WINNIE NAKAMARRA
Winnie (Bernadette) Nakamarra was born in hospital in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in 1961.
She is the daughter of world renowned Papunya Tula artist Makinti Napanangka, and Nyukuti Tjupurrula, the older brother of Nosepeg Tjupurrula. Following the establishment of Walungurru (Kintore community) during the homelands movement, Winnie and her family returned to their traditonal Country.
Winnie often paints the site Lupulgna, the place where her mother first encountered settler-Australians on camels as a young woman. Lupulngna, a rockhole site south of Kintore, is associated with the Pewee (Magpie-lark) Tjukurrpa. During mythological times, a group of ancestral women visited this site holding ceremonies associated with the area, before continuing their travels north to Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald).
MARY NAPANGATI
Mary was born near Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) circa 1955, and is the third child of four girls and one boy. Her family lived in the vicinity of Lappi Lappi, located towards the northern area of Lake Mackay, until they walked in to the Mt Doreen cattle station west of Yuendumu. By this time Mary was approximately ten years old. Her family worked on the station and the children were driven by truck to attend school at Yuendumu. When the station owner died, the family moved to Yuendumu, where she married, later moving further west to Nyirripi and giving birth to two boys.
After her husband passed away, Mary remarried the well-known Papunya Tula artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and moved to (Walungurru) Kintore, where she now lives and paints. Mary and Ronnie’s son, Aubrey Tjangala, is also an established Papunya Tula artist.
- Papunya Tula Artists, 2024
