Paddy was born in about 1917 at Kunajarray (Mt Nicker), south-west of Yuendumu at a site where a number of Dreaming tracks interconnect.
Japaljarri's Dreamings are Yiwarra (Milky Way), ngarlkirdi/warna (witchetty grub/snake), pirntirna (female python), jilwirringki (burrowing skunk), wanakiji(bush plum) and warlpa (wind).
Paddy lived in his country as a young, single man.
Back then there were no clothes, Walpiri people wore hair string belts that they had made.
When Japaljarri was young he worked sawing mulga trees for wood and for fuel for fires.
Paddy was also involved with gardening and farming in the Yuendumu district.
This included growing watermelons, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and other vegetables.
The farming was at Four Mile Bore where they had chickens, pigs, ducks and other animals.
Paddy is married to Bessie Nakamarra and has many grandchildren.
All his life he's been hunting goanna, kangaroo, emu and other animals each day for bush tucker and Paddy has passed his knowledge on to many of the young men.
This has also led to him working at the Yuendumu school teaching Jukurrpa (Dreaming), painting, hunting, traditional dancing, bush tucker and he has also helped out on excursions out bush, to Alice Springs, and to Darwin.
Paddy has been painting for Warlukurlangu for a long time.
In 1988 Paddy Sims was selected by The Power Gallery, Sydney University to travel to Paris with five other Warlpiri men from Yuendumu to create a ground painting installation at the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
The trip took place in May 1989 and the painting was received with world wide acclaim.
Paddy was also one of the senior male artists who worked on the Yuendumu Doors.
In 2000 Paddy Stewart undertook to produce 30 etchings of the original Yuendumu Doors in collaboration with Paddy Sims and under the guidance of Basil Hall, Northern Editions Printmaker (Northern Territory University).
.Paddy was born in about 1917 at Kunajarray (Mt Nicker), south-west of Yuendumu at a site where a number of Dreaming tracks interconnect.
Japaljarri's Dreamings are Yiwarra (Milky Way), ngarlkirdi/warna (witchetty grub/snake), pirntirna (female python), jilwirringki (burrowing skunk), wanakiji(bush plum) and warlpa (wind).
Paddy lived in his country as a young, single man.
Back then there were no clothes, Walpiri people wore hair string belts that they had made.
When Japaljarri was young he worked sawing mulga trees for wood and for fuel for fires.
Paddy was also involved with gardening and farming in the Yuendumu district.
This included growing watermelons, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and other vegetables.
The farming was at Four Mile Bore where they had chickens, pigs, ducks and other animals.
Paddy is married to Bessie Nakamarra and has many grandchildren.
All his life he's been hunting goanna, kangaroo, emu and other animals each day for bush tucker and Paddy has passed his knowledge on to many of the young men.
This has also led to him working at the Yuendumu school teaching Jukurrpa (Dreaming), painting, hunting, traditional dancing, bush tucker and he has also helped out on excursions out bush, to Alice Springs, and to Darwin.
Paddy has been painting for Warlukurlangu for a long time.
In 1988 Paddy Sims was selected by The Power Gallery, Sydney University to travel to Paris with five other Warlpiri men from Yuendumu to create a ground painting installation at the exhibition 'Magiciens de la Terre' at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
The trip took place in May 1989 and the painting was received with world wide acclaim.
Paddy was also one of the senior male artists who worked on the Yuendumu Doors.
In 2000 Paddy Stewart undertook to produce 30 etchings of the original Yuendumu Doors in collaboration with Paddy Sims and under the guidance of Basil Hall, Northern Editions Printmaker (Northern Territory University).
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