Nosepeg Tjupurrula b. c.1915

Also known as Nosepeg Tjunkata Tjupurrula, Jungkata Nosepeg Tjupurrula
  • Artist (Painter)
Nosepeg began painting at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya. A consummate politician and a senior elder in his community he was a driving force in the outstation movement from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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Born c. 1914 in Pintupi/Wenampa country. An account of Nosepeg’s early contacts with European culture is included in Wildbird Dreaming (Amadio & Kimber 1988). Nosepeg began painting at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya – including depictions of his Bush Tobacco and Grass Seed Dreaming stories, but his role in the community always took precedence over painting. His remarkable life is the subject of a documentary directed by Billy Marshall Stoneking (1989). He reputedly appeared in more screen roles than any other Australian, including Jedda, Journey Out Of Darkness and the television series Whiplash and Boney. Into his mid seventies, Nosepeg was still a leading identity and one of the most important elders in Aboriginal Central Australia – a cross-cultural negotiator who was a friend of politicians as diverse as Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser and a force behind the outstation movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.

Writers:
Johnson, Vivien
Date written:
1994
Last updated:
2011

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