Paddy japaljarri stewart biography of rory
There is no comparable discrepancy clouding the way she deals with the picture that stands beside the mirror.!
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart
Australian artist (1940–2013)
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu.
Paddy Japaljarri Sims, Paddy Japaljarri Stewart and Harry Jakamarra Nelson.
He was chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee. Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the Honey Ant Dreaming mural on the Papunya school wall in 1971, said to be the genesis of the modern Aboriginal art movement.[1]
The people of Yuendumu in the early 1980s began transferring their traditional ochre ground paintings to canvas, and then to the doors.
In 1983, Stewart along with four other artists painted 30 of the Yuendumu school doors with Dreaming designs, creating what became known as the Yuendumu Doors. The painted doors were also intended to remind the Yuendumu schoolchildren of a web of sites and obligations extending across their country.
The entire series of Yuendumu Doors was acquired and restored by the South Australian Museum after the school was upgra