Billy Stockman TJAPALTJARRI
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| Gender: |
Male |
| Culture: |
Indigenous Australian/Anmatyerre |
Born
| Date: |
c. 1927 |
| Place: |
Ilpitirri near Mt Denison, Western Desert, NT, Australia |
Died
Remarks
Billy Stockman survived the Coniston Massacre of Aboriginal people in 1928 in which his mother and family were killed; his father was away hunting and survived. Stockman is one of Australia's best-known artists of the Western Desert Art Movement, Papunya Tula, and one of the senior keepers of his tribe's Dreamings.
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