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Aboriginal Mug Otto Sims
$19.95
This Australian Mug with beautiful design by Otto Sims makes a fantastic gift from Australia for overseas or for friends and family.
It comes in its own box featuring more about the artist his work.
- Fine Bone China Mug
- Dishwasher Safe
- Microwave Safe
- Mug Height - 12.5cm
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He spent much of his childhood travelling in the surrounding country.
Otto finished high school in Yuendumu and has continued his studies through the indigenous college in Alice Springs where he achieved a bachelor in Business.
He has worked for Yuendumu Council and the Tanami Goldmine in the 1990s.
Otto’s father, Paddy Japaljarri Sims, passed stories down to Otto that were, in turn, passed down by to him by his parents, and their parents before them for millennia.
These stories relate directly to Otto’s country at Kunajarrayi and Yanjilpirri, its features and flora and fauna.
Otto has a passion for hunting Kiparra (Bush turkey), and can often be seen driving down backroads around Yuendumu in his four wheel drive.
ABOUT WARLUKURLANGU ARTISTS OF YUENDUMU
Otto has painted for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 1990, and was elected to its executive committee in 2002 and Chairman of the art centre in 2007.
In March 2008 Otto travelled to Bahrain for the opening of a Warlukurlangu group exhibition at the La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art.