George Ward Tjungurrayi
George Ward Tjungurrayi was born around 1947 in the Western Desert near the remote West Australian community of Tjukurrla. His father had died when he was young, and it was not until his teenage years that George first met with white settlers. This meeting occurred when a welfare patrol encountered his family group which had camped by a desert waterhole. George later travelled east to the government settlement at Papunya. There he worked as a fencer and a butcher in the community kitchen. He married Nangawarra, and moved to Warburton, then Docker River, Warakurna and finally to the newly established outstation at Kintore.
George Ward Tjungurrayi is represented in most State and National Art Galleries and in major private collections, and was the winner of the 2004 Wynne Prize for landscape painting at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Selected Collections:
Kelton Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Holmes a Court, Perth, Western Australia
Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands
Awards:
2004 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
