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unusual facts about Papunya Tula


Papunya Tula

Curated by Professor Vivien Johnson, the exhibition was significant in introducing the movement's importance to the general audience.


Geoffrey Bardon

Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in creating the Aboriginal art of the Western Desert movement, and in bringing Australian indigenous art to the attention of the world.

Ken Searle

From 1998 to 2001 Searle worked as a consultant at the school in the Aboriginal community of Papunya in central Australia, the place where the Western Desert Art Movement originated.

Nora Andy Napaltjarri

Nora Andy's mother is artist Entalura Nangala who, along with Nora's sisters Ada Andy Napaltjarri, Emily Andy Napaltjarri and Charlene Andy Napaltjarri, painted for major Indigenous art company Papunya Tula.


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Wintjiya Napaltjarri

Wintjiya's work was included in a survey of the history of Papunya Tula painting hosted by Flinders University in the late 1990s.