Artist: John Kipara Tjakamarra | Title: Tingari | Year: 1982 | Medium: Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen | Dimensions: 121 x 90.5 cm

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ARTIST PROFILE

COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT

LANGUAGE
Pintupi

BIOGRAPHY
John Kipara was born and grew up near Kulkuta west of Tjukurla north of the present day community of Kiwrikurra and spent his youth in salt lake country southwest of Lake Macdonald. His family had been one of the first groups to be re-settled at Papunya in the early sixties and after John first encountered Europeans for the first time when in his early 30’s he expressed his desire to join them…. Continue reading

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ARTIST PROFILE

COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT

LANGUAGE
Pintupi

BIOGRAPHY
John Kipara was born and grew up near Kulkuta west of Tjukurla north of the present day community of Kiwrikurra and spent his youth in salt lake country southwest of Lake Macdonald. His family had been one of the first groups to be re-settled at Papunya in the early sixties and after John first encountered Europeans for the first time when in his early 30’s he expressed his desire to join them…. Continue reading

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Newstead Art acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, as the traditional owners and custodians of  land on which we work and reside. We pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present & emerging.