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Lotte Waters

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Nomad to TV star in three years: Walala Tjapaltjarri meets the world

In late 1984 Walala Tjapaltjarri and other Pintupi tribespeople walked out of the Gibson desert in WA and met Europeans for the first time. Within a few years Walala adapted his traditional ground and body painting to painting on canvas and was filmed by Robert Hughes for his TV series Beyond the Fatal Shore.

Reconciliation: Indigenous art for the 21st Century