Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri b. c.1932

Also known as Clifford Possum
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Carver)
Leading Papunya Tula artist. One of last men to join Geoffrey Bardon's group of 'painting men' at the beginning of the 1970s and the first to be recognised as an artist in his own right. His illustrious career has been the subject of several books and a major retrospective organised by the Art Gallery of South Australia, which toured nationally in 2003/5.

Citations

  • Johnson, V. (1993), 'The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’, Sydney, NSW : Craftsman House.

  • Johnson, V. (2003), 'Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’, Adelaide, SA : Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists’, Alice Springs, NT : IAD Press.

Initial data sources

  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary