3790 x 2401 px | 32,1 x 20,3 cm | 12,6 x 8 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
4 février 2012
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Born in Haasts Bluff c.1945, Maxie’s traditional country from his father’s side was Watunuma west of Yuendumu in Warlpiri territory. His mother was of mixed Warlpiri/Luritja descent from Kunatjarrayi. The family moved across from Haasts Bluff so that the children could attend the school opened in Papunya. Maxie also attended high school at Nightcliff, Darwin and worked various jobs in Darwin, Maningrida, and Port Keats before settling in Papunya. He worked on the settlement in various jobs before taking up painting in 1980 under the expert instruction of Mick Tjakamarra , one of the senior artists of the movement, who instilled his own love of painting in his pupil. Maxie’s usual subjects were Flying Ant Dreaming for Watunuma and Women Dreaming, though he based an entire exhibition around Bushfire Dreaming. In 1984 Maxie won the NT Art Award. He was artist-in-residence with Dinny Nolan at Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery in 1988. In 1992 he exhibited at the Aboriginal Arts Australia gallery in Sydney with Eunice Napangardi . From the mid ’80s, he lived mostly in Alice Springs, selling his work mainly through Papunya Tula Artists and the Centre for Aboriginal Artists. He developed and refined a flicked style of background infilling, which had many imitators in the 1990s, especially in Alice Springs. His Papunya based wife, Mavis Napangati, also painted occasionally.
