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Fifty years ago exactly in Papunya, a settlement 240 km north-west of Alice Springs, the origins of the Papunya Art Movement can be retraced to 1971 when a school teacher, Geoffrey Bardon, encouraged some of the men to paint a blank school wall. The murals sparked off tremendous interest in the community and soon many men started painting.
In 1972 the artists successfully established their own company.

The Papunya settlement was established as an administrative centre by the government for the Aboriginal people who had moved in from the desert. Since then many Pintupi and Luritja people have …