Paddy Stewart
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart was from Mungapunju, just south of Yuendumu.
He worked on a station and as a chef—hence his nickname “Cookie”—at Yuendumu School, teaching painting, Jukurrpa (Dreaming), tracking (dingo, kangaroo, goanna), boomerang making, and other cultural traditions.
He drove the school bus and was involved in the Council and the Night Patrol. Paddy Japaljarri was the Chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Committee and painted for many years.
In 1988, he was selected by The Power Gallery, University of Sydney, to travel to Paris with five other Warlpiri men to create a ground-painting installation for the exhibition Magiciens de la Terre at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
In 2000, he produced 30 etchings of the original Yuendumu Doors in collaboration with Paddy Sims, under the guidance of Basil Hall, Printmaker at Northern Editions (Northern Territory University).
The etchings were launched in 2001 and won the Telstra 16th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for works on paper.