 After settling at Kiwirrkura late in the decade, he began working through Papunya Tula Pty Ltd.He has his first solo exhibition at Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi in 1989, and another in the same year at the John Weber Gallery in New York.The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired his painting "Tingari Dreaming Cycle" that year; this represented the first acquisition by a major international museum of a contemporary Aboriginal artwork.