Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, born in the late 1950s, spent his early life moving through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts with his immediate family, living traditionally and largely outside Western contact until 1984. This deep connection to Country underpins the extraordinary optical force of his paintings. Using finely patterned grounds overlaid with tightly controlled lines composed of countless dots, he creates surfaces that seem to flicker, surge and vibrate, evoking ancestral narratives and the vast desert topographies they describe.

Since emerging as a major figure within the Papunya Tula movement, Tjapaltjarri has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions in Sydney and New York and inclusion in key international surveys such as dOCUMENTA 13 in Germany. His work has been shown across leading museums in the United States and Europe, and is held in significant public collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Harvard Art Museums and the Musée du Quai Branly.

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