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Latitude
-23.447
Longitude
131.882
Start Date
1950-01-01
End Date
2002-01-01

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ID
tb901c

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Birth Place
Haasts Bluff, NT, Australia
Biography
Born at Haasts Bluff in 1950, Goodwin spent his boyhood walking around the Haasts Bluff area. The family came to Papunya when the settlement was established in 1960 and Goodwin attended school there briefly. During the ’70s he worked as a stockman at Haasts Bluff, Hermannsburg, Vaughan Springs, and Orange Spring near Jay Creek. In the early ’80s he began to paint for Papunya Tula Artists, with instruction from Charlie Egalie and Turkey Tolson. He painted Dingo and Rock Wallaby stories from his traditional country around Nyuuman, south-east of Kintore, where close relative Mick Namarari had an outstation. Writers: Johnson, Vivien Note: primary biographer Date written: 1994 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1950
Summary
Initially a stockman, Goodwin took up painting in the early 1980s through close contact with senior artists such as Mick Namarari, Charlie Egalie and Turkey Tolson.
Gender
Male
Died
2002
Age at death
52