Australian Aboriginal artists

The list Australian Aboriginal artists includes Gavin Wanganeen, Bronwyn Bancroft, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Billy Doolan and Norah Nelson Napaljarri. The list consists of 247 members.

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Gavin Wanganeen

Australian rules footballer

Overview: Gavin Adrian Wanganeen (born 18 June 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), and ...

Date of birth: 18 June 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Football AFL

Gender: Male

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Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) 346T

Artists from South Australia 50T

South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees 160T
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Bronwyn Bancroft

Australian artist

Overview: Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Australian artist, notable for being amongst the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Artists from New South Wales 13T
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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala

Australian artist

Overview: Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (circa 1936 – 1 September 2002) was an Australian contemporary artist. He was born incountry, in the Limmen Bight area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. His first language was ...

Date of birth: 1936

Date of death: 1 September 2002

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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20th-century Australian painters 354T

Year of birth uncertain 4,715T

2002 deaths 6,703T
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Nancy Petyarre

Aboriginal Australian artist (died 2009)

Overview: Nancy Kunoth Petyarre (between 1934 and 1939 – August 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist who lived in Utopia, 170 miles north east of Alice Springs. The second eldest of the famous and prolific ...

Date of birth: 1934

Date of death: August 2009

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

21st-century Australian painters 51T
5.

Tracey Moffatt

Australian film director

Overview: Tracey Moffatt AO (born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.

Date of birth: 12 November 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T

21st-century Australian women artists 128T
6.

Michael Cook (artist)

Australian art photographer

Overview: Michael Cook (born 25 August 1968) is an Aboriginal Australian photographic artist of Bidjara (south-western Queensland) heritage, whose work is held in major Australian galleries. He strives to promote ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1968

Age: 56

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Malpiya Davey

Aboriginal Australian artist

Overview: Malpiya Davey, also known as Irpintiri Davey, is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Pukatja, South Australia. She is best known for her ceramic artworks, but she also does painting, printmaking and ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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Billy Doolan

Painter-acrylic on linen.

Overview: Frederick William "Billy" Doolan Jnr (also known as Billy Doo, 1952-) is an Australian Indigenous artist who lives in Townsville, Queensland but does most of his current artwork in Melbourne, Victoria ...

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 73

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Indigenous Australian people 243T

1952 births 14,648T

Living people 968,462T
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Josepha Petrick Kemarre

Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian artist

Overview: Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953, date uncertain) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Central Australia. Since first taking up painting around 1990, her works ...

Date of birth: 1945

Age: 80

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century women artists 2,023T

Artists from the Northern Territory 79T

Australian women painters 201T
10.

Barbara Weir

Indigenous Australian artist

Overview: Barbara (originally Florrie) Weir (born c. 1945) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and politician. One of the Stolen Generations, she was removed from her Aboriginal family and raised in a series of ...

Date of birth: 1945

Age: 80

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Activist

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Women human rights activists 491T
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Norah Nelson Napaljarri

Australian artist

Overview: Norah Nelson Napaljarri (born 26 October 1956) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Norah Nelson began painting in 1986 and has exhibited her works both in ...

Date of birth: 26 October 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Warlpiri people 31T

21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T
12.

Ada Andy Napaltjarri

Australian artist

Overview: Ada Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1954) is a Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ada was born near Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, and has lived in several ...

Date of birth: 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Warlpiri people 31T

21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T
13.

Maggie Napaljarri Ross

Australian, Artist

Overview: Maggie Napaljarri Ross (born c. 1940) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. Her work has been collected by Artbank and the Kluge-Ruhe Museum in the United States.

Date of birth: 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Warlpiri people 31T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

20th-century Australian painters 354T
14.

Kitty Pultara Napaljarri

Australian artist

Overview: Kitty Pultara Napaljarri (born c. 1930) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Born at Napperby Station east of Yuendumu, Northern Territory, she worked on ...

Date of birth: 1930

Age: 95

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

20th-century Australian painters 354T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
15.

Helen Nelson Napaljarri

Australian artist

Overview: Helen Nelson Napaljarri (born c. 1949), also known as Helen White Napajarri or Helen Spencer Napaljarri, is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. A literacy worker ...

Date of birth: 1949

Age: 76

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Warlpiri people 31T

21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T
16.

Tjunkiya Napaltjarri

A Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist

Overview: Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (also known as Tjunkiya Kamayi, Tjungkiya, Tunkaii Napaltari, Kowai or Kamayi) (c. 1927–2009) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She is ...

Date of birth: 1927

Date of death: 2009

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

20th-century Australian painters 354T

20th-century women artists 4,649T
17.

Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri

Australian artist

Overview: Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (also referred to as Susie Bootja Bootja Napangardi, Napangarti, or Napangati) (c. 1935 – 16 January 2003) was an Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region ...

Date of birth: 1935

Date of death: 16 January 2003

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 301T

21st-century Australian women 109T

20th-century Australian painters 354T
18.

Rosella Namok

Australian artist

Overview: Rosella Namok (born 19 May 1979) is an Indigenous Australian artist from Lockhart River, Queensland. Namok was taught art at high school and learned printmaking and other techniques through a community ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1979

Age: 46

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century women artists 2,023T

Australian women painters 201T

Women painters 1,515T
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Christian Thompson

Australian artist

Overview: Christian Andrew William Thompson AO (born 1978), also known as Christian Bumbarra Thompson, is a contemporary Australian artist. Of Bidjara heritage on his father's side, his Aboriginal identity has played ...

Date of birth: 1978

Age: 47

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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People from Gawler, South Australia 37T

Bidjara (Warrego River) 4T

Australian contemporary artists 85T
20.

Juju Wilson

Australian, Artist

Overview: Ju Ju Wilson (born at Mantinea Flats, northern part of Western Australia) is an Aboriginal artist and part of the contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement. Besides being a prolific painter, tour ...

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century women artists 2,023T

Australian women painters 201T

People from the Kimberley (Western Australia) 17T