Mick Namerari Tjapaltjarri
Born around 1926, at Marnpi in the sandhill country south west of Mt Rennie. Mick lived a traditional nomadic lifestyle first seeing white man around the age of 6. For the next ten years his family settled around the area of Hermannsburg /Haasts Bluff area. Mick was initiated at Areyonga and later worked as a stockman at various stations including Tempe Downs and Areyonga. Mick was one of the original group of painters when Geoffrey Bardon arrived at Papunya in the early seventies, and would paint on anything he could lay his hands on.
