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Margaret Lewis Napangardi
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Margaret Loy Pula
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Medicine Leaves

Abie Loy Kemarre Bush Medicine Leaves Utopia NT

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Janet Golder Kngwarreye

Janet Golder Kngwarreye is an emerging artist originally from the Utopia region of the Northern Territory. She was born in 1973 and is married to Ronnie Bird, the son of acclaimed artist Ada Bird Petyarre. Janet now resides in Alice Springs with her husband and children. Janet learned to paint by watching her extended family of artists including the renowned Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Polly Ngale

Polly Ngale was born circa 1940 in the artistically rich area of Utopia, 240 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Polly Ngale belongs to the oldest living generation of Utopia women. Like many of the women in Utopia, Polly began her artistic career in the 1970s within the Batik movement when Indigenous imagery and Western craft practices were combined for the first time. This movement was an initiation into the art world for many female artists in the area.
Barbara Weir

Barbara Weir was born in 1945 on Bundy River Station in the area of Utopia, Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia. Barbara Weir's mother is the late famous Aboriginal Artist Minnie Pwerle. Barbara's father was the Irish station owner, Jack Weir. Barbara was taken from her family and fostered out as one of the 'Stolen Generation' but, in the 1960's she returned to Utopia and stayed with her aunt Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Jeannie Mills Pwerle

Jeannie Mills Pwerle's paintings predominately represent the flower and seeds of the Anaty (desert yam or bush potato), which she enjoys collecting in her homeland. Desert Yam In the sandy soil of central Australia the Desert Yam appears after rain producing a pink trumpet shaped flower and distinctive heart shaped leaves. The edible underground tubers (bush potato) cause the ground to crack as they grow so they are easily located. An important staple they are usually roasted.
Charmaine Pwerle

Charmaine's approaches the canvas with much more than the usual degree of confidence. Her lines are bold and electric, echoing those of her grandmother Minnie Pwerle, but with the assurance of a much more practised artist than her years or experience would suggest. The brushwork in her body designs, Awelye, has all the characteristics of this family dreaming, but Charmaine lends her own distinct creative flair, pattern and movement to the canvas.
Kudditji Kngwarreye

Kudditji Kngwarreye 1928 -2017 Kudditji was as born in Lallguora, at Utopia Station, located about 270 kms north east of Alice Springs. His language is Eastern Anmatyerre. He is the skin brother of the renowned Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye (who sadly passed away in 1996) Kudditji began painting in the early 1980’s he is one of Australia’s leading aboriginal artist.
Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty

Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty was born at Tennant Creek 500km north of Alice Springs in 1972. Helen spent most of her childhood at Nauiyu Nambiyu Community (Daly River), which is situated 230km south of Darwin, NT. Helen devotes herself to painting full time. She spends her time in her community at Bulgul, on the coast between Daly River and Darwin and with her family, including fellow artist Kerry Madawyn McCarthy, in Darwin
Yannima Tommy Watson

Tommy Watson C.1935 - 2017 Tommy Watson was a Senior Pitjantjatjara painter. He was born circa 1935 near the tiny isolated community of Irrunytju in Western Australia, near the junction of its border with the Northern Territory and South Australia, in one of the country's most remote desert regions.Tommy Watson had spent his youth living off the land and acquiring a deep knowledge of his ancestral country, then later worked on cattle stations