Biography

A senior lawman and widely respected figure in the Papunya community, Paddy Carroll was a consistent painter for Papunya Tula Artists for several decades from the late 1970s. He and Dinny Nolan made the first sand painting viewed outside the Western Desert in the grounds of the S.H.Ervin Gallery in Sydney in 1981. Collections: •National Gallery of Australia, Canberra •Museum of Victoria, Melbourne •Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide •Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia •Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide •Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth