Born at Haasts Bluff in the late 1940’s during the early years of mission settlement. Pansy is of Luritja/Warlpiri descent. Her father and grandfather are Warlpiri tribesmen and were born at Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), west of Papunya. Pansy took her first steps into the Aboriginal Art world by learning about the Dreamings of her father’s […]

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Born at Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), west of Yuendumu, c 1949, Michael grew up in the bush, living a traditional life, ‘without clothes’, seeing his first white man at Mt Doreen Station.
He remembers hiding in the bush in fear. Michael lived at Haasts Bluff for a time with the same family group as Long Jack Phillipus. […]

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Josie was born in 1954 at Santa Teresa. She has always lived a semi-traditional lifestyle, spending her early years foraging - searching for bush foods. This was the way of life for Central Desert families throughout the generations, this was their formal education, what living each day was all about - just as her mother […]

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Born in 1910, Kngwarreye did not take up painting seriously as an Aboriginal Artist until she was nearly 80. She lived in the Anmatyerre language group at Alhalkere in the Utopia community, about 200 km north east of Alice Springs. For much of her later life she was mostly known for her batik work along […]

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Dinny’s place of birth is West of Mt Allan, close to present-day Yuendumu. Dinny’s birth date is put back as far as 1922 as he says he survived the Coniston massacre of 1928. Dinny spent many years working as a stockman across the Northern Territory before arriving in Papunya in the mid 70’s. Dinny is […]

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