Warlimpirrnga tjapaltjarri biography of nancy

Aboriginal Australian artist

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (Pintupi:[waɭɪmb̥ɪrɟab̥əɭɟari]; born late 1950s) is an Australian Aboriginal artist. He is one of central Australia's most well-known indigenous artists.

Early life

See also: Pintupi Nine

Tjapaltjarri was born in the late 1950s,^[6] near Lake Mackay, east of where Kiwirrkurra is today.^[4] His family were Pintupi hunter-gatherers who lived a traditional nomadic way of life on the western side of the lake, and had never come into contact with Euro-Australian society. Tjapaltjarri's father died when he was a young boy, and his mother remarried shortly after. Tjapaltjarri himself married his cousin Yalti sometime around 1980. He served as the family's main provider of food,^[7] hunting with spears, mirru (spear-throwers) and boomerangs.^[3]

In 1984, when Tjapaltjarri was about 25, he finally came into contact with people from outside his fami Warlimpirrnga tjapaltjarri biography of nancy dr.