David Tjapaltjarri Corby b. c.1940

  • Artist (Painter)
One of the youngest of the original 'painting men' at Papunya in the early 1970s, and a dedicated worker for his community. He was artist-in-residence at Flinders University with Turkey Tolson in 1979, the year before his tragic death.
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Though still a young man, the artist and his older brother, Charlie Egalie , were associated with the original group of 'painting men’ at Papunya at the beginning of the ’70s. Though his country lay around Tjunti, north-west of Vaughan Springs station in Warlpiri territory, he lived in Papunya and was a dedicated worker for his people before his untimely death in 1980. He painted Budgerigar, Wallaby, Emu and Witchetty Grub Dreamings. In 1979 David Corby and Turkey Tolson were artists-in-residence at Flinders University in Adelaide SA, and the Flinders University Art Museum holds many of the paintings which the artists completed during the residency (see Dot and Circle: A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal acrylic paintings of Central Australia , {ed. J. Maughan & J. Zimmer RMIT 1986}).

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Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>, <ExternalResource: Maughan, J.; & Zimmer, J. (1986), 'Dot and Circle: A Retrospective Survey of the Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings of Central Australia', Melbourne, Vic : Communication Services Unit, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>, <ExternalResource: Bardon, Geoffrey and Bardon, James (2004), 'Papunya: A Place Made After the Story; The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement', Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, VIC ISBN-10 : 0-522-85110-X / ISBN-13: 978-0522851106.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>]