Yinarupa Nangala

b.1961 Western Desert

Yinarupa Nangala is a senior Pintupi artist whose practice is grounded in the cultural authority and lived knowledge of the Western Desert. Born circa 1961 near Mukula, west of Kiwirrkura in Western Australia, she comes from a distinguished artistic lineage as the daughter of Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, a founding figure of the Papunya Tula movement. Yinarupa began painting in the mid-1990s and has since developed a powerful visual language that maps women’s sites, ceremonial spaces and vital water sources within her Country.

Working predominantly in black and white, her paintings present expansive aerial perspectives that weave together ancestral knowledge and the physical features of the landscape, including rockholes and food-gathering areas central to women’s cultural life. Her work is held in major public collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Harvard Art Museums and the Toledo Museum of Art.

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