Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka b. c.1927

  • Artist (Painter)
Pintupi speaker who joined the group of painters at Papunya in the early 1970s. He later moved to Kintore (NT) and was cast as the "tracker" in the film "Evil Angels". His paintings are held in major public and private collections.
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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

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References [<ExternalResource: Fred Schepisi (1988), 'Evil Angels', Evil Angels Films for Cannon Films in association with Cinema Verity.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 0907.>]