Frank Young

Frank Young was born near Artuti on the APY Lands in 1949. He is a senior man and has been a longtime director of Tjala Arts and supporter of APY Art Centres. As a young man Frank worked with senior men during the 1970s Land Rights Movement on the APY Lands. He is former chairperson of Waturru Community and Amata Community and today is chair of the board of APY Council. Frank has worked alongside senior men on collaborative canvases at Tjala Arts and across the region and also worked collaboratively with his grandson Anwar Young and niece Unrupa Rhonda Dick on Kulata Tjuta – Wati Kulunypa Tjukurpa (Many spears – Youngfella Story) which won the overall prize at the National Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2017. Frank has worked on the Kulata Tjuta Project with Senior Men in Amata since its inception in 2010 and has worked on all iterations of the project, including the 2014 Adelaide Biennial Dark Heart and the 2015 and 2017 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia.