Jack Jakamarra Ross

Jack Jakamarra Ross is of the Warlpiri language group from Yuendumu, approximately 300 km north-west of Alice Springs. He was born in Wapurtarli (Mt Singleton, west of Yuendumu) in 1925 and died in 2004.

He began painting in the mid-1980s and has taken part in numerous artists' exhibitions organised by the Warlukurlangu art centre. Jack Ross Jakamarra paints his dreaming stories that include the honey ant, Liwirringki (burrowing skunk), Karlarnjirra (dragon), Walpajarri (bilby) and Warpirti (yam).

In 1999, he travelled to San Francisco with two other Yuendumu artists to create a large floor painting for the opening of the ‘Spirit Country’ exhibition, which featured the Gantner-Myer collection.

His paintings and prints are highly collectible and are in such collections such as the British Museum and the NGV, AGNSW, Art Gallery of South Australia, Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory amongst others.