Artist: Timmy Payungka Tjapangati
Date: 1998
Size: 152 x 122 cm
Museum: Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
Technique: Polymer Paint
Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was among the first Pintupi men to begin painting on hardboard at Papunya in 1971. He had lived in his traditional country in the Gibson Desert to the west of the Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) saltpan before the drought of the late 1950s forced him and his family to walk to the distant ration station at lkuntji (Haasts Bluff). After a short stay he returned to his country, where he contacted the government patrol officer Jeremy Long, with whom he returned east to the new government settlement at Papunya.Tjapangati was working on the farm at Papunya when he and other Pintupi men took up the brush. In the late 1970s he spent much of his time with his relatives at Balgo Mission, to the north-west of Papunya, and did not paint for the market for extended periods. Tjapangati was a vital force behind the eventual return of the Pintupi to their traditional country of Kiwirrkura in the mid-1980s. At this time, he also became a key guardian for the
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