Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri

Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (c.1929-1984) "Marla Serpent Story" Aboriginal Art

c.1977

Artist: Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa (1938-2013) Titled: "Tjalili" Size: 122x102x3 cm year: 2005 Provenance: Yanda Art, Australia Biography Miss Bennett, also known as Nyu...

Bob Dingle Tjapanangka Titled: « Goanna Men From Wati Kutjara » 80x120cm – 1996 Provenance: from arts centre

Rover Thomas Joolama (c.1926-1998) Title: "Marumaru" (Black One) Dimensions: 60x90 cm - Year: 1996 Natural pigments on linen canvas Provenance: Art Centre Warmun (Stamp back...

Wingu Tingima (c.1920–2010) "Kungkarrakalpa" 110x203cm - 2006 Acrylic on linen Aboriginal art Provenance: Certificate of authenticity from arts centre Biography Wingu Tingima ...

Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (also cited as: Michael Nelson Jagamarra, or Jakamara) is a Senior Warlpiri Tribesman and an Elder of the Papunya Community in central Australia. Born c. 1949 at Pikilyi, Vaughan Springs west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory, he grew up ‘in the bush’. His father was an important tribal elder and medicine man at Yuendumu. It was therefore automatic that he would grow up with the traditional values and knowledge that now influences his paintings. Michael lived at Haasts Bluff until his parents took him to Yuendumu for European education at the mission school. He left school at thirteen, after initiation, and worked at buffalo shooting, driving trucks, droving cattle and in the army, before returning to Yuendumu and then to Papunya to settle in 1976. He worked for a time in the Government store and for the Council. Michael learned to paint at Papunya by observing the senior men such as Billy Stockman and Old Mick Tjakamarra. Although he was tutored by his uncle, Jack Tjupurrula, Michael developed his own style and began painting earnestly from 1983. Michael is known as master desert painter for his depiction of several Dreamings in one painting. For him the understanding of the Dreaming stories that go with his paintings is all important – without the stories his paintings would ‘mean nothing’ as far as he is concerned. His Dreamings include the Possum, Snake, Two Kangaroos, Rock Wallaby, Bush Banana, Honey Ant and Yam. In 1984 Michael won the National Aboriginal Art Award with his painting ‘Three Dreamings’. His reputation as a painter rose rapidly after this. He exhibited his work in the 1986 Biennale of Sydney and featured in ‘The State of the Art’, a British art documentary. In 1987 Michael had been asked to paint a major work (27’long) to decorate the foyer of Sydney’s Opera House and he chose to paint his ‘Possum Dreaming’ story. A great highlight in Michael’s career was in 1988 when he was commissioned to design a 196 sq-metre mosaic in the main forecourt of Australia’s new Parliament House in Canberra. The work was based on his ‘Kangaroo and Emu’ dreaming. Michael was presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11...

Sandy Hunter Petyarre painting "Men's Dreaming," 1996. Dimensions: 125 x 75 cm. Group Anmatyerre - Utopia - Central Desert. Sandy Hunter Petyarre was born in 1953. She is one o...

Linda Yunkata Syddick Napaltjarri (born c. 1937) is a Pintupi- and Pitjantjatjara- speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her father was killed when she was young her mother later married Shorty Lungkarta Tjungarrayi an artist whose work was a significant influence on Linda Syddick's painting. Linda Syddick was one of many Western Desert women who took up painting in the early 1990s as part of a broader contemporary Indigenous Australian...

Sandy Hunter Petyarre 1994 150 x 90 cm Group Anmatyerre - Utopia - Central Desert Sandy Hunter Petyarre was born in 1953. She is one of the few artists to continue painting w...