Timmy Payungka Tjapanagarti - Artist Info

About Timmy Payungka Tjapanagarti

Name variants

Timmy Payungka, Tim Payunka Tjapandti, Timmy Payungka Tjapangati
  • Biography

    Timmy was among the first Pintupi men to begin painting on hardboard at Papunya in 1971. He lived on traditional courtry in the Gibson Desert. He was a driving force to return the Pintupi to their traditional lands in the mid 1980s. He was a highly individual painter among the Pintupi artists, figuration played a large part in his earlier works.

    In the later phase of his work he fills the picture space with intricate 'key ' patterns which are characteristically incised onto wooden objects associated with secret ceremonies, & the palette is reduced to a red ochre underocat covered by a maze of black & white dotted lines.

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