Everything about Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri totally explained
Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, (b c.
1927 at
Ilpitirri near
Mt. Denison) is one of
Australia's most well-known artists of the
Western Desert Art Movement, or
Papunya Tula.
His mother was killed in the
Coniston Massacre in
1928; his father was away from the camp hunting and survived. Billy was raised on Napperby Station by his auntie, the mother of
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In the
1960s he was working as a cook at
Papunya when many of the
Pintupi people were brought in from the west. Like Clifford he began his artistic career carving wooden animals for the arts and crafts marketplace. He is credited with being one of the men who painted the Honey Ant Dreaming on the wall of the Papunya School at
Geoff Bardon's request. He was, in the '70s, one of the first chairmen of
Papunya Tula Pty Ltd.
He later moved west to Ilili, a pioneer in the country camp movement, although in his later years he's spent much time in
Alice Springs. He travelled to
New York in
1988 for the opening of the "Dreamings" show at the Asia Society and, along with
Michael Nelson Jagamarra, created a sand painting as part of the exhibition.
Reference
'The Tjulkurra': Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, ISBN 1-876622-37-7
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