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Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjari

Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjari

Charlie Egalie c.1938 - 2002
Language Group : Warlpirri / Luritja
Papunya : Alice Springs Central Australia

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National Gallery Victoria
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Charlie Egalie was a traditional initiated Aboriginal man who lived at Papunya West of Alice Springs for many years.He was born at Vaughan Springs west of Mount Leibig and like so many of his fellow countryman was an accomplished horseman and stockman.

In the early days of the Papunya art movement in the early 1970s Charlie started painting alongside iconic Old Masters artists Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa.Charlies paintings relate to the desert sandhill country east of Yuendumu telling the stories Wallaby,Bush fire,Budgerigar and Mens Dreamings. Many of these stories are linked by Dreaming tracks that lead to desert waterholes where sacred mens ceremonies have been held for up to 40,000 years.

The painting 'Travelling Places' is a story of Charlies which re-enacts the travels of his ancestors across the desert landscape in the Dreamtime or Creation era as we know it today.

Traditional ceremonial sand paintings sculptured on the desert sand for ceremonies are today painted on canvas in similar patterns to these original designs.

Charlie Egalie was a talented Artist and a friendly man who often accompanied Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri when selling his art to

'The Original Dreamtime Gallery' in Alice Springs from the late 1980s to 2000.Aboriginal Gallery's director is proud to have worked so closely with the Papunya group of Artists for many years.
 
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