Cameron Tjapaltjarri b. 1950 Haasts Bluff, NT

  • Artist (Painter)
Cameron painted at Kintore for about a decade from 1987 under the instruction of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri and Benny Tjapaltjarri. He later dedicated himself to working for the Kintore Clinic.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1994
Name
Cameron Tjapaltjarri
Birth date
c.1950
Birth place
Haasts Bluff, NT
Death date
2006
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • ( Kintore, NT)
Other Occupation
  • Healthworker
Active Period
  • c.1987- c.1997
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
Yes
Dreaming
  • Budgerigar
  • Tingari
  • Wallaby
  • Bandicoot
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
Copyright
  • Papunya Tula Artists, NT

Born in the late 1940s at Haasts Bluff, where Cameron’s family settled after walking in from Pintupi country hundreds of kilometres west. The area around the Lizard Dreaming mountain which lies alongside Kintore was Cameron’s father’s country. He started painting for Papunya Tula Artists at Kintore in about 1987 under the instruction of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri and Benny Tjapaltjarri , but later became more involved with community affairs. Stories depicted in Cameron’s paintings related to the Tingari cycle and included a Bandicoot Dreaming story around Desert Bore and a Wallaby and Budgerigar Dreaming site north-west of Nyirrpi.

Writers:
Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Mick Tjapaltjarri Namarari
1926
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Benny Tjapaltjarri
1930
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Junabee Napaltjarri
1943
Artist (Painter)
sibling of
Junabee Napaltjarri
1943
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Kintore Clinic, NT
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Papunya Tula Artists, NT
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • Johnson, V., (2008), Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists, (Place: IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url: http://www/iadpress.com) http://www.iadpress.com