Michael nelson tjakamarra biography of christopher

          Michael was born at Vaughan Springs in the Northern Territory in the year He first saw white men at Mount Doreen Station and remembers hiding in the bush.!

          “We've got to show the world what we're doing, (we) aboriginal people in Australia,” says Nelson (Tjakamarra is his clan or “skin name”).

        1. “We've got to show the world what we're doing, (we) aboriginal people in Australia,” says Nelson (Tjakamarra is his clan or “skin name”).
        2. The extensive exhibition text makes explicit reference to Warlpiri artist Michael Nelson Tjakamarra who was commissioned in to paint an art car for the BMW.
        3. Michael was born at Vaughan Springs in the Northern Territory in the year He first saw white men at Mount Doreen Station and remembers hiding in the bush.
        4. One of the most famous Aboriginal artworks, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra's Five Stories, has been sold overseas for a record price.
        5. A good example is the famous painting by the Papunya- based painter, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra that adorned the cover of the catalog of the.

          6. Kumantje Jagamara

          Aboriginal Australian painter (c.1946–2020)

          Kumantje JagamaraAM (c.1946 – November 2020), also known as Kumantje Nelson Jagamara, Michael Minjina Nelson Tjakamarra, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra and variations (Kumantye, Jagamarra, Jakamara), was an Aboriginal Australian painter.

          He was one of the most significant proponents of the Western Desert art movement, an early style of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

          Early life and education

          Kumantje Jagamara (the name preferred by his family[1]) was born at Pikilyi, aka Vaughan Springs, Northern Territory (about 105 kilometres (65 mi) west of Yuendumu[2]), around 1946.[3] His parents were both Walpiri and his father was an important "Medicine Man" in the Yuendumu community.[4][5]

          He lived a traditional lifestyle, and his grandfather taught him sand-, body-, and shield-painting.[3]

          He first saw white men at Mount Doreen Station, a