Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
A proud family man from the Anmatyerre people in Central Australia, Billy was one of the original stockmen and founders of the Papunya community in the Central Desert. His role in this community varied from a cook to helping the Pintupi people settle in to community life, then as one of the founders of the aboriginal art movement in 1971.
In 1971 Geoffrey Bardon a white school teacher assigned to the Papunya School began a project of painting a mural using the aboriginal colors and traditional iconography.
