freddy west tjakamarra (previously tjukurti tjakamarra; born around 1932 – died 1994) was an australian aboriginal artist. he was a leader of the pintupi people during their return to traditional lands in the 1980s. he was one of the founders of the kiwirrkurra settlement in 1983. as a painter, west was part of the western desert movement, and was one of the very first painters of the papunya tula school.