BORN: c 1942
REGION: KINTORE, PAPUNYA- NORTHERN TERRITORY
LANGUAGE GROUP: PINTUPI
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Doris Bush Nungurrayi was born in around 1942 at Haasts Bluff.
Her father, who was a Warlpiri man, came into the ration depot from his country West of Nyrripi and around Kintore after the birth of Doris’s eldest brother Wirri Tjungurrayi.
Doris grew up at Haasts Bluff, and there, met and married George Bush Yjangala, a Luritja/Amnatyerre speaking man, whose family came from just West of Alice Springs.
Together they had 3 sons, Kenny, Christopher and Simon. George Bush was one of the Papunya Tula Artists’ original shareholders, though he did not paint much for the company apart from a brief period in the early 1980s.
After that the family went to live on an outstation at Nuyumanu in Doris’s mother’s country, out towards the WA/NT border. Later the couple divided their time between Papunya and Alice Springs where George painted fot the Government Gallery (Centre for Aboriginal Artists and Craftsman) in Alice Springs.