Artist Profile

Walala Tjapaltjarri

Pintupi, Great Sandy Desert

Artist Profile

Walala Tjapaltjarri

Pintupi, Great Sandy Desert

Born: 1960’s

Language Group: Pintupi, Great Sandy Desert

Walala Tjapaltjarri was born in 1960s and spent his childhood with his relatives who lived a fully nomadic existence.

It was in 1984 that his family moved to the community at Kiwirrkura, the remote community in the Great Sandy Desert he first started painting in 1997.