Paddy japaljarri sims biography of michael

Paddy Japaljarri Sims is part of the art centre Warlukurlangu Artists.

Paddy Japaljarri Sims was born in about 1917 at Kunajarray (Mt Nicker), south-west of Yuendumu at a site where a number of Dreaming tracks interconnect.

He died in 2010 in Yuendumu. He left behind his wife Bessie Nakamarra, his seven children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Paddy sometimes worked in collaboration with his wife, who was an acclaimed artist in her own right.

Paddy japaljarri sims biography of michael

His wife lived in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She died in 2012.

Paddy lived in his country as a young, single man. Back then Warlpiri people wore hair string belts that they had made.

When Japaljarri was young he worked sawing mulga trees for wood and for fuel for fires. Later Paddy became