Sandy Brumby

Sandy met his wife in Pukatja and for some time they settled in the Amata community. Eventually they moved on to Pipalyatjara before the Kalka and Pipalyatjara communities were fully established. Here they had two children and brought them up in this area. In 2015 Sandy moved to a retirement home.

The first time he picked up a paintbrush was in the Ninuku Arts centre, an Aboriginal art and craft centre established in 2008. He produced work almost every day from then, saying he was spontaneously documenting the life of his people. His work references symbols frequently used in rock and cave paintings around Uluru and Kata Tjuta. In a short period of time his paintings gained significant attention and were acquired by notable public collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria, The National Gallery of South Australia and Queensland Art Gallery. Sharing Country, the show Brumby was involved in at Olsen Gruin, New York, in 2017 was rated among the top ten of the hottest summer group shows to see that year by Artnet.

Sandy Brumby (born around 1950) is an Aboriginal artist whose work rapidly became popular following the start of his career late in life. His work became collectable very quickly as his natural approach to the stark contrasting colours he used explored an unhurried fascination with storytelling juxtaposed with a meditative self examination of the mindset of the first people of Australia.