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Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, b. 1910
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient ...
Mick, Wallankarri Tjakamarra, b. 1910
One of the founders and most important artists painting for Papunya Tula over its first two decades because of his ritual authority and encyclopedic knowledge ...
Patterson, Seargent Jupurrurla, b. 1916
A Warlpiri artist. His Dreamings included Wampana, Karlajirdi, Yawakiyi and Lukarrara. He started painting in 1986.
Jangala, Abie, b. 1919
Warlpiri artist and important ceremonial leader, Jangala was also known as the 'grand old man' of Lajamanu painting. He had his first solo exhibition at ...
Bennett, Dorothy, b. 1923
Dorothy Bennett was introduced to Aboriginal art when she was a medical secretary accompanying Dr Stuart Scougall on an excursion to the Northern Territory. She ...
Napurrula, Lorna, b. 1924
As a previous ceremonial painter, Lorna began dot-style painting on canvas in 1986 and soon developed her own unique style which became increasingly free, abstract ...
Tjangala, Uta Uta, b. 1925
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 ...
Tjungurrayi, Yala Yala, b. 1925
One of the classic exponents of the Pintupi style of western desert painting, Yala Yala was an authority amongst the senior Pintupi men on ceremonial ...
Goodale, Jane, b. 1926
Anthropologist Goodale spent many years studying and photographing the native people of Oceania, especially the Tiwi people of Northern Australia.
Thomas Juluma, Rover , b. 1926
Rover Thomas, who painted the land and the massacres of people in the Kimberley, first came to prominence as the Dreamer of the Kurirr-Kurirr ceremony, ...
Liddle, Bessie, b. 1927
Liddle was born near the southern border of Hermannsburg. Hermannsburg provided much needed relief in times of drought or need, and it was at the ...
Stockman, Billy, b. 1927
One of the founders of the Papunya Tula painting movement, company Chairman, Aboriginal Arts Board member and Central Australian delegate to the N.A.C.in the 1970s. ...
Tjampitjinpa, Anatjari, b. 1927
A pioneering painter with Papunya Tula Artists, and influential in the spread of painting to Balgo WA. His work featured in landmark exhibitions, such as ...
Lechleitner, Dick Tjapanangka, b. 1930
Anmatyerre artist and author, who sold his work privately for many years and occasionally through Papunya Tula. His work is represented in major public and ...
Napanangka, Gladys, b. 1930
Senior Luritja artist who lived in Papunya, she initially assisted her second husband, Johnny Warangkula, on his canvases. Her work is in the collection of ...
Napurrula, Molly, b. 1930
One of the senior women at Willowra for the dancing, where she always paints up with the Damper Seed designs - or sometimes Snake Dreaming. ...
Nolan, Dinny Tjampitjinpa, b. 1930
Joined Papunya painting group in the mid 1970s with encouragement from his cousins Billy Stockman and Clifford Possum and his 'brother' Kaapa Tjampitjinpa. He went ...
Patrick, Freddy Jangala, b. 1930
An excellent carver, Freddy Patick was one of the first to start painting in Lajamanu. Married to fellow artist Myra Nungarrayi Patrick, Freddy painted a ...
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Tjapanagka, Long Tom, b. 1930
Pintupi/Ngaatjatjara artist who began painting in 1993 and was awarded the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 1999.
Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum, b. 1932
Leading Papunya Tula artist. One of last men to join Geoffrey Bardon's group of 'painting men' at the beginning of the 1970s and the first ...