Biography

Christopher Japangardi Michaels was born in 2000 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community 450 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. His father is Chris Japanangka Michaels, also an artist at Warlukurlangu Artists. 

He paints his Grandfather Mickey Singleton’s dreaming Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) from the site Puyurru.

When not painting Christopher plays center for Nyirripi’s football team.