Johnny Tjapanangka Lynch b. c.1920

Also known as Johnny Lynch, Johnny Tjapangati Lynch
  • Artist (Painter)
A leading stockman at Narwietooma station, he was one of the last men to join the group of painting men at nearby Papunya (NT) in about 1973. He painted events along the Honey Ant Dreaming trail.
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One of the last at Papunya to come forward wanting to paint, according to Geoffrey Bardon. At the time, Johnny Lynch was a leading stockman at nearby Narwietooma station. His traditional country lay along the Honey Ant Dreaming trail which ends at Woodgreen station. He painted intermittently until his death in the early ’80s.

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

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>, <ExternalResource: 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.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>]