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Tommy May

Yunganja - Burnt grass country

Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 90 cm

Cat.No: 85-11

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Tommy May

/ Yunganja - Burnt grass country

/ Cat.No: 85-11



Ngarralja Tommy May was born in 1935 and is an Indigenous Australian artist. He won the 2020 NATSIAA Telstra Award for his tin-etching art, 'Wirrkanja'.  His work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. 

Ngarralja is an important person for art and culture in Fitzroy Crossing. He is a former Deputy Chairman of Mangkaja Arts and former Chairman of Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Cultural Centre (KALACC). Ngarralja was also an executive for twenty one years on the Association of Northern Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) Board of Directors.

Ngarralja lives with his children at Mindi Rardi Community in Fitzroy Crossing.