Collection: Ronnie Tjampitjinpa

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was a foundational figure in the Western Desert art movement and one of the youngest original members of the Papunya Tula Artists. Born near the Western Australia–Northern Territory border, he was raised in traditional Pintupi life and initiated into sacred law at Yumari.

Following a period of severe drought, his family relocated to Papunya, where he later began painting in the early 1970s, as Aboriginal artists first started using acrylic on canvas—a
transformative moment in contemporary Indigenous art.  Read full bio