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Biriban, , b. 1800
Biriban or Johnny McGill was best known as a language informant for the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld a Minister and linguist in the 1830s. Threlkeld thought ...
Bungaree, Bowen, b. 1804
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree ...
Legallé, , b. 1819
19th Century Tasmanian Aboriginal artist of the Larmairretorhe people (Northern Tribe) whose drawing of a cockatoo is in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and ...
Barak, William, b. 1824
Wurundjeri Ngurungaeta (headman) and artist, William Barak created over fifty distinctive charcoal drawings with natural ochres and water colour of purely Aboriginal subjects. A politician ...
, Mickey of Ulladulla, b. 1825
Mickey of Ulladulla was an Aboriginal artist active in the ninetenth century on the south coast of NSW. Five of his paintings were included posthumously ...
McCrae, Tommy, b. 1842
The artist Yakaduna, better known as Tommy McCrae, through his art and actions, involved his community in the entrepreneurial management of indigenous-settler affairs.
Monop, William, b. 1843
Born c. 1843 of Giragiok 'family', and Ballarruk section, Monop resided for some years at the New Norcia Mission, WA; and, later in life, in ...
of Cooktown, Oscar, b. 1877
'Oscar of Cooktown' is known only by the one book of drawings which was fortuitously preserved in the collection of the National Museum of Australia, ...
Abadjura, , b. 1904
Bark paintings and carvings by Abadjura were collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the 1960s.
Onus, Bill, b. 1906
William Townsend (Bill) Onus 1906-68. As an artist, entrepeneur, actor and activist Bill Onus made an significant contribution to Art and Aboriginality in postwar Melbourne. ...
Jungarrayi, Jimija, b. 1908
Warlpiri artist Jungarrayi was one of the senior men who initiated the painting movement in Yuendumu in the mid 1980s. His work, including an early ...
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 ...
Ross, Darby Jampijinpa, b. 1910
Darby Ross was a senior and highly respected figure in Warlpiri ceremonial life and one of the grand old men of Yuendumu painting. He was ...
Tjampitjinpa, Walter, b. 1910
An elder statesman of the Pintupi community in Papunya and an influential figure at the very beginning of the painting movement.
Tjapangati, Tutuma, b. 1915
One of the first Pintupi to own his own camels and one of the original Papunya Tula Artists, Tutuma was always eager to depict his ...
Tjupurrula, Nosepeg, b. 1915
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 ...
Patterson, Seargent Jupurrurla, b. 1916
A Warlpiri artist. His Dreamings included Wampana, Karlajirdi, Yawakiyi and Lukarrara. He started painting in 1986.