Artist: Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa | Title: Untitled | Year: c. 1972 | Medium: Two hand-painted boomerangs | Dimensions: 80 x 15 cm
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya, NT
LANGUAGE
Anmatyerre / Arrernte
BIOGRAPHY
Although born west of Napperby at the Emu Dreaming site of Altijira, Kaapa’s father’s country lay to the west at Warlurkulangu, the ancestral bushfire site in Warlpiri country, while his mother was Anmatjerre/Arrernte from further east. After a year of seclusion during initiation at Napperby he became a stockman at the adjacent Mount Allan station and subsequently worked cattle in what was a physically demanding and often-dangerous life. After a period droving cattle between the Tanami desert and Mount Isa in North Queensland he settled for a time in Haasts Bluff along with his younger ‘brother’ Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa and their cousins Tim Leura, Clifford Possum and Billy Stockman with whom he had grown up…. Continue Reading
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Papunya, NT
LANGUAGE
Anmatyerre / Arrernte
BIOGRAPHY
Although born west of Napperby at the Emu Dreaming site of Altijira, Kaapa’s father’s country lay to the west at Warlurkulangu, the ancestral bushfire site in Warlpiri country, while his mother was Anmatjerre/Arrernte from further east. After a year of seclusion during initiation at Napperby he became a stockman at the adjacent Mount Allan station and subsequently worked cattle in what was a physically demanding and often-dangerous life. After a period droving cattle between the Tanami desert and Mount Isa in North Queensland he settled for a time in Haasts Bluff along with his younger ‘brother’ Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa and their cousins Tim Leura, Clifford Possum and Billy Stockman with whom he had grown up…. Continue Reading
