Narritjin Maymuru

Australian painter
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IntroAustralian painter
PlacesAustralia
isPainter
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
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Biography

Narritjin Maymuru (died 1981) was a Yolngu people artist and activist noted for Bark painting. He began painting in the 1940s after time as a cook. After decades of work in 1979 he, and his son, became visiting artists at the Australian National University. He died of a heart attack in 1981. His time in Canberra became the subject of a documentary film by Ian Dunlop titled Narritjin in Canberra.

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