About Timmy Payungka Tjapangati
Lived 1942 – 2000 (aged 57–58). Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was an Australian painter, known for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art and Painting.
Timmy Payungka (1942 – 7 May 2000) was an Aboriginal Australian artist, a Pintupi man who worked at the Papunya Tula school of painting. He was born at Parayirpilynga, near Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
He met his wife at Warburton. depicts part of a sacred men's story of his people. A Perth company had used Kangaroo and Shield People Dreaming for copying onto rugs to be made in Vietnam.
He also advocated for the resettlement of the Pintupi homelands.
In his later years, Timmy lived in Alice Springs and was assisted in his painting by his wife, Emily. He died on 7 May 2000.
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Who was Timmy Payungka Tjapangati?
Australian artist (1942-2000)
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Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was born in 1942 in Lake Mackay.
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Timmy Payungka Tjapangati died on 7 May 2000 in Alice Springs.
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Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was a painter.
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Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was known for Contemporary Indigenous Australian art and Painting.
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Timmy Payungka Tjapangati was Australian.
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