Biography

Jack Ross Jakamarra was born in Wapurtarli (Mt Singleton, west of Yuendumu). He began painting in the mid-1980s and has taken part in numerous artists' exhibitions organised by the Warlukurlangu art centre. Jack Ross Jakamarra is associated with many dreams of the land and the animals that inhabit it: such as the honey ant, Liwirringki (burrowing skunk), Karlarnjirra (dragon), Walpajarri (bilby) and Warpirti (yam).

In 1999, he travelled to San Francisco with two other Yuendumu artists to create a large floor painting for the opening of the ‘Spirit Country’ exhibition, which featured the Gantner-Myer collection.

• Musée des Confluences, Lyon
• The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
• Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
• Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• The Holmes a Court Collection, Perth
• Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
• South Australian Museum, Adelaide