Born circ. 1914 in Pintupi/Wenampa country. An account of Nosepeg’s early contacts with European culture is included in Wildbird Dreaming (Amadio & Kimber 1988). Nosepeg began painting at the beginning of the art movement in Papunya – including depictions of his Bush Tobacco and Grass Seed Dreaming stories, but his role in the community always took precedence over painting. His remarkable life is the subject of a documentary directed by Billy Marshall Stoneking (1989). He reputedly appeared in more screen roles than any other Australian, including Jedda , Journey Out Of Darkness and the television series Whiplash and Boney . Into his mid seventies, Nosepeg was still a leading identity and one of the most important elders in Aboriginal Central Australia – a cross-cultural negotiator who was a friend of politicians as diverse as Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser and a force behind the outstation movement of the 1960s, ’70s
Nosepeg enlisted in the army during World War 11 (ANZSIC code: 7600) along with Charlie Tarawa). He was born south of Lake MacDonald and died in 1993 His Dreaming was Grass Seed and Bush Tobacco. Source University of NSW Biography Library