Excerpt from Ken Watson in ‘Tradition today: Indigenous art in Australia’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014 states:
Philip Gudthaykudthay was born to the east of Ramingining in central Arnhem Land. Following the death of his parents he was adopted by a Murrungun clan family and initiated around 1949 at Gatji lagoon. Gudthaykudthay has worked as a crocodile hunter, stockman and station-hand. He now lives and paints at Ramingining, his mother’s country, where he is known as ‘Pussycat’ (a reference to the native cat, one of his ancestral totems).
Gudthaykudthay had his first solo exhibition in 1983 at the Gary Anderson Gallery, Sydney. He has had several exhibitions in the years since then, and has also exhibited in many group shows. In 1997, Gudthaykudthay participated in printmaking workshops held in Ramingining, and his paintings were included in the exhibition, ‘The Painters of the Wagilag Sisters Story 1937–1997’, held at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.