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Fairweather, Ian, b. 1891
The Scottish born artist Ian Fairweather travelled extensively throughout South East Asia and China before finally building a thatched hut on Bribie Island off the ...
Battarbee, Rex, b. 1893
An early advocate of indigenous art, Rex Battarbee represented Arrernte artists in his Alice Springs home, which he later turned into the Tmara-Mara Gallery.
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
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.
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 ...
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Tuckson, Tony, b. 1921
For much of his life Tony Tuckson's reputation was as the Assistant Director of he Art Gallery of New South Wales, passionately advocating for Aboriginal ...
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 ...
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 ...