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Numerous Indigenous Australians are noted for their participation in, and contributions to, the
Visual arts of Australia Australian art is any art made in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, from prehistoric times to the present. This includes Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, early-twentieth-century painters, print makers, photographers, and ...
and abroad.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded a ...
is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. ''Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.''


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Ada Andy Napaltjarri Ada Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1954) is a Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ada was born near Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, and has lived in several Northern Territory communities. ...
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Albert Namatjira Albert Namatjira (born Elea Namatjira; 28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the greatest and most influential Australian artists. As a pioneer of cont ...
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Alison Milyika Carroll Milyika Carroll (born 1958), also known as Alison Carroll, Alison Milyika Carroll, or "Windlass" Carroll, is an Aboriginal Australian artist. She is also a community leader on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia ...
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Alma Nungarrayi Granites Alma Nungarrayi Granites (1955-2017), a Warlpiri woman, was an Australian artist. She lived at Yuendumu, and was known for painting ''Yanjirlpirri'', also Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa or Napaljarri-Warnu, Seven Sisters Dreaming Star Dreaming. Work ...
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Anatjari Tjakamarra Anatjari Tjakamarra (c. 1930–1992) was a Central Australian Aboriginal artist who was part of the Papunya Tula art movement. He came from the area of Kulkuta, southeast of Kiwirrkura in Western Australia. He was a Pintupi man. He came to Papun ...
* Angelina Pwerle * Anniebell Marrngamarrnga *
Archie Moore Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1913 – December 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962). He had one of the longest ...
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Banduk Marika Banduk Mamburra Wananamba Marika (13 October 1954 – 12 July 2021) was an artist and printmaker from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. She was a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people, whose traditional land is Yalangba ...
* Barbara McGrady *
Barbara Weir Barbara (originally Florrie) Weir (born c. 1945, died 3 January 2023) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and politician. One of the Stolen Generations, she was removed from her Aboriginal family and raised in a series of foster homes. In the ...
* Betty Muffler *
Biddy Rockman Napaljarri Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She has been painting since 1986, and her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Life Biddy Rockma ...
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Bill Yidumduma Harney Bill Yidumduma Harney is an elder of the Wardaman people, known as an artist, storyteller, and musician. As of 2022, he lives at Menngen Station, near Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia, which lies in the traditional lands of the W ...
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Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri __NOTOC__ Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, (c. 1927, in Ilpitirri near Mount Denison,- September 2015) was one of Australia's best-known artists of the Western Desert Art Movement, Papunya Tula. Tjapaltjarri's mother was killed in the Coniston M ...
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Bronwyn Bancroft Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a ...
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Brook Andrew Brook Andrew (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian contemporary artist. Work Andrew has exhibited internationally since 1996. His work focuses on Western narratives, especially relating to colonialism in the Australian context, and ...
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Cassidy Possum Tjapaltjarri Cassidy Possum (Stockman) Tjapaltjarri (1923 – 25 February 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal spokesman, a tribal elder and well known visual artist. He was born at Napperby in the Northern Territory around 1923. It is unclear exactly when ...
* Charmaine Green * Cheryl Moggs * Christian Thompson *
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 – 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and ...
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Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955–2008) was a Pintupi language, Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region, and sister of artist Molly Jugadai Napalt ...
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Danie Mellor Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay, Queensland, Mellor grew up in Scotland, Australia, and South Africa before undertak ...
* Daniel Boyd * Darren Siwes *
David Malangi David Malangi (192719 June 1999) was an Indigenous Australian Yolngu artist from the Northern Territory. He was one of the most well known bark painters from Arnhem Land and a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. He wa ...
* David Miller *
Dhambit Mununggurr Dhambit Mununggurr (born 1968) is an Yolngu artist known for unique ultramarine blue bark paintings inspired by natural landscapes and Yolngu stories and legends. Her father Mutitjpuy Mununggurr and mother Gulumbu Yunupingu were both celeb ...
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Dhuwarrwarr Marika Dhuwarrwarr Marika (born 1946), also known as Banuminy, a female contemporary Aboriginal artist. She is a Yolngu artist and community leader from East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. She belongs to the Dhuwa moiety of the ...
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Dick Roughsey Dick Roughsey (ca. 1920 – 1985) was an Indigenous Australians, Australian Aboriginal artist from the Lardil language group on Mornington Island in the south-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. His tribal name was Goobalathaldin, meaning †...
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Digby Moran Albert Digby Moran (1948-2020) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. His work derived inspiration from his Bundjalung ancestors in the north of New South Wales, Australia, where he remains one of the Northern Rivers' most recognised artists. ...
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Dorothy Djukulul Dorothy Djukulul (born 1942) is a traditional Australian Aboriginal artist who lives in Ramingining in Central Arnhem Land. She speaks Ganalbingu and is a part of the Gurrumba Gurrumba clan, who identify as being a part of the Yirrija moiety. ...
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Dorothy Napangardi Dorothy Napangardi (born early 1950s – 1 June 2013) was a Warlpiri language, Warlpiri speaking contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Tanami Desert and who worked in Alice Springs. Life Dorothy Napangardi was the daughter of ...
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Eileen Napaltjarri Eileen Napaltjarri (born 1956) is a Pintupi-speaking Aboriginal Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Eileen Napaltjarri, also known as Anyima Napaltjarri, began painting for Papunya Tula artists' cooperative in 1996. She was ...
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Austr ...
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Fiona Foley Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland. Foley is known for her activity as an academic, cultural and community leader and for co-founding the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-o ...
* Freddy Timms * Galuma Maymuru *
Gavin Wanganeen Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and also for the Port Adelaide Magpies in ...
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Gertie Huddleston Gertie Huddleston (1916/1933–2013) was an contemporary Indigenous Australian artist who worked in the Ngukurr community. Early life and influences Gertie Huddleston's date of birth is uncertain, and estimates range from 1916 to 1933. She wa ...
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Gloria Petyarre Gloria Petyarre, also known as Gloria Pitjara was born in 1942 in Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia. She was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs. One of her best known works is "Bush M ...
* Gordon Bennett * Harold Thomas *
Helen Nelson Napaljarri Helen Nelson Napaljarri (born c. 1949), also known as Helen White Napajarri or Helen Spencer Napaljarri, is a Walpiri-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. A literacy worker in Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Napalja ...
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Ian Abdulla Ian Abdulla (1947–2011) was an Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist. A Ngarrindjeri man who grew up on the banks of the Murray River, Murray in South Australia, he has been called Australia's greatest naïve art, naive artist. Early l ...
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Jack Dale Mengenen Jack Dale Mengenen (circa 1922 – 8 February 2013) was an Australian Indigenous Australians, indigenous artist, painter, and folklorist. He was also a "custodian" of the traditional culture, stories, and beliefs of his Ngarinyin language, Ngariny ...
* Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles * Jean Baptiste Apuatimi *
Jennifer Herd Jennifer Herd is an Australian Indigenous artist with family ties to the Mbar-barrum people of North Queensland. She is a founding member of the ProppaNOW artist collective, and taught at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, where she conv ...
* Jimmy Pike Kurnti Kujarri *
John Mawurndjul John Mawurndjul (born 1951) is a highly regarded Australian contemporary Indigenous artist. He uses traditional motifs in innovative ways to express spiritual and cultural values, and is especially known for his distinctive and innovative creat ...
* John Moriarty *
Johnny Bulunbulun Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist. He had a posthumous joint exhibition with Zhou Xiaoping in Beijing and Melbourne, called " Trepang: China & the Story of Macassan - Aboriginal Trade". Awards Since 1993, the ...
* Josepha (Josie) Petrick Kemarre *
Judy Watson Judy Watson (born 1959) is an Australian Waanyi multi-media artist who works in print-making, painting, video and installation. Her work often examines Indigenous Australian histories, and she has received a number of high profile commissions ...
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Judy Watson Napangardi Judy Napangardi Watson (–2016), also known as Judy Watson Napangardi and Kumanjayi Napangardi Watson, was an Aboriginal Australian and a senior female painter from the Yuendumu community in the Northern Territory, Australia. Life Judy was bo ...
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Juju Wilson Ju Ju Wilson (born at Mantinea Flats, northern part of Western Australia) is an Australian Aborigines, Aboriginal artist and part of the contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement. Besides being a prolific painter, tour guide, much sought-a ...
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Karla Dickens Karla Dickens (born 2 December 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian installation artist of the Wiradjuri people, based in Lismore, New South Wales. Her works are in major public collections in Australia. Early life and education Dickens was bor ...
* Kathleen Kemarre Wallace * Kathleen Ngale *
Kathleen Petyarre Kathleen Petyarre (born Kweyetwemp Petyarre; c. 1940 – 24 November 2018) was an Australian Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal artist. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreaming (spirituality), Dreamings. Petyarre's paintings have ...
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Katie West Katie West is a Yindjibarndi Western Australian interdisciplinary artist, exhibiting multi-sensory installations. Her exhibitions often feature dyed textiles and native plants, sewn and woven. She documents the processes of her work as a form o ...
* Kay Lindjuwanga *
Kitty Pultara Napaljarri Kitty Pultara Napaljarri (born c. 1930) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. Born at Napperby Station east of Yuendumu, Northern Territory, she wor ...
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Leah King-Smith Leah King-Smith is a Bigambul descendant, visual artist and lecturer in the School of Creative Practice (Creative Industries) QUT, Brisbane, Australia. She is best known for her photo compositions. Her 1991 series ''Patterns of Connection'' is ...
* Lily Kelly Napangardi *
Lin Onus Lin Onus (4 December 1948 – 23 October 1996), born William McLintock Onus and also known as Lin Burralung McLintock Onus, was an Australian artist of Scottish- Aboriginal origins. He was the son of activist Bill Onus. Early life Willia ...
* Linda Syddick Napaltjarri *
Lisa Bellear Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people o ...
* Lorraine Connelly-Northey (mixed heritage) *
Louisa Napaljarri Louisa Lawson Napaljarri (Pupiya) (c. 1930–2001) was a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Louisa commenced painting at Lajamanu, Northern Territory in 1986. Her work is held by the National Gallery of ...
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Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy (born c. 1926) is a Walpiri language, Walpiri and Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. One of the first Indigenous women artis ...
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Mabel Juli __NOTOC__ Mabel Juli (born 1931) is a contemporary artist from the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Early life Juli was born in 1931 or 1932 at Five Mile, near Moola Boola Station. Her traditional name is Wiringoon and her traditional co ...
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Maggie Napaljarri Ross Maggie Napaljarri Ross (born c. 1940) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. Her work has been collected by Artbank and the Kluge-Ruhe Museum in the United States. Life Maggie Ross was born east of Yuendumu, Northern Territory around 1935 or 1940, ...
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Makinti Napanangka Makinti Napanangka ( 1930 – 9 January 2011) was a Pintupi language, Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously ...
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Malaluba Gumana Malaluba Gumana (born 1953) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from northeast Arnhem Land, who has gained prominence through her work in painting and the production of larrakitj, the memorial poles traditionally used by Yolngu people in a mortuary ...
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Margaret Scobie Margaret Scobie (born 1948 in Woola Downs, Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs. Scobie is from one of the most famous Aboriginal artistic families, ...
* Maria Josette Orsto * Mavis Ngallametta * Mawukura (Mulgra) Jimmy Nerrimah *
Megan Cope Megan Cope (born 1982) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. She is known for her sculptural installations, video art and paintings, in which she explores themes such as identity and ...
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Mervyn Bishop Mervyn Bishop (born July 1945) is an Australian news and documentary photographer. Joining ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as a cadet in 1962 he was the first Aboriginal Australian to work on a metropolitan daily newspaper and one of the first to b ...
* Michael Nelson Tjakamarra *
Michael Riley Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962) is a Canadian actor. From 1998 to 2000, he portrayed Brett Parker in ''Power Play''. He has acted in over 40 films and television series, including '' This Is Wonderland'', for which he received a Gemini Awa ...
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Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (b.c.1926 at Marnpi southeast of Kintore, Northern Territory – 1998), was one of the most important painters to emerge from the Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert. From the Pintupi language group, Mick Nam ...
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Minnie Pwerle Minnie Pwerle (also Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl; born between 1910 and 1922 – 18 March 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. She came from Utopia, Northern Territory (''Unupurna'' in local language), a cattle station in the ...
* Mithinarri Gurruwiwi *
Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (1954–2011) was a Pintupi- and Luritja-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia. Life Molly Juga ...
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Mona Rockman Napaljarri Mona Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1924) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings and pottery are held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Life Mona Rockman was born around ...
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Naata Nungurrayi Naata Nungurrayi (born 1932) is an Australian Aboriginal artist. Life Nungurrayi was born at the site of Kumil, west of the in Western Australia in 1932. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore, Northern Territory and is one of the senio ...
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Naomi Hobson Naomi Hobson (born 1979) is an Aboriginal Australian artist of southern Kaantju and Umpila heritage from Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. She works in many media, including painting, photography and ceramics. She started exhib ...
* Narputta Nangala *
Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948; also known as Ngnoia) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ngoia Pollard married Jack Tjampitjinpa, who became an artist working with the Papunya Tula compan ...
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Nici Cumpston Nici Cumpston, (born 1963) is an Australian photographer, painter, curator, writer, and educator. Early life and education Cumpston's family background is Barkindji (an Aboriginal people of New South Wales), Afghan, Irish and English. Born ...
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Nonggirrnga Marawili Nonggirrnga Marawili (c. 1939–2023) was an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker. She was the daughter of the acclaimed artist and pre-contact warrior Mundukul. Marawili was born on the beach at Darrpirra,Skerritt, F. H. (2013). When Time' ...
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Nora Andy Napaltjarri Nora Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1957) is a Warlpiri- and Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. like her mother Entalura Nangala, Nora has painted for Indigenous artists' cooperative Papunya Tula. Her work has ...
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Norah Nelson Napaljarri Norah Nelson Napaljarri (born 26 October 1956) is a Warlpiri-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Norah Nelson began painting in 1986 and has exhibited her works both in Australia and other countries. Her paintin ...
* Nyakul Dawson *
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (1945 – 20 October 2021) was an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker who lived and worked in the community at Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. Yunupingu created works of art that drastically diverg ...
* Nyuju Stumpy Brown * Nyurpaya Kaika Burton *
Olga Miller Olga Eunice Miller ( Wondunna, later Reeves; 27 March 1920 – August 2003), often known as Aunty (or Auntie) Olga or by her traditional name Wandi, was an Australian historian, artist, author and Aboriginal elder of the Butchulla people. She of ...
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Paddy Bedford Paddy Bedford (circa 1922 – 14 July 2007), aka "Goowoomji", was a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Warmun in the Kimberley, and one of eight Australian artists selected for an architectural commission for the Musée du quai Bra ...
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Paddy Japaljarri Stewart Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu. He was chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee. Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the '' ...
* Paji Honeychild Yankarr *
Pantjiti Mary McLean Pantjiti Mary McLean (c. 1930, Kaltukatjara, Western Australia) is a Ngaatjajarra Aboriginal Australian artist. Life Pantjiti Mary McLean was born circa 1930 in Kaltukatjara, Docker River, Western Australia. She met her husband Mr. Bates at ...
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Pansy Napangardi Pansy Napangardi (born 1948) is an Australian artist. She is associated with the Jukurrpa group of women artists in Alice Springs where she lives today. Early life She was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia. She remains one of t ...
* Parara Napaltjarri * Peggy Napangardi Jones *
Peggy Rockman Napaljarri Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (also known as Peggy Yalurrngali Rockman Napaljarri) (born c. 1940) is a Warlpiri language, Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. ...
*Queenie McKenzie *r e a (artist), r e a *Regina Pilawuk Wilson *Rerrkirrwanga Mununggurr *Revel Cooper *Richard Bell (artist), Richard Bell *Rosella Namok *Rover Thomas *Sally Morgan (artist), Sally Morgan *Sheila Brown Napaljarri *Shirley Macnamara *Shirley Purdie *Sid Domic *Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri *Takariya Napaltjarri *Therese Ryder *Timmy Payungka Tjapangati *Tjunkiya Napaltjarri *Tjyllyungoo (Lance Chadd) *Tom Djäwa (also known as Djäwa Daygurrgurr) *Yannima Tommy Watson, Tommy Watson *Tony Albert *Topsy Gibson Napaljarri *Tracey Moffatt *Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri *Vernon Ah Kee *Vincent Namatjira *Wandjuk Marika *Wenten Rubuntja *Wintjiya Napaltjarri *William Barak *Yilpi Adamson


See also

* List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives *List of Indigenous Australian musicians *List of Indigenous Australian writers *Indigenous Australian art


References

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