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Wenten Rubuntja
Australian artist and Aboriginal rights activist
Wenten RubuntjaAM (c.1926 – July 2005) was an Aboriginal Australian artist. His early watercolour paintings are typical of the Hermannsburg School of art, while his later work includes dot painting.
He was also an Aboriginal rights activist who worked on the Central Land Council in the Northern Territory for several years.
Early life
Wenten Rubuntja has said that he was born in between 1923 and 1928 (therefore estimated at 1926)[a] in Burt's [sic] Creek, north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.[1] Burt Creek is a tiny community known as an outstation.[2][3] He was the son of goatherd Bob Rubuntja, and had a brother, Ambrose.
He was an Arrernte man, of the subsection (skin) Pengarte.[1] Bob Rubuntja helped postmaster and anthropologist Frank Gillen, who wrote detailed accounts of Arrernte culture.[4]
Acclaimed watercolour paint