Ray James Tjangala

b. 1958

Ray James Tjangala is the son of Anatjari Tjampitinpa, one of the founding members of Papunya Tula Artists.  Anatjari and family, including Ray James, were encountered by Jeremy Long in 1963 at the Wudungunya rockhole north-west of Jupiter Well.  The family subsequently moved to Papunya.

Ray James now lives at Kiwirrkura and began painting for Papunya Tula Artist in the early 1990’s.  His paintings often feature an interlocking grid pattern rendered in contrasting colours, a design associated with the site of Yunala, west of the Kiwirrkura community, where a large group of Tingari men camped.