Artist: Maxie Tjampitjinpa | Title: Corroboree | Year: 1985 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Dimensions: 90 x 60 cm
PROVENANCE
Western Desert Art
Private Collection, VIC
Private Collection, NSW
EXHIBITED
AIAM100 Exhibition Launch, Cooee Aboriginal ArT
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Maxie Tjampitjinpa grew up in Hassts Bluff and attended the school in Papunya during the late 1960’s prior to the establishment of the Western Desert art movement. By the time Geoff Bardon began teaching at the school Maxie had been to High School at Nightcliff, in Darwin and was working in the Territory capital. On returning to Papunya in his early 20’s he worked as a tractor driver and Police tracker before starting to paint in 1980, just as many of the early painters were moving west to return to their homelands near the newly established community of Kintore. As one of the second generation Papunya Tula artists, Maxie began painting during a period when Desert art was moving towards a more individual form of expressiveness as artists moved beyond the limited iconographic lexicon formulated by the older artists in consultation with Geoff Bardon, and Peter Fannin. He was instructed by Old Mick Wallankarri Tjakamarra, highly revered for his traditional knowledge and one of the senior custodians of the Honey Ant Dreaming centrally located at Papunya.
© Adrian Newstead
PROVENANCE
Western Desert Art
Private Collection, VIC
Private Collection, NSW
EXHIBITED
AIAM100 Exhibition Launch, Cooee Aboriginal ArT
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Maxie Tjampitjinpa grew up in Hassts Bluff and attended the school in Papunya during the late 1960’s prior to the establishment of the Western Desert art movement. By the time Geoff Bardon began teaching at the school Maxie had been to High School at Nightcliff, in Darwin and was working in the Territory capital. On returning to Papunya in his early 20’s he worked as a tractor driver and Police tracker before starting to paint in 1980, just as many of the early painters were moving west to return to their homelands near the newly established community of Kintore. As one of the second generation Papunya Tula artists, Maxie began painting during a period when Desert art was moving towards a more individual form of expressiveness as artists moved beyond the limited iconographic lexicon formulated by the older artists in consultation with Geoff Bardon, and Peter Fannin. He was instructed by Old Mick Wallankarri Tjakamarra, highly revered for his traditional knowledge and one of the senior custodians of the Honey Ant Dreaming centrally located at Papunya.
© Adrian Newstead
