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photo by Roy Ryan (copyright). Maxie Tjampitjinpa dec'd 1997
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Born 1945
Place Haasts Bluff
Area NW Alice Springs, Central Australia
Language/Tribe Warlpiri, West Of Yuendumu
Mother Mixed Warlpiri / Luritja descent from Kunajarrayi
Father Warlpiri from Watunuma
Dreamings Flying Ant, Bushfire and
Woman Dreaming
Maxie attended school at Papunya in the early ‘60s and High School at Nightcliff in Darwin, NT. He settled down in Papunya where he worked as a bus, tractor driver and Police Tracker. Began painting in 1980 as a pupil of the highly acclaimed and senior artist Old Mick Tjakamarra and exhibited with Dinny Nolan and Eunice Napangardi. Maxie developed, refined and mastered the flicked style of background infilling, which now has many imitators.
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| Fire Dreaming | |
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This photograph of Flying Ant Dreaming is in focus. The swimming effect was deliberately created by the artist to give an impression of flying ants swarming.
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| Flying Ant Dreaming 86 | |
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circa 1995 Flying ants seen swarming after they leave their underground
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Maxie shows fire and smoke drifting accros the desert
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Maxie shows fire and smoke drifting accros the desert
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