Johnny Tjupurrula Warangkula b. c.1920

Also known as Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warankula Tjupurrula, Johnny Warrangula Tjaparula, Johnny W. Tjupurrula, W. Johnny
  • Artist (Painter)
One of the founders of Papunya Tula Artists and most renowned painters of the desert art movement, whose signature techniques of overdotting produced effects of "tremulous illusion".
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Name
Johnny Tjupurrula Warangkula
Also known as:
  • Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula
  • Johnny Warrangula Tjupurrula
  • Johnny Warankula Tjupurrula
  • Johnny Warrangula Tjaparula
  • Johnny W. Tjupurrula
  • W. Johnny
Gender
Unspecified
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
c.1920
Birth place
Minjilpirri
Death date
2001
Burial place
Papunya, NT
Residence
  • Papunya, NT
  • Mt Wedge
  • Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Yuendumu, NT
  • Mt Liebig
  • Haasts Bluff
  • Hermannsburg mission, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Kalipinypa
  • Tjikari
Dreaming
  • Nyalpilala
  • Nyilppi
  • Egret
  • Fire
  • Yam
  • Water
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
Copyright
  • Papunya Tula Artists

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Related collections
  • Museums & Art Galleries of Northern Territory, Darwin, NT (collected in)
  • South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Flinders University Art Museum, VIC (collected in)
  • Alice Springs Law Courts, NT (collected in)
  • Orange Regional Gallery, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra ACT (collected in)
  • National Museum of Australia, Canberra ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, SA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, VIC (collected in)
  • Queensland Art Gallery, QLD (collected in)
  • Holmes a Court Collection, WA (collected in)