"[4] Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra was born in 1932 in an area north-east of Kintore (Pintupi: Walungurru), referred to as Kalipinya, situated in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Bardon's encouragement of the Papunya school children to create art would inspire the elders, including Long Jack, to get involved in painting.
[8] The Honey Ant Dreaming mural was inspired by the patterns that Bardon and his interpreter Obed Raggett had painted upon a classroom floor.
Long Jack would help work on the Honey Ant Dreaming mural through its entirety from June to August 1971.
[6] Ten years after Geoffrey Bardon's departure of the Papunya school in 1973, Long Jack would go on to win Northern Territory Golden Jubilee Art Award in 1983.
[10] Long Jack, the last of the founding members of the Papunya Tula, died in an Alice Springs hospital in August 2020.
Instead, he grew up working as a timber contractor and wood cutter, among other jobs, and developed reputable bushcraft skills.
[5][11] His artistic skills stem from his upbringing as an Aboriginal Australian with his more formal painting development coming from Geoffrey Bardon's teachings.
The lines which traverse the painting are symbols of running water which link the waterholes represented by the open circles.
A closely packed, wavy lines run down the center of the vertical painting and end a group of concentric circles.
The central wavy lines depict flowing water and the concentric circles in which they converge represent a waterhole.
[9] Long Jack's participation in the Papunya Tula cooperative has helped promote the works of the Aboriginal people to the greater art world.
Along with the acrylic painting style, Long Jack has helped propagate the Aboriginal culture and traditions of the Western Desert in a respectable manner.