Naata Nunigurrayi was born at the site of Kumil, which is west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia, c.1932. She, and her family, arrived in Papunya with one of Jeremy Long’s government patrols. Naata began her Aboriginal Art career in early 1996, her son is Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa also a well known artist. In […]

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Minnie Pwerle was born circa 1910 and died 18th March 2006, her country is Atnwengerrp and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. Minnie has five sisters, Margie, Molly, Emily, Lois, and Galya and one brother called Louis (her other brother is now deceased). Minnie has seven children including Eileen, Betty, June, Dora, Raymond, and […]

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Marcia Turner Petyarre is one of the next generation of emerging Aboriginal Artists to come from the Utopia region.
 
The daughter of artist Margaret Turner Petyarre, Marcia spent much of her formative artistic years alongside the likes of Minnie Pwerle, Gloria Petyarre and Kathleen Petyarre. Whilst gaining inspiration from these leading artists Marcia has developed a […]

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Lilly Kelly Napangardi is a senior law woman of the Mt Liebig community, in the Haasts Bluff area of the Northern Territory, 325 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs.
Lilly Kelly was born at Haasts Bluff in 1948. She moved to the newly established settlement of Papunya in the 1960’s. During her time there, Lilly began her […]

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Kathleen Petyarre was born circa 1940, at the remote location of Atnangkere, on the western boundary of Utopia Station, 150 miles north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Kathleen belongs to the Alyawarre / Eastern Anmatyerre clan and speaks Eastern Anmatyerre, with English as her second language.
 
Kathleen, with her […]

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