RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA – PINTUPI
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in the early 1940s at Tjiturrunya, west of Mawuyan, across the Northern Territory border in Western Australia. He spent most of his formative years as a nomad in the remote desert surrounding his birthplace. He was initiated in the Winparku area of Western Australia. Due to drought conditions in the 1950s, he and his family walked into Haasts Bluff where Tjampitjinpa worked as a stockman. He and his family were then removed to the newly formed Papunya settlement in the early 1960s, where Tjampitjinpa worked as a fencer, making yards for cattle. Ronnie Tjampitjinpa commenced painting in 1971.