Tim leura tjapaltjarri biography

  • Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was born in Napperby Creek and grew up around Napperby Station, around 200 kilometres north west of Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
  • Along with his younger 'brother', Clifford Possum, he was acclaimed for his wooden carvings of snakes and goannas prior joining in the early artistic endeavours.
  • Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was born in 1934 and grew up and worked around Napperby and nearby cattle stations.

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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

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    Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri (abt. 1928 - 1984)

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    Born about in Napperby hållplats, Northern Territory, Australia

    Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

    [sibling(s) unknown]

    [spouse(s) unknown]

    [children unknown]

    Died at about age 56in Northern Territory, Australia

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    Biography

    Tim Tjapaltjarri fryst vatten an Indigenous Australian.

    Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was another of the wonderfully gifted artistic Aboriginal wood carvers and painters of the Anmatyerre tribal distrikt northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, and 'said' to be a brother or 'brother' of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri-1. However, Vivien Johnson, whose definitive work on the artists of the Papunya 'School' published in 2010, has it that "Tim and Clifford were the sons of Kwalapa's sisters Margie Long Nangala and Long Rose Nangala. Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri was adopted in Cliff

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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 Data Source
    • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary
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