. His illustrious career has been the subject of several books and a major retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of South Australia, which toured nationally in 2003/5
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  • The Past and Present of the Australian Aborigine (exhibited at)
  • Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (exhibited at)
  • Songlines IV: Clifford Possum and the Papunya Tula Artists (exhibited at)
  • Time before time: Aboriginal art of Australia (exhibited at)
  • Dreamings : The Art of Aboriginal Australia (exhibited at)
  • Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Paintings : 1973-86 (exhibited at)
  • Aboriginal art from the Central Desert and Northern Arnhem Land, featuring the work of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and members of his family (exhibited at)
  • Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Uta Uta Tjangala and Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi (exhibited at)
  • Sao Paulo Biennale (exhibited at)
  • The Past and Present of the Australian Aborigine (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta (None)