Title
Wallaby Camps
circa 1978
Artist
Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra
Australia
1932 – 2020
Language groups: Pintupi, Western Desert region, Warlpiri, Central Desert region, Luritja, Central Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Central and Western Desert
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Australia
- Cultural origin
- Luritja/Warlpiri, Papunya/Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Central Desert region
- Date
- circa 1978
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on wood
- Dimensions
- 15.0 x 94.0 cm
- Credit
- Donated by Katherine and Christopher Goodnow through the Cultural Gifts Program, in memory of Professor Jacqueline Goodnow AC 2015
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 15.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra
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About
Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra spent his early years in the country surrounding Mt Farwell before moving to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) with his family at a teenager. He arrived in Papunya, via Mt Doreen in 1962. Here he worked as a groundsman and gardener, alongside Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri. Both men offered their help in painting the smaller murals around the Papunya Special School, before the painting of the 'Honey Ant mural', with which they assisted. With the support of Geoffrey Bardon they then began painting at the back of his classroom, behind a barricade of desks, contributing a number of works to the very first consignments from Papunya.
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Places
Where the work was made
Central and Western Desert
