Paddy Jupurrurla Nelson b. 1919

  • Artist (Painter)
A senior ceremonial and religious leader in the Yuendumu community, Paddy Nelson had been at the forefront of the Warlukurlangu art movement since its inception and with other senior men painted the famous Yuendumu Doors of the school (now in the South Australian Museum) in 1983.

Citations

  • (1987), 'Yuendumu Doors: Kuruwarri Warlukurlangu Artists’, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAIS), Canberra, ACT.

  • (1987), 'Art and Aboriginality Exhibition Catalogue’, Portsmouth, UK.

  • Sutton, P (1988), 'Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia’, Viking, New York, USA.

  • Caruana, W (1989), 'Windows on the Dreaming’, Ellsyd Press, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1991), 'Aboriginal Art and Spirituality’, Collins Dove, Melbourne, Vic. [Crumlin, R. (ed.)].

  • (1991), 'Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn Lowe Art Museum’, University of Miami, Miami, USA.

  • Information sourced from James, Glenn.

  • Information sourced from Lennard, Christine.

  • Information sourced from Tyson, Geraldine.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary