Paint It Black
from Life Sentences Podcast Hosted by Caroline Baum
In this episode, First Nations guest interviewer Daniel Browning talks to first time author Alec O’Halloran about The Master from Marnpi, his biography First Nations artist Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri. O’Halloran had never written a biography before, but had bought a painting by the artist and become fascinated by his way of expressing his place and his culture. Over several years and many visits to the Western Desert, Alice Springs and Kintore, he earned the trust of his subject’s widow and community enough to capture a sense of Tjapaltjarri’s life as a hunter, a stockman , artists and family man. His lavishly illustrated, self-published biography tells the story of how Tjapaltjarri became a leading figure in the Papunya Tula art movement, one of the most significant in Indigenous art. In seeing the project through, O’Halloran kept an important promise.
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