 Maxie Tjampitjinpa "Water Dreaming" Cat No. 1314 Size = 60 x 80 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
 Maxie Tjampitjinpa "Fire Dreaming" Cat No. 1073 Size = 124 x 170 cm. Acrylic on Linen |
Dob 1945 - 1997 Place Haasts Bluff Area NW Alice Springs, Central Australia Language/Tribe Warlpiri, West Of Yuendumu Tribe Warlpiri Mother Mixed Warlpiri / Luritja descent from Kunajarrayi Father Warlpiri from Watunuma Subjects and Themes: Flying Ant, Bushfire and Woman Dreaming. Awards & Commissions: N.T. Arts Award 1984 Collections held: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra Flinders University Art Museum, Holmes 'a Court collection, Federal Airports Corporation, Auckland City Art Gallery, NZ. Artbank, Sydney. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Campbelltown City Art Gallery. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. National Gallery of Victoria, Exhibitions 1988 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery 1991 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1992 Bushfire, Utopia Art Sydney, 1992 Aboriginal Arts Australia Gallery. 1993 Works on Paper, Utopia Art Sydney, Stanmore 1994 Papunya and Beyond, Araluen Centre, Alice Springs 1994 Accompanied Australia's Prime Minister, Paul Keating to Germany Select Bibliography: Brody, A., Krempel, U., Bahr, E., (eds.), 1995, Stories, Eine Reise zu den grossen Dingen, exhib. cat., Landeshauptstadt Hannover Der Oberstadtdirektor Sprengel Museum Hannover and Autoren. Caruana, W. (ed.), 1989, Windows on the Dreaming, Ellsy Details Attended school at Papunya in the early `60s and High School at Nightcliff in Darwin N.T. Worked in and around Darwin before settling down in Papunya where he worked as a bus or tractor driver and as a Police tracker. Began painting in 1980 as a pupil of the highly acclaimed and senior artist OLD MICK Tjakamarra. Exhibited with Dinny NOLAN and EUNICE Napangardi. Maxie has developed, refined and mastered the flicked style of background infilling, which now has many imitators. Married to Mavis Napangati who also paints. Maxie has been featured in many publications.
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