Description
How a traditional Australian Aboriginal hunter-gatherer became an award-winning modernist artist.
Synopsis
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri was born into a traditional Pintupi hunter-gatherer world in the Australian desert. After losing her father, she later learned to paint from her adoptive father, the renowned artist Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi. When Linda insisted she had permission to paint stories traditionally reserved for men, she became both a pioneer and a controversial figure within her community. Her paintings record the moment when the Pintupi first encountered the foreign intrusions of white Australia in the 1940s.
Genre: Documentary/Art/Personal Story/Australian Aboriginees
Director: Robert Hamilton
Producers: Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, Robert Hamilton, Simon Davis
Country: Australia
Duration: 58′
Languages: English
Year: 2026
