Ngarralja Tommy May
Indigenous Australia artist
About Ngarralja Tommy May
Lived 1935 – 2022 (aged 86–87). Ngarralja Tommy May was a contemporary artist.
Ngarralja Tommy May was an Indigenous Australian artist. He won the 2020 NATSIAA Telstra Award for his tin-etching art, 'Wirrkanja'. May died in 2022.
He was a Wangkajungka/Walmajarri man born in Yarrnkurnja in the Great Sandy Desert, in 1935. His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Work In 1997, May collaborated with over 40 other artists over a period of 12 days to produce Ngurrara Canvas II, a painting with an area of 80 square metres depicting the Great Sandy Desert. In 2019, May and four other artists worked with Lisa Gorman on limited edition clothing.
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Indigenous Australia artist
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Ngarralja Tommy May was born in 1935.
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Ngarralja Tommy May was a contemporary artist.
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