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| Willy
Rider Tjungurrayi |  | | | | | | | | | | | Biography
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Tjungurrayi was born at Patjantja, south west of Lake Mackay around 1930. Willy's
skin name and age makes him a brother of Brandy Tjungurrayi, as well as the older
brother of George Tjungurrayi. As did Brandy, Willy grew up in the bush and was
brought with his family to Haasts Bluff in the late 1950s. He moved to Papunya
where he started painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1976.
In the 1980s
he emerged as one of the senior Pintupi painters. He paints stories linked to
the Tingari Song Cycles relating to these places. The artist's senior position
in his community entitles him to paint the most significant and secret parts of
the Tingari stories, many of which cannot be revealed to the uninitiated. He tends
to paint with a restrained palette (browns, oranges, dusky pinks and creams) typical
of many of the Papunya artists. His recent work is comprised of irregular lines
of very fine, pale dotting on a coloured background, resulting in subtle, elegant,
linear images.
Willy Tjungurrayi's work has been collected by the National
Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Holmes à Court collection and
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