85-year-old artist has first exhibition
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As many mouths give lip service to helping Indigenous artists, eyes this week fall on a new exhibition. Tiger Palpatya is an 85 year old artist from the Amata Community on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands on the South Australian-Northern Territory border. Many of Tiger’s Paintings describe a creation legend about two brothers and two sisters who turn into water snakes. Tiger has only been painting for a few years at Tjala Arts Centre and last week his first exhibition was opened at Birrung Gallery in Leichhardt in Sydney’s inner west. The Wire spoke to Tiger Palpatya through translator Willy Kyger Burton and Tjala Arts Manager Sara Twigg Patterson.
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