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Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, b. 1910
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient ...
Mick, Wallankarri Tjakamarra, b. 1910
One of the founders and most important artists painting for Papunya Tula over its first two decades because of his ritual authority and encyclopedic knowledge ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Tjangala, Uta Uta, b. 1925
Uta Uta was a gardener at the Papunya School, whose friendship with Geoffrey Bardon sparked off the involvement of a dozen other Pintupi men at ...
Tjungurrayi, Yala Yala, b. 1925
One of the classic exponents of the Pintupi style of western desert painting, Yala Yala was an authority amongst the senior Pintupi men on ceremonial ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
Liddle, Bessie, b. 1927
Liddle was born near the southern border of Hermannsburg. Hermannsburg provided much needed relief in times of drought or need, and it was at the ...
Stockman, Billy, b. 1927
One of the founders of the Papunya Tula painting movement, company Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board member and Central Australian delegate to the N.A.C.in the 1970s. ...
Tjampitjinpa, Anatjari, b. 1927
A pioneering painter with Papunya Tula Artists, and influential in the spread of painting to Balgo WA. His work featured in landmark exhibitions, such as ...
Nolan, Dinny Tjampitjinpa, b. 1930
Joined Papunya painting group in the mid 1970s with encouragement from his cousins Billy Stockman and Clifford Possum and his 'brother' Kaapa Tjampitjinpa. He went ...
Patrick, Freddy Jangala, b. 1930
An excellent carver, Freddy Patick was one of the first to start painting in Lajamanu. Married to fellow artist Myra Nungarrayi Patrick, Freddy painted a ...
Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum, b. 1932
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 ...
Payungka, Timmy Tjapangati, b. 1935
Part of the original group of painters at Papunya in 1971, Tim Payungka was a key ritual figure, who painted Dreaming stories from around Lake ...
Petyarre, Kathleen, b. 1938
After first working in batik, Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre turned to painting in 1987. Her precise paintings of her country and her culture led to her ...
Egalie, Charlie Tjapaltjarri, b. 1940
Warlpiri/Luritja artist who commenced painting in Papunya as early as 1972. His work is included in many major art collections.
Nolan, Billy Tjapangati, b. 1940
Nolan came east in one of the early Pintupi migrations. He had observed the painting group at West Camp for many years before taking up ...
Tjapaltjarri, John, b. 1940
Pintupi artist who may have painted occasionally for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1970s, and began painting regularly for the company in the late ...
Schmeisser, Jörg, b. 1942
Jörg Schmeisser, etcher, is thought to have taught print making to Albert Namatjira Jnr while visiting Arnhem Land in 1976 and to Narratjin Maymuru and ...
Sandy, William, b. 1944
A self taught Pitjantjatjara painter who began his association with Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980s but nowadays works independently. He has exhibited across ...
Napangati, Pansy, b. 1945
Luritja/Warlpiri artist who started painting for herself in the early 1970s after observing the older men painting in Papunya in the 1970s. After a long ...