Artist: Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri | Title: Bushfire Dreaming | Year: 1978 | Medium: acrylic on canvas | Dimensions: 89 x 22 cm
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya, NT
LANGUAGE
Anmatyerre
BIOGRAPHY
Clifford Possum was the first recognised star of the Western Desert art and one of Australia’s most distinguished painters of the late twentieth century. After his father, Tjatjiti Tjungurrayai, passed away during Clifford’s youth in the 1940s, his mother, Long Rose Nangala, settled at Jay Creek with her second husband, One Pound Jim Tjungurrayai. One Pound Jim, a legendary figure in Central Australia, acted as guide to early travellers and anthropologists and became the Aboriginal face of the centre after his portrait featured on the stamp used by the Australian postal service between 1950 and the introduction of decimal currency in 1966… Continue Reading
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya, NT
LANGUAGE
Anmatyerre
BIOGRAPHY
Clifford Possum was the first recognised star of the Western Desert art and one of Australia’s most distinguished painters of the late twentieth century. After his father, Tjatjiti Tjungurrayai, passed away during Clifford’s youth in the 1940s, his mother, Long Rose Nangala, settled at Jay Creek with her second husband, One Pound Jim Tjungurrayai. One Pound Jim, a legendary figure in Central Australia, acted as guide to early travellers and anthropologists and became the Aboriginal face of the centre after his portrait featured on the stamp used by the Australian postal service between 1950 and the introduction of decimal currency in 1966… Continue Reading
