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Abadjura, , b. 1904
Bark paintings and carvings by Abadjura were collected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the 1960s.
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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 ...
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.
Thorpe, Alice, b. 1914
Weaver, was born in the Lake Boga district of Victoria in 1914.
Ediminja, Eddie Tjapangati, b. 1920
Pitjantjatjara artist who worked as a stockman for many years before beginning to paint in the mid 1970s with Papunya Tula Artists. Well connected with ...
Lungkarda, Shorty Tjungarrayi, b. 1920
A senior lawman and key figure in the Pintupi community in Papunya in the early days of the painting enterprise, renowned for his hunting and ...
Lynch, Johnny Tjapanangka, b. 1920
A leading stockman at Narwietooma station, he was one of the last men to join the group of painting men at nearby Papunya (NT) in ...
Tjampitjinpa, Toby Brown, b. 1920
Anmatyerre artist, one of the first "town painters" in Alice Springs. Painted for Papunya Tula Artists during the 1970s. He was an important figure in ...
Jack, Tjupurrula, b. 1925
Warlpiri/Luritja artist and senior custodian of Mawitji, a major Possum Dreaming site. He painted intermittently in the late 1970s, instructing his nephew Michael Nelson and ...
Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa, b. 1925
Anmatyerre/Arrente artist who was the principal painter of the Papunya school mural and a key player in the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, being the ...
Tjangala, George, b. 1925
Born in Pintupi country, and based for times at Haasts Bluff, Papunya, Brown's Bore and on his own outstation at Ngutjulnga, Tjangala joined Papunya Tula ...
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 ...
Carroll, Paddy Tjungarrayi, b. 1927
A senior lawman and widely respected figure in the Papunya community, Paddy Carroll was a consistent painter for Papunya Tula Artists for several decades from ...
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 ...
Tjapanangka, Pinta Pinta, b. 1927
Pintupi speaker who joined the group of painters at Papunya in the early 1970s. He later moved to Kintore (NT) and was cast as the ...
Tjupurrula, Gideon, b. 1927
Pintupi/Pitjantjatjara speaker who commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists at Haasts Bluff in approximately 1976. He initially worked with a core group of Eastern Pintupi ...