Born c.1935 at Larlkapura, north of Yuendumu in Mudbra country. She is Mubra/Warlpiri and is responsible for a Women Dreaming and a Lukarrara (Seed) Dreaming. She lives with her husband Jack Jampijinpa Gallagher at Walilinypa, an outstation of Yuendumu. She also paints Kanta (Bloodwood Gall or Bush Coconut) and Wardapi (Goanna) Dreamings and collaborates with her husband on Yankirri (Emu), Ngapa (Water) and the Warlu (Fire) for which she is kurdungurlu (manager) through marriage and her life experience. One of their early collaborative works, Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa , 1986, was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia. Carol has been painting since the mid ’80s and has shown with Warlukurlangu Artists in Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, Seattle USA and Portsmouth UK, as well as in the Karnta (Women) exhibitions in 1987 in Darwin, Adelaide, Sydney and Fremantle, and in the recent Flash Paintings exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in December 1991. Carol Gallagher was one of forty-two Yuendumu artists who worked on a 7 × 3m canvas which toured Europe as part of the 1993 Aratjara – Art of the First Australians exhibition.

Writers:

Johnson, Vivien

Date written:

1994

Last updated:

2011