Stories

Pansy was associated with Tingari Arts for many years and was always keen to paint, chat and laugh. She was fun, a pleasure to be with and it was an honour for Linx Macpherson, Director, Tingari Arts, to listen to Pansy relating her Dreaming Stories whilst she painted, especially the Willy Wagtail and Hail Stories. Pansy Napangati was one of the first women to paint in her own right in...

Dr George and Barney Campbell had many similaritiesincluding singing or laughing whilst painting. They were both born around 1930 and lived a nomadic life before contact with white people and were respected senior Pintupi law men.  George Tjapaltjarri (Dr George) was widely respected traditional healer, spiritual leader and one of the most powerful western desert men. The white doctors he worked with in Kintore gave him the name ‘Dr George’...

Narputta’s paintings depict the country around Karrkurutinyja Narputta Nangala is one of my most favourite people ever and I am happy she called me ‘granddaughter’. Narputta loved family, had a wonderful sense of humour, was gentle and a fantastic artist who is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, state galleries and many private collections. Narputta with Daisy, Cynthia, Sonya, grandchildren. Linx and sister, Trina, in front of Narputta's house in...

Mitjili's distinctive style is anchored in the Tjukurrpa (dreaming) of her ancestors, notably the Watiya Tjuta, and her motifs represent the women’s side of the Tjukurrpa in her father’s country of Uwalki in the Gibson desert. Mitjili was born in Haasts Bluff and into a famous artistic family. Her mother was the artist, Tjunkiya Napaltjarri, who taught Mitjili the traditional symbolic language of the mythical stories by drawing them in...