Uta Uta Tjangala b. c.1925

Also known as Uta Uta Jangala, Uta Uta Tjungala, Wuta Wuta Tjangala, Uata Uata Tjangala No 2
Uta Uta was a gardener at the Papunya School, whose friendship with Geoffrey Bardon sparked off the involvement of a dozen other Pintupi men at the very beginning of the painting enterprise at Papunya. Uta Uta later emerged as the grand old man of Pintupi painting at Kintore.
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associate of
Anatjari Tjampitjinpa
1927
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Dini Tjampitjinpa Campbell
1940
Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Tjakamarra
1935
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Kanya Tjapangati
1951
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Charlie Tjapangati
1949
Artist (Painter)
parent of
Shorty Tjampitjinpa Jackson
1950
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Geoffrey Bardon
1940
Curator, Artist (Painter), Artist (Screen Artist)
associate of
Yala Yala Gibson
Other occupation
associate of
Shorty Tjampitjinpa Jackson
1925
Artist (Painter)
parent of
Shorty Tjampitjinpa Jackson
1925
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai
1925
Artist (Painter)
relative of
Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai
1925
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Narputta Nangala Jugadai
1925
Artist (Painter)
relative of
Narputta Nangala Jugadai
1925
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Linda Junkata Napaljarri Syddick
1925
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Anatjari Tjakamarra
1925
Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Tjangala Yapa
1925
Artist (Painter)

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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: Bardon, Geoffrey (1979), 'Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert', Rigby.>, <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:, .>]