Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (30 June 1935 – 30 November 2013) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from Mungapunju, south of Yuendumu.
Stewart was one of the artists who contributed to the Honey Ant Dreaming mural on the Papunya school wall in 1971, said to be the genesis of the modern Aboriginal art movement.
[citation needed] In 2004 Stuart Macintyre wrote in a A concise history of Australia that Stewart recorded his testimony in his own language in 1991.
"He evokes the continuity of dreaming from Grandfather and father to son and grandson, down the generations and across the passages of time; yet the insistence on the obligation to preserve and transmit his three jukurrpass attest to the corrosive possibility of secular change.
People who are related to us in a close family, they have to have the same sort of jukurrpa Dreaming, and to sing songs in the same way that we do our actions like dancing, and painting on our bodies or shields or things, and this is what my father taught me.
[citation needed] In 1995, the Canberra Medical Society, specifically doctors Martin Duncan and Cam Webber, went to the remote Yuendumu settlement where they removed cataracts from five Aboriginal artists, including Stewart who had one of the most difficult conditions.