Ray James Tjangala

b. 1955, Yunala rockhole, Australia. Lives and works in Kiwirrkura, Australia.

Ray James Tjangala is the son of Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, one of the founding members of Papunya Tula Artists. Anatjari and family, including Ray James, were encountered by Jeremy Long, a patrol officer of the Northern Territory Welfare Branch, in 1963 at Wudungunya rockhole north-west of Jupiter Well. The family subsequently moved to Papunya. Ray James now lives at Kiwirrkura and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1990s. His paintings often feature a geometrical interlocking grid pattern rendered in contrasting colours, a design associated with the site of Yunala and Ngumulnga, west of the Kiwirrkura community, where a large group of Tingari men camped in ancestral times.