Michael nelson jagamara biography sample

michael nelson jagamara biography sample

Michael Nelson Jagamara - Biography - askART

    Michael Jagamara (also spelt Jagamarra or Tjakamarra) was born circa at Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs) west of Yuendemu, in Central Australia.

Michael Nelson Jagamara - Sydney Opera House

    Acclaimed as an outstanding artist who has a unique ability to articulate the meaning of his work, Michael Nelson has been instrumental in communicating the significance of Aboriginal culture and art to the world.

Michael Nelson Tjakamarra Archives - Gannon House Gallery

  • Michael Nelson Jagamara is now one of the most famous and prolific Aboriginal Artists of Australia.

    • Explore the work of Australian artist, Michael Nelson Jagamara

  • Born in 1946 in Vaughan Springs, Michael Nelson was taught sand paintings, body paintings and shield paintings by his grandfather when he was a boy.
    • Michael Nelson Jagamarra Biography - Jinta Art Gallery
    His biography, 'Michael Jagamara Nelson' by Vivien Johnson was published in 1997, and in 1993 Jagamara received Order of Australia Medal for.
    To Michael, art, religion and politics cannot be separated.
    Michael Nelson Jagamara (Born c.1946/49) was active/lived in Australia.

    Michael Nelson Jagamara



    Region: Papunya-Northern Territory

    Language: Warlpiri

    Born: at Pikilyi, west of Yuendumu, 1949

    MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARA grew up in the bush, first seeing white men at Mt Doreen Station. He remembers hiding in the bush in fear.

    Michael lived at Haast Bluff for a time with the same family group as Long Jack Phillipus (one of the original Papunya Tula Artists).

    Later his parents took him to Yuendumu for an European education at the mission school.

    He left school at thirteen, then after initiation, worked buffalo shooting, driving trucks, droving cattle, before coming back to Yuendumu and then to Papunya to settle and marry his current wife Marjorie.

    Whilst living at Papunya and working for the council he would walk past the painters camp on his way to work and see the painters working on their canvases.

    He became interested in the work these original Papunya Tula artists were producing and he asked the permission of these commu

    Michael Nelson Jagamarra - Artist Biography - Kate Owen Gallery

      Born in 1946 in Vaughan Springs, Michael Nelson was taught sand paintings, body paintings and shield paintings by his grandfather when he was a boy.

    Michael Nelson Jagamara - Biography

  • Michael Nelson Jagamara — a Warlpiri man from remote country near Papunya — became lauded as the new holder of an auction world record.

    • Michael Nelson Jagamara

  • Born in Pikilyi, a remote Northern Territory outstation, in 1946, Michael Nelson Jagamara spent the early part of his life at Yuendumu, a larger community about 290km northwest of Alice Springs.

    • Michael Nelson Jagamara AM 1946 - Aboriginal Art Directory

      Born in Pikilyi, a remote Northern Territory outstation, in , Michael Nelson Jagamara spent the early part of his life at Yuendumu, a larger community about km northwest of Alice Springs.