Jimmy Pike

Country/Region: Australia (view other artists)

Village: Turkey Creek,Great Sandy Desert,Kimberley

Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike lived in a bush camp on the edge of the remote Great Sandy Desert of north Western Australia where he painted, producing art for which he has become so renowned. Born in 1940, in remote sandhill country, Jimmy was a member of the Walmajarri people, one of the last groups to leave the desert and settle on cattle stations in the Kimberley during the 1950’s.

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