Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjarri

Born at Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), north west of Mt Liebig around Waite Creek c. 1940, Charlie's language / tribe is Walpiri/ Luritja. He received some basic European schooling at the mission school at Yuendemu and was initiated near Haasts Bluff. He worked as a stockman for seven years at the station at Haasts Bluff and later in Queensland. After marrying his wife, Nora Nakamarra, he worked on Narwietooma Station for another seven years. Charlie and his wife came to Papunya in the very early days of the settlement -- when there were only a couple of houses built. They have two sons and two daughters, of whom Natalie Corby has been painting since the early 1980s under her father's instruction.
Charlie Egalie now lives with his family at Mt Liebig, where his mother and father have settled closer to their country round Kunajarrayi. Though he is represented in Geoffrey Bardon's book on the beginnings of the Art movement, Charlie himself dated his paintings from Peter Fannin's time running Papunya Tula Artists in about 1972. Billy Stockman, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Johnny Warangkula, guided him in the beginning. His paintings depict Women, Sugar Ant, Budgerigar, Wallaby, Bush fire and Man Dreamings art sites across this region.
Paddy Japaljarri Sims, one of the leading Yuendemu Artists, is a close relative of Charlie's. Nora Egalie Nakamarra has occasionally painted stories of her country at Kunajarrayi since her husband showed her how to paint in 1989. Charlie Egalie's Painting of Budgerigar Dreaming was used for the front cover of Nadine Amadio's 'Wildbird Dreaming'. The Artist travelled to Sydney for the book launching and also represented Papunya Tula Artists at the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria's 'Face of the Centre' show in 1985.

Exhibitions
1995 - Face of the Centre, Papunya Tula Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

Collections:
National Museum of Australia , Canberra, ACT.
South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA.
Holmes a Court, Perth, WA.
The Elysium Collection
University of Western Australia Anthropology Museum, Perth, WA.