Yukultji Napangati

Yukultji Napangati is a senior Pintupi artist whose work is deeply anchored in women’s ancestral knowledge and lived experience of the Western Desert. Born near the sacred site of Marrapinti, north of Kiwirrkura in Western Australia, she spent her early life living on Country before rejoining Pintupi relatives at Kiwirrkura in the mid-1980s. She began painting with Papunya Tula Artists in 1996 as part of a generation of Pintupi women who reshaped the movement’s visual language.

Napangati’s paintings are distinguished by dense, rhythmic fields of line and dot that generate powerful optical movement, evoking the undulating sand dunes and expansive terrain surrounding Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). Working with a restrained palette in acrylic, her compositions convey matrilineal narratives passed down through generations. Her work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, and is held in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Harvard Art Museums.

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