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Shorty Jangala Robertson

Shorty Jangala Robertson (1925 - 2014) was active/lived in Australia.  Shorty Robertson is known for Aboriginal painting.

Shorty Jangala Robertson was born in 1925 at Jila (Chilla Well), a soakage north west of Yuendumu, and lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with his extended Warlpiri family.


His childhood memories include stories of the Coniston massacre of Aboriginal people.  Families were also shot at Wantaparri, close to Jila.


Shorty had little contact with whitefellas during his youth but remembered leaving Jila for Mt Theo 'to hide' from being shot.


His working life was full of adventure and hard work for enterprises in Alice Springs and around Yuendumu.  He finally settled at Yuendumu in 1967 after the Aboriginal Citizenship Referendum.


Shorty started painting in his 70's, and was an active member of Warlukurlangu Artists.  His first solo exhibition was at Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne in 2003.

Shorty Jangala Robertson passed away in 1914.

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