1926 - 2005 Wenten grew up, in the area of the Alice Springs town and surrounding cattle stations, free of the traditional cultural strictures which affected most Hermannsburg School artists. He was not under the direct influence of either the Lutheran Finke River Mission or the senior Aboriginal [...]
1926 – 1989 Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa was the major transitional artist between the watercolour landscape tradition of the Hermannsburg School and the Geoffrey Bardon initiated transformation of traditional Western Desert Aboriginal Art at Papunya from 1971. From the late 1950s Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was based in Papunya, north-west [...]
1941 – 1983 Trevor Pareroultja was the son of Otto and Laurel Pareroultja. Although he was not a prolific painter, Trevor was very talented, exhuberant and expressive. Not much is known about him. Trevor’s mother Laurel was Loritja. Trevor was Western Arrernte, subsection Peltharre. He was born and [...]
1949 - 1991 Jillian Namatjira’s passionate paintings expressed a joy of life, despite pain. She shared her feelings, which ranged from hope to exuberance. She lived at Areyonga and her archetypal scenes were set in beautiful country, probably far out west of Hermannsburg. The author feels very touched [...]
