Stories

Pansy was associated with Tingari Arts for many years and was always keen to paint, chat and laugh. She was fun, a pleasure to be with and it was an honour for Linx Macpherson, Director, Tingari Arts, to listen to Pansy relating her Dreaming Stories whilst she painted, especially the Willy Wagtail and Hail Stories. Pansy Napangati was one of the first women to paint in her own right in...

Dr George and Barney Campbell had many similaritiesincluding singing or laughing whilst painting. They were both born around 1930 and lived a nomadic life before contact with white people and were respected senior Pintupi law men.  George Tjapaltjarri (Dr George) was widely respected traditional healer, spiritual leader and one of the most powerful western desert men. The white doctors he worked with in Kintore gave him the name ‘Dr George’...

Walala, Thomas (Tamayinya) and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri Warlimpirringa encouraged his brothers to paint and by the late 1990’s all three, along with Dr George Tjapaltjarri, were painting in Alice Springs. I first began working with Walala and Thomas in 2001 and Warlimpirrnga in 2003. Walala spent more time in Alice Springs than Thomas or Warlimpirrnga, who were often in Kiwirrkura (just over the WA border). They liked painting together and appeared to all be...

"It can look like mesmerising swirling leaves being blown by a restless wind" In 2005 Gloria said she would like to paint a very large painting, that is 305cm x 183cm! Watching the beautiful work being created was a privilege I could not have imagined in my previous life. Gloria asks for three colours to be mixed for her at a certain consistency. This time the colours are to be...