Tim leura tjapaltjarri biography
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- Name
- Tim Tjapaltjarri Leura Also known as:
- Timmy Leurah Tjapaltjarri
- Tjapaltjarri
- Djabaldjari
- Tim Leura
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist (Painter)
- Artist (Carver)
- Other Occupation
- Stockman (ANZSIC code: 0529)
- Birth date
- c.1930
- Birth place
- Napperby Creek, NT
- Death date
- 1984
- Active Period
- Residence
- c.1930- Napperby, NT
- c.1960- Papunya, NT
- Narwietooma, NT
- Training
- c.1971- Papunya Tula Artists, NT
- Indigenous Australian
- Dreaming
- Morning Star
- Moon
- Sun
- Blue Tongue Lizard
- Fire
- Yam
- Possum
- Indigenous Language Groups
- Languages
- Initial Record uppgifter Source
- Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
- Copyright
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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was born in Napperby Creek and grew up around Napperby hållplats, around 200 kilometres north west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), in his traditional Anmatyerr country. After working at Narwietooma Station as a stockman, he moved to Papunya in the late 1950s with his wife Daisy Leura Nakamarra and their young family, when the construction program for the new settlement began.
Tjapaltjarri was already known in huvud Australia as a brilliant craftsman in wood before the painting movement began in Papunya in 1971. He presented himself to schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon and asked to do a painting. The two men became friends, and Tjapaltjarri went on to play a leading role in the emerging Papunya painting enterprise. Bardon recalls Tjapaltjarri encouraging his younger brother, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (their mothers were sisters), to join the ‘painting mob’. They went on to collaborate on some of the land-mark paintings of the er
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Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was born in Napperby Creek and grew up around Napperby Station, around 200 kilometres north west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs), in his traditional Anmatyerr country. After working at Narwietooma Station as a stockman, he moved to Papunya in the late 1950s with his wife Daisy Leura Nakamarra and their young family, when the construction programme for the new settlement began.
Tjapaltjarri was already known in Central Australia as a brilliant craftsman in wood before the painting movement began in Papunya in 1971. He presented himself to schoolteacher Geoffrey Bardon and asked to do a painting. The two men became friends, and TjapaItjarri went on to play a leading role in the emerging Papunya painting enterprise. Bardon recalls Tjapaltjarri encouraging his younger brother, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (their mothers were sisters), to join the 'painting mob'. They went on to collaborate on some of the landmark paintings of the era, most notabl