Wenten Rubuntja

Also known as Wenton Rubuntja
  • Artist (Painter)
Wenten painted both Hermannsburg landscapes and paintings using traditional desert Dreaming designs. He was taught to paint by Albert Namatjira, his father's cousin.
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Name
Wenten Rubuntja
Also known as Wenton Rubuntja
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Chairman (ANZSIC code: 9559) (Chairman Central Land Council.)
  • Drover (ANZSIC code: 0529) (Drover At stations across Central Australia including Hamilton Downs in his grandfather's country Ntyerlpe, Undoolya Station, Maryvale and Napperby.)
  • Timber cutter (ANZSIC code: 1411)
Death date
2005
Residence
  • Alice Springs, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Arrente
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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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: Wenten Rubuntja with Jenny Green (2003), 'The Town Grew Up Dancing', IAD Press.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>]