Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri

Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri (* 1927 or 1925 near Ilpitirri near Mount Denison ; † beginning of September 2015 near Papunya ) was an Aborigine from the Anmatyerre tribe and a well-known Australian painter in the cultural area of ​​the Western Desert in the artist town of Papunya.

Life

His mother was killed during the Coniston massacre in 1928. He survived because his mother hid him in a coolamon , a carrier bag, and his father, who was hunting, later found him there. He grew up in Napperby Station with his mother's sister in the relatives of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri , one of the most successful painters of dot painting (dot painting). In the 1960s he worked first as a drover and later as a cook in the Papunya artists' settlement . He lived with his wife Intinika, with whom he had two sons and daughters.

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He began his career as an artist as a carver of wooden animals. He was a painter of the first generation of Papunya, as with other artists at the suggestion of the art teacher he in 1971 Geoffrey Bardon , the Honey Ant Dreaming , a work with themes of the Dreamtime of honey ants created, on the walls of the school building of Papunya. In 1972 he co-founded the artists' organization Papunya Tula Ltd and was its chairman from 1976 to 1977. He painted until the 1990s.

In 1988 he exhibited his pictures at the Art of Aboriginal Australia exhibition in New York. Further exhibitions followed in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and on the occasion of the All Black Festival in South Africa. He lived and painted in Papunya or in Ilili near Papunya. His pictures are represented in numerous collections worldwide.

Others

He wrote a book about his fate as a survivor of the Coniston massacre: The Tjulkurra: Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri .

Web links

• Biography of Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
• Pictures of him on www.artnet.de
• Image ( Budgerigar Dreaming ) by Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri on Art Gallery of South Australia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ invaluable.com
2. ↑ The Guardian (Note: The source names Kumuntjayi Stockman Tjapaltjarri )
3. ^ National Museum of Australia at nma.gov.au : Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri , in English, accessed August 26, 2012