Dinny (dini) was born around 1945 near Jupiter Well in Western Australia on the land of the Pintupi. His family joined Balgo's mission in the 1950s. He is the brother of Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, one of the first to paint in 1971. It was Anatjari who would push Dinny to paint. He started by assisting Uta Uta Tjangala (on the pointillist background).

In the early 1980s, the Pintupi recovered their ancestral lands and Dinny settled there with a large part of the members of his ethnic group. It was there and at that time that he began to paint his own works. It is most often inspired by the Tingari Cycles associated with the sites around Lake Nyaru and Walatju.

In 2003 the Australian post office reproduces one of his paintings on ...