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Born near the claypan and soakwater site of Wala Wala in the far reaches of the western desert George Tjungurrayi's initial contact with the outside world occurred as a seventeen-year-old boy.

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GEORGE TJUNGURRAYI.

George Ward Tjungurrayi was born near Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia, c It was in his teenage years that he first encountered Europeans.

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He left the Gibson Desert on foot in the company of three other Pintupi companions to walk the long road east until intercepted a truck just south of Mount Doreen. Soon after walking in to Papunya in 1962 he became a guide for Jeremy Long’s welfare patrol in to Pintupi country later that year and finally settled in West Camp, Papunya where he began painting around 1976 after encouragement from Nosepeg Tjupurrula.

Over the following decade George worked intermittently at Yayayi and Mount Liebig, and also Walungurru. His works created during the 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s were characterized by the ubiquitous dotted grids of lines and circles common to works by Yala Yala Gibbs, Anatjari Tjamptjinpa and others who played a formative influence in Pintupi Tingari i