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Dee Dee Bird. Black and white like small magpie. 

Sam Dixon Jampijnpa Mpetyan is a senior Anmatyerr artist from Utopia. Sam is the nephew of renowned artist Angelina Ngale Pula, brother of artists Harry Dixon and Cindy Dixon. Sam was one of eight children; they all lived together in a bush camp and worked at Utopia Station.  

Hard work, station hand, stockmen. Despite the hard work, Sam has fond memories of working on the station, learning from his grandfather Camel Jack, who worked on the stations with his camels, pulling bores and mustering cattle from Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Sam tells stories of working with Motorbike Paddy, hanging on tight on the back of Paddy’s old chopper with the huge handlebars, while they were rounding up brumbies.  

I mix up earth and glue to make paint. Sam began making paintings and carving in the early 2000s, Sam’s paintings tell stories of Arlparra country and the wild possum, while his sculptures depict his history and his surroundings, creating figures of stockmen, birds and self-portraits of him as Ngangker, the bush doctor.