Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, 2007 - Weight, Greg, 1946- (2007)
Title devised by cataloguer based on inscriptions.
Part of the collection: Portraits of prominent indigenous artists of the Western Desert region of the Northern Territory, 2007.
Inscriptions: "A/P GW"--In ink below image; Photographer's blind stamp lower right corner; "Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa 2007, Alice Springs, c. Greg Weight 2007"--In pencil on verso.
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Purchased from the photographer, 2008.
"Born west of Mount Allan, near present-day Yuendumu, Tjampitjinpa is the younger 'brother' of Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and a cousin of Clifford Possum, Tim Leura and Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, all Papunya Tula artists. He worked as a stockman before settling in Papunya to paint for Papunya Tula Artists in the mid-1970s ... One of his designs has been reproduced as stained glass in one of the windows of the National Gallery of Victoria"--National Museum of Australia.
Keywords: Tjampitjinpa, Dinny Nolan -- Portraits; Papunya Tula Artists -- Portraits; Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- 21st century -- Portraits; Artists -- Northern Territory -- 21st century -- Portraits; Artists