“Western Desert painting returns to New York with major exhibition”
Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert Exhibition Feature
National Indigenous Times, January 5, 2026
by Natasha Clark
Note: This story contains the name and image of someone who has died.
The legacy of late Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Jampijinpa, who was exhibiting in New York by the late 1980s, continues this month as Western Desert painting returns to the city.
The works of Mr Possum Jampijinpa, also known as Tjapaltjarri, map Country through ancestral journeys, using dense dotting and shifting perspectives to hold multiple stories within a canvas.