Billy Stockman b. c.1927

Also known as Billy Tjapaltjarri Stockman
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Carver)
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. An infant survivor of the Coniston massacre of 1928, as a young man he worked as a stockman.
Name
Billy Stockman
Also known as Billy Tjapaltjarri Stockman
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Carver)
Other Occupation
  • Town Councillor (ANZSIC code: 7530)
  • Cook (ANZSIC code: 4511)
  • Stockman (ANZSIC code: 0529)
Birth date
c.1927
Birth place
Ilpitirri, NT
Birth note
Near Mt Denison, NW of Papunya.
Active Period
  • 1971 - April 2011
Residence
  • Ilili, NT (outstation near Papunya. )
  • Papunya, NT
  • Napperby station, NT
Indigenous Australian
 
Heritage Country
  • Yuendumu, NT
  • Ilpitirri, NT
  • Mt Denison, NT
Dreaming
  • Wild Potato
  • Yam
  • Spider
  • Budgerigar
  • Honey Ant
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Anmatyerre
  • Western Aranda
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
Copyright
  • Papunya Tula Artists, NT