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Alice Nampitjinpa was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice Nampitjinpa worked for many years at the Kintore...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Alice Nampitjinpa was born in 1943 near Talaalpi, which is a swamp near and a little bit to the east of Walungurru on the Western Australian border. Prior to her painting Alice Nampitjinpa worked for many years at the Kintore School teaching the young girls dancing and the traditions of the desert people. Alice started painting on the "Minyama Tjukurrpa" - the Kintore / Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project. As a painter she is inspired by her rich cultural heritage, and thrives when involved with her stories and lore. Alice is an active "dancing woman" who travels widely to participate in annual ceremonies and "Women's Law" meetings. Alice's tjukurrpa is the porcupine or Tjilkamata. Her story is told in bright colours often utilizing orange and yellow to mirror the ochres that are used in ceremonial body painting. In her tjukurrpa story there is often the porcupine scurrying about rock holes and hiding places looking for tucker while nearby the women are themselves hunting, laying in wait for the porcupine. Alice is a keen hunter and likes to go hunting with Eunice Jack. Alice's father was the late Uta Uta Tjangala, who was one of the original Papunya Tula painters. His Tjukurrpa is Pungkalungka at Takpalangu. Pungkalungka's are dangerous, and sometimes kill and eat people. They live in huge caves in the hills. Alice only paints the entrance to the caves to signify the unknown danger of the monster that dwells within. Her father's country is Ngurrapalangu, and her tjukurrpa has passed to her from this place: the porcupine was travelling through the sand hills and passing near the two carpet snakes, kuniya kutjarra, who were living underneath the water. Alice Nampitjinpa also enjoys the other crafts and is involved in producing hand-spindled hair string for ceremonies and ininiti necklaces and mats. She regularly goes out bush to collect ininti seeds then laboriously pierces them with hot wire to make beads for necklaces, bracelets or mats. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5460 2011-10-25T01:52:34Z 2011-10-26T05:24:14Z

Terrence was born in Alice Springs on the 29th of January 1985, however his homelands is Watarrka Terrence resides at the Ulpanyali community, which was many opportunities to develop livelihoods and share their knowledge. Terrence from an early age had...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Watarrka Terrence resides at the Ulpanyali community, which was many opportunities to develop livelihoods and share their knowledge. Terrence from an early age had the opportunities to watch skilfully his father and grandfathers make traditional weapons. ]]> tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5455 2011-10-19T07:29:48Z 2011-10-20T04:43:20Z

Charmaine Pwerle is the daughter of artist Barbara Weir and granddaughter of Minnie Pwerle. Charmaine was born in Alice Springs in 1975 and has four daughters and a step-daughter. Her early primary years was spend at the Utopia school. Charmaine...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Charmaine Pwerle is the daughter of artist Barbara Weir and granddaughter of Minnie Pwerle. Charmaine was born in Alice Springs in 1975 and has four daughters and a step-daughter. Her early primary years was spend at the Utopia school. Charmaine high school education was spend between St. Phillips College and the Alice Springs High school. She also studied in Adelaide a short time before returning to Utopia in Central Australia. In 1992, Charmaine worked for Urapuntja Council as the junior administration assistant. During this time Charmaine lived with her mother Barbara Weir and grandparents Minnie Pwerle and Motorcar Jim at Soakage Bore - an outstation on Utopia Station. There Charmaine had this wonderful opportunity to learn about her heritage and performed in ceremonies, and sacred stories have been passed on to her from her grandmothers, which she now expresses in the art. Ever since Charmaine can remember, she has always been surrounded by artists including great aunt the Emily Kngwarreye, Petyarre sisters, her mother Barbara Weir and grandmother Minnie Pwerle. And with this influence Charmaine was destined to eventually follow the family tradition of becoming an artist. For the Utopian artists culturally it important the younger generation to continue to paint so the Dreamings are ever forgotten. Sabine Haider, owner of Central Art- Aboriginal Art Store says -" I believe strongly in Charmaine, emerging artist and in time she will develop as an known artist in her own right". " She has the same artistic vision as her mother and its in her veins, like her brother Fred Torres and sister Therese Purla." In 2010, Charmaine's two daughters modelled unique jewellery items which depicted significant art pieces from their great aunt and grandmothers for Sabine at Central Art in Alice Springs. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5386 2011-08-25T06:08:05Z 2011-08-25T06:15:53Z

We are currently are still collating information for this artist....

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au We are currently are still collating information for this artist. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5384 2011-08-25T04:38:14Z 2011-08-25T04:55:01Z

Eddie Tjapangarti Ediminja was born c.1920 at Ulpunyali, which is located in the south-west of the Northern Territory a distance of about 1310km south from Darwin. He is also known as Eddie Edimintja; Eddie Edaminja; Eddie Edeminja; Eddie Etaminja Born...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Eddie Tjapangarti Ediminja was born c.1920 at Ulpunyali, which is located in the south-west of the Northern Territory a distance of about 1310km south from Darwin. He is also known as Eddie Edimintja; Eddie Edaminja; Eddie Edeminja; Eddie Etaminja Born west of Watakarra (King Canyon), Eddie’s language was Pitjantjatjara and his country Walu, east of Tjuninyanta. Towards the end of his life Eddie lived at Docker River. In his youth Eddie worked as a stockman on various stations including Middleton Downs, Orange Creek and Haasts Bluff. Eddie started painting in the mid ’70s. He was an associate of Limpi Tjapangati , with whom he lived at Haasts Bluff during the mid ’80s. For a time in the late ’80s he lived at Tjukula, between Docker River and Kintore. Eddie painted the Two Women Dreaming and the Three Men Lying Behind Windbreaks. Because of failing eyesight, his two sons Rex and Donald Eddie began helping him with his painting. His work has been exhibited and bought in Adelaide and Alice Springs. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5382 2011-08-24T07:11:25Z 2011-08-25T03:22:04Z

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born in 1932 and passed away on the 21st of June 200. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was an Australian Aboriginal painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was born in 1932 and passed away on the 21st of June 200. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was an Australian Aboriginal painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and world-wide. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri was the most famous of the contemporary artists who lived around Papunya, in the Northern Territory's Western Desert area, when the acrylic painting style (known popularly as "dot art") was initiated. Geoffrey Bardon came to Papunya in the early 1970s and encouraged the Aboriginal people to put their dreaming stories on canvas, stories which had previously been depicted ephemerally on the ground. Clifford Possum emerged as one of the leaders in this school of painting, which has come to be called Papunya Tula. Possum was of the Anmatyerre culture-linguistic group from around Alherramp (Laramba) community. He was of the Peltharr skin. When it held an exhibition of his work in 2004, the Art Gallery of New South Wales described his artistic background: He was an expert wood-carver and took up painting long before the emergence of the Papunya Tula School in the early 1970s. When Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri joined this group of 'dot and circle' painters early in 1972 he immediately distinguished himself as one of its most talented members and went on to create some of the largest and most complex paintings ever produced. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri led a ground breaking career and was amongst the vanguard of Indigenous Australian artists to be recognised by the international art world. Like Albert Namatjira before him, Clifford Possum blazed a trail for future generations of Indigenous artists; bridging the gap between Aboriginal art and contemporary Australian art. Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri died in Alice Springs on the day he was scheduled to receive the Order of Australia for his contribution to art and to the Indigenous community. His obituaries, which appeared in newspapers around the world, generally referred to him as Clifford Possum and gave his age as about 70. While his year of birth is considered to be approximately correct, the day and month remained undocumented. His two daughters, Gabrielle Possum Nungurrayi and Michelle Possum Nungurrayi are renowned artists in their own right. There was legal controversy surrounding his burial, as his surviving family and community maintained he wished to be buried in a location different from that specified in his will He was buried at Yuelamu, which had been the preference of his community and daughters, several weeks after his death. Posthumously, Tjapaltjarri's works are drawing increasing attention. The artist's majestic painting Warlugulong (previously bought by the Commonwealth Bank for just $1200) was auctioned by Sothebys on 24 July 2007. Pre-auction, the work was expected to make art history as the most expensive Aboriginal canvas at auction. The work was tipped to fetch up to A$2.5 million, more than double the then-record for Aboriginal art at auction. The work in fact sold for $2.4 million and the day after the auction it was revealed that the National Gallery of Australia was the buyer.. The Gallery's purchase eased tensions of a rumoured Government legal intervention had the work been purchased by an overseas buyer, out of concern that significant indigenous art would be "lost" overseas. Sabine Haider from Central Art in Alice Springs said: "I feel very privileged to have known Clifford Possum. When I met Clifford, I was only very new to the art industry. I learnt a lot from him. . He had such a great sense a humour. and we laughed a lot. One thing that will always be in my mind is the story he told me, when he met Queen Elizabeth and chatted with her over a a cup of tea. He really was chuffed about that and proud. When I look at some of my old photos of him, I always smile and it takes me back to all the great conversations and times I spend with him. He was great master in my eyes and an incredible proud man of his Aboriginal heritage." tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5377 2011-08-23T02:13:26Z 2011-08-23T02:16:34Z

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Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au We are currently collecting bibliography details on the artist. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5356 2011-08-08T06:33:33Z 2011-08-08T06:56:51Z

William Sandy was born c.1944 near Ernabella in South Australia. William Sandy started to paint in 1975. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. William Sandy has lived in Areyonga and Haasts Bluff and since...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au William Sandy was born c.1944 near Ernabella in South Australia. William Sandy started to paint in 1975. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. William Sandy has lived in Areyonga and Haasts Bluff and since 1973 at Papunya in central Australia. William moved to Papunya in 1973 and two years later did his first painting for Papunya Tula Artists, after teaching himself to paint by watching the older artists. At Papunya he married Violet Nakamarra, the sister of Michael Nelson Jagamarra, who is also a well know Aboriginal artist. William Sandy was the first of the Pitjantjatjara involved in the contemporary art movement. From the early 1980s, he began painting for the Papunya Tula Artists. William Sandy is also a very knowledgeable, traditional medicine man. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5350 2011-07-31T05:11:48Z 2011-07-31T06:16:29Z

Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, was born c.1927 at Ilpitirri near Mount Denison. Billy Stockman is one of Australia's best-known artists of the Western Desert Art Movement, or Papunya Tula. His mother was killed in the Coniston Massacre in 1928; his father...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, was born c.1927 at Ilpitirri near Mount Denison. Billy Stockman is one of Australia's best-known artists of the Western Desert Art Movement, or Papunya Tula. His mother was killed in the Coniston Massacre in 1928; his father was away from the camp hunting and survived. Billy was raised on Napperby Station by his auntie, the mother of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In the 1960s he was working as a cook at Papunya when many of the Pintupi people were brought in from the west. Like Clifford he began his artistic career carving wooden animals for the arts and crafts marketplace. He is credited with being one of the men who painted the Honey Ant Dreaming on the wall of the Papunya School at Geoff Bardon's request. He was, in the '70s, one of the first chairmen of Papunya Tula Pty Ltd. He later moved west to Ilili, a pioneer in the country camp movement, although in his later years he has spent much time in Alice Springs. He travelled to New York in 1988 for the opening of the "Dreamings" show at the Asia Society and, along with Michael Nelson Jagamarra, created a sand painting as part of the exhibition. Billy Stockman is now in his mid-eighties, frail and living in the Hettie Perkins Home Aged Care in Alice, his painting days long behind him. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5348 2011-07-31T04:27:45Z 2011-07-31T04:49:12Z

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was born c.1926 at Marnpi south-east of Kintore in the Western Desert, is one of the most important painters to emerge from the Western Desert since 1971. From the Pintupi language group, Mick lived in the bush...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri was born c.1926 at Marnpi south-east of Kintore in the Western Desert, is one of the most important painters to emerge from the Western Desert since 1971. From the Pintupi language group, Mick lived in the bush with his two sisters, grandmother, and parents. His father went out hunting one day and when he didn’t return, the family found him speared in the back by “a revenge party”. Out of grief, his grandmother built a fire and threw herself on it. Although Mick tried to pull her out, it was too late. It was the 1920s and Mick was 7 or 8 years old but we will never know for sure. He said, “We didn’t know about years then.” Mick’s mother became the 4th wife of a man named Kamatu, one of the leading Pintupi men in the region, who adopted Mick and his sisters. Mick went through initiation and became an important member of his community. When Haasts Bluff became a cattle station, he went to work in the industry, working for a stockman. In the early 1960s, he was removed to Papunya and became one of its original painters when Geoff Bardon arrived. He was the subject of Geoff Bardon's documentary film, Mick and the Moon. Family Moon Dreaming, a painting in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection, UVA, was created for Geoff Bardon’s documentary. Paintings on art board are the artist’s earliest works. Compared to his later works, the early works are brighter colours with a larger variety of details. Orange was used by many of the artists because that is the colour of the countryside. When the sun sets and hits the sand, it is as orange as the paintings depict. More subdued colours began being used when an art marketer suggested the paintings would sell better that way. From early figurative works, he moved on to creating large geometric designs that typified Papunya Tula art in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In the 1990s he began producing "minimalist" paintings that depicted the imprint of a kangaroo in the sand, the seeds that the marsupial mouse feeds upon, or the aftermath of hailstorms in the desert. He died in Alice Springs in 1998, survived by his wife Elizabeth Nakamarra Marks and his daughter Angeline Nungurrayi. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5345 2011-07-22T07:13:00Z 2011-07-22T07:28:22Z

I was born in Alice Springs and when I was one or two years old we moved around a lot to places where my parents were working. When I was almost three years old my family and I moved to...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au I was born in Alice Springs and when I was one or two years old we moved around a lot to places where my parents were working. When I was almost three years old my family and I moved to Mt Isa in Queensland. When I was fifteen we came back to Alice and moved out to Santa Teresa and that's where I showed my true side of being an artist. I started painting banners for the church at Santa Teresa for special feast days. In Keringke Art Centre was started. We did screen-printing, silk painting and lino-printing on T-shirts. That's when I first started painting. I remember when I first saw a dot painting I couldn't understand the meaning of the design but just saw a pretty painting. I started to learn what its meanings were when my cousin sister started telling us the stories as she was doing the paintings. This is how we find our true selves and who we are. Now I am really glad I've learnt to look and listen. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5340 2011-07-21T06:07:47Z 2011-07-21T06:34:30Z

Josie Petyarre was born at Ahalkere in Utopia. Some biographies give the year 1954. (The Australian Census lists a Josie Pitjara b.1959 to father Alec Ngwarai, Aranda, b.1925, mother Polly Ngale, Aranda b.1936. Siblings: Maisie, Sammy, Audrey, David.) Josie Petyarre...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Josie Petyarre was born at Ahalkere in Utopia. Some biographies give the year 1954. (The Australian Census lists a Josie Pitjara b.1959 to father Alec Ngwarai, Aranda, b.1925, mother Polly Ngale, Aranda b.1936. Siblings: Maisie, Sammy, Audrey, David.) Josie Petyarre was living at Alhalpere Store, Utopia, in 1987 when she was a batik artist contributing to the Utopia batik project and book (Utopia – A Picture Story). In 2008 she was living at the Utopia outstation of Pungalindum with her husband Dinni Kemarre and her adult children. Josie has painted and exhibited since the late 1980s after the CAAMA’s Summer Project Exhibition. Her past painting subjects were typically 'Women’s Ceremonial Body Paint’ but she also painted 'Yam Dreaming’ and 'Alhalkere Country’ (Leonard Joel, Oct. 2004, lot 396). In 2005, Josie began making sculptures of animals, figures in ceremonial dress, cars and daily objects from Utopia, and was soon joined by Dinni, formerly a stock-man. Dinni and Petyarre then worked collaboratively to produce wildly coloured painted wood sculptures of quirky objects incorporating contemporary themes. In 2006 they produced painted sculptures of Australian Rules footballers from each team and these were exhibited in 2007 at AFL World, Melbourne. Josie and Dinni attended the AFL World exhibition and the football grand final, leading Josie to produce realist paintings of Melbourne. In 2008, Josie and Dinni were joint finalists in the X strata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, with brightly painted sculptures of everyday objects such as tables and chairs and a police wagon. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5311 2011-07-01T07:06:27Z 2011-07-21T06:03:29Z

Sheree Doolan was born on the 9th of March 1983 in Alice Springs. Sheree spend her early childhood at Ltyentye Apurte in central Australia. Sheree was influenced to paint from her Aunties Marlene and Jane Doolan, who are established artists...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Ltyentye Apurte in central Australia. Sheree was influenced to paint from her Aunties Marlene and Jane Doolan, who are established artists in art industry. Sheree has been producing contemporary art since 2002. With the use of acrylics her work involves depicting significant elements connected to her homeland, such as wild flowers,seeds and pods. ]]> tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.5278 2011-06-03T05:44:17Z 2011-06-03T06:00:52Z

Brian Young Jagamarra was born in 1974 and has been painting seriously since 2009. He was taught the stories from the elders of his tribe, and transforms these Dreamings onto canvas. Mostly he enjoys paintings his grandmothers and great grandfathers...

Sabine http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Brian Young Jagamarra was born in 1974 and has been painting seriously since 2009. He was taught the stories from the elders of his tribe, and transforms these Dreamings onto canvas. Mostly he enjoys paintings his grandmothers and great grandfathers stories of the Simpson Desert. tag:www.aboriginalartstore.com.au,2011:/artists//2.3778 2011-06-01T05:38:08Z 2011-06-01T02:13:16Z

Central Art apologies for not being able to provide any biography detail on this artist....

natalie http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au Central Art apologies for not being able to provide any biography detail on this artist.