Charlie Tjungarrayi Tarawa b. c.1925

Also known as Charlie Tjaruru Tjungurrayi
  • Artist (Painter)
Because of his extensive experience with Europeans, he became the spokesman for the younger Pintupi men in the early days of the Papunya painting movement. Later he befriended Papunya Tula Artists' manager (1980-1) the late Andrew Crocker, with whom he travelled to the UK and who organised his retrospective, the first of a Papunya artist.
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