Language Groups: Pintupi and Munkultjarra
Dates: 1935–2017

Patrick Oloodoodi Tjungurrayi was born in the bush at Puptutalpa near Puntujarrpa. When the first Pintupi homelands community was established at Walungurru (Kintore) in the early 1980s, Patrick and his family stayed there. After a few years in Walungurru, Patrick traveled around country doing various jobs such as building houses, working on boats, and carrying sandbags. When the labor became too strenuous, he settled down in Wirrimanu (Balgo) and began painting for Warlayirti Artists beginning around 1986. Already an established artists through Warlayirti, he began painting regularly for Papunya Tula Artists after moving to Kiwirrkurra in the early 1990s. Patrick’s work was included in the landmark exhibition Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius curated by Hetti Perkins at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2001 he was awarded the Telstra General Painting Prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and in 2008 he took out first prize in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards. Patrick was a driving force in the establishment of the Purple House to provide dialysis for patients in remote desert communities. In 2015 his art and life was the subject of a major monograph Patrick Tjungurrayi: Beyond Borders.