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Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri

Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri (c.1935 - 1987) was active/lived in Australia.  Tommy Tjapaltjarri is known for Wood carving, paintings symbolic of ancestors.

Originally a carver of wooden objects, Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri joined the first group of painters at Papunya in 1971 when Geoffrey Bardon encouraged the senior men to paint in European materials – thus leading to the formation of the cooperative Papunya Tula Artists.

The main subject of Tjapaltjarri’s paintings are the Tingari ancestors, particularly in the guise of two Great Snakes in his customary lands country around Patjarr in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia – one of the most remote locations in the continent.

Lowry’s early paintings refer to ceremony and the associated objects – for example, his earliest recorded painting from 1971, Three Corroboree Poles, in the Wilkerson Collection depicts ceremonial poles.1 Wally Caruna..

Sources:
1) Benjamin, R and Weislogel, A.C. (eds.), Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, 2009, p. 80

2) Bardon,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1166 characters.]  Artist bio

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