Artist
Paddy Compass Namatbara
Paddy Compass Namatbara is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Paddy Compass Namatbara spent his days on a red-dirt outstation near Maningrida, where he’d hum old songs while scraping ochre onto stringybark. The late bark paintings he made for ceremonies—full of lightning snakes and ancestral zigzags—still hum with that same voice. Tap any of them, like *Bark Painting* on the app, and you’ll see how a single piece can carry a whole songline across the decades.
Works by Paddy Compass Namatbara
Collections represented
Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.