Andrea Nugarrayi Martin
The Aboriginal artist Andrea is the daughter of Samson Japaljarri Martin, one of the founding members of Warlukurlangu Artists, and Uni Nampijinpa Martin, also a renowned artist. She grew up at Wakurlpa Outstation, northwest of Yuendumu.
Judy Watson Napangardi
Judy Watson Napangardi was born around 1935 at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri and other Central and Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional nomadic life. With her family Judy made many trips on foot back to (and lived for long periods at) Mina Mina and Yingipurlangu, her ancestral country on the border of the Tanami and Gibson Deserts.
Deborah Wayne Napaljarri
Deborah Wayne Napaljarri is an artist from Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu. Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation of Yuendumu was incorporated in 1986. Warlukurlangu is a not for profit organisation that has more than 600 members, all of whom are Indigenous artists.
June Smith Pengarte
June’s family is from the Alice Springs district, her mother was born at Hermannsburg and father at Undoolya Station. June grew up and attended school in Alice Springs, and following that came to Santa Teresa mission, now Ltyentye Apurte Community, where she first started work at the school, teaching the pre-school children.
Linda Walker Naparrula
Linda Walker was born in 1973 in Yuendumu into a large Warlpiri family and has 3 brothers and 6 sisters. Her father, Towser Jakamarra Walker, was a well known artist who also painted for Warlukurlangu, however, both her parents have passed away.
Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra
Malcolm Maloney Jagamarra was born at Aningie Station near Central Mount Stuart, N.T. His father was Gerry Maloney, an Irish Stockman and his mother Minnie Napanangka, As a child he travelled the land on walkabout with his Warlpiri mother who is also an established artist and whose artwork reflects her traditional lifestyle and cultural heritage.
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarreye
Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarrey is the daughter of Nancy Petyarr, one of the celebrated Petyarr sisters widely recognised as important painters of the Utopia region. Elizabeth lives at Mosquito Bore with her husband Cowboy Loy Pwerl who is also a painter. She has only been painting since 2005.
Thomas Tjapaltjarri
Thomas Tjapaltjarri was born c. 1964 in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia. In 1984 he was one of a group of nine that made national headlines. Dubbed “the Last Nomads” the group caused a sensation when thy walked out of the desert and made contact with the “modern” world for the first time.
Walala Tjapaltjarri
Walala Tjapaltjarri In late 1984, Walala and eight other relatives of the Pintupi Tribe walked out of the desert in Western Australia and made contact for the first time with European society. Described as ‘The Lost Tribe’, he and his family created international headlines. Until this time Walala and his family lived the traditional and nomadic life of a hunter-gatherer society. Their intimate knowledge of the land, its flora and fauna and waterholes allowed them to survive, as their ancestors had for thousands of years.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 2 September 1996) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
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Cowboy Loy Pwerle
Cowboy Louie comes from Utopia in Central Australia. He was born in 1941 at old MacDonald Station in the Utopia region. He is the younger brother of Louie Pwerle (who has passed away) who was an important Utopian artist from Central Australia. It was his brother who taught him the technique of painting with acrylics on canvas.
Lynette Granites Nampijinpa
Lynette Granites Nampijinpa Curriculum Vitae is in Australian Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies on page 171. Born around 1950, Lynette Granites Nampijinpa is a well-known Australian artist recognized for her bold use of color. Lynette work has a distinctive linear fluidity and rare energy which is infectious to the viewer and contains a compelling visual and spiritual power.
Queenie Nungarrayi Stewart
Queenie Nungarrayi Stewart was born in 1972 at Yuendumu in central Australia.
Queenie is the only daughter of Paddy Stewart Japaljarri, Chairman of Warlukurlangu Art Centre and one of the main artists who participated in painting significant Dreamings on the Yuendumu School Doors, which later became a well known collection.
Roseanne Morton Petyarre
Roseanne Morton is the daughter of Gracie Morton Pwerle from Utopia in Central Australia. Roseanne is the new generation of artists from the Petyarre/Pwerle family to emerge from this region.
Cedric Ross Kngwarreye
Cedric Ross Kngwarreye was born on the 5th June 1975. Cedric started painting in 2013 for the Keringke Arts at Ltyentye Apurte in Central Australia. His work has a unique style , instinctively drawn to bright colours, a trademark for all artists of Keringke style. While the stories and imagery of this vast country has influence on the works produced by the Keringke artists..
Kathleen Petyarre
Kathleen Petyarre (born 1940) is an eminent Australian Aboriginal artist, known for her paintings displaying an extremely refined layering technique with intricate dotting. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreamings. However, the vastness of the country can be clearly felt in the landscapes of Petyarre’s paintings, which have occasionally been compared to the works of..
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Rex Daniel Granites
A Warlpiri speaker, and born in Yuendumu c.1950, Rex Granties is a leading figure in the Yuendumu community: President of the Yuendumu Council, member of the Northern Territory Committee of Road Safety Board and board member of the Alcohol Abuse Committee. He does not paint for Warlukurlangu Artists (though several members of his family do), but sells his work through private dealers and outlets in Alice Springs.
Helen Kunoth Petyarre
Helen Kunoth Petyarre was born at Mosquito Bore, Utopia in 1973. Helen is a very gifted artist, and represents a new generation of artists building on the success and recognition of the Utopia arts movement. She is the daughter of well-known artist Nancy Petyarre, whose influence on Helen’s art is observed in her work.
Joycie Pitjarra Morton
Joycie’s alive and expressive paintings capture the vibrancy of the land that she knows so deeply and that is rich in dreaming stories and culture. Using a beautifully bright colour palate and her own unique style, Joycie’s paintings are..
Gracie Morton Pwerle
Gracie Morton Pwerle was born in approximately 1956 and is an Alyawarr woman from the Utopia region in Central Australia. She is the daughter of well known Utopian artist Myrtle Petyarre.
Jeannie Petyarre
Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara) is one of Central Art’s most popular artists. Born in approximately 1951 at Boundary Bore, a small Aboriginal outstation in the Utopia region of Central Australia, Jeannie comes from a very popular and famous Aboriginal artist family. She is the niece of the late great…