Born: c.1932

Community: Papunya ,Western Desert, Northern Territory Australia 

Language: Pintupi (also recorded as Walpiri/Luritja)

Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra is a Luritja tribesman who was born at Kalipinpa which is an important rain dreaming site (northwest of Papunya) near present day Walungurru (Kintore) c.1932.

His father was Walpiri and his mother was Walpiri/Luritja. He grew up in the bush and in the 1950s he and his whole family came to the settlement of Haast Bluff where he worked as a laborer and a stockman.

When Papunya was established in 1959 Long Jack moved there and worked as a councilor and a school yardman.

He was selected along with Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa to paint the “Honey Ant Dreaming” mural on the school wall.

It was the first ever project done on a public building in Papunya and was the impetus for the start of the Papunya Tula Art Movement.

Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was among the first of the Aboriginal men to paint on canvas under Geoffrey Bardon’s influence in the early 1970s and has painted intermittently since then.  He died Aug of 2020.

Long Jack became a foundation member of Papunya Tula Artists.