In this episode, First Nations guest interviewer Daniel Browning talks to first time author Alec O’Halloran  about  The Master from Marnpi, his biography First Nations artist Mick  Namarari Tjapaltjarri.
O’Halloran had never written a biography  before, but had bought a painting by the artist and become fascinated by  his way of expressing his place and his culture. 
Over several years and many visits to  the Western Desert, Alice Springs and Kintore,  he earned the trust of his subject’s widow and community enough to capture a sense of Tjapaltjarri’s life as a hunter, a stockman , artists and family man. 
His lavishly illustrated, self-published biography tells the story of how Tjapaltjarri became a leading figure in the  Papunya Tula art movement, one of the most significant in Indigenous art.  In seeing the project through, O’Halloran kept  an important promise.