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Western Desert
We have aboriginal artists from the Western Desert Regions of Balgo - Eutopia - Kintore. The Western Desert aboriginal art movement originated in the small community of Papunya, and has placed aboriginal art in the international arena.
Papunya Tula Art was established by a small group of aboriginal artists in 1971, after being encouraged by school teacher Geoffrey Bardon to create art using the motifs and symbols of their own traditions. Over the next decade individual aboriginal artists began to emerge as major creative forces.
Following the outstation movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of the aboriginal artists moved to their traditional homelands; to country as far west as Kintore and Kiwirrkura.
In the 1980s the aboriginal art movement flourished and other desert communities such as Utopia, Yuendumu and Balgo also began to produce works of art.