Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in the early 1940s at Tjiturrunya, west of Mawuyan, across the Northern Territory border in Western Australia.  He spent most of his formative years as a nomad in the remote desert surrounding his birthplace. He and his family were then removed to the newly formed Papunya settlement in the early 1960s, where he commenced painting in 1971. His work is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.