BORN 1956 Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire UK STUDIES Middlesbrough College of Art, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Byam Shaw School of Art, London Background I was the oldest of seven children, born into a three-bedroom council house in Middlesbrough. My father was a labourer, with no trade or qualifications. There was no luxury. Three pennies a week would…Read more »

BORN 1962 REGION Kalipinypa, Central Australia LANGUAGE Luritja Background Dennis Nelson was born in Alice Springs. He is the son of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, who was among the first Aboriginal men to paint their dreaming stories on canvas in the early 1970s and one of the founders of the desert painting movement. Denis has been painting since the…Read more »

BORN circa 1942 REGION Kintore LANGUAGE Pintupi Background Ronnie was born around 1943 near Muyinnga, about 100 kilometres west of the Kintore ranges in Western Australia. His family moved extensively across the Pintupi territory up through the Northern Territory, living the traditional ways, which his people have lived for over 40,000 years. Ronnie and…Read more »

BORN circa 1936 REGION Western desert LANGUAGE Pintupi Born at Patjantja, south-west of Lake Mackay, Willy was raised by Charlie Tarawa, who was Willy's father's brother. Willy was raised 'in the bush'-'naked' with 'only nulla nulla and woomera'. The brother of respected painters Brandy and George "Hairbrush" Tjungarrayi and the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, at Patjantja, southwest of…Read more »

Born circa 1947 Region Pintupi Language Pintupi George Ward Tjungurrayi was born in Kiwirrkura around the year 1945. George and his older brother, Willy Tjungurrayi, who is also a senior Pintupi painter, moved to Papunya in the 1960s. He was brought into Papunya in 1962 by the Northern Territory patrols which Jeremy Long was in charge of after…Read more »