Pegleg Tjampitjinpa was born circa 1920 and lived a traditional lifestyle in the region Central Australian desert region surrounding Wilkinkarra. Tjampitjinpa had no contact with western civilisation until 1957 when his family group encountered a Northern Territory Welfare branch control…
A Warlpiri speaking artist from Lajamanu (Hooker Creek), Japaltjarri painted his land and law, seeping his work with cultural connections and knowledge of his Country. Friend, colleague and fellow law man with Abie Jangala, the men travelled great distances across…
Reference image below in the Palya Art online gallery
Pauline Sunfly is the daughter of the famous Balgo painters, Sunfly Tjampitjin, and Bai Bai Sunfly Napangarti, from whom she has inherited many Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime) stories. Pauline learnt to paint from years of watching her father. She is an extremely…
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was a Walpiri speaking Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu. Chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee, Paddy Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the Honey Ant…
Delilah Freddy Puruntatameri has exhibited regularly in Jilamara group exhibitions since 1996, and had her first solo exhibition of works on paper at Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne in 2003. Delilah is the daughter of the late renowned artist Paddy Freddy Puruntatameri,…
Pulpurru Davies, who is Ngaanyatjarra, was born circ.1940 near Yankaltjunku, a rockhole in the north east of the Gibson Desert. Belonging to one of the last hunter-gatherer groups of people living in Australia, Ms. Davies’ early life was partly documented in a…
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was a Walpiri speaking Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu. Chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee, Paddy Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the Honey Ant…
Wanurr Bob Namundja was born in western Arnhem Land to the Kardbam clan in 1933. He spoke Kunwinjku which is part of the Bininj Kunwok language group. During the 1960s, he lived on the Oenpelli Mission in what is now…
“His paintings frequently show soak holes, rockholes and claypans associated with the area. These are believed to have been formed during the Tjukurrpa or Dreamtime and hold significance that is explained in Men’s Ceremonies. Mick is an important rain man…